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Everett Hill with Harvard Business School Club of Atlanta, Todd Fryburger with StarMobile, and Molly Taylor with Metro Atlanta Chamber

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Everett Hill/Harvard Business School Club of Atlanta LinkedinTwitter

Everett collaborates with CEOs and sales leaders to drive sales performance and execute sales effectiveness transformations.

Upon graduation from Harvard Business School he wanted to learn sales from the ground up, so he started by “carrying a bag” as a territory sales rep for a small technology company. Later in his career he became a successful sales and customer service leader, General Manager, and Vice President at Coca-Cola Enterprises.

This unique background is the foundation of his consulting practice. His first client, the GM of a packaging company, beat his business plan 5 quarters in a row after his collaboration with Everett.

Todd Fryburger/StarMobile, Inc. FacebookLinkedinTwitter

Todd Fryburger serves as Co-Founder, President and CEO of StarMobile. Over the past 27 years, he has led high performance businesses for respected technology industry leaders, including Cramer Systems (sold to Amdocs), PeopleSoft (sold to Oracle), CSC, Chrysler Systems (sold to IBM), GE Information Services (now GSX) and CompuServe (sold to AOL). Todd previously served as the CEO of enterprise mobility leader CAS AG (sold to Accenture). He most recently led Global Enterprise Mobility for SAP, arguably the current leader in the enterprise mobility realm.

Molly Taylor/Metro Atlanta Chamber LinkedinTwitter

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Turknett Leadership 2013 Award Winners

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Bob and Lyn Turknett/Turknett Leadership Group FacebookLinkedinTwitter

Dr. Robert (Bob) Turknett is co-founder and CEO of TLG. He is a licensed psychologist with over 28 years of consulting experience. Bob specializes in CEO Consulting, executive team development and individual development and coaching. He has served as an executive coach to more than 1,000 executives in more than 100 companies, both large and small businesses in a variety of industries. His unique approach to coaching blends psychological expertise with extensive business knowledge. Typical engagements involve work with a leader and the entire team, producing leadership development results that impact the whole organization.

Carolyn Turknett is co-founder and President of TLG. She has more than 25 years experience in management and leadership consulting. The focus of her work is character in leadership, organization assessment and change, executive team development, identification and development of high potentials and succession management.

Turknett Leadership Group’s expertise is Leadership. We are Atlanta’s premiere resource for Executive Coaching, Leadership Talent Assessment, Executive Team Development, Cultural Assessment, Executive Selection, and more. Through an approach grounded in science and guided by the Leadership Character Model, we help organizations with hiring the best people, identifying and developing high potentials, and creating an ethical culture.

Jim McGarrah/Georgia Tech Research Institute

Jim McGarrah joined the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) in November, 2008, as the Director of the Information and Communications Laboratory, where he led over 200 research faculty, staff and students in delivering applied research solutions for sponsors in federal, state and local government and in the commercial sector. In May 2013, he was selected as GTRI Chief of Staff. In this role, he coordinates executive staff actions in the planning and execution of GTRI and Georgia Tech strategy, strategic communications, policy analysis and input, and ethics and compliance. He also serves as GTRI’s principal point of contact for state and federal government relations, and coordinates GTRI’s external advisory councils and boards.

Prior to GTRI, Jim completed careers in the U. S. Navy and with Southern Bell/BellSouth/Cingular Wireless, where he retired as a Rear Admiral (O-8) and Executive Director-National Network Planning and Operations, respectively.

Kathy Colbenson/CHRIS Kids FacebookTwitter

After a number of years as a practicing clinician, in 1987 Kathy Colbenson became the CEO of CHRIS Kids and found her calling. CHRIS Kids offers a values-driven Family of Services that provides trauma-informed, strength-based services through a counseling center, a training institute, eight group homes, a supportive housing apartment complex for single and parenting youth of ages 17 – 24, adoption services, and a host of in-home services designed to help children, youth, adults and families unlock their potential for self sufficiency and good citizenship.

Andy Lipman/DiversiTech and Wish for Wendy Foundation FacebookLinkedinTwitter

 

Marci McCarthy/T.E.N. FacebookStuart LinkedinTwitter

Marci McCarthy is currently the CEO and President of T.E.N., an award winning technology and information security executive networking and relationship-marketing firm. She is responsible for driving the strategic direction of this widely respected company.

