angiehand, Author at Business RadioX ® Page

Barbara Beard with Carlyle Conlan and Marlene Spritzer with Cresa Carolinas

June 17, 2014 by angiehand

Raleigh Business Radio

Barbara Beard with Carlyle Conlan and Marlene Spritzer with Cresa Carolinas

00:00 /

Barbara Beard, IT Practice Leader of Carlyle Conlan

I began my career in business development and recruiting in IT over 20 years ago in Atlanta – relocated back to the area 2 1⁄2 years ago. I’ve covered multiple industries, including recruiting for both contract and direct hire resources. The professional services aspect of the business fits my personality best, as I enjoy the contact with career-minded individuals that strive to advance to the next level of their career paths. The contacts that I’ve made and relationships I’ve developed throughout the years has kept me interested in assisting people to continue in moving forward with their goals.

Marlene Spritzer, Senior Vice President of Cresa Carolinas

Marlene is a Senior Vice President of the Cresa Carolinas’ Triangle office. With over 17 years of commercial real estate experience, Marlene brings value to her clients through lease, purchase, disposition, and lease vs. purchase options, strategic planning and implementation for national and regional companies. Marlene’s expertise is focused in the areas of corporate, life science, tech and medical office occupiers.

Marlene entered the commercial real estate field in 1997 and formed Spritzer Commercial Properties in 2005. She was a Director with GVA Advantis from 2001-2005 specializing in brokerage and leasing for office, retail, flex, land and investment properties. Marlene was a broker with Morris Commercial in Chapel Hill from 1997-2001. Prior to 1997, Marlene was member of the legal staff of Duke University where she was Assistant University Counsel for Health Affairs. She was a litigation attorney with Leboeuf, Lamb, Leiby and MacRae in the firm’s Raleigh office. She also practiced law in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia before relocating to North Carolina in 1986.

Connect with Cresa Carolinas on Twitter and Facebook

Ryan Kraudel with 6fusion

June 11, 2014 by angiehand

Carolina Connections

Ryan Kraudel with 6fusion

00:00 /

Ryan Kraudel, Vice President, Marketing & Product Management of 6fusion

As VP Marketing & Product Management, Ryan owns all of 6fusion’s marketing strategy, planning and execution, as well as defining and managing the product roadmap. Ryan is an innovative 15-year

marketing veteran with a broad range of global marketing experience in go-to-market strategy, product marketing, product management, communications, and competitive analysis. He has worked with

companies of all sizes, from Fortune 100 companies to early stage startups, to develop and execute marketing strategies that drive results. Prior to 6fusion, Ryan led the team at GXS (recently acquired by

OpenText for over $1B) responsible for growing their Managed Services business from $40M to $150M in 6 years.

Connect with 6fusion on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn

Jeffrey Slater with Nomacorc and Miles C. Wright with Xanofi

June 10, 2014 by angiehand

Raleigh Business Radio

Jeffrey Slater with Nomacorc and Miles C. Wright with Xanofi

00:00 /

Jeffrey Slater, Director of Global Marketing of Nomacorc

Author of the new best-selling book UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES OF MARKETING, Mr. Slater is an experienced marketing professional whose successful bakery business was on Inc Magazine’s fastest growing 500 in 1985. With his wife, he built a nationally recognized wholesale bakery business called Rachel’s Brownies. National publicity included articles in The NewYork Times, USA Today and Philadelphia Magazine. He also appeared on CNN, The Phil Donahue Show, Charlie Rose and many others national and syndicated talk shows. The Philadelphia based company was successfully sold in 1989 to GoodMark Foods in Raleigh, North Carolina. Over time, Slater rose to the position of Executive Vice President of Marketing for their $400 million snack food company with $100 million brands that included Slim Jims and David’s Sunflower Seeds. He was responsiblefor GoodMark’s $20 million marketing, advertising, and promotion budgets including the highly successful, “Snap into a SlimJim” campaign with Macho Man Randy Savage from the late 1990’s and Slim Jim Guy in 2001. The company was acquired by ConAgra Foods where he remained EVP of Marketing for their snack food division. Today Slater is employed as the Global Director of Marketing for Nomacorc, the leading brand of still wine closures with 2.3 billion corks sold in 2013 and the recently launched sugar cane based Select Bio. He write a popular marketing blog called MOMENTSLATER reaching over 25,000 marketers per year and was recently a guest on the #1 business podcast on iTunes called Entrepreneur on Fire with host John Lee Dumas. Slater resides in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Connect with Nomacorc on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn

Miles C. Wright, CEO of Xanofi

Miles Wright, CEO of the nanotechnology company Xanofi, is a native North Carolinian who grew up in Texas and attended St. Stephens Episcopal School in Austin. After earning a Bachelors degree with a double major in psychology and English from Austin College, he served as a lead reporter for the Sherman Democrat in Sherman, Texas, contributing to local and AP coverage of city/county government.

