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Floyd E. Rembert with Open Systems Inc. and Bernadette Harris with By The Book Accounting

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Floyd E. Rembert/Open Systems Inc.

Open Systems Inc. is a certified technology services company, committed to delivering innovative solutions for its Clients. With deep industry expertise and proven experience in consulting and outsourcing, OSI has the skills and technologies needed to deliver tangible solutions with measurable results. Open Systems Inc. has successfully completed projects for large and small companies and State and Federal Government. In business since 1994, Open Systems is a certified minority owned Small Business.

Bernadette Harris/By The Book Accounting

Bernadette is a tax and forensic accountant with By The Book Accounting.  Over the last 16 years, she has helped her clients do three primary things:

  1. Start, run, and grow their businesses THE RIGHT WAY
  2. Look forward to tax season
  3. Protect their businesses from employee fraud

Bernadette is the author of four books.  Her most recent books are Business Blueprint: A Guide To Starting & Running Your Business THE RIGHT WAY! and Did You Hire a Fraud: Solid Safeguards to Prevent Insider Theft.

Philip Wahl with Kale Me Crazy

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Philip Wahl/Kale Me Crazy

Kale me Crazy is a new, fast growing health food restaurant. They are all about promoting healthy living through fresh organic and natural foods. Providing a fast and convenient alternative to traditional fast food restaurants. Kale me Crazy serves wraps, salads, acai bowls, cold pressed juices, delicious smoothies, energy shots and soups, all made from scratch, all made from fresh fruits and vegetables delivered daily. They even make their own almond milk! They also feature cleansing packages that are the perfect support system to your healthy lifestyle. Come in to their restaurant and catch the healthy vibe or they offer catering for your next meeting, special event or sports outing. Their motto says it all, ” Healthy habits start here.”

Timothy Schroeder with Duravit USA

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Timothy Schroeder/Duravit USA

Founded in 1817 in Hornberg, in the heart of Germany’s Black Forest, Duravit AG is a leading manufacturer of designer bathrooms. The company operates in 130 countries worldwide and represents innovative design, state of the art technology, and top quality materials. Through collaborations with renowned designers like Phillipe Starck and EOOS, Duravit develops timeless, practical bathroom solutions that enhance quality of life on a lasting basis. Duravit’s product range includes sanitary ceramics, bathroom furniture, shower trays and bathtubs, whirl and wellness systems, shower-toilets and accessories.

Duravit USA, Inc. headquarters are based in Duluth, GA. Trade and interested consumers may visit Duravit NYC, the company’s state-of-the-art showroom at 105 Madison Avenue, in the heart of New York’s NoMAD design district. For more information on Duravit or to find a local distributor, visit www.duravit.us or call 888-DURAVIT.

Dr. Jennifer Rooke with Morehouse School of Medicine and Dr. Benson Karanja with Beulah Heights University

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Dr. Jennifer Rooke/Morehouse School of Medicine

Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), located in Atlanta, Ga., was founded in 1975 as the Medical Education Program at Morehouse College. In 1981, MSM became an independently chartered institution. MSM is among the nation’s leading educators of primary care physicians and was recently recognized as the top institution among U.S. medical schools for their social mission. Their faculty and alumni are noted in their fields for excellence in teaching, research and public policy.

MSM is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Council on Education for Public Health, Liaison Committee on Medical Education and Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

Dr. Benson Karanja/Beulah Heights University

Founded in 1918, Beulah Heights University has become known as one of the nation’s oldest and fastest growing Bible institutions. Located in the beautiful city of Atlanta, GA, Beulah Heights University aims to offer higher education founded in the Protestant Christian tradition. BHU is proud to be acknowledged for its academic pursuits and its dedication to the Christian mission. Beulah Heights University is proud of its heritage as a training institution for students interested in learning ethical leadership for the ministry and the marketplace. Beulah Heights University (BHU) offers students a curriculum that is centered in its core values of Biblical Inerrancy, Integrity, Global Missions, Dedicated Servant-hood, and Diversity suitable for Christian leadership in a host of arenas. Though nestled in the historical Grant Park area of metropolitan Atlanta, BHU extends its reach to the four corners of the earth. BHU nurtures students’ leadership skills by exposing them to international ministry opportunities through mission programs and short-term overseas trips. BHU has structured its leadership curriculum to offer training across the globe, thus making a difference internationally in churches, government entities, and businesses. In addition, the curriculum is tailored to expose students to humanities, sciences, effective communication skills, and other professional studies.

Monique Russell with Clear Communication Solutions

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Monique Russell/Clear Communication Solutions

Clear Communication Solutions is a 100% woman owned business providing trusted quality communications consultation through coaching, speaking and live events. Clear Communication Solutions helps women leaders communicate in a way that makes them shine, and to use clear communication within their teams.

 

 

Dr. Shannon Parris with Great Expressions Dental Centers, Mark Sherwin with Sonesta International Hotel Corporation, and Tommy Linda with Edge Business Systems

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Dr. Shannon Parris/Great Expressions Dental Centers

For nearly 40 years (founded in 1982), Great Expressions Dental Centers has been a leader in preventative dental care, orthodontics, and specialty care with more than 250 practices in 10 states: Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Texas and Virginia. One of the largest privately owned dental service organization in the US, Great Expressions is consistently recognized for contributions to improving health through quality and safety initiatives, affordable dental care services, patient convenience, and research. Great Expressions is a leading dental provider in Atlanta, with over 50 locations in the metro area.