McCarthy has over 20 years of business and marketing experience, including founding T.E.N.’s flagship program, the Information Security Executive® of the Year (ISE®) Awards. For over a decade, the ISE® Awards Program Series is lauded as the premier recognition program for security professionals. Previously, McCarthy was the CEO of Executive Alliance, an organization that hosts leadership forums and held management positions with Lancope, SecureWorks, Deloitte, and PwC.

As a 2012 recipient of a congressional citation from Rep. Henry C. “Hank” Johnson, Jr. (D-Ga.) in the 4th Congressional District of GA, McCarthy was cited for her work in fostering greater professionalism in the IT security industry, naming March 13, 2012 “Marci McCarthy Day” in Georgia. She was the 2013 Turknett Leadership Character Award winner in the Small/Medium Business Category, recognized in “Who’s Who in GA’s Technology Community” by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, is a “Woman to Watch” by Atlanta’s BroadSheet and WIT WOTY nominee.

McCarthy serves on TechBridge’s Board of Directors, is a lifetime member of WIT’s Honorary Council. Other non-profit boards include: Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), SciTrek’s Advisory BOD, past Chairman of the American Diabetes Assoc. Father’s Day Council and its acclaimed Father of the Year Awards. As an author to WIT’s book, “CLIMB: Leading Women In Technology Share Their Journeys To Success,” McCarthy’s chapter is profiled amongst 60 leaders influencing Atlanta’s business and technology landscapes. She has been a guest lecturer at George Washington University and is a speaker on technology and leadership topics.

She is a magna cum laude graduate of Babson College and holds a B.S. in Marketing.

 

Mike Morgan with Wilmington Trust

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Results MatterMichael J. Morgan, CFP®/Wilmington Trust

Michael J. Morgan, CFP®, is Vice President and Senior Private Client Fiduciary Advisor for Wilmington Trust. Mike is responsible for providing comprehensive wealth management advice to high net worth individuals and families, entrepreneurs, business owners, and foundations and endowments throughout the Southeast region. He works closely with clients and their advisors to develop financial strategies that help clients meet their current needs and plan for their long-term objectives. Mike ensures that clients receive the appropriate blend of services based on their unique needs, including custom lending, investment management, planning, philanthropic, trust, and family office services.

Mike joined Wilmington Trust in 2007, specializing in fiduciary oversight, estate management, and retirement and insurance planning. He most recently served as a Vice President and Trust Advisor with Wachovia Bank, and began his private banking career at Fleet Bank.

Mike holds a bachelor’s of business administration degree in Accounting from Kennesaw State University and has completed Cannon Financial Institute’s Trust School I, II, and III. He serves on the Capital Campaign Leadership Committee for Rainbow Village, a nonprofit in Atlanta serving homeless families.

 

Monica Thornton with Women in Technology

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Results MatterMonica Thornton/Women in Technology FacebookLinkedin

WIT’s Women of the Year in Technology Awards, presented by Infor celebrates women technology executives for their accomplishments as leaders in business, visionaries of technology and women who make a difference in our communities. To qualify, women must hold business, technology or scientific leadership roles within a technology organization or maintain technology or scientific leadership positions within a non-technology organization. Winners will be announced in three categories:

  • Enterprise business – representing companies with more than 2,500 employee
  • Medium business – representing companies with 251 to 2,500 employees
  • Small business – representing companies with 250 employees or less

Monica is a results-driven leader amongst Atlanta’s competitive fundraising and marketing professionals, offering more than 20 years of a successful business development, brand management, public relations, and community engagement track-record. She also has substantial experience in strategic planning, coaching and public speaking and has been sought out for a host of panels, including Park Pride, City Park’s Alliance and Kennesaw State University.

Monica joined WIT in September 2013 after serving as the SVP/Chief Marketing and Development Officer at Piedmont Park Conservancy since 2005. There she led the organization’s marketing and development initiatives, a $42 Million capital campaign, logo and website redesign, creation of an innovative corporate giving program, sponsorship sales, media buys and many other efforts; all while directing its frontline communications effort. She has also held leadership positions at United Way of Metro Atlanta, Fox 5 Atlanta, CBS Atlanta, WSB-TV and Georgia Public Broadcasting, where she continues to volunteer as a spokesperson during live telethons.

Monica holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Georgia State University in TV/Film and an Associate’s degree in Marketing. She is a member of several professional organizations, including Public Relations Society of America, Association of Fundraising Professionals, National Association for Women and Women In Film. She also has a passion for writing and has just finished a children’s book.

