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Franchise Marketing Radio: Unique and Brandon Ottley with Fresh Coat Painters

December 18, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Franchise Marketing Radio: Unique and Brandon Ottley with Fresh Coat Painters

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Brandon and Unique Ottley are residents of South Fulton and franchisees of Fresh Coat Painters which opened on September 23rd – marking the 5th location for the brand in the state of Georgia.

Married for three years, the husband and wife team originally met in Atlanta while in college, with Brandon attending Clark Atlanta University and Unique attending Clayton State University.

Before jumping into entrepreneurship, Unique was working in IT merchant services and Brandon had a small DJ business working different events. The Ottley’s service residents around the Atlanta area.

Follow Fresh Coat Painters on Facebook.

Questions and Topics in this Interview

Is this your first franchise?
What drove Brandon and Unique Ottley to become business owners?
What specific areas does Fresh Coat Painters service?
What does Fresh Coat Painters provide to the community?

Roger Manis of the Manis Business Center and Jimmy Byars of Hardy Realty

December 18, 2019 by angishields

Rome Business Radio

Roger Manis of the Manis Business Center and Jimmy Byars of Hardy Realty

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Roger Manis is a retired logistics executive, cattle farmer, and real estate investor. Manis spent most of his life in the freight transportation and trucking industries. In 1994, he and his wife Diane started Scott Logistics Corp. in Rome, and over 25 years built it into a business that was generating about $175 million per year in gross revenue when they sold it earlier this year.

Born in raised in northwest Georgia, Manis spent his childhood in Subligna and his teen years in Armuchee. He is a graduate of Darlington High School and the University of Georgia.

Roger and Diane have supported a variety of charitable causes over the years. They provided title sponsorship for the Scott Logistics Rome Celebrity Dance Challenge to benefit the Sexual Assault Center. They have been involved with the Coosa River Basin Initiative, and Relay for Life. In 2015, they donated $25,000 to the Floyd County Police Department for the purchase of 62 body cameras for their officers.

Jimmy Byars, CEO/Broker of Hardy Realty, has been the owner of the company since 1994. Hardy Realty is a full service brokerage company specializing in residential and commercial sales and leasing, as well as property management. Hardy Realty, founded in 1925, is the oldest and largest real estate company in Northwest Georgia.

A native of Rome, Georgia, Jimmy graduated from Darlington School and Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He has been a licensed Realtor since 1994 and an Associate Broker since 2002. In 1996, Jimmy obtained the prestigious CCIM designation, which is one of the most recognized and coveted designations in the field of commercial real estate. The CCIM’s rigorous course work and portfolio requirements demonstrate the designees as leaders in the field of commercial real estate.

For over 22 years, Jimmy has helped countless local, regional and national clients achieve their goals. With proven experience in leasing, selling and managing real estate, as well as his broad knowledge of the local market, Jimmy has positioned himself as an expert in the Rome and Northwest Georgia real estate market.

ATDC Radio: Edward Black with OncoLens

December 18, 2019 by angishields

ATDC Radio

ATDC Radio: Edward Black with OncoLens

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Ed Black is responsible for day to day operations of Oncolens, with a focus on ensuring successful customer onboarding and continued success in using our solution. Previous to this role, Ed held various client facing positions at Ingenious Med, a medical professional fee charge capture software solution company.

As the VP of Implementations and Training, Ed played a key role in scaling the company through an explosive growth period. He also held positions as the VP of Specialty Solutions and Strategic Account Manager.

Prior to working at Ingenious Med, Ed served in the United States Air Force where he was a C-130 pilot. He also served in various senior staff positions including at a US Embassy abroad and with the Space Shuttle Program.

Ed has a Master’s Degree in Management from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and a Bachelor of Science from The United States Air Force Academy. He is a certified Project Management Professional and member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).

In his free time, Ed enjoys spending time with his wife trying to keep up with their teenagers, fly fishing, woodworking, and exercising.

Follow Oncolens on LinkedIn and Facebook.

ATDC Radio: DataSeers Founder Adwait Joshi

December 18, 2019 by angishields

ATDC Radio

ATDC Radio: DataSeers Founder Adwait Joshi

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Adwait Joshi is the founder and Chief Seer at DataSeers. He has been successfully helping his customers Taming the Data Demon giving them working solutions tailored to their needs.

