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Mark Boggs, Mark Scheuerlein, and Todd Young with Verizon Wireless

July 15, 2014 by angiehand

Carolina Connections

Mark Boggs, Mark Scheuerlein, and Todd Young with Verizon Wireless

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Mark Boggs, Associate Director, Verizon Wireless

Mark Boggs has worked for Verizon Wireless since 1999 serving as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, and Associate Director. In this capacity, Mark has been responsible for designing and implementing cellular data solutions for customers in the government and enterprise sectors. Mark currently manages a team of Advanced Solutions Architects who support government and enterprise customer across North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Prior to entering the wireless industry, Mark was an engineer for both Fortune 20 and Fortune 100 companies based in the Charlotte, NC area.

Mark Scheuerlein, Advanced Solutions Architect, Verizon Wireless

Mark Scheuerlein has been working in the cellular industry for over 8 years, first for Alltel and now for Verizon Wireless. As an Advanced Solutions Architect, he helps businesses choose products and solutions that will solve their business problems. Previously, Mark was a Senior IT Systems Engineer for Capital Broadcasting and has a background in IT, marketing, and advertising.

Todd Young, Advanced Solutions Architect, Verizon Wireless

Todd Young has been working at Verizon Wireless for over two years as an Advanced Solutions Architect. His focus is assisting businesses in Eastern North Carolina realize new levels of productivity and efficiency using machine to machine connections. Prior to his work at Verizon Wireless, Todd was a CIO for a SC state agency. He also has an extensive background in GIS, Project Management, and Software Development.

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Nick DeMarco with Practichem

July 14, 2014 by angiehand

Raleigh Business Radio

Nick DeMarco with Practichem

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Nick DeMarco, Founder and President, Practichem

Nick DeMarco has started multiple companies since 1995 with two successful exits. Practichem, his latest, simplifies complex scientific instruments with web technology opening complex science to a wider group and increasing the pace of discovery. Nick lives in Raleigh with his wife and three children.

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Nick Jordan with Smashing Boxes

July 8, 2014 by angiehand

Carolina Connections

Nick Jordan with Smashing Boxes

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Nick Jordan, CEO, Smashing Boxes

Nick Jordan specializes in solving problems for startups, fortune 500’s, non profits, and every one in between thru the creation and management of technology and marketing strategies. At Smashing Boxes, we develop web and mobile software using Ruby on Rails, and native mobile apps for iOS and Android to accomplish client goals.

Interests: Bringing an entrepreneurial spirit and mentality to drive big impact for organizations in our community who can benefit from this approach and mindset. While our agency has capabilities, it is our ability to think outside of the box that brings the most value. Groups I enjoy helping include startups, large corporations, healthcare, and global health / non profits.

Specialties: competitive analysis, strategy, partnerships, revenue modeling

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Ian Henshaw with the Open Data Institute of North Carolina

July 7, 2014 by angiehand

Raleigh Business Radio

Ian Henshaw with the Open Data Institute of North Carolina

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Ian Henshaw, CEO of The Open Data Institute of North Carolina

The Open Data Institute is catalyzing the evolution of open data culture to create economic, environmental, and social value. It helps unlock supply, generates demand, creates and disseminates data to address local and global issues.

We convene world-class experts to collaborate, incubate, nurture and mentor new ideas, and promote innovation. We enable anyone to learn and engage with open data, and empower our teams to help others through professional coaching and mentoring.

Ian is an entrepreneur in Cary, NC involved with several companies and markets mostly related to technology. Ian serves on the Town of Cary Economic Development Committee, is active with the Cary Chamber of Commerce and several charitable organizations.

A customer-focused, inquisitive, fast-learner, Ian has a record of rapid advances in responsibility and leadership roles. Ian has experience in multiple corporate functions and industries and a passion for multicultural engagements allowing him to see the big picture and to develop products and processes to best fit that picture.

Ian’s goals are to develop high-quality, high-reliability products that exceed customer expectations. Technology is used as a tool to improve business processes and practices leading to a proven record of success.

Specialties: Technology, process change, leadership, team building, entrepreneurship, organizational growth, multi-cultural interaction.