Profiles in Diversity

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Ashby Kent Fox/Burr & Forman LinkedinTwitter

Profiled in 12th Annual “Women Worth Watching” issue of the Profiles in Diversity Journal

Ashby Kent Fox has practiced in Burr & Forman’s Litigation section since 2003 where she specializes in general commercial litigation. She has handled a wide variety of business disputes (tort and contract) for both plaintiffs and defendants, and her clients range from individuals and small businesses to large national financial institutions, including banks, lenders, mortgage companies and insurance companies.

Ashby represents her financial services clients in a variety of consumer finance and real estate matters, including actions for wrongful foreclosure, predatory lending, consumer protection law claims and other state and federal lender liability claims. In representing her title insurance clients, Ashby has handled numerous matters which involve evaluating and litigating bad faith claims, boundary line and easement disputes, one-half interest defects, lost or unrecorded security instruments issues, disputes over damages and loss valuations and other issues that frequently arise in the title insurance industry.

Ashby has nearly 10 years of experience litigating in Georgia’s state and federal courts, and has tried cases (bench and jury trials) in both. Additionally, she has successfully, efficiently and cost-effectively resolved numerous disputes through effective settlement negotiation and/or participation in alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, including mediation and arbitration.

Heather Generes/Recall Corporation FacebookLinkedinTwitter

Profiled in 12th Annual “Women Worth Watching” issue of the Profiles in Diversity Journal

Heather Generes serves as Global Vice President, Marketing for Recall. She is responsible for Recall’s marketing, product management and digital services business located across more than 20 countries in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia/New Zealand.

Heather joined Recall from Pitney Bowes, Inc. where she spent over 15 years serving in increasingly senior positions. Most recently, she was Vice-President, Global Product Management where she managed new product development and active product management of software, business services, and hardware solutions for one of the company’s key line of business. Prior to this role, Heather was Vice President, Customer and Product Marketing, for Pitney Bowes’ Asia Pacific Region where she worked closely with both commercial and government customers in markets such as China, Japan and Australia.

Heather holds a B.S. degree in Communications Studies from Northwestern University located in Evanston, Illinois and has completed executive management programs at both the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business, and the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business Administration.

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Blake Ashbee with Go Build Georgia, John Fountain with The Rawls Group, Gary McGraw with Cigital, and Marcus Ranum with Tenable Security

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Blake Ashbee/Go Build Georgia FacebookTwitter

Blake Ashbee is the Executive Director with Go Build Georgia. As part of the Governor’s Office of Workforce Development, Go Build Georgia was launched in support of Gov. Deals’ Georgia Competitiveness Initiative, focused on making the state more competitive both nationally and internationally. As Georgia continues to be a competitive location for businesses, it’s critical that our workforce is equipped with the skills to take over the in-demand positions. Specifically, Go Build Georgia aims to eliminate the state’s labor gap and build a new generation of highly- skilled workers with a simple plan: educating both young people and parents about wage, lifestyle, and employment benefits of a career in the skilled trades through five in-demand sectors: telecommunications, manufacturing, logistics, industrial construction and energy.

Since its beginning in January 2012, Go Build Georgia has reached out to dispel the misconceptions of the industry and interest people in the skilled trades through grassroots campaigns, online media, TV/radio spots, social media, and local and regional press.

John Fountain/The Rawls Group

Gary McGraw/Cigital FacebookLinkedinTwitter

Gary McGraw, Chief Technology Officer of Cigital, is a world authority on computer security and has been called the father of software security. Dr. McGraw is the author of Software Security (AWL 2006) and ten other best selling software security books. Gary writes a technical security column for SearchSecurity and produces the monthly Silver Bullet Security Podcast for IEEE Security & Privacy magazine.

Marcus Ranum/Tenable Security Twitter

Marcus J. Ranum, Chief Security Officer of Tenable Security, Inc., is a world-renowned expert on security system design and implementation. Since the late 1980’s, he has designed a number of groundbreaking security products including the DEC SEAL, the TIS firewall toolkit, the Gauntlet firewall, and NFR’s Network Flight Recorder intrusion detection system. He has been involved in every level of operations of a security product business, from developer, to founder and CEO of NFR. Marcus has served as a consultant to many FORTUNE 500 firms and national governments, as well as serving as a guest lecturer and instructor at numerous high-tech conferences. In 2001, he was awarded the TISC “Clue” award for service to the security community, and also holds the ISSA lifetime achievement award. In 2005 he was awarded Security Professional of the Year by Techno Security Conference.

