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Dennis Daniels with Renaissance Executive Forums, Chef Monique Powell with Elite Cuisines, Chef Hank Reid with HGR Culinary Engineers and Torey Rose with You're Sew Special

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Dennis Daniels/Renaissance Executive Forums

Renaissance Executive Forums brings together the top executives from non-competing companies of similar size, into a peer advisory board process, whereby thousands of leaders gain fresh ideas and new insights that produce tangible improvements in their business results. They believe “you don’t have to go it alone”.

Chef Monique Powell/Elite Cuisines

Elite Cuisines is a unique Catering and Personal Chef Service. They provide a selection of services including catering, personal chef, cooking classes and express meals. Their passion for food and elite services sets them ahead of the rest. Delighting the palate, stimulating the body, and tantalizing even the most conservative taste, their intriguing menus take you on a culinary journey. They use the freshest ingredients available, carefully pair unique food items, and use unique seasonings and spice combinations.

Chef Hank Reid/HGR Culinary Engineers

HGR Culinary Engineers is an organization with a purpose to lead and organize start-up restaurants and food service concepts.

Hank Reid is the Founder and Executive Director of Trinity Community Culinary Institutes, Inc. a non-profit organization with a purpose to establish an educational and creative learning program, offering classroom instruction, seminars, workshops and employment training to the local community in a recreational environment in the area of Culinary Arts. The foundation of TCCI is strengthened upon the desire to support the everyday challenges parents face to help their young adult sons and daughters transition into self-sufficient, productive adults.

Torey Rose/You’re Sew Special

YSS Athletics emerged from a challenge presented to Torey Rose after years of dealing with athletic uniforms that were late, wrong or didn’t fit her players. Her school principal challenged her to make her own uniforms. That challenge developed into a specialized company where uniforms are custom-designed and custom-fitted. YSS is starting its 20th year in business with Torey as the President and CEO and has grown from an athletic apparel company to include other types of apparel. The mission at YSS is to take the pain out of their clients’ lives.

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Dennis Daniels with Renaissance Executive Forums, Shawn Mahoney with Computer Alli, and Andrew Draper and Eric Draper with Armher

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Dennis Daniels/Renaissance Executive Forums

As President and owner of Renaissance Executive Forums – Atlanta East, Dennis Daniels builds and facilitates Top Executive Peer Advisory Boards, comprised of business owners, CEOs and Presidents in the Atlanta area. Each board serves as a “personal board of advisors” for each member, as they develop actual business solutions and improve business performances in any and all areas, such as business strategies, customer acquisition & retention, financial & operating issues, people & organization issues, business growth, M&A, succession, fighting commoditization, securing their businesses, etc.

Dennis has more than 30 years of global human resources and executive management experience from companies such as PepsiCo, Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corp., Solectron, StatsChipPAC, Ltd. and Silicon Graphics. As an independent consultant, he has been instrumental in helping late-stage, privately-held businesses achieve M&A strategies, restructuring and

performance improvement.

He is a seasoned C-Level executive with a demonstrated track record in start-ups, corporate turnarounds, organization effectiveness, compensation & performance strategies, organization development, M&A, succession planning, executive coaching, corporate governance and Board structure.

Dennis has traveled and worked extensively throughout Asia, Europe and Latin America. He has also lived and worked as an expatriate in Singapore.

Shawn Mahoney/Computer Alli

Shawn Mahoney is the Owner, CEO and President of Computer Alli, Inc. and author of a weight loss book. Computer Alli is a computer networking and support company that also does web-based operational application and websites. The company currently has 28 full and part-time employees and sub-contractors.

Shawn is also an inspirational story, having spent half of his adult like struggling with obesity. In fact he was carrying over 100 pounds in excess weight for 20 years. His story of the transformation he went through to drop the weight and get healthy is the topic of his book “How I Lost Myself – A healthy weight loss story”. He talks about the process he went through, from the mental commitment to goal setting and tracking, including the food changes, workouts and accountability. He discusses handling different ways around “will power” with the reprogramming of your brain on how to look at food in a different way, along with planning and preparing meals while integrating them into your busy everyday life. He also writes about how he maintained his new transformation with diet, exercise and goal setting.

Andrew Draper & Eric Draper/Armher

Armher, LLC is a company that was created out of the necessity of safety targeted at those who are unsafe. They have modeled their classes based on simplicity and convenience. Not only do they come to a location that the client or group is comfortable with, but they also bring a fun time! They enlighten girls and women, ages 13 and up, about how to stay safe from assault and how to escape or evade attempted attacks. All the while, they are smiling and shedding positive light on a negative subject!