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Jason Widen with HQ Raleigh and Derrick Minor with the City of Raleigh

July 1, 2014 by angiehand

Carolina Connections

Jason Widen with HQ Raleigh and Derrick Minor with the City of Raleigh

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Jason Widen, Co-Founder, HQ Raleigh

Jason Widen is COO of Forward Impact whose mission is to unleash the impact potential of next generation entrepreneurial leaders. This work includes supporting community-based strategies to develop and scale high-impact entrepreneurs including and HQ Raleigh, ThinkHouse, and Leadership exCHANGE.

Jason is also President and owner of REVGEN, a startup marking and sales company.

Jason brings an extensive background in property management and entrepreneurship to his current position as Co-Founder and Executive Director of HQ Raleigh, an award-winning entrepreneurial co-working space located in Downtown Raleigh. In addition, Jason is Co-Founder of ThinkHouse an intentional living community and accelerator for post graduate entrepreneurs. Jason was also instrumental in the creation of Leadership exCHANGE, an award-winning organization dedicated to training the next generation of leaders and global citizens to change the world. He teaches Global Business and Socials Entrepreneurship. Leadership exCHANGE has trained over 1000 students from more than 80 different countries.

Other entrepreneurial ventures include a real estate investment, asset management, and development firm which sold in 2011 in which Jason owned and/or developed over 107 projects, Career Plus Travel, an international travel recruiting firm, and Tutto Bené Wine Café and More- an award winning wine café and art gallery located in Bloomington, Indiana.

With over 12 years of relevant experience as an entrepreneur, Jason’s passion for entrepreneurship is showcased through his commitment to serve each community he joins.

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Derrick Minor, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Manager, City of Raleigh

Community Builder in the Raleigh Startup Ecosystem

My mission is to elevate Raleigh and the Triangle as one of the top 5 destinations to live, work, learn, and play by helping entrepreneurs, startups, and growth companies to start, stay, and prosper in our local ecosystem. The end result of which will be an amazing quality of life for our entire community.

As a professional, I intend to achieve this by fostering growth within the local ecosystem to enable entrepreneurs and businesses to create disruptive and world changing technologies & products, and to help grow top tier companies that employee a highly skilled workforce & invest back into the local economy.

As a citizen, I am determined to enhance our quality of life by encouraging communication, collaboration and open innovation between business, government, universities, and the community by leveraging technology and human capital.

I have over 9 years of experience working with entrepreneurs, startups, growth companies, small businesses, economic development partners, and community leaders. I have a passion for the following areas:

• Community Building

• Strategic Connections

• Partnership Development

• Growth and Positioning Strategies

• Business Development

• Brainstorming and Ideation

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NC Tech Talk with North Carolina Technology Association (NCTA)

July 1, 2014 by angiehand

Raleigh Business Radio

NC Tech Talk with North Carolina Technology Association (NCTA)

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Brooks Raiford, President and CEO, NCTA

Brooks Raiford has served as President & CEO of NCTA since 2008. NCTA is the statewide industry association for the tech sector, representing over 700 member companies and organizations that employ over 100,000 North Carolinians.

In the early 1990s, he served as a policy aide in the North Carolina Governor’s Office, where a key focus area was information technology and its impact on a variety of public policy areas. Subsequently, Brooks served as Director of the Independent College Fund of North Carolina, and then President of Leadership North Carolina. Most recently, he was Business Development Director with Balfour Beatty Construction.

Brooks’ current leadership activities include serving on the North Carolina eLearning Commission; the Board of Advisors of North Carolina New Schools; the Board of Directors of the Technology Councils of North America; the North Carolina Advisory Committee of the US Global Leadership Coalition; and President of the Dean’s Advisory Board for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at NC State University, where he is a former Student Body President and University Trustee.

Recently, the organization that represents the technology associations across North America named Brooks the 2014 “TechVoice Champion,” the first time an association CEO has received this award for advocacy on behalf of the tech sector.

Brooks’ wife Stephanie is a Principal in the Wake County Public School System, and they have two children, Lauren and Will.

