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Kent Davies, Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce

June 11, 2019 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Kent Davies, Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce

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**Host John Ray and Kent Davies, President and CEO of the Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce**

“North Fulton Business Radio,” Episode 142: Kent Davies, Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce

Kent Davies, President and CEO of the Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce, speaks with Host John Ray about the growth of his Chamber, how the Chamber unifies the broader Johns Creek community, and how Chamber membership benefits business owners.

Kent Davies, President & CEO, Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce

Kent Davies is the President and CEO of the Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce.

Prior to joining the Johns Creek Chamber, Kent retired as Vice President of the World Financial Group, as well as President of the WFG Foundation. WFG’s Worldwide Headquarters is located in Johns Creek. As Vice President, he worked with a large financial services sales force in both the USA and Canada. As President of the WFG Foundation, he led fund raising efforts, operations, and grant distribution to help serve those in need across the world. He is also a licensed life, accident & health agent and a securities registered rep, holding a supervisory license.

Kent also serves as a Board Member on Johns Creek Advantage helping with ‘smart growth’ of Johns Creek bringing & growing business and jobs to Johns Creek.

Kent and wife Susan met while both attended college at Brigham Young University. They have 4 children and 10 grandchildren. Kent also is a community volunteer in many projects, including a program that helps find employment for those in need and directly facilitating an emergency preparedness program involving 200 families through his church. Past positions held include Division Manager for GNC/DCI with responsibility for 1,800 franchises and 30 company units and VP of Operations for over 100 restaurants. For recreation Kent enjoys scuba diving, travel and spending time with family.

“North Fulton Business Radio” is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX®, located inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has grown to become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions with approximately $12.9 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: 2019 IMPACT Regional Business Award Winners (Part 2 of 3)

June 4, 2019 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: 2019 IMPACT Regional Business Award Winners (Part 2 of 3)

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Frank Oorreel, Allen Read, Lisa Sherman, Chris Braun

Designed to be reflective of Gwinnett and metro Atlanta area, the Gwinnett Chamber IMPACT Regional Business Awards recognize leading organizations in top industries that are driving economic development and job creation, while enhancing our quality of life. This event is truly one of a kind as it brings together leaders from the AEC, higher education, healthcare, hospitality, information technology, international business, nonprofit, service, and small business industries.

This is the second of 3 special episodes featuring the 2019 IMPACT Regional Business Award winners and sponsors.

Allen Read/M3 – IT winner

Built by hoteliers, exclusively for hoteliers, M3 is a powerful cloud-based accounting software solution for the hospitality industry that drives cost savings, revenue enhancement and business insight. Celebrating 20 years in business without increasing prices, M3 touts a 98% customer retention rate without contracts. Used by management groups and hotels of all sizes, the platform works seamlessly with other key systems and tools in the hospitality industry and offers robust accounting and financial analysis across entire portfolios with optional operations and time management features. Privately-held and employee-owned, M3 also includes a proprietary hotel benchmarking index that combines data from a multitude of properties into a single accessible data set to compare hotels.

Frank Oorreel/BOPLAN – International winner

BOPLAN‘s flexible guardrails have been re-shaping industrial safety in the United States for the past 6 years. They provide innovative safety products that protect against the accidental impacts of forklift trucks. Thanks to innovative products and know-how, BOPLAN solves problems that others haven’t been able to solve so far.

Thanks to their flexibility, BOPLAN’S guardrails return to their original shape immediately after impact, alleviating damage to themselves, the forklift, or the concrete they are bolted onto, and there’s no more need to re-paint them as they are colored to the core.

Under the name Flex Impact, the original polymer barrier, BOPLAN manufactures a range of polymer handrails, guardrails, bollards, rack protectors, column protectors and safety gates.

Lisa Sherman/City of Lawrenceville – Hospitality winner

Lawrenceville is the county seat of Gwinnett and home to Gwinnett’s major assets in education, healthcare, government and the arts. With a bustling downtown square complete with dining, entertainment, shopping and residential opportunities, Lawrenceville serves as the heart of the county where the arts can flourish and a smart, talent-rich citizenry can enjoy a walkable urban environment in a suburban location.

