Pensacola Business Radio: AJ’s Brave Hearts Presents Toys 4 Tots 4 Christmas at Vinyl Music Hall

December 20, 2017 by angishields

Pensacola Business Radio

Pensacola Business Radio: AJ's Brave Hearts Presents Toys 4 Tots 4 Christmas at Vinyl Music Hall

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AJ’s Bravehearts & Vinyl Music Hall Present:

AJs BRAVEHEARTS- TOYS FOR TOTS BENEFIT CONCERT

SAT, DECEMBER 23, 2017

6:00 pm

Vinyl Music Hall

Pensacola, FL

TICKETS AT THE DOOR

This event is all ages

REQUESTED ENTRANCE FEE:

1 NEW, UNWRAPPED GIFT/TOY FOR GIRL OR BOY

$5 CASH DONATION @ THE DOOR

$7 CASH DONATION @ THE DOOR FOR UNDER 21

FREE* FOR KIDS 12 AND UNDER

AJS BRAVEHEARTS- TOYS FOR TOTS BENEFIT CONCERT

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This event is to help our community at this special time of year. We simply want to make it special for one & all through the love & healing power of music. – AJs BraveHearts

PERFORMANCES BY:

ROTHCHILD- Tribute To Van Halen
AJ THE MUSICIAN (AJ Williams)
PALAFOXX
LUGOSI & GOTHAM CITY TROUBADOUR JAM SESSION
TOP 3 DRUMLINE
COASTAL FIRE

PLUS: SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY ERIC BRITTINGHAM OF CINDERELLA!

Culinary Atlanta Series Featuring Evangeline George with UberEATS and Evana Oli with Honey Baked Ham

December 20, 2017 by angishields

Culinary Atlanta

Culinary Atlanta Series Featuring Evangeline George with UberEATS and Evana Oli with Honey Baked Ham

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This episode of Culinary Atlanta is brought to you by SignStream.net

Daniel K. Shub, Co-Owner of SignStream.net, is a creative marketer that is making it easy and exciting for businesses to communicate on TV screens and in the digital world. Follow SignStream on LinkedIn.

UberEATS is Uber’s stand-alone meal delivery app that makes getting food as easy as requesting a ride, whether you’re at home, the office, or the park. Uber is leveraging its technology and expanding its driver partner network to deliver food to hungry customers who can track their order, get an upfront delivery time, and use the same account they use to take rides. UberEATS is available globally in more than 100 cities, bringing millions of people the right food, for right now–at the tap of a button.

Connect with UberEATS on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Founded in 1957, The Honey Baked Ham Company, LLC is a premium food retailer with 400 locations nationwide as well as an e-commerce site. Over the years, serving Honey Baked Ham has become a tradition for millions of families. Best known for its signature spiral-sliced Honey Baked Ham with the famous sweet, crunchy glaze, The Honey Baked Ham Company offers delicious, fully-cooked, presentation-ready hams, turkey breasts and other premium meats, as well as deli side items, heat-and-serve dishes and desserts.

Connect with HoneyBaked Ham on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Al Otto and Doug Field with Veriphy Analytics, and Tim and Steph O’Connor with DangChicks

December 19, 2017 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Al Otto and Doug Field with Veriphy Analytics, and Tim and Steph O'Connor with DangChicks

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Al Otto is the Co-Founder and CEO of Veriphy Analytics℠, a 35-year veteran of the financial services industry and has spent the majority of his career as an independent RIA. As a serial entrepreneur, he has built four financial service companies. He is a nationally recognized author and speaker in the financial industry and is a federally recognized expert on 401(k) fiduciary matters.

Doug Field is the Chief Growth Officer of Veriphy Analytics℠ and is a highly-seasoned business growth executive who has spent 35 years growing businesses and communities serving the Employee Benefit / Retirement Plan market. “We have known Doug for years and have seen first-hand the innovative work he has done in the market” said Al Otto, Veriphy Analytics CEO/Co-Founder. “He is an energetic and transformative thought leader who will no doubt make a huge and immediate impact on the Plan Sponsor and Investment Advisor Community as we change the game for retirement plan committees.

Connect with Veriphy on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Tim and Steph O’Connor are the founders of DangChicks. In 2009, Stephanie O’Connor walked into the room that her husband was in and declared that she wanted to start a women’s apparel company. As Tim recalls, the conversation went something like this:

Tim: OK. What do you want to call the company?
Steph: I don’t know.
Tim: How about “Dang Chicks”?
Steph: That’s stupid.
Tim: (walks out, rejected)

The next morning the conversation resumed.

