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Ken Jones with CMIT Solutions of North Fulton, Stefanie Sheehan with Mastermind Your Launch, and Dr. Michael Skaliy with Atlanta Spine Specialists

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John Ray, Dr. Michael Skaliy, Stefanie Sheehan, Ken Jones, Mike Sammond

John Ray, Dr. Michael Skaliy, Stefanie Sheehan, Ken Jones, Mike Sammond

Ken Jones/CMIT Solutions of North Fulton

CMIT Solutions is an IT managed service provider serving businesses in the Alpharetta, Roswell and greater Atlanta area. They have expertise in Network Management, Network Security, Business Continuity, Server management, Proactive Managed Services, Help Desk, VOIP, and managing Cloud Services. They bring big business solutions and expertise to the GA small/medium sized business market.

Stefanie Sheehan/Mastermind Your Launch

Mastermind Your Launch offers branding and content marketing consulting to CEO’s and entrepreneurs that are ready to step into a new level of visibility, recognition, and success. Stefanie Sheehan, founder of Mastermind Your Launch, has career experience advising and executing strategic marketing plans for CEO’s from pre-revenue startup to over $100M in annual. Stefanie’s passion is helping to position courageous startup founders and serial entrepreneurs as leaders in their industries so that they can effortlessly attract clients and partnerships. Stefanie also hosts the Mastermind Your Launch Podcast found in iTunes and Stitcher Radio which features over 60 interviews with inspiring entrepreneurs.

Dr. Michael Skaliy/Atlanta Spine Specialists

Specializing in minimally invasive non-surgical treatments, Atlanta Spine Specialists are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of your back pain. Fortunately, the majority of back pain patients do not need surgery in order to find relief. Minimally invasive treatments allow you to continue your daily activities with less interference to you and your family. At Atlanta Spine Specialists they can diagnosis and treat your back pain using the most advanced and up to date non-surgical techniques. They will then help you make a personal decision as to what treatment best meets your personal needs.

 

NORTH ATLANTA’S BIZLINK: Mary Hester with LAN Systems

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Mike Sammond, Mary Hester, Deborah Lanham

MARY HESTER/LAN SYSTEMS

mary-hester-lan-systemsMary Hester is the CEO of LAN Systems, which provides IT solutions in the Greater Metro Atlanta Area. Mary is an electrical engineer who believes her greatest strength is in her ability to connect with people and understand their unique technology needs. Through her leadership, LAN Systems has dedicated itself to providing business technology that works for people. As a computer systems expert, Mary works with many companies to get the highest efficiency from people and IT resources. She brings extensive experience managing a support and service group renowned for its “Best in the Industry” rating and standards. Mary is an expert in customer loyalty and retention. She has designed and delivered numerous training courses and workshops on a variety of topics. Understanding that service must be consistent and always meet the customer’s needs, Mary has developed a unique managed services model that provides personalized, high-quality services throughout the contract period. LAN Systems delivers this program with engineers and computer experts to many industries.

Mary has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an MBA from the University of Georgia at Athens. In addition to working with utilities on security and other topics, she is very involved in the industry and serves on several committees that address security concerns for public utilities. Mary is very active in the community and volunteers for several not-for-profit organizations that promote engineering education and careers to young people. She devotes her time to promoting engineering as a career to young women. Mary is the Vice Chairman for the Gwinnett Coalition for Health and Human Services. She also serves on the Board of Utility Technology Associates, a not-for-profit dedicated to the advancement of education and training for electric power utilities which conducts the Southeastern Meter School and the Distribution Apparatus School.

You can contact Mary at mary@lansystems.com.

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Craig Ganssle with Basecamp Networks, Joanne Newell with Center for Energy Healing, and Dr. Charles Krieger with Krieger Health Solutions

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John Ray, Craig Ganssle, Joanne Newell, Dr. Charles Krieger, Mike Sammond

John Ray, Craig Ganssle, Joanne Newell, Dr. Charles Krieger, Mike Sammond

Criag Ganssel/Basecamp Networks

Basecamp Networks is an innovative technology company that specializes in network solutions and cloud based application management. At the core is their wireless network infrastructure, connecting everything from businesses to communities, campuses to farms. Basecamp Networks supports the WiFi ecosystem needed for the Internet of Things (IoT). While they build with the right technology to streamline your company or link with your city, they are also passionate about leveraging those solutions for greater global agricultural issues.