Chris Braun/Renasant Bank – Presenting sponsor

Headquartered in Tupelo, MS, Renasant Bank is a 115-year-old $13 billion regional bank with a presence in Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Florida. Renasant was named Time/Money Magazine “Best Bank in the South” for 2018-2019. Renasant Bank has 190 offices in their footprint and 30 branches in North Georgia to service your personal and business banking needs.

Charlie Jones, Marshall Jones & Co.

May 28, 2019 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Charlie Jones, Marshall Jones & Co.

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**Host John Ray and Charlie Jones, Marshall Jones**

Charlie Jones is the co-founder of Marshall Jones & Co. Marshall Jones is a 35-year-old Atlanta CPA firm with offices in Alpharetta and the Buckhead area of Atlanta. The firm has 20 professionals who specialize in serving privately owned businesses, nonprofit organizations, and high income or otherwise wealthy individuals. Their corporate clients are in the construction, nonprofit, real estate, professional services and distribution industries. Marshall Jones provides year end financial statement audits, reviews and compilation services. The firm’s tax department provides planning, consultation and tax return preparation services. The outsourced bookkeeping department provides all back office functions such as bill paying, payroll, bank reconciliation, and general ledger maintenance and financial statement preparation. The firm’s core values are integrity, technical competence, responsiveness and proactivity.

As Senior Partner, Charlie focuses on client relationships and business development. Charlie has performed peer reviews for other CPA firms since 1990 in 9 states. He performs reviews for firms with 5-50 professionals. He became a member of the Georgia Society of CPA’s Review Acceptance Board in early 2019. Charlie’s career has consisted of auditing, contract controllership, systems and other consulting. He ensures that the firm maintains the critical quality necessary to effectively serve our clients. He holds a strong knowledge in real estate, construction, technology, distribution, government, and non profit industries. Charlie has also lead many projects in Sarbanes Oxley internal control compliance for several public companies. In addition he has been a frequent lecturer and trainer in this and other audit related areas.

Sonja Smith, Fotopia, and Sallie Boyles, Write Lady Inc.

May 22, 2019 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Sonja Smith, Fotopia, and Sallie Boyles, Write Lady Inc.

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**Host John Ray, Sallie Boyles of Write Lady, Inc., and Sonja Smith of Fotopia**

Sonja Smith, Fotopia

Sonja Smith is the Director of Sales, North America, for Fotopia. At Fotopia, they design easy to use software application exclusively for SharePoint and Office 365 that enhance its features and functionalities. With the Fotopia Viewer application, you can scan, view, edit, annotate, and redact data on documents from within SharePoint allowing you to collaborate with internal and external teams securely.

Fotopia also solves transactional content management challenges. Fotopia Capture will allow you to scan 50,000 pages a day of transactional data, such as invoices, employee files, and finance directly to SharePoint. With Fotopia Discovery, the Search and Retrieve application provides access to your data in the blink of an eye so you can find the right document, at the right time, to make the right decisions.

If you’d like more information, you can reach Sonja at (404) 806-7496 or go to www.fotopiatech.com.

Sallie Boyles, Write Lady Inc.

Combining her marketing experience and writing talent, Sallie Wolper Boyles launched Write Lady Inc. in 2003. Based in Atlanta, Write Lady provides freelance ghostwriting, copy writing, journalism and editing services to a wide assortment of clients—aspiring authors, creative and PR agencies, website developers, publishers, business and nonprofit executives, professionals and entrepreneurs—wherever they happen to be.

You can read her blog, learn more about her services, and contact Write Lady Inc. via www.writelady.com or connect with Sallie Boyles through LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/sallieboyles/.

Alan Crowe, Room2work

May 14, 2019 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Alan Crowe, Room2work

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Alan Crowe developed the idea for Room2work in 2016 while President of SpecPoint Incorporated. His experience finding the right space for SpecPoint, plus an understanding of what his customers, mostly contractors, needed in a commercial space, helped form early versions of the Room2work concept.