In 1986 he returned to North Carolina and worked as the Program Manager for Junior Achievement. Over the next 20 years Miles was a successful business and entrepreneur leader, forming several North Carolina startups including Accugraphics in 1988, Eyebeam in 1993, MCW Properties in 1998 and Signature Publishing in 1998. He has also developed technology and served as the CEO of CoastMaster and Graphic Detail. In 2008, the Board of Director for Triangle Family Services asked him to help save the struggling agency as its Interim CEO.

Miles has served on a number of area boards and provided consultation to a wide array of corporate and non-profit ventures, including a five year stint commercializing advance technology as Executive-in-Residence at North Carolina State University. He has co-founded two non-profit groups and continues to be actively involved in the community.

Connect with Xanofi on Twitter

Special Edition: Wireless Connections

June 5, 2014 by angiehand

Carolina Connections

Special Edition: Wireless Connections

00:00 /

Wireless Connections

The Wireless Research Center’s first show featured Ann Revell-Pechar, as host and Gerry Hayes, President/Founder and Larry Steffann, General Manager, of the Wireless Research Center of North Carolina, as co-hosts. Ann welcomed into the studio Mayor Vivian Jones, and Marla Akridge. The conversation was centered on economic development and the positive impact the Wireless Center is making on the area.

Mayor Vivian Jones, Town of Wake Forest

Vivian Jones is the four-term Mayor of the Town of Wake Forest, NC. Prior to serving her first term, Jones found great success in the catering and restaurant industry. She grew up in Red Cross (Randolf County), NC, and attended the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina (now UNC-Greensboro).

Marla Akridge, Wake Forest Chamber of Commerce

Marla is President of the Wake Forest Chamber of Commerce. She attended Ohio State University and Auburn University, where she received a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree, respectively. Upon graduation, Akridge moved to Jackson, Tenn., where she spent several years working at a research facility at the University of Tennessee. Over the next few years, Akridge taught continuing education computer courses at various community colleges in Tennessee. After serving on the board of directors at the Dyersburg/Dyer County Chamber of Commerce in Tennessee, Akridge went to Prattville, Ala., where she served as president of the Prattville Area Chamber of Commerce for five years. Akridge then moved north to assume the president’s role at the Ashland Area Chamber of Commerce in Ohio.

Justin Thomas with CrossComm and David Menzies with Innovative Public Relations

June 2, 2014 by angiehand

Raleigh Business Radio

Justin Thomas with CrossComm and David Menzies with Innovative Public Relations

00:00 /

Justin Thomas – CrossComm

Justin is CEO of CrossComm. He previously served as CrossComm’s Chief Business Development Officer and prior to joining the Company, worked for Thomson Reuters in the Research Triangle Park as a Sr. Project Manager in its mobile app healthcare software implementation division. He recently completed his MBA with honors from the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School in Dublin, Ireland and is a proud new Father. Justin also founded the non-profit Playing Grownup, which quips college students for life after college through seminars on financial literacy and building new relationships in a post-dorm world.

Connect with CrossComm on Twitter and Facebook

David Menzies – Innovative Public Relations

David Menzies (MEN-zeez) is a 22-year publicity and branding professional and president of Innovative Public Relations, Inc., a North Carolina PR and media relations consultancy specializing in technology and life sciences.

Connect with David on Twitter

Russ Kanjorski With Semprius and Chris Stoecker With Silicon Valley Bank

May 29, 2014 by angiehand

Carolina Connections

Russ Kanjorski With Semprius and Chris Stoecker With Silicon Valley Bank

00:00 /

Russ Kanjorski, VP of Business Development at Semprius

Russ Kanjorski brings 20 years of experience from multiple industries through his solar, strategy consulting, finance and legal background. Most recently, he served as vice president of Marketing at Abound Solar. During this time, Abound Solar grew from a 20 person startup into a leading thin-film PV manufacturer serving customers in Europe, North America and India. Kanjorski previously held leadership roles at the Boston Consulting Group, Covington & Burling and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh, as well as founding an advanced materials company serving the semiconductor industry.

