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Roxxy Cooley with My Kidz Dentist, Tonya Burge with MyAppleGadgets.com and Cyrus Clay with OSMO Corporation

November 15, 2013 by Mike

Business Leaders of Today

Roxxy Cooley with My Kidz Dentist, Tonya Burge with MyAppleGadgets.com and Cyrus Clay with OSMO Corporation

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Cyrus Clay, Angel Nowlin, Tess Turrin, Roxxy Cooley

Roxxy Cooley/My Kidz Dentist

If you need a pediatric dentist that is professional and reliable, call My Kidz Dentist. With locations in Newnan and Carrollton, their team understands how to approach a wide range of issues that come up with young children. They believe in consistent education with their younger patients so they can develop healthy habits for years to come. They remain focused on prevention so you can keep your smile beautiful.

My Kidz Dentist works with Infants, adolescents and teens. They have carefully created a relaxing and comforting office environment that will soothe even the most anxious kids. Their team is specifically trained to take care of children’s unique needs and is focused on helping them develop positive and healthy dental habits. They’re experienced with all children and know how to assist those with special needs.

Tonya Burge/MyAppleGadgets.com

Tonya Burge started the review site MyAppleGadgets.com because she is in the process of growing her ideal Apple office space. She has been using her iPhone for years and along the way, she found countless sites and blogs from “Great” to “Good” to “Bad” to just plain “REALLY???”.

She shares the Good and Great with you so you’ll get the benefit of her countless hours of Google searches over the years. She has accumulated a vast amount of tips and tricks that she shares, as well as products she has either tried or currently uses on a regular basis. Tonya has done the research so you won’t have to!

The products recommended on the site are products that she uses on a regular basis, so these are her unbiased opinions. She offers links for you to get more information or purchase them for yourself as well.

Cyrus Clay/OSMO Corporation

OSMO Corporation is a technology/IT company. In layman’s terms, they offer multiple types of end-to-end technology solutions for businesses and government entities throughout the Southeast and US. Their main product line delivers network video, video surveillance products (CCTV), and controlled access solutions for doors, gates and entry points. OSMO paves the way for businesses to operate faster, more securely and safer.

Angela Haneklau with Peak 10 and Angel Nowlin with Nowlin Group Insurance Agency

November 14, 2013 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Angela Haneklau with Peak 10 and Angel Nowlin with Nowlin Group Insurance Agency

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Mike Sammond, Angela Haneklau, ANgel Nowlin, Steven Julian — Mike Sammond, Angela Haneklau, Angel Nowlin, Steven Julian

Angela Haneklau/Peak 10

Peak 10 provides reliable, tailored cloud computing, data center and other information technology (IT) infrastructure solutions and managed services, primarily for mid-market businesses.

Angela has been in the Technology Field for over 25 years spending many years at AT&T, Lucent Technologies, CommScope and now Peak 10. Angela has held leadership roles in sales, marketing and operations. Prior to her role at Peak 10, Angela ran the North American enterprise sales team for CommScope, managing nearly 150 sales and technical personnel responsible for in excess of $500 million in revenues per year. She joined Peak 10 in January of 2013 as VP/GM of the Atlanta Market. Peak 10’s growing Colo, Cloud and Managed Services footprint in Atlanta leads to the addition of a third data center to be opened in the Spring of 2014.

Angel Nowlin/Nowlin Group Insurance Agency

With over 10 years experience as an entrepreneur, Angel Nowlin is the proud CEO of the Nowlin Group Agency, specializing in business insurance, asset protection, and wealth building for her clients. Her BA in Business Management and Series 6 and 63 motivates her to lend her expertise in business insurance, asset protection and wealth building. She also holds extensive licenses in the insurance field including, but not limited to, property and life.

Fontaine Huey with Center for the Visually Impaired, Walter Biscardi with Biscardi Creative Media and Brad Rainey with Golden Key International Honour Society

November 13, 2013 by Mike

Silver Lining in the Cloud

Fontaine Huey with Center for the Visually Impaired, Walter Biscardi with Biscardi Creative Media and Brad Rainey with Golden Key International Honour Society

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Dominick Rainey, Fontaine Huey, Walter Biscardi, Brad Rainey, Nikole Toptas

Fontaine Huey/ Center for the Visually Impaired

Located in Midtown Atlanta, the Center for the Visually Impaired (CVI) has empowered people with vision loss to live with independence and dignity for 50 years. As Georgia’s largest comprehensive, fully accredited organization providing vision rehabilitation services, the programs of CVI include: support groups, The Florence Maxwell Low Vision Clinic, New View adult rehabilitation services, STARS program for elementary to high school students, and a BEGIN program for infants and children up to age five. The CVI enterprises located onsite include the non-profit VisAbility Store and the ClearAnswer Contact Center.

