Vonetta Daniels with VYD and Associates and Tiffany C. Wright with The Resourceful CEO

Posted on January 20, 2016

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Vonetta Daniels/VYD and Associates
President and CEO

VYD and Associates was incorporated in 2010 by Vonetta Y. Daniels, an Air Force Veteran with more than 20 years of combined industry and Management Consulting experience with BearingPoint, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and as an Internal Consultant for SunTrust Banks, and industry experience Research, Higher Education, Government, Non-Profits, Education and Community Partners and Financial Services.

VYD and Associates is a certified 8(a) firm, Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone), Economically Disadvantaged Woman Owned Small Business (EDWOSB), Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) and Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) providing consulting services which include:

Management & Strategy Consulting.
Health Communications, Marketing & Policy Management.
Organizational Assessment and Organizational Effectiveness (OE).
Strategic Planning
Research, Evaluation and Policy.
Performance Measurement & Evaluation.
Program, Portfolio & Project Management.
Program Implementation & Evaluation.
Program and Administrative Support.

Vonetta is an alumna of the University of Virginia and Emory University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science.
Experience/Career Highlights
Provided research and leading practice to create innovative interactive digital Clearinghouse entitled Opportunities for Women to Build, Transport, and Protect America for the U.S. Department of Labor.
Supported Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) Organizational Effectiveness Assessment & Business Process recommendations to achieve greater visibility, interaction, and support between and across GTRI and the main Georgia Tech campus community.
Project Director providing Women Veterans Employment Research support to DOL Womens Bureau addressing the gaps in research and employment policy.
Managed the design, implementation and deployment of Efforts to Outcomes (ETO) pilot for the East Lake Foundation; implemented the Outcomes Measurement pilot project to collect, analyze and report data on the effectiveness of the ELF programs and its East Lake partners.
CDC Office of Strategy, Health Results Measurement Framework: identified opportunities to maximize the health impact of CDCs resource management decisions (both internal and external to the enterprise).
Community
Vonetta Daniels is an AmeriCorps National Service Alumna and received her first Presidential Service Award for her fellowship as the Program Manager for the Citizen Action AmeriCorps Program partnering Community Development Organizations and Neighborhood Planning Units (NPUs) to implement civic engagement, community development and capacity building projects to address identified in five Atlanta neighborhoods.
She served as the Service Chair for the Emory Alumni Association Leadership board from 2004 to 2007 and helped to expand Emory Cares to an International Day of Community Service. In 2008, Emory Cares International Service Day was recognized for its valuable contributions to Emory University’s 2008 Presidential Award for General Community Service. Vonetta currently serves on the Board of Directors for the HouseProud Atlanta and KIPP South Fulton Academy (KFSA).

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Tiffany C. Wright/The Resourceful CEO
Chief

Tiffany C. Wright is the founder of The Resourceful CEO^TM . She has served as the CFO, COO and CEO of several SMBs and both started and purchased companies.
She is also the author of the book “Solving the Capital Equation: Financing Solutions for Small Businesses”.

Significant process experience
Fortune 500 strategic, finance, and negotiation experience
Small to medium business acquisition, turnaround, and strategic consulting background
Long-term overseas assignment (Asia)
BS, Industrial Engineering, The Ohio State University; MBA, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

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Tammy Williams with Open Rivers Pictures and Cinema South Expo 2016

Posted on January 18, 2016

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The Cinema South Motion Picture Career and Education Expo will be held January 30, 2016 at Open Rivers Film Academy located at:

Pinewood Atlanta Studios Production Center

461 Sandy Creek Road

Fayetteville, Georgia 30214

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Tammy Williams/Open Rivers Pictures & Cinema South Expo
Founder

Tammy Williams is CEO of Open Rivers Pictures and Creator of the Cinema South Expo. Williams is a 24-year veteran of the film and television industry and an award-winning producer. Her company, Open Rivers Pictures, is a post production and studio facility located in the esteemed Pinewood Production Centre. In addition to creating content and producing programming for film, television and digital platforms, Open Rivers provides production assistance workshops and other training initiatives for aspiring production industry professionals. The Cinema South Expo is an outgrowth of these training initiatives, and serves as a one day immersion into key film and television industry careers.