Connect with Semprius on LinkedIn

Chris Stoecker, Director, Carolina Region at Silicon Valley Bank

Chris is responsible for business development and portfolio management at industry leading technology bank, for the North & South Carolina region. He specializes in lending and comprehensive banking services to early stage (typically venture or angel backed), growth stage and publicly traded technology and life science companies. Activities include account acquisition, credit evaluation, term sheet negotiations, loan closings, and active networking with venture capitalists, CPAs, & attorneys.

Connect with Silicon Valley Bank on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Gautham Pandiyan with Mi-Corporation and Patrick O’Neil with Railinc Corp.

May 21, 2014 by angiehand

Carolina Connections

Gautham Pandiyan with Mi-Corporation and Patrick O'Neil with Railinc Corp.

00:00 /

Gautham Pandiyan, VP of Sales & Marketing Mi-Corporation

Gautham Pandiyan is the Vice President of Sales & Marketing efforts at Mi-Corporation. He is responsible for sales outreach, managing the marketing program and other business development efforts. He has

spoken at conferences such as the Harvey Spencer Associates Document Capture forum, TabTimes TabletBiz conference, is part of the Enterprise Mobility Network editorial board & has been on the

forefront of Tablet adoption by businesses for several years. He has considerable experience working with entrepreneurial small businesses having worked at the Duke Office of Licensing and Ventures, with a biotechnology startup company, EntoGenetics, and with the Small Business Technology Development Center of NC. Gautham holds an alphabet soup of degrees with a M.S. in Molecular Cancer Biology, and a Master of Engineering Management degree from Duke University and a Bachelor of Science degree from The University of Georgia.

Connect with Mi-Corporation on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube

Patrick O’Neil, Director of Corporate Communication, Railinc Corp.

Railinc is the railroad industry’s innovative and reliable resource for rail data, IT and information services. The company deploys data that helps railroads, rail equipment owners and other industry participants manage their businesses more effectively and efficiently. Located in Cary, N.C., Railinc is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Association of American Railroads. For more information, please visit www.railinc.com.

Connect with Railinc on Twitter and LinkedIn

Dr. Gerry Hayes with Wireless Research Center of North Carolina and Chris Hare with Thingovation and nTeTe

May 19, 2014 by angiehand

Raleigh Business Radio

Dr. Gerry Hayes with Wireless Research Center of North Carolina and Chris Hare with Thingovation and nTeTe

00:00 / 00:28:44

Dr. Gerard Hayes – Wireless Research Center of North Carolina

Dr. Gerard Hayes is the President and founder of the Wireless Research Center of North Carolina. Dr. Hayes has more than two decades of experience in government and commercial electromagnetic research and design. Prior to working with the Town of Wake Forest to establish the WRCNC in 2010, Dr. Hayes was the Director of Engineering at GreenWave Scientific where he led the development of antenna and RF circuit designs for a diverse range of DoD applications. At Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications (USA) Inc., Dr. Hayes provided global technical leadership in the Technology and Research organization with contributions to handset antenna design, technology, and radiated performance optimization. At Lockheed Martin (formerly Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.), Dr. Hayes supported research and development efforts for space-based, phased array applications. The scope of his experience encompasses electromagnetic theory, bioelectromagnetics, antenna design, RF circuit analysis, and material engineering. He has participated in the development of international standards for OTA, HAC, and SAR evaluation (including IEEE, IEC, CTIA, and C63 standards). With over 75 US patents, Dr. Hayes has maintained a prominent technical role in the wireless industry.

Chris Hare – Thingovation and nTeTe

Chris Hare is one of the founding partners of Thingovation a Wake Forest based product development company recently started. He is also CEO of The nTeTe (pronounced entity) Group which is a strategy consulting firm with a range of company clients worldwide including the British Government. Previously he ran a range of large and small companies including venture backed start ups and the global innovation and sourcing groups at Sony Ericsson’s largest business unit. He is a British native, but has lived and worked in the US for nearly 20 years.