Steph: Why “Dang Chicks?”
Tim: What do you want your customers to hear when they walk into a room wearing your products?
Steph: “Dang, Chick!”
Tim: Exactly.
Steph: I’m a genius.

Since then, tens of thousands of women across the globe have found their inner Dang Chick and decided to wear their heart on their sleeves…and head, neck, and home or wherever they want to tell the world what they are all about. Their customers want to have fun, be encouraged, and also reminded that they are beautiful and worthy of pursuit.

In 2016, Kara Hoekwater joined the dang party as a partner and together, Steph and Kara are the dynamic duo behind the Dang Chicks brand.

Check out DangChicks on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Dave Barnes given the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Georgia CIO Leadership Association

December 19, 2017 by angishields

Booth 61 with Ricky Steele

Dave Barnes given the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Georgia CIO Leadership Association

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Booth 61 with Ricky Steele had the honor of hosting Dave Barnes on November 15^th shortly after Dave was awarded the Life Time Achievement Award you see in the photo. Dave is the former CIO of UPS after starting his career as a loader/packer. Dave is not only a great business success but he is one of Atlanta’s most giving community servants by giving his time and resources to the United Way of Atlanta, TechBridge and the Georgia CIO Leadership Association.

Having hosted many episodes over the past 7 years, this interview with Dave is in the top 3 of all time. In just15 minutes, Dave Barnes teaches an MBA course on life. Dave is genuine, articulate, kind, loving, and transparent. I found myself laughing, nodding in agreement and even shedding a tear or two listening to Dave share from his heart. Dave Barnes is The Real Deal, my friends. I believe this interview should be heard by most everyone in the technology industry especially those under the age of 30. Dave shares life lessons that will help you become the person you would like to become.

Jeremy Stratton and Lisa Smith with Clayton County Chamber of Commerce

December 19, 2017 by angishields

CEO Exclusive Radio

Jeremy Stratton and Lisa Smith with Clayton County Chamber of Commerce

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Jeremy Stratton has been the CEO of the Clayton County Chamber of Commerce since April 2016. Stratton has over 20 years of chamber and economic development experience from positions he held across the southeast.

During his career, Stratton has recruited and located forty-three manufacturing and commercial companies to the community he served resulting in a total capital investment of $650 million and the creation of over 6,500 jobs. He has worked with companies, such as Kimberly-Clark, FedEx, Cheesecake Factory Bakery, Abbott Laboratories, Universal Leaf, Japan Tobacco, Conifex, and Com40 (Ikea).

Stratton has a wide variety of working experience. He has worked for regional economic development organizations in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. While in Virginia from 2007-2014, he worked for Danville as the City’s Economic Development Director. During his tenure he managed business parks, recruited business and industry, led the redevelopment efforts of downtown Danville, and chaired and designed the Southern Virginia Regional Alliance in response to the Governor’s request for regional participation.

From 2014 – 2016, Stratton was the President and CEO of the El Dorado-Union County Chamber of Commerce where he led both the chamber and economic development functions. Stratton combined the economic development efforts of the city and county.

Stratton has a Master’s Degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in Urban and Regional Planning, and has been a Certified Economic Developer since June 2009.

Follow the Clayton County Chamber on Facebook.

Lisa J. Smith serves as Regional Director for Georgia Power’s Metro South Region, where she leads the company’s operations serving more than 265,000 customers in metro Atlanta’s Southern Crescent. She is responsible for region operations, sales, customer service, economic and community development, and external affairs activities. Smith began her career with Georgia Power’s sister utility, Mississippi Power, as an engineer in 1993. She transferred to Georgia Power in 1997, where she has held positions of increasing responsibility in distribution, sales and region operations, serving as area manager in Waynesboro and Newnan.

Prior to her current role, Smith served as assistant to the senior vice president of Metro Atlanta Region, where she provided support for the company’s operations, sales, customer service, economic and community development, and external affairs activities for 1.2 million customers.

A native of Meridian, Mississippi, Smith earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Mississippi State University. She has served as a member of the board of directors for various organizations across the state. Presently she serves as a member of the board of directors for Arts Clayton, the Clayton County Chamber of Commerce and the Regional Business Coalition.

Women in Technology (WIT) Special Edition

December 14, 2017 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Women in Technology (WIT) Special Edition

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The work of Women in Technology has an incredible impact.
Since 1992, Women in Technology has had a mission dedicated to promoting the advancement of women in Georgia’s technology community. Through the WIT COMMUNITY, WIT also educates and encourages girls and young women to pursue careers in STEAM.