Walter Biscardi/Biscardi Creative Media

Biscardi Creative Media, located in Metro Atlanta, is a full service script to screen Creation Company at the forefront of creative media production. Emmy-award winning broadcast programming, episodics, commercials, feature films and corporate marketing video productions are some of the projects their storytellers bring to the screen every day.

A recognized leader in creative digital design, Walter Biscardi, Jr. launched BCM in 2001 with a single purpose: bring art to digital media. Today’s world is overwhelmed with technology, but it takes good storytellers to bring your message to life in an effective and entertaining way. In other words, the latest digital tools don’t make a quality production; the artist using those tools do. Drawing on over 20 years of industry experience, Walter pulls together a creative team that has amassed every major award and traveled to every country in pursuit of a single goal: The story.

Some credits of note: Editor/Animator: “Good Eats” (Food Network); Producer/Editor: “Foul Water Fiery Serpent” featuring Sigourney Weaver (PBS); Managing Producer, “This American Land” (PBS); Producer/Colorist, “Dark Forest Black Fly” featuring Mia Farrow (PBS).

Original programming for both new and traditional media is in development through sister company MTWD Entertainment. Walter is Executive Producer and Director for MTWD.

Brad Rainey/Golden Key International Honour Society

Founded in 1977, Golden Key International Honour Society is a global collegiate honor society established to recognize college students for academic excellence. While membership in Golden Key begins with academic excellence, the Society’s core mission is to enable members to realize their potential through three pillars: academics, leadership and service. The Society, comprised of over 2 million members, has more than 400 campus-based chapters in eight countries, including Australia, Canada, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, The Bahamas and the United States.

Joe Allen with Gwinnett Place CID, Elissa Dooman with Greater Gwinnett Championship, Dax Dossmann with Adams Apples and Sheri Snyder with Objet d’Art Gallery & Studios

November 12, 2013 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Joe Allen with Gwinnett Place CID, Elissa Dooman with Greater Gwinnett Championship, Dax Dossmann with Adams Apples and Sheri Snyder with Objet d'Art Gallery & Studios

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Joe Allen, Elissa Dooman, Mike Sammond, Dax Dossmann, Sheri Snyder

Joe Allen/Gwinnett Place CID

The Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District (CID) is a self-taxing district organized in 2005 comprised of the commercial property owners in the greater Gwinnett Place area. The CID’s mission is to enhance the economic vitality of Gwinnett’s central business district by strengthening the area’s role as the center of commercial activity. In addition to comprehensive planning efforts to address traffic congestion, streetscaping and redevelopment of the area, the CID Board of Directors remains committed to increasing the long-term economic sustainability of greater Gwinnett Place.

Elissa Dooman/Greater Gwinnett Championship

The Greater Gwinnett Championship Presented by Mitsubishi Electric Cooling & Heating is an official event on the PGA TOUR’s Champions Tour that takes place April 14-20, 2014 at TPC Sugarloaf.

Dax Dossmann/Adams Apples

Adams Apples specializes in gourmet apples, fine chocolates, balloons and florals for birthdays, commitment ceremonies, weddings, anniversaries, proms and corporate events. Dax has 25 years of experience in floral design. One of only 2,800 certified balloon artists worldwide, Dax can create the perfect atmosphere for your next event whether it is with balloon décor, exquisite floral arrangements, or customized edible chocolate favors.

Sheri Snyder/Objet d’Art Gallery & Studios

Step inside the Objet d’Art Gallery & Studios and enjoy original work of more than 50 local and regional artists. The gallery is overflowing with painting, woodturned and wood carving, pottery, sculpture, photography, jewelry, glass and mixed-media art. They also have sketch artists who do portrait drawings from your favorite photo of family members or pets. These one-of-a-kind pieces are great for business or home decor, and gift giving!