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Michelle Calton, VP, Membership Development, NCTA

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Marc Montoro, Sr. Director, Programs & Communications, NCTA

Marc Montoro is the Sr. Director of Programs & Communications for the North Carolina Technology Association (NCTA). NCTA is the statewide trade association that represents the tech sector through public affairs and workforce development initiatives, along with events. Marc is responsible for the development and execution of NCTA’s events portfolio, including content creation, speaker coordination and sponsorship sales. He also leads NCTA’s communications strategy, including web and social media presence, digital marketing and media relations.

Marc has over 14 years of marketing and communications experience, mostly in technology. The first five years were as a recruiter. He started in IT staffing and solutions for TEKsystems, then working for Lucas Group, placing finance/accounting professionals. He moved to North Carolina in 2004, where he started with NCTA, serving as the Programs Manager for two and a half years. Then, he held marketing roles with WRAL Tech Wire and Restaurant.com, before returning to NCTA, where he has been in his current role for over four years.

Marc has a BA in Industrial Relations from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, where he played football for the Tarheels. He lives in Hillsborough with his wife (Natalie) and two daughters (Molly and Daphne).

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Craig Scates, Partner, Resolvit

Craig Scates created, and leads, Resolvit’s Southern Region, which currently includes branch offices in Raleigh/Durham, NC, San Jose, Calif., and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Craig has Profit & Loss management experience in both small and large company environments, serving the information technology, telecommunications, homeland security, law enforcement, defense, and intelligence industries.

Craig’s background features 15 years with GTE Data Services and GTE Government Systems in an array of disciplines including sales, business development, systems development and integration, strategic planning, and financial management. Prior to joining Resolvit, Craig served for 4 years as President and General Manager with Digital Audio Corporation, a Triangle-based company that creates specialized technology for global forensic and intelligence communities.

Outside of Resolvit, Craig is an avid golfer and cook captain of a local competition BBQ team, The Kings of Q. He and his wife, Susan, have lived in the Triangle area since 2000 with their 15-year-old triplet boys.

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Steve Chase, Senior VP of Global Sales, Alphanumeric Systems, Inc.

As Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Steve Chase ensures that Alphanumeric delivers solutions to its customers that enable better, faster, and more efficient business operations. By building future opportunities for Alphanumeric, Steve identifies new and leading technologies to satisfy the current and future needs of customers.

With 26 years experience in the technology industry, including 22 years at Alphanumeric, Steve offers his unique combination of broad technical expertise and wealth of business knowledge to ensure the company provides each client with a good customer experience at a good value. With a long-standing career in the technology arena beginning in the early ‘80s days of PCs, Steve has consistently lowered costs, increased revenue, and mitigated risk for Alphanumeric’s customers. His diverse background also includes business development success in Alphanumeric’s document imaging and staffing services. As a testament to his knowledge and expertise in the technology field, Steve is a sought-after speaker for information technology trends and how technology will impact the workplace.

Steve currently serves as an active member of the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce Board of Advisors and the North Carolina Technology Association. He also serves as a founding member of the Rex Patriots, a key component of the Rex Healthcare Foundation.

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Emily Baranello of SAS, Steve S. Rao with the Town of Morrisville, and Patrick Turner of Small Footprint, Inc.

June 24, 2014 by angiehand

Carolina Connections

Emily Baranello of SAS, Steve S. Rao with the Town of Morrisville, and Patrick Turner of Small Footprint, Inc.

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Emily Baranello, Senior Director, Education Practice, SAS

Emily Baranello is a Senior Director in SAS’ Education Practice. She leads teams that work to expand the use of SAS for administrative data-driven decision making, academic research, and teaching in both the K-12 and higher education markets throughout the United States.

Prior to taking this position, Emily led sales and outreach efforts for SAS in K-12, including promotion of SAS’ web-based curriculum resources, enterprise decision support solutions and more.

Emily’s career has been spent almost entirely in working with the public sector, with a large portion dedicated to working within the Education market. This area of interest may be enhanced by her personal relationships; since Emily comes from a family of educators…her mother, mother-in-law, father-in-law, sister-in-law and husband are all teachers.