Adwait was not only a straight-A student in school but was always interested in business opportunities. When he was 15 years old, he won a scholarship and learned C++. This exposure encouraged him to start his first company at the age of 15, AD’s Computers, which was extremely profitable and paved a path for Adwait’s future.

While at University at Buffalo, Adwait’s thesis on Visualization Techniques for Anthropometric Data made the concept of Universal Design easy and became a very important part of UB’s research for the next 10+ years.

Adwait’s IT career in the US began with Fisher Price where he spent his summer creating tools for mechanical engineers to speed up the design of toys and he was successful in automating a lot of trivial tasks. He then went on to work at Intel where he was given a challenge that had not been solved before, migrating a 3D visualization software to a 64-bit architecture. He not only took that challenge but tenuously worked towards finishing the project and won an award for doing it 4 weeks ahead of schedule.

For more than a decade now, Adwait has been working with various verticals solving their Data problems. He has tremendous expertise in Big Data and analytics. After a successful exit in 2016, he is back in the startup mode.

His latest venture DataSeers, is a startup focused on RegTech and helping FinTech companies with Reconciliation, Compliance, Fraud, and Analytics. The product he has engineered, FinanSeer, has been so majorly successful that within the first year the company was already profitable and winning awards.

Follow DataSeers on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

Questions and Topics in this Interview

How AI is changing the payments world?
What issues do synthetic identities create in the world of payments? How can we solve them?
Do banks and FIs really know their customers?
How can predictive analytics in payments prevent human trafficking?
What does taming the Data demon mean?

ATDC Radio: Assistant Director Jane McCracken and Entrepreneur in Residence Scott Ryan

December 18, 2019 by angishields

ATDC Radio

ATDC Radio: Assistant Director Jane McCracken and Entrepreneur in Residence Scott Ryan

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Jane McCracken returns to ATDC as a Startup Catalyst, having started her career here many years ago. She then moved into venture capital and investment banking both in the United States and Europe before joining an early-stage, medical diagnostics company as chief financial officer. During her time there, she raised $60 million and completed eight international acquisitions. The company was listed on both the London and Oslo stock exchanges.

Jane then worked with two venture-backed companies. She joined the founders of an online travel company as CEO, and took it from startup to the world’s second-largest hotel booking site before Travelocity acquired it. At the request of her venture investors, Jane then joined a computer games developer as CEO and turned around the faltering enterprise before it was sold to a NASDAQ-listed games company.

Most recently, Jane was CEO of an oncology-focused clinical research company, which grew from startup to a multinational firm with $15 million in annual revenue and offices across Europe and the United States. The company was financed through its own cash flow and was sold in early 2012 to a larger clinical research organization.

Jane continues to work with fast growing companies — in interim and full-time positions — as a consultant, board member, and angel investor. In addition, Jane has served on boards for public and private companies, as well as government-related and non-profit organizations. She is a frequent speaker and panelist at conferences, companies, and universities and is an active volunteer in her community. Jane obtained her bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University and her master’s degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Connect with Jane on LinkedIn.

Scott Ryan, Entrepreneur in Residence at ATDC, has more than 20 years of experience building and exiting companies and leading teams to develop and sell products in the IT infrastructure and media technology industries. His exits include Concurrent Computer, a microcap Internet of Things (IoT) and video delivery provider; Senoia Systems, a provider of cloud migration solutions; Asankya Networks, a WAN Optimization solution provider, and Elastic Networks, an IPO in the DSL market.

Additionally, Scott’s leadership experience includes successful stints with storage leader, EMC; networking leader, Nortel Networks; and consulting innovator, North Highland.

He received both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees from Vanderbilt University.

Connect with Scott on LinkedIn.

The Arizona 100: Preview of the December 19 Issue

December 18, 2019 by angishields

Valley Business Radio

The Arizona 100: Preview of the December 19 Issue

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The Arizona 100

The Arizona 100 is a twice-monthly digital publication that provides quick and concise, yet thorough, news of the people, events, activities and news shaping Arizona. Each of the 100-word stories or 100-second videos focus on the arts, entertainment, history and restaurants to business news, management, healthcare and real estate.

The Arizona 100 has international and national “100” partner markets, which publish any article/ video upon request providing a combined reach of more than 300,000 readers across 15 markets.

The Arizona 100 is a project of HMA Public Relations, a full-service public relations and marketing communications firm in Phoenix.