Kanya Jones is the Senior Business Development Manager for Information Technology at Vaco Technologies. Vaco provides expert consulting, permanent placement, executive search and strategic staffing for companies around the world, in the areas of accounting, finance, technology, healthcare, operations, administration and more. As a premier talent solutions firm, Vaco connects people to their dream jobs and helps leading companies find talent to grow their business.

Connect with Kanya on LinkedIn and follow Vaco on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

Sandy D. Welfare is the Executive Director of Women In Technology (WIT). Prior to that, she was the Executive Director of Cool Girls Inc, an award-winning early intervention after-school program dedicated to the empowerment of girls (2009-2015).

Sandy’s career began in 1989 in Greenwich, Connecticut where she joined Rand Insurance as the Controller. Six years later, she accepted a position with Lucent Technologies, an international telecommunications leader, holding a number of positions including serving as Accounting and Treasury Manager in Singapore (1999-2000) and then as Senior Manager in Australia and New Zealand (2000-2002). Sandy returned to Atlanta in 2002 as Senior Manager of Global Financial Services.

In 2003, Sandy accepted a position as Director of Operations for Xchanging, a business processing outsourcing company. In 2006, her career took her to London, England as Managing Director for professional services, where she managed global business processing services for bank financial transactions, insurance and retail.

Sandy received her undergraduate degree from St. John’s University in New York, and a Master of Business Administration from Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. She serves on the board of several non-profits, including Kiwanis Club of Atlanta. Sandy resides in Marietta, Georgia with her husband, Cliff and son, Soloman. Connect with WIT on Twitter, and follow Sandy on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Supply Chain Now Radio Episode 8

December 14, 2017 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Supply Chain Now Radio Episode 8

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Supply Chain Now Radio brought to you by APICS Atlanta

Scott Luton serves as Managing Partner for TalentStream and is a member of the ownership group. He brings more than 15 years of general management and business development experience to TalentStream. After graduating from the University of South Carolina in 2000, he began his career as a database analyst in the United States Air Force. Luton later joined EmployBridge – a national specialty staffing provider based in Atlanta – where he was named to the President’s Club in 2007 and 2008. He has held leadership roles including Vice President of Business Development for Definity Partners and Director of Sales for Clairon Metals Corporation. More recently, Luton founded Riverwood Associates in 2013, a leading process improvement consulting and training firm in the Southeast. He formerly served as President of APICS Atlanta and currently is a member of APICS Southeast District Staff. A certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and an APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional, Luton also maintains active membership in the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, the Georgia Manufacturing Alliance, the Transportation Club of Atlanta and SHRM Greenville. Follow TalentStream on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Mark Balte is the EVP of Research & Development at Logility. Connect with Mark on LinkedIn.

Robb Dillon is the Chair of Georgia Logistics Summit Executive Committee. Connect with Robb on LinkedIn.

Chris Barnes is the President & Executive Director of APICS Atlanta. Connect with Chris on LinkedIn.

Chris Beer with Our Town America and Richard Rehme with Intelligent Office

December 13, 2017 by angishields

High Velocity Radio

Chris Beer with Our Town America and Richard Rehme with Intelligent Office

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Chris Beer is the owner of Our Town America in Atlanta. Our Town America is the nation’s first and fastest growing new mover marketing franchise. As one of the company’s longest tenured franchisees, Chris Beer is an expert at helping local Atlanta businesses connect with new movers and create long term, lasting relationships.

Connect with Chris on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook.

Richard Rehme currently serves as President & Owner of the Intelligent Office locations in Atlanta, Ga. His 20 years of executive business operations and finance leadership with Fortune Global 100 organizations have positioned him as an expert in the field of business efficiency and administrative support services in growing companies.

Intelligent Office Atlanta & Roswell feature a staff ready to accommodate your every business need. High-end communications systems allow our staff to be your employee, when you need us to be, in the manner that will most benefit your business. Offering Intelligent Assistants® trained to manage your clients’ calls exactly the way you want them handled, by acting as an integral part of your staff.

Nicely-furnished offices are available yearly, monthly and hourly. Impeccable conference rooms with video display capabilities are at your beck and call. The offices are centrally located in impressive Class A buildings along the Georgia 400 corridor in both Roswell and booming Atlanta (Sandy Springs) areas.

Connect with Richard on LinkedIn and Facebook.