 

Spotlight on NAWBO – National Association of Women Business Owners

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NAWBO is the National Association of Women Business Owners. It is the oldest and largest business membership organization exclusively for women entrepreneurs who own their business. NAWBO was founded in 1975 to represent the interests of women business owners particuarly in public policy matters that impact thier businesses, incuding and especially what we are discussing today, the Women’s Business Ownership Act. Today NAWBO has 5,000 members across 3 chapters nationwide. The NAWBO Atlanta Chapter was formed in 1997 and meets monthly on second Thursdays at The Buckhead Club for a business education program and lunch.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/NAWBO/67883022683 AND https://www.facebook.com/NAWBOAtlanta

LinkedIn: National Association of Women Business Owners

Twitter: @NAWBONational AND @NAWBOAtlanta

Nancy Chorpenning/C-Suite Advisors FacebookLinkedinTwitter

Nancy Chorpenning is Founder and Managing Director of C-Suite Advisors, a business advisory practice helping business owners, especially women entrepreneurs, grow their companies by planning and focusing on the right priorities. Nancy spent nearly 30 years in corporate America before founding C-Suite Advisors in 2006, punctuated by a 2-year stint as a midlife Peace Corps Volunteer in Papua New Guinea in the late 90s. She moved to Atlanta in 1999 as part of the management team that started up WebMD, where she launched the first physician website. She is a Director on the National Board of NAWBO where she serves as Chair of the Governance Committee. She has been a member of NAWBO since she started her business, and served on the Board of the Atlanta Chapter for 6 years including as Chapter President. She is also a member of the Presidents Assembly of NAWBO, past presidents who support current chapter leaders, where she has responsibility for 17 southern tier chapters of NAWBO. Nancy is a new bride, and she and her husband Paul live in Atlanta.

Dorothéa Bozicolona-Volpe Twitter

Dorothéa Bozicolona-Volpe is a strategic digital marketing executive who is fluent in 4 languages and specializes in developing business for international brands (Fortune 500) via initiating and integrating social media and digital strategies and enterprise social networking, as well as, building strategic partnerships and implementing marketing technologies. Dorothéa teaches marketers and business leaders how to measure, optimize and build current new media efforts to increase value and develop strong relationships between brands and fans Additionally, Dorothéa has appeared as a social media marketing strategy subject matter expert on CBS and CNN’s Ali Velshi show. Some of her clients include: Boy Scouts of America, Mashable, Ryan Seacrest, Ryan Seacrest Productions, Chrysler, The Weather Channel, AT&T, Georgia Tech, InterContinental Hotels Group, Mercer, Jewish Family & Career Services, Ogilvy & Mather, Reader’s Digest, Qualcomm, Turner Network Television, Coca-Cola. She is a new NAWBO member, and is presently leading a social media effort to engage interest in NAWBO’s upcoming Women’s Business Conference in Miami, October 3-5 this year.

Jill Peck/Henderson Shapiro Peck, Inc. FacebookLinkedinTwitter

Jill Peck is Vice-President & COO for Henderson Shapiro Peck, Inc., a relationship-driven, award winning marketing and business support company. Areas of practice include healthcare, bioscience, pharma, communications/technology, publishing and non-profit. She is a member of National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), Certified Women’s Business Enterprise Council (WBENC), Metro Atlanta Chamber, North Metro Chamber of Commerce, Roswell Business Alliance. Board of Directors (NAWBO Atlanta), Board of Directors (Emerge Scholarships), Volunteer Arthritis Foundation, Tolerance Education Program, Atlanta Food Bank.

Tonya Hicks/Power Solutions, Inc. LinkedinTwitter

Tonya Hicks is founder and President of Power Solutions, Inc., a 13-year old commercial electrical contracting and engineering firm in Atlanta; Power Solutions also has a newer Maintenance Division. Tonya became the first woman journeyman electrician in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Meridian, MS in 1994. She is starting up another company “MaryAnn Works” providing work clothes designed for women in construction and uniformed services. Tonya is an avid blogger, and started “Women Do Everything,” to help women maintain, manage and renovate their homes. A single mother to two sons, aged 7 and 20, she is self-described as half Martha Stewart and half Oprah.

Linda Hughes/GreatRidge LinkedinTwitter

Linda Hughes is the CEO of GreatRidge a consulting company focused on helping companies grow to meet their potential. Linda founded GreatRidge in 2008 after a 25 year career including leadership positions at companies including The Coca-Cola Company, AIG, and NorthHighland. Linda has been a member of NAWBO for over 3 years and is currently serving as the President of the NAWBO Atlanta chapter.