To subscribe to The Arizona 100, visit thearizona100.com. Submit story ideas to editor@thearizona100.com

Trevor Wilde with Wilde Wealth Management Group

December 18, 2019 by angishields

Wealth Management & Financial Industry Trends

Valley Business Radio

Trevor Wilde with Wilde Wealth Management Group

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Trevor Wilde, MBA, AIF®

Trevor Wilde is Managing Director at Wilde Wealth Management Group. Trevor is an Investment Advisor Representative, and he has been in the financial services industry since 1999. Under his leadership, Wilde Wealth Management Group has been recognized by NABCAP as a Premier Advisory Firm and has been honored by Barron’s as one of America’s Top 1,200 Advisors for the past 11 consecutive years – most recently ranking #4 in the state of Arizona for 2019.

Trevor played football for the University of Arizona where he graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Communications, and earned a Master’s of Business Administration through the University of Phoenix. Trevor attained the AIF® designation, which is the mark of commitment to a standard of investment fiduciary excellence. He was recognized as one of the ‘Most Admired Leaders’ by the Phoenix Business Journal in 2018, one of ’35 Arizona Entrepreneurs under 35’ by the Arizona Republic in 2011, and has been among the Top 15 Advisors out of more than 1,200 Cetera Advisors each year since 2012. Trevor specializes in providing clients with diverse products and services to help pursue their goals but also constructed a network of business partners to provide a truly unique in-house experience.

Wilde Wealth Management Group sponsors the Run for Broxton and Briggs 4 Kidz, is a host site for Cell Phones for Soldiers, and remains committed to charitable causes in and around the valley through their Wilde for Arizona™ Community Outreach Program. Trevor and his wife Meghan live in Scottsdale with their 4 daughters – Peyton, Presley, Piper, and Paige.

To hear more, listen to Trevor’s previous appearance on Valley Business Radio in January 2019.

Connect with Trevor Wilde on LinkedIn, and follow Wilde Wealth Management Group on LinkedIn and Facebook.

BRX Pro Tip: Demonstrating Authority and Expertise

December 18, 2019 by angishields

BRX Pro Tips

BRX Pro Tip: Demonstrating Authority and Expertise

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BRX Pro Tip: Demonstrating Authority and Expertise Transcript

Stone Payton: [00:00:01] Welcome back to BRX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor, Stone Payton here with you. Lee, let’s talk a little bit about utilizing the Business RadioX platform to effectively and consistently demonstrate authority and expertise.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:15] Right. The beauty of being the media is we get a credential of being a show host just by doing shows. So, right there, that means that we’re somebody important in that niche that we are serving. And in studio partners’ cases, that’s the market they serve. They must be important. They must be a leader. They must have authority and expertise because they host a show about the market that they’re in.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:40] You know, when I host the Atlanta Business Radio show, then I must know stuff about the Atlanta business community, because how else could I be hosting a show that has this many powerful people that come on it? And that’s the same thing for everybody, every studio partner. And then, guess what? It’s the same thing for all your sponsors. And then, when they’re doing a show about a specific niche in their industry, they must be an authority, because why else would they be hosting a show about it?

Lee Kantor: [00:01:06] So, the credential comes along for the ride. So, now, it’s important to show up and do the work so that we get the benefit of the doubt that we’re good and we’re qualified to be doing this kind of work, because why else would busy executives and association leaders come on our shows if we weren’t who we said we were? So, this is why we can charge a lot more than a podcaster can charge. We are giving them much more value in terms of this level of authority and expertise by being part of our network, by being part of your network, and by hosting a show on our platform.

Lee Kantor: [00:01:41] So, that’s important for them to really understand. And they’ve got to believe that it’s true. And that’s a lot of what we do in terms of coaching and consulting with our clients, is to give them the confidence and the belief that they are good enough to get these big shot CEOs in the studio as guests on their show. That they are good enough, their show is worthy to have the president of the association come on the show to talk about the work that they’ve done, to have the president of the Chamber of Commerce come on the show that they host. They are good enough to do this because these people come on our shows all the time.