Emily is a graduate of North Carolina’s Elon University with a degree in psychology.

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Steve S. Rao, Councilman At Large, Town of Morrisville, North Carolina

Steve S. Rao, a native of Charleston, West Virginia, serves as an At-Large Councilman for the Town of Morrisville. Elected in 2011 and re-elected in 2013, Councilman Rao is the first and currently only Indian American elected official in Wake County and the Triangle region. He serves as a Delegate to the Triangle J Council of Governments, Co- Chairs the Smart Growth Committee, and serves on the CORE and Cary Joint Task Force Committees. He also serves as an ex-officio member of the Morrisville Innovation Foundtation.

A ten year resident of Morrisville, he resides with his wife, Komal Parekh, and their two children, Sonia and Rayan. Steve earned his B.A. in political science from Emory University, where he was a collegiate tennis player, and his J.D. from the West Virginia University College of Law. He is also a 2009 graduate of the prestigious Institute of Political Leadership Fellows Program.

Today, Steve is the Business Development Manager at Alphanumeric Systems, were he manages partnerships for the company, along with driving revenue growth and helping companies reduce costs through innovative IT solutions.

Patrick Turner, CTO, Small Footprint, Inc.

Patrick started coding software at the age of 10 and has been building software professionally for nearly 20 years. He spent 15 years in the manufacturing sector, including 10 years in the medical device industry. His ability to align business needs to the appropriate technology has proven successful across a wide range of projects from sales force automation to clinical research technology.

Patrick, along with his wife Alison, an accomplished pastry chef, and their kids William and Fiona relocated to Winston-Salem in 2007 to be closer to the outdoor opportunities that North Carolina has to offer. Shortly after the move, Patrick became a customer of Small Footprint and was so impressed by the effectiveness of the blended local and offshore model for building great software that he bought into the company in 2009. Since that time, Small Footprint has continued to leverage and refine this unique approach successfully—resulting in a greater than 50 percent growth each year.

As the demand for software development services in North Carolina has grown, Patrick has become increasingly involved with local educators to raise awareness of the need for software development professionals in the Carolinas. He is actively involved with organizations including North Carolina New Schools and the Yadkin Valley Career Academy, exposing educators, parents, and students to possibilities within the industry and preaching the gospel that everyone can benefit from a basic understanding of the role that software development plays in our personal and professional lives.

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Mark Dirks with Beacon Technologies and Fred Hathaway with EntreDot

June 23, 2014 by angiehand

Raleigh Business Radio

Mark Dirks with Beacon Technologies and Fred Hathaway with EntreDot

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Mark Dirks – CEO, Beacon Technologies

MS Computer Information Systems, Kansas State University

BS Mathematics, Wake Forest University

Mark Dirks, founding president of Beacon Technologies, has a resume full of action verbs, dating back to the early days of his career. His role as program manager at AT&T in the mid 90’s earned him accolades as a founder of AT&T’s global corporate intranet for employees, one that clearly set him apart for a larger role in technology services. Mark’s work at Beacon allows him plenty of tech time, following through on projects like initiating and building the digital marketing business area and digging into solid relationships with partners like Google (Google Analytics), Lockheed Martin (US Gov – EPA), Hannon Hill (Cascade Server CMS), Aspdotnetstorefront, Nextopia, 4Tell, Bronto (email marketing) and many other best-in-class software partners. However, he also balances the IT with the need to be a beacon in the community. Under his care, Beacon was identified as one of the best places to work in the Triad and is a past winner of the Entrepreneurial Success Award by the Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce. The company even received kudos from Working Mother’s magazine, being named one of the top 25 small businesses for working moms. Having created the Beacon Entrepreneurship Challenge with Wake Forest University, Mark didn’t hand over the ball but served as a local entrepreneur advising student entrepreneurs and evaluating student applications for venture seed grants.