Joanne Newell/Center for Energy Healing

The Center for Energy Healing uses holistic healing techniques such as Reiki, Meditation and Hypnotherapy to relieve pain, reduce stress, improve sleep and lead an overall better quality of life! Founder Joanne Newell is an established leader in the healing profession who is dedicated to helping others achieve harmony, success and a greater sense of well-being in both their personal and professional life. Joanne’s mastery of energy healing comes through extensive training in the fields of energy medicine, meditation, intuitive development and hypnotherapy. Her unparalleled healing abilities combined with a BA in Psychology allows her to use an integrative approach by customizing sessions to meet the unique needs of each individual for complete mind-body-soul wellness. Located in Roswell, the Center for Energy Healing offers private sessions, group classes and training programs. Passionate about community involvement, the Center for Energy Healing is a business partner of Roswell High School, teaching meditative techniques to both students and teachers to reduce stress and anxiety, and improve focus and confidence.

Dr. Charles Krieger/Krieger Health Solutions

Krieger Health Solutions grew from a family chiropractic practice that was begun in 1959 in NYC by his father Dr. Arthur Krieger. Today they are in Roswell, GA and they provide chiropractic care for children and adults, functional nutrition and detoxification protocols. Dr. Krieger graduated Life Chiropractic School in 1984 and began practice with his father in 1985. Over the years the practice grew to include nutrition and other holistic practices which were incorporated to enhance their chiropractic adjustments which were and remain the core of their practice. Another aspect of their practice has been to help businesses save money by educating employees about health and wellness. It is not commonly known but companies, big and small, lose lots of revenue through lost work time, medication costs and lost production. Krieger Health Solutions can provide businesses with employee workshops on a number of health and safety topics that can help decrease or prevent lost production and prescription costs.

Amber Black with Jesse’s House, Tom Vooris with Choices To You, and Britt Adams with Whitby Handbags

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John Ray, Britt Adams, Tom Vooris, Amber Black, Mike Sammond

John Ray, Britt Adams, Tom Vooris, Amber Black, Mike Sammond

Amber Black/Jesse’s House

Jesse’s House is an emergency and long-term shelter for at-risk female youth. Their mission is to provide safe and structured care in a nurturing environment to at-risk girls in order to adequately prepare them for life. The girls served at Jesse’s House have been removed from their homes due to abuse, neglect, or deprivation. Their referrals are received from the Department of Family and Children Services and the Forsyth County Juvenile Court. They are licensed with the state of Georgia to serve ages 7 to 21. Jesse’s House is a safe haven that not only meets the basic needs of shelter and food for the youth, but also provides counseling to address the trauma they have experienced, educational support to ensure academic success, daily living skills training to aid in their development goals, and appropriate family supports to mend the family unit.

Tom Vooris/Choices To You

Let Choices To You bring the restaurant to you! If you live in the North Fulton or Gwinnett County area of Atlanta, they’re about to make your life a whole lot easier! If you ever ask yourself, “Where’s the best restaurant delivery near me?”, they have got you covered. Try their food delivery service today! Choices To You lets you pick take out from some of the best restaurants around you. Feel like Italian? Mexican? Chinese? Who doesn’t love take out food?

Britt Adams/Whitby Handbags

Whitby Handbags is a socially conscious luxury accessories line devoted to the abolishment of modern-day slavery and human trafficking through the funding of girls and boys educations around the world. Founded by Britt Adams in August 2014, Whitby launched their first collection in August 2015 with the Codet Satchel. Whitby is committed to donating 30% of their profits to nonprofit partners in Haiti, Iraq, Thailand, and Peru. The new collection will be available for purchase online and at select retailers Spring 2017.

Megan Hill with A Stronger Workplace, Marc Morris with The Talmadge Group and Cat Fisher with Kind Bikes

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Megan Hill/A Stronger Workplace

Megan Hill, A Stronger WorkplaceA Stronger Workplace is a Workplace Wellness company serving businesses in the Atlanta area and busy working professionals through Employee Wellness Programs and Personal Training Programs.

 

 

Marc Morris/The Talmadge Group

Marc Morris, The Talmadge GroupThe Talmadge Group helps companies of all sizes solve the “people problem” by providing Talent for Tomorrow. The majority of their work is in Information Technology (IT), but they also provide support in the area of sales, engineering and generalist categories. Their value is bringing order and structure to the chaos of hiring, through an easy to implement hiring methodology designed to attract and keep great talent. Finding candidates is easy, hiring them is harder – keeping the great ones is the real challenge.

Cat Fisher/Kind Bikes

Cat Fisher, Kind BikesAt Kind Bikes, the goal is to help you raise money for your favorite charity by providing you with the bicycling tools you need to participate in a cycling event, duathlon, or triathlon. They offer bike rentals, training and cycling know-how to anyone participating in a fund raising charity event. Kind Bikes proudly serves the Greater Atlanta Metro area and a growing number of other communities throughout the United States. Their fleet of bicycles is working hard to raise awareness and money for local and national charities such as the Kiwanis Club, American Diabetes Association, Cycling for Good and Camp Twin Lakes. As the organization continues to serve those who care about their community, they hope to inspire individuals to find creative, healthy ways to support the charities they hold dear.