There are lots of commercial options for business owners that only need office space. However, there’s a substantial gap between a home-based business and the jump to a commercial space if you need storage space for inventory or equipment. Room2work bridges that gap by providing flexible office, meeting, and warehouse space under one roof.

Ultimately, Room2work is more than just coworking – it’s an ecosystem of space plus services like accounting, marketing and logistics that give business owners the confidence to leave their home office and let their business grow.

For more information, call (470) 721-0606 or go to their website, https://www.room2work.com/.

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT – 2018 IMPACT Regional Business Award Winners (Part 3 of 3)

July 20, 2018 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT - 2018 IMPACT Regional Business Award Winners (Part 3 of 3)

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Seth Seagraves, Mark Kuntz, Brooke Waters, Chris Braun, Rob Marbury

Designed to be reflective of Gwinnett and the metro Atlanta area, the Gwinnett Chamber IMPACT Regional Business Awards recognize leading organizations in top industries that are driving economic development and job creation, while enhancing the area’s quality of life. This event is truly one of a kind as it brings together leaders from the AEC, higher education, healthcare, hospitality, information technology, international business, nonprofit, service, and small business industries.

Chris Braun/Renasant Bank (Awards Sponsor)

Headquartered in Tupelo, MS, Renasant Bank is a $10 Billion bank with a presence in five Southeastern states including Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. In the North Georgia market, the bank has 18 retail branches from Jasper to Gwinnett. In March of 2018, Renasant Bank announced a merger with Brand Group Holdings. After this merger, the total bank assets will be approximately $13 Billion and Renasant will increase its presence in North Georgia and in Gwinnett particularly. Renasant Bank is a full-service community bank that meets the banking needs of both businesses and individuals.

Mark Kuntz/Mitsubishi Electric Trane HVAC (International winner)

Since 1980 Mitsubishi Electric and the newly formed Mitsubishi Electric Trane HVAC US LLC (METUS) have been a leading provider of ductless and VRF systems in the United States and Latin America. The company provides innovative cooling and heating products, systems and solutions for application from a home to a large commercial building.

METUS is a leading marketer of Zoned Comfort Solutions and Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) air-conditioning and heating technology. Systems sold by METUS include a wide variety of technologically advanced products designed to deliver superior efficiency, comfort and control.

The family of brands supported by METUS includes Mitsubishi Electric Cooling & Heating; Trane/Mitsubishi Electric, and American Standard/Mitsubishi Electric. More information is available at www.metahvac.com.

Brooke Waters/Leadership Gwinnett (Non-Profit winner)

Leadership Gwinnett is the region’s most trusted resource for leadership development and civic engagement. For 32 years, the learning and network offered has enabled thousands to change anything, from themselves to the world.

At the very core, their vision is to develop and sustain a network of effective leaders who will address current and future challenges and opportunities in Gwinnett and the region. Aligned with that is their mission which allows them to educate, equip, and engage existing and emerging leaders through a diversity of people, thoughts, and experiences that will lead Gwinnett to a better future. They do this through leadership programs, events and programming that is designed to inspire, challenge, and connect people at all levels of leadership development.

Seth Seagraves/Halski Systems (Information Technology winner)

Services provided by Halski Systems are scalable to the client’s needs. Halski offers services that include, but are not limited to, around-the-clock managed IT services, co-managed IT services, staff augmentation, IT project leadership and/or support, SMB set up and management, selecting the most appropriate vendor services, building contracts and facilitating agreements for long-lasting and beneficial relationships with external providers, cloud-based services, and infrastructures and expert technology consultation.

Halski has a straightforward process of assessing the needs of enterprises and using the results to strategically plan for and provide IT service needs. Through this method, Halski has become a leader among Information Technology Services providers. They enjoy and value relationships with their clients whether their IT needs are large or small throughout the southeastern United States and across the country.

Rob Marbury/Marbury Creative Group (Service Industry winner)

Marbury Creative Group is a creative studio that supercharges brands through unique creative approaches and campaigns across digital, print, and broadcast. Their strategically-driven creative helps companies build awareness and revenue. Their 10 full-time creative professionals are located in downtown Duluth. If you have a story to tell, they’re ready to help you “Tell it Better!”.