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Rob Day with ESI Ergonomic Solutions

Posted on January 18, 2016

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ESI was established in 1988 and is headquartered in Mesa, Arizona. ESI has showrooms located in Mesa and Chicago.

“Fast. Flexible. Friendly…We Get It Right!”

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Rob Day/ESI Ergonomic Solutions
Vice President of Sales

Robert Day, CEAS has been involved in ergonomics at both the corporate and K-12 education level since 2001. Specializing in workstation design, Rob has been involved in assessing and implementing ergonomic standards for both large and small companies, Delta Air Lines being one of the largest. Robs ergonomic background has taken him as far as Denmark, where ergonomics are part of everyday life beginning at the Kindergarten level. His responsibilities included rolling out K-12 ergonomic school furniture for a U.S. manufacturer. That experience has allowed him the opportunity to educate the A&D community about classroom and office ergonomics. Rob finds the biggest challenge is educating those making the purchasing decisions about the long term financial benefits of ergonomics.

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Dr. Cailen Wells The XfitDoc and Alex Browning with Crossfit Johns Creek

Posted on January 15, 2016

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World-Class Fitness
in 100 Words:

“Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat. Practice and train major lifts: Deadlift, clean, squat, presses, C&J, and snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast. Five or six days per week mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense. Regularly learn and play new sports.”

~Greg Glassman

Alex Browning and Dr. Cailen Wells

Dr. Cailen Wells

Dr. Cailen Wells is a native of Michigan. Before deciding to bring her passion for helping others heal through Chiropractic to the Alpharetta area, Dr. Wells practiced on the coast of Georgia in the small town of St. Mary’s Georgia the home of Kings Bay Naval Base. Dr. Wells completed her undergraduate degree in Dietetics/Nutrition at Eastern Michigan University in 2005. It has been a part of her lifestyle to maintain her health with good nutrition and Chiropractic since she lost her mother from Pancreatic Cancer at the age of 16.

At Eastern Michigan she received a scholarship to pole vault on the Eastern Michigan’s Track and Field team with her previous experience as a competitive gymnast. Dr. Wells is a pole vaulting coach for Pole Vault-ATL. She also enjoys competitions in Crossfit and won her first competition in Jan 2014 at the Central Florida Games and placed 3rd at a Weightlifting competition in Gwinnett in May 2015. Dr. Wells is a Level 1 Crossfit trainer and enjoys coaching at Crossfit Remnant in Johns Creek, Georgia.

REM•NANT: (noun) the part of something that is left when the other parts are gone. The body’s ability to heal is far greater then what they have permitted you to believe. Crossfit Remnant symbolizes the perfect fit for Dr. Wells as she views health in the same way. Dr. Wells often times see’s the last resort patients, those who have tried everything, and everything has failed them. She believes there is still hope, there is still healing that will take place, there is still a remnant!

Her passion for health, nutrition and sports soared her to new heights as she pursued a further degree in Chiropractic at Life University in Marietta, Georgia. During Chiropractic school she became Advanced certified in Upper Cervical Specific as well as attended world mission trips to Guatemala and El Salvador.

Dr Wells is a published author in the JCCR, (Journal of Upper Cervical Chiropractic Research). She was published in 2011 with regards to research in an advanced type of arthritis called Ankylosing Spondylitis.

Dr. Wells is part of The Specific Chiropractic Center and currently operates the Atlanta office. Dr. Wells wants to help you realize the importance to having proper care of the spine and nervous system. She also wants children to understand the importance of having a healthy spine and nervous system as it becomes “the first choice in health care for future generations”.