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NORTH ATLANTA’S BIZLINK: Senator Brandon Beach, CEO/President of the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce

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Deborah Lanham and Senator Brandon Beach

Deborah Lanham and Senator Brandon Beach

Senator Brandon Beach/Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the North Fulton Chamber is to be the catalyst for economic development, business growth, and quality of life in North Fulton. The GNFCC promotes the interests of their members by assuming a leadership role in making North Fulton an excellent place to work, live, play and stay. They provide one voice for all local businesses to influence decision makers, recommend legislation, and protect the valuable resources that make North Fulton a popular place to live. From economic development to quality of life, the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce (GNFCC) is active in promoting positive growth and sense of community pride.

 

Bonnie Mauldin with The Mauldin Group, Jack Tuszynski with Family Life Publications, and Kathy Guidry with Minuteman Press of Alpharetta

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Bonnie Mauldin/The Mauldin Group

The Mauldin Group is an award winning 5-star rated internet marketing and public relations agency focused on helping small businesses generate new leads online and getting positive media exposure in the local community. Bonnie and her team has helped many small businesses grow and be profitable.

 

Jack Tuszynski/Family Life Publications

Family Life Publications help enrich family life and the community with educational & entertaining articles about life, the arts and entertainment with three monthly magazines: North Fulton Family Life, Canton Family Life and Woodstock Family Life. Family Life publications have the largest monthly circulation of direct mailed community magazines. Each magazine is direct mailed to over 23,000 of the optimal demographic homes and businesses in its community. With a print count over 25,000, magazines are also placed in racks around the cities at doctor offices, government offices, restaurants and merchants. Family Life Publications is a great way to learn about your community and boost your business.

Kathy Guidry/Minuteman Press of Alpharetta

As a family owned business, Minuteman Press of Alpharetta is dedicated to providing not only quality products, but quality service too. Their print shop has all of your business and personal printing needs. From brochures to business cards, promotional products, vinyl graphics and more, they specialize in business printing services. They want to ensure your success. Contact them today to request an estimate!

 

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Badsha Das with 8d Quantum, Tony Trowbridge with Areance, and Hogan Bassey with LivFul

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John Ray, Badsha Das, Tony Trowbridge, Hogan Bassey, Steven Julian

John Ray, Badsha Das, Tony Trowbridge, Hogan Bassey, Steven Julian

Badsha Das/8d Quantum

Badsha Das, 8d Quantum8d Quantum is a product design and development firm specializing in loT and consumer goods, industrial products and medical devices.  Their team of engineers are experts in Sensor Technology and IoT. 8 Quantum’s highly complex predictive and cognitive algorithms make the product ‘smart’ that observe, communicate, analyze and respond to their environment. The clients engage 8d Quantum for CAD, PCB Design, Sensor Technology, Product Visualization & Animation and App Design & Development. They believe that great design encompasses both Art and Science. Art defines the creativity, uniqueness and Science defines the best possible solution in the physical world.

Tony Trowbridge/Areance

The world is in the early stages of the 4th Industrial Revolution that will fundamentally change the way we live, work and relate to one another. Along with these changes will come great opportunities and great challenges… At Areance, they want to help make those changes be positive, dramatic and be part of the global ecosystem that continues to make the “human factor” it’s first priority. This is the “why” they exist… As stated by Klaus Schwab (author: The Fourth Industrial Revolution): “Leaders and citizens must together shape a future that works for all by putting people first, empowering them and constantly reminding ourselves that all of these new technologies are first and foremost tools made by people for people.”

As an Atlanta-based advisory, integration and innovation firm, they help their clients not only understand these technologies, they develop strategic roadmaps, they work alongside their teams to implement change, they discover new products/services to extend their competitive edge, and at all times, they act as their partner. This is “what” Areance does…

The “how” is pretty straight-forward: Areance has the best people advising their clients, they have the best people developing new products and services, and all of them love working together to solve problems and innovate.

Hogan Bassey/LivFul

LivFul is a biotech on a mission to save 200,000 lives per year. They are passionate about saving lives and transforming communities. They use a patented algae-based micro-encapsulation (control release) technology platform to address mosquito and bacteria-borne diseases through their flagship product, Akiva Repellent and Antiseptic wipes.