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Fred Hathaway – Managing Director, EntreDot

Fred Hathaway understands growth strategies and the tactical execution that creates successful outcomes. Whether advising on higher order decisions (e.g. succession plans, new product launches, diversification through new enterprise development, restructuring business development approaches, client persona identification, organizational and leadership development, or cultural due diligence in a transaction) or tactical issues like social media engagement, investor relations, personal marketing plans and similar, he knows how to take theory and create best practice. Deep experience in consulting and marketing across industries and cultures helps shape the innovation and creativity that his clients appreciate and that distinguish custom solutions from “shelf product” alternatives. Fred demonstrates identification with the client needs through making strategic introductions, negotiating alternative fee arrangements, and working with the existing team of executives and advisers to create “win-win” scenarios on a recurring basis. Some of the projects he has led are listed below:

At the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, he conducted the research that led to the establishment of the Turnaround Management Association, pulling together 8,000+ professionals in the field of business renewal. Fred was integral in the publishing of the research findings in 46 national business publications and the creation of a monograph of best practices.

Under contract with the National Association of Homebuilders, Fred and a co-author wrote Building Up When Business is Down, a definitive discussion of how a builder can identify and respond to warning signals in their business performance. In similar manner, he advised the American Banking Association on how to view loan workouts as turnaround opportunities through quarterly contributions to the Workouts column of The Commercial Lending Review.

While working within a non-profit, Fred and his team grew the volunteer base from 40 to 1000+ in five years, resulting in a 100X increase in number of prospects reached with the programs of the organization. Additionally, the model that was developed for the operation on North Carolina was prototyped for use in similar locations around the world.

As an internal advisor to the executive committee of a CPA firm, Fred rebranded the organization, implemented an e-marketing and CRM platform, and developed and delivered training that resulted in all billable professionals taking responsibility for personally marketing the firm. Subsequent to these accomplishments, he contributed to the institution of a performance and compensation management system that rewarded business development activities.

Within another professional services organization, Fred led the strategic marketing planning associated with a series of transactions that resulted in a regional firm becoming one of the top 50 national firms in their field. Niche practice business development and marketing messaging were coordinated with identification of thought leaders and assignments were given and managed by Hathaway.

In an interim executive role with a consulting firm serving family businesses, Fred launched national accounts strategy that resulted in securing the first billion dollar client as well as faculty appointments at several corporate universities of organizations with extensive dealer/operator networks. A national business talk radio show was conceived, designed, and hosted by Hathaway on the topic of succession planning.

A local non-profit dedicated to helping entrepreneurs commercialize their business ideas was looking for a way to create sustainable competitive advantage. In a volunteer role, Fred advised the group on curriculum-based programs, marketing campaigns, and management team and board development.

Now serving as the managing director of EntreDot, Hathaway has been instrumental in guiding the organization to a national platform whereby virtual learning and application of best practices can occur, thereby giving more businesses the tools to succeed. In addition to the key projects above, Fred Hathaway has served as startup COO, outsourced CMO, Director of Programs, advisory board member, board of directors’ chair, and in an adjunct capacity with numerous enterprises. Whether working on the clock, by the project, or on retainer, he brings a wealth of experience, insight, and energy to each situation.

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James Branigan with Bright Wolf and Chris Lamb with Device Solutions Inc.

June 18, 2014 by angiehand

Carolina Connections

James Branigan with Bright Wolf and Chris Lamb with Device Solutions Inc.

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James Branigan, Managing Partner and Founder of Bright Wolf

James Branigan is the Managing Partner and one of the Founders of Bright Wolf, LLC. Bright Wolf helps companies design, develop, deploy and operate Machine-To-Machine and Internet-Of-Things systems. James has a BS in Computer Engineering from NC State and an MS in Computer Science from UNC Chapel Hill. James lives with his wife and daughter in Creedmoor, NC.

Chris Lamb, CTO and Co-Founder of Device Solutions Inc.

Chris Lamb co-founded Device Solutions 10 years ago. During the past 10 years, Device Solutions has grown into a 30 person team providing embedded hardware and software development services, certification consulting, customized device testing and unique M2M products. Prior to co-founding Device Solutions, Chris was with Ericsson & Sony-Ericsson and has an SB in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MSEE from NC State.