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Alex Browning/Crossfit Johns Creek
Coach and Mentor

I started CrossFit in 2009 as a program to supplement my distance running program. Trained with my normal run schedule and added CrossFit three days a week. 4 months later I ran a PR 10 mile race at 70 minutes and then switched to CrossFit as my fulltime fitness program.

In 2010 I received my Level 1 Cert followed by my Level 2 in 2011. I was an affiliate manager for about two and a half years in Washington, DC. Since coming out of full time gym management I have kept up as a coach and athlete.

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Atlanta’s Most Trusted Advisors hosted by Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk Matt Tovrog with Bell Oaks Excutive Search and Todd Stanton with Stanton Law LLC

Posted on January 14, 2016January 14, 2016

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Atlanta’s Most Trusted Advisors interviews industry experts from in and around the Metro Atlanta Area. Our goal is to provide valuable information that all business owners and managers can use in their day-to-day work to help them succeed.

Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk (Host)/ bbr Marketing

Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk has been a member of the creative and marketing services community for over 20 years and does not appear to be leaving it anytime soon. As president of bbr marketing, she has relished the challenges of entrepreneurship as she worked to grow and nurture a new business. Since the firm’s inception in 2009, Bonnie has led the young company to become widely recognized and respected within the professional services marketing niche, with award-winning client websites and an outstanding history of business success having worked with clients in 23 states and 2 Canadian provinces.

She is excited about the publication of her first book earlier this year, Take Your Marketing Online! Proven Ways to Grow Your Firm in the Digital Age. She was recognized in 2012 and 2013 as one of AccountingToday’s Top 100 Most Influential People and is in great demand as a consultant, speaker and leader at various industry events. She is a founding member of the Atlanta Independent Women’s Network and is the Atlanta chapter president of the Association for Accounting Marketing. She is also a regular contributor to a variety of websites, including Social Media Today, Accounting Today and other industry-related publications and has been quoted in Entrepreneur, U.S. News & World Report, CPA Practice Advisor, and others. She was recently invited to join the CPA Consultants’ Alliance and is excited about being a part of this influential group.

Matt Tovrog/ Bell Oaks Excutive Search

As a Partner at Bell Oaks Executive Search, Matt Tovrog has a passion for serving clients before and after the recruiting process and applies his experience in both sales and customer assurance to build long lasting relationships.

Matt joined Bell Oaks following his work with Cbeyond, an Atlanta-based communications provider for businesses. At Cbeyond, he thrived in a number of different roles focused on sales as well as account maintenance. His ability to maintain mutually beneficial relationships with his customers is what led him to Bell Oaks. As partner, Matt is quickly becoming a noted industry expert. He has been quoted and had guest articles appear in multiple industry and consumer publications, including WorkShifting.com, WorkAwesome.com, MediaBistro and LovetoKnow.com to name a few. He also serves as an expert contributor at TalentManagement.com in The Recruitment Revolution. A native Chicagoan, Matt moved to Georgia in the 90’s and is a graduate of the University of Georgia with a Bachelor’s degree in

Consumer Economics. He currently serves on the board of the Furniture Bank of Metro Atlanta, the only local organization of its kind with a mission to “make a house a home” by providing furniture items to families in need. As a board member, he is involved in the planning and execution of the organization’s fundraisers, including the annual Chairish the Future Gala and The Atlanta Mattress 500. He also works to develop strategic partnerships and alliances to further the mission of the organization. He and his wife Lindsey are active members of Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Atlanta and currently reside in Alpharetta, Georgia with their twin daughters Emily and Avery.