Jeri Royce with Esperança, Gail Baer with Jewish Family & Children’s Service, Andrea Claus with Bivens & Associates

December 17, 2019 by angishields

Charitable Giving and the Economics of Higher Purpose

Jeri Royce with Esperança, Gail Baer with Jewish Family & Children’s Service, and Andrea Claus with Bivens & Associates broadcasting live from the Valley Business Radio studio in Phoenix, Arizona

Valley Business Radio

Jeri Royce with Esperança, Gail Baer with Jewish Family & Children’s Service, Andrea Claus with Bivens & Associates

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Jeri Royce, Esperança

Jeri Royce is President and CEO of Esperança. Esperança’s mission is to improve health and provide hope for families in the poorest communities of the world through sustainable disease prevention, education, and treatment. Derived from the Portuguese word for “hope,” Esperança has been dedicated to transforming lives since its inception in 1970. The Arizona-based nonprofit began its mission abroad, serving the most under-resourced and poverty-stricken communities throughout the Central Amazon Region. While providing health education and volunteer medical care, including surgical procedures, Esperança quickly became known as a symbol of hope to those that have learned to live hopelessly. It remains the same nearly 50 years later.

Today, Esperança continues to provide medical missions and community development in Peru, Mozambique, Ecuador, Bolivia and Nicaragua. And its domestic program in Phoenix partners with Title I schools, dental clinics, HUD Housing, and community centers providing health literacy education and resources to adults, children and seniors. Esperança is more than doctors, donors and volunteers. It is activists, community members and global citizens. The nonprofit envisions a world where communities across the globe have the tools, training, and support to achieve optimal health through access to clean water, stable sources of food, disease prevention, health education and ecological home-building.

Jeri is an accomplished leader with a distinguished career leading operational, business development, program development, and fundraising functions. With over 25 years of experience in local and national nonprofit organizations, she has a successful track record of building and leading strong partnerships and highly successful teams. Having founded her own consulting firm, 3P-Leadership, Jeri specialized in leadership development offering training programs, team-building, individual/group coaching services and Interim Executive Director/CEO Services. Jeri served as a capacity-building consultant in the Virginia Piper Trust ATLAS and Good Governance programs and has previously served as Interim ED for Lead for Good, Arizona Public Health Association and Arizona Asthma Coalition. After one year as Interim CEO for Esperança, she accepted the position fulltime in March 2018.

Connect with Jeri Royce on LinkedIn, and follow Esperança on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Gail Baer, Jewish Family & Children’s Service

Gail Baer is Vice President of Philanthropic Services of Jewish Family & Children’s Service, a non-profit, non-sectarian organization that strengthens the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds. JFCS’ goal is for a future where families are strong, where elders are cared for and where children are safe. The dedication to the mission is strengthened by a commitment to core Jewish values that honor community and the continuity of the generations. JFCS programs and services include: counseling, mental health assessment and treatment, early childhood trauma assessment and treatment, child crisis intervention and rehabilitative services, support for victims of domestic violence, substance abuse, work force readiness & high school equivalency exams for teens in foster care.

During her time at JFCS, Gail has partnered with the Jewish Community Foundation to develop and grow the JFCS Legacy Society, a comprehensive planned giving program; created the JFCS Professional Leadership Development Program; as well as played a key role in the Sojourner Center affiliation and in developing its fundraising program. As the Vice President of Philanthropic Services, Gail oversees all fundraising for the annual campaign and legacy giving program, grants, marketing, and the JFCS volunteer program. Prior to JFCS, Gail served as the Vice President of Major Gifts at Valley of the Sun United Way and was also the past President of Congregation Beth Israel. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University.

Connect with Gail Baer on LinkedIn, and follow Jewish Family & Children’s Service on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Andrea Claus, Bivens & Associates

Andrea Claus is an attorney with Bivens & Associates, one of the largest and most experienced law firms in Arizona that practices exclusively in estate planning, probate and trust administration, elder law, and special needs law. The firm represents individuals, banking institutions, government agencies, and licensed fiduciaries. The attorneys at Bivens & Associates have a combined 40 years experience.

Andrea is the firm’s Director of Estate Planning, Probate, and Trust Administration. Her areas of expertise include estate planning, probate and trust administration, charitable planning, business formation, and business succession planning. She has experience in planning for both taxable and non-taxable estates.

Andrea is active in the planned giving community and currently serves on the Board of Directors for UMOM and is a Member of the Honor Health Wealth Advisory Board. She has been involved with the Planned Giving Advisory Board for SARRC and has counseled several other non-profits regarding planned giving. Andrea regularly speaks to donors on behalf of non-profits regarding planned giving options.

Connect with Andrea Claus on LinkedIn and follow Bivens & Associates on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.