Curated Collection Of The Best Interviews From Across The Network
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Deborah Lanham, Todd Peneguy, Mike Sammond
Todd Peneguy/TAG
It’s a new world for tech, and the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) has emerged as a world-class membership organization and an engine for economic development for the state of Georgia. TAG’s mission is to educate, promote, influence and unite Georgia’s technology community to foster an innovative and connected marketplace that stimulates and enhances Georgia’s tech-based economy.
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John Ray, Bill May, Linda Coyle, Rick Newcomer, Mike Sammond
Bill May/Ecycle Atlanta
Ecycle Atlanta provides an easy solution for your company’s surplus IT equipment. Old office computers, laptops and servers can all be recycled in an Earth-friendly manner. Their services include free on-site pickup and removal in the metro Atlanta area. Ecycle Atlanta is an EPA compliant and HIPAA certified company. Call 678 324-9760 to schedule a pickup.
Linda Coyle/LGE Community Credit Union
LGE Community Credit Union provides full-service, federally insured banking to over 100,000 members in northwest Georgia, with better rates and lower fees than you will typically find in a big bank. They serve all residents of Cobb, Paulding, Cherokee, and Fulton counties.
LGE Community Credit Union is dedicated to improving the financial well-being of its members through economically priced and conveniently delivered services, caring personal service, and sound financial management.
Rick Newcomer/Signal Outdoor Advertising
Signal is a leading outdoor advertising company known for innovation and excellence in the development of out-of‐home media properties. Their expertise is focused on the development of street furniture, which includes bus shelters, bus passenger benches, kiosks and transit advertising. Established in 1998, the company operates advertising assets in over 100 municipalities, with an inventory of more than 10,000 advertising displays.
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John Ray, Mayor Jere Wood, Steve Schilling, Dr. Glenn Cannon, Mike Sammond
Mayor Jere Wood/City of Roswell
The City of Roswell continues to be a leader in the metro Atlanta area in managing the current and future growth of this wonderful city. Roswell is fortunate to have leaders who concentrate their policy-making into solid guidelines for smart growth and development. The Community Development Department is responsible for carrying out those guidelines. The City has implemented a number of projects that will enhance their community. These projects include receiving a $2.3 million LCI Grant from the Atlanta Regional Commission to fund the redevelopment of the Roswell Midtown from Norcross Street to Commerce Parkway; completion of the Transportation Master Plan; and the Town Square area Design Charettes. The Community Development Department also oversees economic development, building inspection and code enforcement. Roswell’s enforcement of building codes, with respect to apartments, is the model for metro Atlanta.
Steve Schilling/Digital Ignition
Digital Ignition is a tech incubator designed to foster the growth of North Georgia’s tech community. Located in Alpharetta, GA, Digital Ignition is committed to launching the next big North Georgia success story by supporting and inspiring today’s entrepreneurs with 45,000 square feet of unique, flexible co-working space in which to innovate, create and collaborate, along with access to experienced mentors and investors.
Dr. Glenn Cannon/Gwinnett Tech
Gwinnett Technical College is one of Georgia’s largest technical colleges and is committed to delivering relevant knowledge to meet the workforce training needs of their community. The college offers more than 150 associate degree, diploma and certificate programs, and hundreds of seminars, workshops and courses providing specialized training. Gwinnett Tech is Gwinnett County’s largest provider of corporate training and also serves residents and businesses in north Fulton County through their new Alpharetta-North Fulton campus.
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Mike Sammond, Jane Ratliff, Trenton Carson, Andrew Traub
Jane Ratliff/Bluehair Technology Group
Bluehair Technology Group is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to show seniors how to use technology so they can stay connected to their family, friends and the world. They are committed to the principle that older adults possess limitless potential to develop as individuals. BHT improves the lives of seniors through accessible and adult friendly technology education that results in connectivity with family, community and the world.
Trenton Carson/TC Productions
Trenton Carson has a bachelor’s degree in Cinematography from Southern Illinois University. That educational background as well as on the field work experience, allows him to create stunning video visuals. He utilizes his creativity to help his clients, business owners, better connect with their audience by allowing the audience to connect visually with his clients.
Andrew Traub/A&S Culinary Concepts
A&S Culinary Concepts is a culinary studio, they offer cooking classes for private groups or open classes on line, team building for businesses and corporations and they do corporate catering. They are a culinary partner with the Big Green Egg, so A&S offers many different type of Big Green Egg classes from Grilling to all day Boot Camps. A&S are farm to table and deal with local vendors as much as possible. Most of their food is made on premises from scratch from mayonnaise to ice cream and pickles. They have a pastry chef on premise, so all of their pastries are made from scratch. Their menus are guidelines, they like to work with the customer to personalize what they want, this way you also know everything is made fresh for you. They invite anyone to come and see the studio at any time.