 

 

Ellen Adair Wyche with Womenetics, Mike Young with Web.com and David Hoff with Cloud Sherpas

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Lynn Hood, Top Kernel with Crackerjack Marketing, is our guest host for today’s program.

Ellen Adair Wyche/Womenetics FacebookLinkedin

Womenetics co-founder and Vice President of Programs, Ellen Adair Wyche, has always been motivated by the unique qualities of women in business, and it is her passion to develop a global platform to enhance women’s leadership. Driven by the belief that women’s full engagement is an imperative for economic prosperity and positive change, Womenetics’ mission is to develop, support and inspire female leaders to create an impact larger than individual efforts as they improve and enhance a company’s productivity and bottom line. The company is a certified B-Corp, recognized for its positive social impact in empowering and elevating women through programs, leadership development, business training, and compelling editorial content distributed across multiple live events and online.

Wyche joins Results Matter Radio Show to talk about creating shared value, a cutting-edge business strategy that Womenetics is exploring at their annual Global Women’s Initiative on September 25th at the Georgia Aquarium. Creating shared value, the disruptive business strategy of the 21st Century, weaves social needs into a better business bottom line. Womenetics’ focus will center on how companies can better utilize the talents of women to accelerate the benefits derived from shared value in order to help produce long-term solutions, recognizing the unique ways women are impacted by and can impact the world’s problems. Implementing creating shared value requires a blend of innovation, creativity, and willingness to accept risk. Each of these topics align with the current topics Womenetics educates aspiring female leaders through their online content and development events.

Mike Young/Web.com FacebookLinkedinTwitter

Mike Young is the Vice President of Marketing for Web.com, overseeing the Small Business Forum. Web.com, a leading provider of Internet services and online marketing solutions for small businesses, will host a free, interactive Small Business Forum designed to help Atlanta-area small business owners learn how to successfully increase visibility and market themselves online. The Small Business Forum will take place on Friday, September 20, 2013, from 7:30-10 a.m. EDT at East Lake Country Club in Atlanta.

Through Web.com’s agreement with the PGA TOUR and as umbrella sponsor of the Web.com Tour, Web.com developed the Small Business Forum as a benefit to small business owners in communities across the country. Key areas for discussion will include:

  • What are the elements of a great website?
  • How do I increase traffic to my website and to my business?
  • Is my website “working” for my business?
  • How do I market my business on Google, Facebook and Twitter?

To sign up for the Forum, please visit http://sbfatlanta.eventbrite.com/.

David Hoff/Cloud Sherpas Linkedin

David Hoff is a CTO and a co-founder of Cloud Sherpas. Cloud Sherpas is the two-time Google Enterprise Partner of the Year for Google Apps, a Platinum salesforce.com partner and the first ServiceNow partner to reach Preferred partner status globally. As one of the world’s leading cloud services brokerages we’ve helped over 5,000 customers adopt, manage and enhance cloud solutions from Google, salesforce.com, ServiceNow and other leading cloud vendors.

Kirk Hancock with North Highland, Bill Nussey with Silverpop, Michelle Morgan with NEX Atlanta and Richard Simms with Tech Talent South

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Kirk Hancock/North Highland LinkedinTwitter

Kirk Hancock is North Highland’s Chief Financial Officer. With more than 23 years of experience in the field, he is well versed in corporate finance and accounting.

Imagine a company that invests in you as much as it earns. One that has mastered a culture of ownership and puts employees directly in charge of their professional destiny. Global consulting company North Highland has not only unlocked the key to double digit growth and success in a mature industry, its unique culture of ownership fosters a team of ninjas and superheroes, delivering great returns for the largest and most well-known companies in the world.

Part of what makes North Highland successful is that, unlike traditional partnerships, every North Highland employee – from the receptionist to the CEO – owns a stake in the company and is personally vested in the company’s and clients’ success. In fact, the employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) saw a nine percent increase over last year’s mid-year valuation and is moving in the right direction for continued growth in 2013. In addition, North Highland’s retirement plan was recently ranked sixth on BrightScope’s list of the top 25 Atlanta-based companies 401k plans containing more than $50 million in assets, leading to even greater returns.