Mark Sherwin/Sonesta International Hotel Corporation

Sonesta is a global hotel collection with over 75 years of delivering personal and engaging service in destinations that span 8 countries and over 65 hotels. Their guests choose Sonesta because they want an authentic, local experience brought to life through Sonesta’s signature Food is Art, Liquid Art and Everyday Surprises. And while they’re away from home, they appreciate Sonesta’s genuine hospitality – warm, friendly and surprisingly different. Featuring these distinct brands – Royal Sonesta; Sonesta Hotels; Sonesta ES Suites.

Tommy Linda/Edge Business Systems

Founded by an ownership group with over 50 years of industry experience, EDGE helps businesses achieve maximum efficiency and productivity with the latest in office technology, all backed by award-winning service. EDGE is one of the largest independent dealers in Georgia and has been recognized by industry insiders, publications and manufacturers for leadership and excellence.

 

 

 

Phillip Williams with McDermott Financial Solutions and Derek Peacock with D.Peacock Studios

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Phillip Williams/McDermott Financial Solutions

McDermott Financial Solutions provides relationship-based financial consulting services. McDermott Financial Solutions works with business owners to find financing and improve profitability in their business. They develop a financial gameplan with you and coach your company to execute on its goals for growth and profitability.

Derek Peacock/D.Peacock Studios

D.Peacock Studios is a full stack graphic web design business service located in Norcross, GA. For over 10 years, D.Peacock Studios has specialized in serving the needs of clients in the private sector with particular emphasis on small business. In that time, their work has been distinguished by three qualities: creative strategy, client collaboration and technology integration. The concept is to provide custom marketing and design artwork for businesses looking to maintain a competitive edge with their brand. The company works on a variety of projects such as photography, print designs, html5 websites, smartphone apps, Flash animations and social media marketing.

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Tao Yang Han with IronCAD and Lloyd Lofton with 7 Figure Sales Tools

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Tao Yang Han/IronCAD

IronCAD is an innovation company serving the manufacturing industry in machine design, fabrication, product design and modular systems. It has always been striving to give customers the best 3D design and collaboration software tool that increases customer productivity and — above all — helps them achieve success in their fields. IronCAD accomplishes this by innovation of market focused new technologies and incorporating them into its solutions. As a result, its software products allows engineers to jumpstart new projects in minutes and make design changes easily and quickly in response to customer feedback. Those products empower engineers to work freely and efficiently at every stage in the design process, from conceptual design to production planning. Winner of numerous industry awards, IronCAD products are distributed by more than 50 channels in America, Europe, and Asia to serve customers in the worldwide market.

Lloyd Lofton/7 Figure Sales Tools

Getting off to a fast, successful start for your sales professionals and managers begins with a business plan. 7 Figure Sales Tools is excited to provide you with sales and management presentations to help you do just that. More than 51,500 individuals have experienced Lloyd’s unique training style and material.  Lloyd offers programs geared to sales, management and leadership. Lloyd doesn’t try to address all the problems an organization may have however he can help bring solutions to problems that relate to recruiting, training and retaining your sales team. Lloyd’s programs are the result of 30 years’ experience in door-to-door, call center; business-to-business and needs based selling. Lloyd is a successful business leader who has led sales distributions who produced 50 million or more a year in sales, who has led recruiting efforts that resulted in hiring more than 2,000 sales professionals in one year and who has trained hundreds of managers, from field sales leaders to executive level leaders. Lloyd offers direct, structured, hands on programs from someone who has been and is still in the trenches of selling and managing. Sales people like Lloyd, managers relate to him and leaders engage with Lloyd, because he is one of them. He has and does their job and they know it. They know he speaks from experience and can help them take their style and improve their results. Lloyd knows what he is good at and that’s all he will do. He will cause improvement in the areas you engage him in and he will follow-up with accountability coaching.

 

Dennis Sands with FirstCall Consulting and Greg Carter with Synergy Financial Partners

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Dennis Sands/FirstCall Consulting

FirstCall Consulting helps companies using SAP and SAP Business One optimize in-house resources by offering them a broad range of SAP support services. They help customers focus on mission-critical issues and enable them to offload day-to-day operations. Their services are ideally suited to organizations that have deployed SAP and are looking to minimize ongoing maintenance and support costs, educate their staff, and identify process improvement opportunities. They support SAP’s full service R/3, ECC, and Business One systems.

Members of FirstCall Consulting’s management and support team average 17 years of SAP and 22 years of industry experience and are responsible for winning SAP’s coveted Customer Satisfaction Award 5 years in a row!

Greg Carter/Synergy Financial Partners

Synergy Financial Partners is an independent financial services company. They are dedicated to building an innovative movement in the areas of life insurance, living benefits, retirement planning and financial education. Built upon their visionary leader Jeff Huggins, they are changing the way Americans view and use the vehicle of life insurance to much more than just taking care of loved ones after one’s passing.

Andrea Hancock with Mattress Safe

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Andrea Hancock/Mattress Safe

Mattress Safe is a local manufacturer providing quality, waterproof yet breathable mattress protection products to protect your mattress from bed bugs, dust mites, spills, mold and bacteria. They specialize in both consumer and commercial applications throughout the US and internationally.

Protecting your mattress just makes sense. At Mattress Safe, you will find the most luxurious, state-of-the-art mattress encasement options, detailed to fit any mattress. Keep your family safe and healthy, and ensure a good night’s sleep with the right mattress protector. Their fully waterproof, allergy mattress encasing products keep dust mites, mold, and bacteria from penetrating the mattress. All products, including mattress, box spring, and pillow covers, are fire retardant, and are tested and certified for reliable bed bug protection.