 

 

Shawn LaFave with North Georgia Promotions, Diane Campbell with Gratitude Goodies, and Seth Gilland with FSI

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John Ray, Diane Campbell, Seth Gilland, Shawn LaFave, Steven Julian

John Ray, Diane Campbell, Seth Gilland, Shawn LaFave, Steven Julian

Shawn LaFave/North Georgia Promotions

NGA Promotions has grown to be one of North Georgia’s premier, family-owned providers of quality promotional products for any branding, marketing, publicity or communications need.
They offer high quality custom screen printing and embroidery, digital printing and customized promotional items.

Diane Campbell/Gratitude Goodies

Gratitude Goodies  is a corporately-focused gift basket company that provides delicious, stunning gifts to businesses all over the Metro Atlanta area and nationwide. When you call, your order is created in real time by our skilled designers with an eye for elegance and style. They also have a full featured web site at www.GratitudeGoodies.com. Clients choose Gratitude Goodies, when they want unique designs that help them express their sentiments in a meaningful way. Let them help you say “Thank you”, “Congratulations”, “Let’s celebrate”, “We’re thinking of you” and so much more. Gratitude Goodies was started in the basement of Diane’s home. Not six months later Marian McMichael joined her as Business Manager. Together they have built Gratitude Goodies which now resides in 1500 sq ft of production space with 4 employees. Each year they have grown and have been recognized in business. They are the proud recipients of the 2014 Small Business Award in Forsyth County, been name the Best of Forsyth in 2015 in the Gourmet Food Category, are a certified woman own business with the National Woman Business Owners Corporation and have recently been nominated for another small business award with the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce this year.

Seth Gilland/Fulfillment Strategies International

During their 20 years in business, Fulfillment Strategies International has established itself as a leading provider of third party logistics/fulfillment services, helping companies to deliver merchandise to consumers, retail stores and businesses around the corner and around the globe.  FSI offers a full suite of 3PL fulfillment services including storage, inventory management, pick/pack/ship of orders, International shipping expertise, promotional support and custom kit assembly.  FSI offers a unique approach to fulfillment support.  By layering technology solutions and system/web site integrations with proven logistics best practices, clients gain a solid partner on their team.  FSI’s clients maintain a wide variety of sales channels requiring all types of support.  Their diverse service offering gives clients the peace of mind to focus on their business development and growth while giving them a true competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Paul Sharman with The Sharman Law Group, Kirkley Hennessy with Hennessy Transportation, and Ehab Jaleel with Amana Academy Charter School

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John Ray, Paul Sharman, Ehab Jaleel, Kirkley Hennessy, Steven Julian

Paul Sharman/The Sharman Law Group

In 2011, Paul opened The Sharman Law Firm to serve clients in overtime, employment discrimination, employee benefits and other employment-related disputes, as well as appellate clients. Paul is admitted to the State Bar of Georgia, United States District Courts for the Northern District of Georgia, Middle District of Georgia and Southern District of Georgia, as well as the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. In addition to his practice as an Atlanta employment attorney, Paul serves on the Board of Directors of the North Fulton Bar Association and is also an active member of the Atlanta Bar Association, American Association for Justice and the National Employment Lawyers Association, Georgia chapter.

Kirkley Hennessy/Hennessy Transportation

Hennessy Transportation is an Atlanta based global ground transportation company providing luxury world-class service in over 500 cities and 1,200 airports. Their client list varies from personal luxury transportation to corporate group transportation. They are proud to say that virtually every Fortune 500 company relies on Hennessy every minute, every hour, every day. Brides and Grooms and their wedding party depend on Hennessy when moving the bridal party from the ceremony to the reception. Families count on Hennessy when they’re needing to get to the airport before the big vacation. So can you! Whether you are needing a sedan to the airport, a stretch limousine for a special night out or a bus to get your corporate executives on location, on time, Hennessy is the company you’re looking for.

Ehab Jaleel/Amana Academy Charter School

Amana Academy, a Fulton County public charter school serving 750 students, is the first K-8 Certified STEM School by the Georgia Department of Education. Founded on the principles of stewardship and responsibility, the school is incorporated in the state of Georgia as a non-profit charter school and is located in Alpharetta, Georgia.  Amana’s unique set of educational approaches centers on the Harvard-based Expeditionary Learning model and is focused on preparing students for high academic achievement beyond what they think possible, so that they become active contributors to building a better world. In 2011 the school was named Georgia Charter School of the Year by the Coca-Cola Foundation, and it received a STEM Education Dissemination Award by the Georgia Department of Education in 2012. The school was also ranked the #1 Middle School in Georgia in 2010 by the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, and awarded an Annie E. Casey Foundation Grant, among many other honors and awards for its commitment to environmental education and for its pioneering Arabic language program. Amana Academy students reside primarily in Alpharetta and Roswell and the school is open to all students who are eligible to attend Fulton County Public Schools during the specified open enrollment period without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, religion, disabling condition, or English proficiency.

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