Bill Nussey/Silverpop LinkedinTwitter

Bill Nussey has 30 years of experience running technology and Internet companies. He started his first company in high school, creating and selling software that provided enhanced graphics for early text-based computers. In college, Nussey and several co-founders started Da Vinci Systems. As CEO, he grew this company to become one of the most widely used desktop email tools in the world. When he sold the company to publicly-traded ON Technology in 1994, Da Vinci Systems had more than 3 million users in 45 countries.

As CEO of Silverpop, Nussey has guided the company as it became the only digital marketing technology provider unifying marketing automation, email, mobile and social into a single solution available across the globe. During its lifetime, Silverpop has grown to 450 employees serving 4,400 organizations across 42 countries. During his tenure at Silverpop, Nussey has overseen the acquisition of leading marketing technology companies such as Vtrenz, PlacePunch and CoreMotives and helped lead Silverpop to seven consecutive years of profitability. He’s been the recipient of the Direct Marketing Association’s Marketing Technology and Internet Council Annual Award of Excellence and has been listed among the 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management by the Sales Lead Management Association for the past two years.

Nussey has served on the board of numerous private marketing technology start-ups and nonprofits, lending his expertise to guide them in the development of successful business models. He is the author of several publications, including The Quiet Revolution in Email Marketing. Nussey holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Michelle Morgan/NEX Atlanta FacebookLinkedinTwitter

Currently the founder of NEX Atlanta, Michelle Morgan has been working in the sector to support development of social enterprise since 2009. Her first position was as the Director for the Academy of Sustainability at the Medici Center – a think tank attached to the redevelopment of City Hall East which was followed by founding HUB Atlanta – a local entity of the global social enterprise workspace. Her board experience includes the Green Chamber of the South, Enterprise 2 Empower (a student incubator at Ga Tech) and GreenPlate.

As the founder of NEX, Michelle has built unique programs and partnerships spanning business support services for entrepreneurs to social business models for Habitat for Humanity International. Michelle’s early career and education have been as an architect with 16 years in practice and an emphasis in morphology. All of that experience has been brought into the advisement process at NEX through design-thinking, critique and design-process techniques.

Richard Simms/Tech Talent South FacebookTwitter

Richard Simms, Co-Founder of Tech Talent South, is an Atlanta native. After graduating from Washington and Lee University in Virginia, Richard went on to work in business development and strategic partnerships for a Saas software company in DC called Cvent. Looking to dive further into the world of tech and move towards a more entrepreneurial path, Richard then moved to Chicago to join a small tech startup. As a part of a small team, Richard helped to raise investment capital and became involved in overseeing product development. This is really where Richard’s desire to learn to code took over…not only in order to more effectively manage product development and be able to “talk the talk” with engineers but also to be able to prototype his own ideas and one day build his own products/business. At that time, Richard enrolled in an immersive program in Chicago learning web development with Ruby on Rails. In this program, Richard met Betsy Hauser, Co-Founder of Tech Talent South. As the only two Southerners in the program, Richard and Betsy quickly bonded over their love for startups, code, and the South. After seeing how empowering learning these skills could be, Richard and Betsy were disappointed to see that these types of immersive educational opportunities simply didn’t exist in Atlanta so, they decided to start Tech Talent South. With Tech Talent South, their goal is to help empower creative folks in the South to drive innovation and to put Atlanta on the map as the next big startup hub.

Financial Executives International Association – Atlanta Chapter

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Chris Arndt/Financial Executives International Linkedin

Chris is an experienced CFO who has come through the ranks of Investment Banking and Corporate Finance. His crisis management and investment banking experience was with Ernst & Young (now Macquarie), the Lenox Group and PWC. He has managed acquisitions, reorganizations, equity investments, and process improvement initiatives at Scientific Atlanta, ChoicePoint, and Extremity Healthcare. He has also served as CFO and COO of two portfolio companies owned by One Equity Partners.

Chris was the Atlanta Chapter President of FEI in 2007. He served as a national director for the Southeast region from 2008 to 2012, and has been asked to serve an additional term in 2013 as President of the Atlanta Chapter.

Ron Barden/Financial Executives International Linkedin

Ron is an emeritus accounting professor of the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. He is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor, and a Certified Information Systems Auditor. He has functioned as a CPA, internal auditor, systems designer, and consultant to many businesses and governmental institutions. He has taught professional exam review courses and graduate academic courses internationally. He is also a retired Navy Captain. Most recently he served as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Accounting at Clayton State University for the academic year 2012-2013.

As a member of the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Chapter of Financial Executives International, he is primarily responsible for being a link with the Financial Executives Research Foundation and passing along relevant summaries of that research to Atlanta Chapter members.