Tuesdays with Corey Episode 3

December 13, 2017 by angishields

High Velocity Radio

Tuesdays with Corey Episode 3

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Linda Gabbard with Vistage International is the Vistage Master Chair leading Chief Executive, Senior Executive, and Vistage Inside Peer Groups and coach and trainer for other Vistage Chairs. Vistage is an international membership organization dedicated to improving the effectiveness and enhancing the lives of CEOs and Executives. Vistage Works – Become better leader, make better decisions, achieve better results. She is the President, Framework Initiatives Company, Inc. specializing individual and team leadership development, change management, and executive coaching. She is known for driving positive change, growth, and results in her own ventures and those of her clients. She’s worked with mid-sized privately held businesses, large global companies, start-ups, and turnarounds. She leverages 25+ years experience in the manufacturing space, with experience in product marketing, sales, general management, leading international business units, and change management. She has a passion for excellence and learning, and is dedicated to the success and impact of each individual client. She loves bringing a creative strategic approach and a wide diversity of experience and worldview together to resolve complex issues in dynamic environments.

Connect with Linda on LinkedIn.

Jane Gentry with Jane Gentry and Company has had a successful 30-year career in Sales, Sales Management, Consulting, Executive Coaching and Keynoting. Since forming her practice in 1999, Jane has partnered with her clients to improve sales, profitability, client retention, employee retention and leadership capabilities.

The world’s most successful organizations have brought Jane on board, including Assurant, The Home Depot, Milliken, Philips, Coca-Cola, Leidos Healthcare, Mercedes Benz, Stryker and GlaxoSmithKline.

Today, Jane is bringing her expertise to leaders in mid-market organizations and providing them the resources they need to drive growth. She uses rigorous, data driven, validated diagnostics that provide a clear strategy and results and her clients often experience 10x return on their investment.

Jane is also a regular on the speaking platform at high-profile meetings from Canada to the Czech Republic. She addresses topics from Relational Intelligence to Inspirational Leadership to Selling Value. Audiences and clients have described her as “a woman with a vision,” “energetic” and “inspiring”.

Jane holds a BFA from Kent State University and an MFA from The University of Pittsburgh. She also holds a CPI (Certified Professional Innovator) distinction from GA State University. Earlier in her career she was a professional stage actress. Jane lives in Atlanta, GA.

Connect with Jane on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Mindy Godwin is the president of her family owned and operated company, American Reprographics Corporation. ARC opened it’s doors in September 1978 when her father Steve Hamburger saw an opportunity in the toner and ink industry when Xerox lost an antitrust suit and had to divulge all of their patents and secrets about toner. At the time Xerox was in control of all of the ink on the market and this gave way to other companies to come in and market Xerox’s technology with a private label, saving company’s upwards of 40-60% on printer, copier and fax ink. Now this also opened the doors to a lot of inferior products as well and if you know the phrase toner pirate, this is where that came from. Bad products came out, ink that would open in your machines causing damage and it really gave so many companies who were doing the right thing, a bad name. Frankly people were scared to buy toner that wasn’t OEM, (Original Equipment Manufacture). Luckily American Reprographics always stayed ahead of the curve and they kept their name free of any bad publicity. Let’s face it, talk is cheap so for many years, and even today when they need to, they offer free evaluations on all of their compatible toner cartridges to prove that their word is valid. They not only have compatibles available but all name brands as well. They want companies to save money on ink when they can so ARC always offers an alternative if one is available for their toner. They steer clear from compatible color toner and never suggest buying compatible inkjet cartridges, even more they don’t ever suggest buying remanufactured toner unless you’re an environmentalist but if you are just wanting to save money, this isn’t the way. You’ll end up spending more on replacing your printers. They can thank Xerox for all of the printer and copier technology out there. HP, Lexmark, Canon, Brother, you name it, all the technology stems from Xerox.

Connect with Mindy on LinkedIn and American Reprographics on LinkedIn.

Michaela Underdahl was born and raised in Prague, Czech Republic and joined Nimble, a social sales and marketing CRM company shortly after moving to the United States three years ago. She started her journey in a customer care department where she gained profound knowledge of the product. She quickly moved onto a new role as a Community Engagement Manager which involves managing all of Nimble’s online communities. She leads Nimble community nurturing by managing the Nimble blog, all editorial content — including extensive advocate, author, and influencer outreach programs.

Connect with Michaela on LinkedIn.

Corey Rieck is the President and Founder of The Long Term Care Planning Group, a firm that specializes in delivering Long Term Care education and coverage to companies, high net worth individuals and large organizations. Since 2001, Corey has devoted his career to Long Term Care as a result of multiple personal experiences. A neutral provider of Long Term Care Solutions since 2001, Corey brings a unique and comprehensive consultative perspective to this issue. Since 2003, part of his commitment to the Long Term Care Industry includes his having trained over 3,500 advisors from San Francisco to Wall Street on how to properly position Long Term Care to clients through the CLTC organization. (www.ltc-cltc.com) Additionally, he has authored dozens of published industry articles on Long Term Care and has assisted many of the nation’s leading LTC carriers on operational and educational matters.