Christmas in the Corners

Please join Sheri, Dax and the city of Peachtree Corners for the first annual “Christmas in the Corners” Christmas Parade! Enjoy watching the parade from anywhere along The Corners Parkway, then follow Santa to his workshop on Candy Cane Lane (Woodhill Dr.) for a visit with Santa. You can choose to take the opportunity for Christmas pictures from a professional photographer at Santa’s workshop. For your convenience, there will also be great food trucks and vendors along Candy Cane Lane.

Gerald McDowell with Lilburn CID, Matt Hyatt with Rocket IT and Ryan Bonilla with Office Product Gurus

November 7, 2013 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Gerald McDowell with Lilburn CID, Matt Hyatt with Rocket IT and Ryan Bonilla with Office Product Gurus

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Ryan Bonilla, Matt Hyatt, Gerald McDowell, Mike Sammond

Gerald McDowell/Lilburn CID

The Lilburn Community Improvement District (CID) has been working over the last three years designing and implanting programs and projects to focus on the revitalization and redevelopment of the greater Lilburn community.

Matt Hyatt/Rocket IT

Rocket IT has served metro Atlanta and Gwinnett County businesses since 1995. Rocket IT provides best-in class technology guidance, implementation and support to businesses and other organizations from their headquarters in metro Atlanta. Their mission is to empower people through human connection and better IT. Recently, they acquired a start-up office supply company through relationships at the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce.

Ryan Bonilla/Office Product Gurus

Office Product Gurus provides fast delivery of quality office products at a fair price. For the absolute best prices in town on office supplies, janitorial and breakroom supplies, toner cartridges, copy paper, and office furniture, send your Office Manager, Administrative Assistant, Controller, CFO, or whoever in your business works to find ways to save your company money straight to www.OPGurus.com. Save 45-85% on the items you buy most!

Jackson Houk with three, Dr. Ralph Gaskins with SPECTROPATH and Peter DelBove with Team Trivia

November 6, 2013 by Mike

Silver Lining in the Cloud

Jackson Houk with three, Dr. Ralph Gaskins with SPECTROPATH and Peter DelBove with Team Trivia

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Dominick Rainey, Jackson Houk, Ralph Gaskins, Peter DelBove, Nikole Toptas

Jackson Houk/three

three is a 40-man corporate communications firm designed around the experiences of a guy formerly charged with managing internal and external opinions. The owners have deep experience running enterprise communications in consumer goods, utility, financial services and not-for-profit categories. three exists to influence the opinions of folks who define enterprise success.

Dr. Ralph Gaskins/SPECTROPATH

SPECTROPATH is an optical imaging company that has exclusively licensed the global rights to novel electronic, optical, chemical and software technologies developed at Emory University and Georgia Tech that allow physicians to identify selected tissue, such as cancer, in real time. They are initially applying this new technology platform to the identification of cancer during tumor surgery.

Peter DelBove/Team Trivia

Team Trivia, Inc. is the dominant licensor of in-house promotional services to bars and taverns in the U.S., featuring their flagship product “Team Trivia”, a live-hosted weekly trivia event where bar patrons compete for prizes within a two hour trivia game in their local favorite bar. Their products are designed to get patrons in the door and keep them in that bar for two hours each night, eating and drinking and maximizing the bar’s nightly profits. Their products are particularly suited for that “slower” night of the week. Team Trivia also features a more adult promotional product known as “Toxic Trivia”, and a family-oriented twist on traditional bingo known as “Team Bingo”. There is never a charge for the bar patron to participate in any Team Trivia product. Authorized Team Trivia licensees are always compensated directly by the bars.

Desire Rider with Metropolitan Capital Funding and Kathee Hawkins with Stage 2 Accounting

November 5, 2013 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Desire Rider with Metropolitan Capital Funding and Kathee Hawkins with Stage 2 Accounting

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Desire Rider, Kathee Hawkins, Steven Julian

Desire Rider/Metropolitan Capital Funding

Metropolitan Capital Funding is a commercial finance consulting and intermediary firm that assists qualified small businesses with conventional and alternative business capital. In addition to local and regional banks, MCF also works with several non-bank commercial finance institutions that provide several products and services not offered by the local lending community.