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Todd Stanton/ Stanton Law LLC
Founder

Building upon his decade of “big law” experience with the reputable firms of Fisher & Phillips and Bryan Cave (formerly Powell Goldstein), and demonstrating the same entrepreneurial drive he admires in his clients, Todd founded Stanton Law LLC in Atlanta, Georgia. Seeking to combine the quality of large firm representation with the flexibility, responsiveness, and cost-effectiveness of a nimbler shop, Todd’s practice remains dedicated to the employer side of the employer-employee relationship. From on-boarding new talent and assisting with the development of workable job descriptions, personnel policies, and compensation plans, to guiding clients through sticky disciplinary, performance, and leave issues, to executing respectful and amicable separations, Todd provides practical bottom line-oriented legal advice to small and medium-sized employers.

When not working to represent the needs of employers, Todd enjoys hiking, landscaping, photography, and coaching youth baseball. He played NCAA baseball while at Washington & Lee University and his love of the game inspired him to coach the next generation of ball players. He’s active in the Georgia Bar Association’s Lawyers Assistance Program, serves as secretary for the board of directors of Buckhead Baseball, Inc. and president of the board of directors of Haygood United Methodist Church Weekday Children’s Ministries, and is a member of the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Sports Network board.

Todd lives in the Atlanta neighborhood of Morningside with his wife, Ashley, their two sons, Parker and Griffin, and their rescue setter-collie mix, Hattie.

Chris Carneal with Boosterthon and David Brinkman with Assuresign

Posted on January 13, 2016

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Business RadioX ® Host Ryan McPherson interviews business owners and entrepreneurs from metro Atlanta’s leading companies.

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Chris Carneal/Boosterthon
Founder & CEO

Chris Carneal is the founder and president of Booster and its flagship school funding program, the Boosterthon Fun Run.
Chris was born and raised in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. He later attended Samford University in Birmingham, Ala., where he played baseball. During college he started his first company, All Sports Tutoring, a sports training program that also taught students valuable character and leadership lessons.

The son of a long-term educator, Chris sold All Sports Tutoring in 2002 and launched his newest endeavor, an innovative fitness fundraiser for schools called the Boosterthon Fun Run. He designed it as an alternative to the product sales that most elementary schools use to meet budget shortfalls. Today, Booster employs more than 450 team members and partners with over 1,600 schools to meet their yearly funding goals. The Boosterthon also offers one of the most innovative character education programs in the nation with more than one million students participating. In its mission to strengthen schools by increasing funds and inspiring students, Booster has raised schools more than $120 million to improve education since its inception.

Chris and his wife Lyndie live in Johns Creek, Ga., with their four children.

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David Brinkman/AssureSign
Founder & CEO

David Brinkman is president and CEO of AssureSign, an electronic signature software provider for enterprises and small business. As a veteran technology entrepreneur, David co-founded Third Party Verification, Inc. (3PV), which is now a part of AssureSign. David also serves as an active board member of the Electronic Signature and Records Association (ESRA).

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KSU Entrepreneurship Center “The Shrimp Tank” Featuring JC Ordono with First Fence of Georgia

Posted on January 12, 2016January 21, 2016

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Feeding Young Entrepreneurial Minds & Businesses Plans Entrepreneurs come to the Shrimp Tank to compete for funding to grow their dreams.

Hosts of The Shrimp Tank Chris Hanks and Ted Jenkin.

JC Ordono/First Fence of Georgia
Majority Partner, President

Mr. Ordono is the Founding Partner and majority owner of First Fence of Georgia. He has fifteen years fence industry experience in a broad range of Operations, Sales and Executive positions. He has achieved CFP (Certified Fence Professional) status, certified by the American Fence Association and is recognized for professional achievement in the Industry.