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John Ray, Tom Martin, Zane Kinney, Alan Rosenbaum, Mike Sammond
Tom Martin/Proactive Payroll
Proactive Payroll was founded to be a different kind of payroll service. They do only payroll and don’t try to be everything to everybody. They are a team of very experienced payroll professionals. Proactive Payroll networks extensively so they can refer their clients to the best professionals, whether they are associated with payroll or not. Proactive Payroll has state of the art technologies that help their clients comply with the complexities surrounding payroll and integrate with other related service providers. They are inquisitive people who really want to know all about their clients and find ways to help them in any way they can.
Alan Rosenbaum/Dream Vacations
Alan Rosenbaum has been planning vacations since 2003. In 2003, Dream Vacations was known as CruiseOne because virtually all bookings were cruises. However, over the years they added almost everything related to vacations, so in April of 2016, they re-branded to Dream Vacations. In the past, Alan served on the CruiseOne Advisory Board. He has been quoted numerous times in trade publications and he is currently mentoring two new franchise owners.
Zane Kinney/Astinel Security & Forensics
Astinel Security & Forensics provides risk and investigative services. They respond to the crisis in your business related to fraud, theft, risk, security, embezzlement and workplace misconduct. More importantly, they show you as s business how to prevent loss. Serving the legal community, they conduct private investigations and forensic reviews. Zane Kinney has spent his entire adult life in the protection field. His background exceeds 25 years in Law Enforcement, Loss Prevention, Corporate Investigations, Physical Security, Private Investigations and Forensics. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and licensed Private Investigator in the state of Georgia. Zane sits on the board of the Atlanta Chapter of Certified Fraud Examiners and frequently speaks on fraud prevention in the workplace.
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Steven Julian, Peg Hussing, Skip Rolquin, Mary Warren, Mike Sammond
Peg Hussing/EcoShredding
EcoShredding is an “on-site” mobile document destruction company. Locally owned and operated, their offices are in the City of Alpharetta. They service all of Atlanta and the surrounding metro areas. EcoShredding offers convenient, secure, and environmentally sound document destruction service in and around Atlanta! Discover why they are the most trusted, locally owned document destruction service around.
Skip Rolquin/Dramatic Water Solutions
Dramatic Water Solutions opened up its doors in May, 1999 to serve the Metro Atlanta area with water filtration and office water cooler sales and services. Now after almost 10 years they have simplified their pricing and services as well as limited their product line offerings to filtration systems that are both useful and economical to both offices and homeowners in the Atlanta area. If you do not see an offering for filtration that meets your individual needs on their website, feel free to contact them to see if they can assist you with your specific water filtration needs. Providing water filtration to Atlanta Homes and Offices for over 10 years.
Mary Warren/Cristomar Fine Rug Cleaning and Repair
Cristomar is a family-owned business with a small staff of trained professionals, certified by Wools of New Zealand as wool-care specialists. They are proud members of the Association of Rug Cleaning Specialists (ARCS) and The National Institute of Rug Cleaning (NIRC), and participate in ongoing education and training to provide the most up-to-date cleaning and repair practices. They are a rug cleaning Atlanta operation with the only North Atlanta in-plant heated dry room. Cristomar specializes in area rugs only. Their fresh water cleaning process removes deep down dirt and the dry room allows them to dry your oriental rug quickly after washing. Their team prides themselves on the best care of your rugs. From their family to yours, they want to make sure you have the best possible experience with their team.
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Mike Sammond, Peter Stewart, Deborah Lanham
North Atlanta’s BizLink
The Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce linking you to Business Leaders
Guest: Peter Stewart/Cyviz
Peter Stewart serves as President of North America for Cyviz, a global provider of high performance visualization, collaboration and command & control environments. Peter brings 20 years of relevant experience with positions in technology strategy, sales, alliances and product management.
By applying themselves to making their customers’ lives simpler, Cyviz has created a formula for product integration on a systems level that has become the industry benchmark. Their groundbreaking technology represents a paradigm shift in the way organizations deploy, use and support large numbers of feature rich collaboration environments. The beauty of The Cyviz Experience is in its simplicity: intuitive to operate; easy to connect; uncomplicated to expand; simple to maintain. In short: High-end visual collaboration made easy. Cyviz is headquartered in Stavanger, Norway with regional offices in Houston, Washington DC, Dubai, Riyadh, Beijing, and Singapore.
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Mike Sammond, Marvin Austin, George Davis, George Colmant
George Davis/Netcom PaySystems
Netcom PaySystem goes a step beyond most payment service companies by providing the most in-depth and comprehensive payment solutions in the industry along with exemplary customer service. Since 1987 Netcom PaySystem has been on the cutting edge and has branded the following payment solutions to suit your client’s needs. Netcom PaySystem’s attrition rate is one of the lowest, if not the lowest in the industry. Netcom PaySystem can proudly boast that only 2-4% of their clients ever leave them, and out of that; close to 50% return within the first year. Netcom PaySystem prides itself on being as eager to practice good, old-fashioned customer care as it is to pioneer new products. Netcom PaySystem is proud to provide the most up to date and innovative products such as m-Commerce Mobile Solutions, ISV/SDK and Virtual Terminal solutions. In addition, the company offers the merchant access to POS Systems, eCommerce, ACH Check Services, Check Guarantee, Recurring Billing, Check21, BOC, Credit and Debit Card Processing, Gift and Loyalty Cards, and Merchant Working Capital.