Kathee Hawkins/Stage 2 Accounting

Stage 2 Accounting is an outsourced CFO/Controller company. Their target market is emerging Stage 2 businesses who need more than just basic bookkeeping, they need strategic accounting. In most cases, these businesses have a bookkeeper who is beginning to fail because the accounting is becoming too complicated. These businesses need the experience and expertise of a CFO/Controller but don’t need that expertise full-time and don’t have the monetary resources for that six figure salary and benefits.

Stage 2 Accounting enters into a relationship with the business owner, comes alongside and teaches them how to use their financial information to support the vision of the company. They will establish policies, procedures and internal controls that will allow their bookkeeper to become successful again. They have a passion for educating the management team and helping the company get to the next level.

Don Glass with Tech Rentals, Sparrow Marcioni with Linux Labs and Blue Shift Wireless, and Mark Barlow with Finest Event Rentals, Services & Accessories

October 31, 2013 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Don Glass with Tech Rentals, Sparrow Marcioni with Linux Labs and Blue Shift Wireless, and Mark Barlow with Finest Event Rentals, Services & Accessories

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Mike Sammond, Don Glass, Sparrow Marcioni, Mark Barlow

Don Glass/Tech Rentals

Tech Rentals AV is a full service audio visual rental, event production and staging company. Since 1985, Tech Rentals has supported meeting and event planners, associations, conventions and tradeshows, the hospitality market, production companies and the corporate community, in Atlanta and across the country.

Don Glass is currently the National Accounts Manager for Tech Rentals. Don’s daily activities include new business development, sales and marketing of the Show Services division. His responsibilities include selling and managing live events for corporate, associations and government

Sparrow Marcioni/Linux Labs & Blue Shift Wireless

Linux Labs International is a hybrid engineering firm specializing in technologies that expand the field of high performance supercomputing. They design and build high-performance supercomputers utilizing their proprietary NimbusOS™, optionally housing them in their own high-performance data center. The Linux Labs team is responsible for developing some of the most innovative Linux based technologies today and they remain on the forefront of secure operating systems, database development and search engine functions.

Blueshift Wireless offers proprietary long range wireless technologies, high speed content distribution services, broadcasting services and music on demand through their line of BlueShift Technology devices. BlueShift provides turnkey services for live event broadcasts as well as customized music services for their clients.

Mark Barlow/Finest Event Rentals, Services & Accessories

It is hard to tell the difference from afar, so come see and feel the difference of the products and services offered by Finest Event Rentals, Services & Accessories. Thirty years of expertise in event products has given them the edge in offering you the best products for the best quality and value. Offering the most comprehensive selection of crystal stemware, they supply all types of events. They also offer their Beverage Tending and Coordination services. Event coordinator, Mark Barlow, and the team of seasoned industry professionals welcomes the opportunity to meet with you.

Mark Thompson with HouseMaster and Elizabeth Pope and Annette Broadwell with Rentals.com

October 30, 2013 by Mike

Squawk Talk

Mark Thompson with HouseMaster and Elizabeth Pope and Annette Broadwell with Rentals.com

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Mark Thompson, Annette Broadwell, Elizabeth Pope, Kate Schermerhorn

Mark Thompson/HouseMaster

HouseMaster Alpharetta owners Mark and Mary Helen Thompson have lived and worked in the Atlanta area for the past 18 years, and their combined experience in construction, real estate and customer service means they know how to provide the best home inspection services to their customers. They start with good communication, flexible scheduling, certified professional inspectors and a thorough understanding of the inspector’s role in the real estate process. By the time they’re done, they make sure that the client not only receives a complete detailed inspection report, along with a written limited inspection guarantee to back it up, but has a clear understanding of what their inspection report means for their home. They realize that purchasing a home is as stressful as it is exciting, and that you want the right team on your side – Someone who will make the process as stress-free and comprehensible as they can. HouseMaster Alpharetta is that team.

Elizabeth Pope & Annette Broadwell/Rentals.com

Rentals.com is one of the nation’s leading online rental resources with rental homes, apartments and much more. Their strategic vision is to reinvent how consumers find a place to live.

Whether you’re looking to find homes, apartments, condos, townhouses or other properties to rent – or you want to fill your vacancy quickly and easily – Rentals.com is the right place. Every day, thousands of renters use their comprehensive database to search rental properties, making Rentals.com the place for renters and property owners and managers to connect online.