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Ted Jenkin, JC Ordono, Chris Hanks

Ted Jenkin/Oxygen Financial
(Co – Host)

Ted Jenkin has spent the past 22 years giving personal financial advice to thousands of people across the United States. After graduating from Boston College in 1991, Ted spent more than 16 years working for American Express Financial Advisors/Ameriprise Financial. He was one of the youngest people in the history of the company to reach both Field Vice President and Group Vice President level. He managed more than 800 financial advisors throughout 8 states in his last position with the company. He won the premier performer award, leader of the year award, and had the number one office in the country for more than two years in a row. In 2008, Ted founded oXYGen Financial to help revolutionize the financial services industry by creating a new company that focused on serving the X and Y Generation. oXYGen Financial now has more than 1,700 clients throughout 25 states across the country. Ted has been featured in over 25 magazines and newspapers including the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and The Huffington Post. He has six advanced designations from the College for Financial Planning (CFP®, CRPC®, CRPS®, AWMA®, AAMS®, CMFC®) and is an on air radio personality featured on the popular drive time Atlanta radio show The Rock 100.5 Morning Show on Rock 100.5 FM. Ted lives in Milton, GA with his wife Genna and three kids Olivia, Lyla, and Louden.

Chris Hanks/ KSU EC
(Co – Host)

Christopher C. Hanks is the founder and executive director of the KSUEntrepreneurship Center. Prior to this, Hanks was the founder and director of the entrepreneurship program at the University of Georgia. He has owned multiple businesses, including music, e-commerce, publishing, and export ventures. He is also the co-author of a best-selling book on low risk entrepreneurship.

Hanks leads the International Entrepreneurship Institute and is certified in business valuation, providing expert witness testimony. Before teaching at UGA, Hanks taught entrepreneurship at Georgia State University and assisted in leading the Russell Center for Entrepreneurship. He earned a BBA from University of Georgia and an MBA from San Jose State University. Before launching his first business, Hanks held corporate risk management positions in the pharmaceutical and beverage industries.

Landel Hobbs with National 4H-Council and Sarah Gibson with Cell Phone Repair Atlanta

Posted on January 11, 2016January 30, 2016

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Landel Hobbs/National 4-H Council

Chairman of National 4-H Council Board of Trustees

Landel Hobbs, founder and CEO, LCH Enterprises, LLC, Atlanta, GA, assumed his new leadership role as chairman of the National 4-H Council Board during last month’s Board meeting. Hobbs areas of expertise span the financial, telecommunications, media and entertainment industries. Prior to LCH Enterprises, Mr. Hobbs was the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for Time Warner Cable as well as the Chief Accounting Officer for Turner Broadcasting Company.

He has served on Councils Board for more than five years and prior to his new leadership post chaired the Finance Committee.

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Sarah Gibson/Cell Phone Pair Atlanta
Marketing & Sales Director

Sarah is the Marketing and Sales Director for CPR Atlanta. She runs around like a super hero making sure local companies and schools, picking up devices and cutting overhead costs. Cody is one of the CEOs of CPR Atlanta and is the creator of our service techniques, our top researcher, and the foundation of our business.

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Todd Stanton with Stanton Law LLC, Brad Weaver with Nine Labs, Darren Miller with Elite Crowdfund and Jack Curtis with Corporate Health Partners

Posted on January 6, 2016

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Todd Stanton/ Stanton Law LLC
Founder

Building upon his decade of big law experience with the reputable firms of Fisher & Phillips and Bryan Cave (formerly Powell Goldstein), and demonstrating the same entrepreneurial drive he admires in his clients, Todd founded Stanton Law LLC in Atlanta, Georgia. Seeking to combine the quality of large firm representation with the flexibility, responsiveness, and cost-effectiveness of a nimbler shop, Todds practice remains dedicated to the employer side of the employer-employee relationship. From on-boarding new talent and assisting with the development of workable job descriptions, personnel policies, and compensation plans, to guiding clients through sticky disciplinary, performance, and leave issues, to executing respectful and amicable separations, Todd provides practical bottom line-oriented legal advice to small and medium-sized employers.

As legal counsel, Todd is focused on helping companies avert employment-related issues without sacrificing managerial efficiency. In most instances, a proactive approach to employment issues can prevent months of disruptive headaches down the road. When the inevitable disputes do arise, however, his litigation experience allows his clients to consider all available options to efficiently resolve the problem. He regularly represents employers in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies such as labor departments, equal opportunity and human rights commissions, and employee safety administrations.