Marvin Austin/SuperGreen Solutions
SuperGreen is GA’s 1st energy efficiency store. They provide complete turnkey energy efficient and renewable products and solutions for all of your business, commercial and residential energy needs. Their expert knowledge, uncompromising customer service and quality installations speak for themselves. Their portfolio includes: Indow Windows, Solar Panels, LED Lighting, Water Heaters, Air Purification, Water Efficiency, Insulation, Energy Management, Electric Charging Stations and more.
George Colmant/Points North Atlanta Magazine
Since May of 2000, Points North Atlanta has served as the most popular lifestyle magazine exclusively serving the Northside communities of Atlanta. Every month, Points North continues to feature local personalities, travel destinations, local & regional events, fashion, health, dining and shopping options.
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John Ray, Geoff Smith, John Herbert, Scott Tanksley, Mike Sammond
Geoff Smith/Assurance Financial Group
Assurance Financial is a bank focusing only on residential home loans and aims to be the expert in the field of financing for home purchases. The company is consistently named a “Best Place To Work” and strives to provide its customers with competitive interest rates and the best customer service.
John Herbert/Herbert Legal Group
From the smallest start-up to the industry giant, legal solutions are no longer a luxury. Whether it’s one incident that requires intense legal representation, or simply issues that arise naturally in the day-to-day business context, companies need a law firm that is on their side. Herbert Legal Group believes that valuable legal solutions can be delivered for businesses at an affordable, flat fee. They are off the clock and on your side.
Scott Tanksley/Authentity
Authentity provides a software tool that leads people through a face-to-face conversation in 30 minutes or less. Rather than answering a computer, they catalyze people talking to people, which raises the engagement level of the participants and generates understanding and buy-in. That’s a local win, but they’re also able to connect and report these conversations at scale to give leaders insight on a topic and faster, more actionable data from their stakeholders. Their initial users have been teams in large companies, and they’ve been affectionately called “Undercover Boss in a Box”.
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Mike Sammond, Pat O’Rourke, Mary Becker, Nick Patel, John Ray
Pat O’Rourke/Practice Quotient
Patrick O’Rourke of Practice Quotient began his career at a dental & vision insurance company in Florida, which after several acquisitions and mergers, is now MetLife. He spent five years at Humana in Atlanta selling in the large group segment (100+ employees). He was responsible for all lines of insurance coverage for these groups including fully-insured and self-funded (ASO) medical, dental, life, disability, stop loss, pharmacy (PBM), wellness, and worksite/voluntary portfolio. It seemed that spiraling group healthcare costs pushed ancillary lines into the periphery. This tendency became magnified after the PPACA paradigm shift that left everyone on information overload. He positioned himself as an industry resource by earning several certifications, including Disability (DIA) and Dental (DBA). Understanding the nuances involved with all aspects of risk management helped business partners rely on his expertise to guide client recommendations. He is an insurance insider that has built dental networks, worked in operations management, designed plans, and opened markets. This allows him to provide valuable insights to his dental practice clients.
Mary Becker/Best Deal Movers
Best Deal Movers began as a dream that Mary’s son David had. He, along with two of his brothers, had worked at moving companies during the Summer when they were home from college. In the spring of his sophomore year, David injured his arm while pitching on the college baseball team. When surgery and rehab did not bring the necessary results to be able to continue in the sport, David had to reconsider what he wanted to do. He brought the idea for a moving company to his dad – and Best Deal Movers was born. They started with one truck and an office in their home. The business has continued to grow. Today they have seven trucks and are continuing to expand. They are proud to provide excellent service to their clients, having been chosen to receive The Best of Kudzu Awards for the past three years and having been voted by Angie’s List members to receive their Super Service Award for 2013 and 2014.
Nick Patel/Salsarita’s
At Salsarita’s Fresh Cantina, they’re building a dynamic and authentically inspired fast casual Mexican brand, offering delicious food that is made the way you want it and prepared every day in-house. From Wildly Addictive Chips that their guests truly rave about, to queso, customizable burritos, tacos, salads, bowls, quesadillas, nachos, signature salsas and fresh-made guacamole, Salsarita’s Fresh Cantina thrives on making great Mexican fare fresh daily. Since their beginnings in Charlotte, NC in 2000, they have worked to perfect the notion that a restaurant should not only be fast and friendly, but also casual and delicious like no other. Today, they have locations in 19 states and are rapidly growing!