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Brad Weaver/Nine Labs
Chief Experince Officer

Brad went to school to be a lawyer, then came to his senses and has spent the last 18 years as a Creative Director, User Experience Designer, Information Architect, Author, and Content Strategist. Day to day, he guides the creative team in usability, design, content strategy, product development, interactive, branding, and data visualization. He and his teams have created leading work for clients including IHG, Verizon, Bank of America, AT&T, ESPN, Disney, NATO, The PGA, and Coca-Cola.

Along the way, he’s been the big cheese, the plebeian, the middle manager, and the class clown. Not one to shy away from hard work or his blue collar upbringing, he’s also folded clothes, pumped gas, bagged groceries, sold cell phones, and climbed the Great Wall of China. In addition to serving as CXO, he is the author of Creative Truth, and regularly teaches workshops, mentors students, and speaks at conferences around the world.

His likes and loves are design, film, whiskey, Oxford commas, and Jesus, but not in that order. His superpower, naturally, would be mind-reading.

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Darren Miller/Elite Crowdfund
Co Founder & COO

Darren Miller is the Co-Founder and COO of Elite Crowdfund. He has a diverse background of operations management and digital marketing and development. As the COO Darren oversees the day to day operations of ECF and drives the planning and implementation of the company’s goals. He is also the VP of Digital Marketing for US Strategic Capital, the parent company of Elite Crowdfund. USSC is a boutique investment bank which focuses on raising capital for banks, real estate funds, VC funds and companies.

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Jack Curtis/Corporate Health Partners
Founder & CEO

Jack Curtis founded Corporate Health Partners, Inc. in 2002 and serves as its CEO. Jack has a BS in Biomedical Engineering and a MS in Engineering Management from the University of Tennessee. With more than 30 years of experience, Jack offers a high-energy leadership style, analytical strength, team development and authenticity.

Prior to CHP, Jack’s systems engineering training and Quality Improvement experience taught him how to create and value strong culture, while his strategic leadership within Berkshire Hathaway prepared him to engage employees for outstanding performance. Jack also led a comprehensive physical exam start-up organization with an entrepreneurial spirit and an ignited passion to make a difference in the health and performance of employers and employees within his sphere of influence.

Over the past 15 years, Jack has demonstrated his commitment to helping employers, communities, and our nation’s health and competitiveness. He often reflects on his clients who have invested in wellness and have seen tangible results. One such client example is Couer, Inc., led by Jay Cude, who benefited from health as an integral part of their culture, while health risks and costs steadily declined.

With an ongoing commitment to influencing serious change in corporate wellness, Jack enjoys his membership and Leadership Committee chair position at an industry Think Tank of thought leaders within employee health management, called Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO). Jack is also a member of the “League of Leaders”, the Institute for Healthcare Consumerism (IHC), and Wellness Councils of America (WELCOA).

Jack’s life mantra: “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” (Romans 8:28)

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KSU Entrepreneurship Center “The Shrimp Tank” Featuring Steven Eisenstein with Classic Tents & Events

Posted on January 5, 2016January 7, 2016

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Feeding Young Entrepreneurial Minds & Businesses Plans Entrepreneurs come to the Shrimp Tank to compete for funding to grow their dreams.

Hosts of The Shrimp Tank Chris Hanks and Ted Jenkin.

Ted Jenkin, Steven Eisenstein, Chris Hanks

Steven Eisenstein/Classic Tents and Events

Steven Eisenstein is the President of Classic Tents & Events. His background is in Hotel/Restaurant Management and he is a graduate of Johnson & Wales University in Providence.

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Tammy Williams with Open Rivers Pictures and Cinema South Expo 2016

The Cinema South Motion Picture Career and Education Expo will be held January 30, 2016 at Open Rivers Film Academy located at: