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Doug Foote with Georgia United Credit Union and Trey Tompkins with Admin America

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Doug Foote/Georgia United Credit Union

Georgia United Credit Union is one of Georgia’s largest and strongest not-for-profit financial cooperatives, serving more than 122,000 member-owners across the state. From home and auto loans to free checking with identity theft protection, bill pay and mobile banking, Georgia United’s goal is to save members time and money. It’s easy to open an account online at www.georgiaunitedcu.org or at any Georgia United branch. Services are available to all Gwinnett County residents.

Trey Tompkins/Admin America

Admin America is an independent third party administrator of employee benefits based in Alpharetta, GA. Admin America had provided consulting and administrative services primarily to small businesses located in Georgia and adjacent states since 1988. Admin America’s services are focused on compliance with federal rules governing employee benefit plans. Services include FSA and HRA administration, COBRA compliance and ERISA and PPACA consulting.

Admin America’s team of 14 full time administrators is led by Trey Tompkins, a benefits attorney with over 17 years experience helping small businesses plan and maintain compliant benefit programs.

Dr. Benson Karanja with Beulah Heights University, Scott Brandt with eQuorum and Sharon Mason with Cobb Chamber of Commerce

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Dr. Benson Karanja/Beulah Heights University

Founded in 1918, Beulah Heights University (BHU) has become known as one of the nation’s oldest and fastest growing Bible institutions. 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 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.

Scott Brandt/eQuorum

Organizations that rely on engineering content need a better way to securely and simply manage documents. That’s why they turn to eQuorum’s comprehensive, yet easy-to-use solutions to manage their data – from design to manufacturing to production. Whether you are a product engineer, facilities manager or IT executive, eQuorum’s ImageSite helps you improve version control, enhance collaboration and generate more efficient and timely work processes. You save valuable time finding important documents and leveraging intellectual property to drive improvements throughout the enterprise. eQuorum: Engineering documents. Elevating productivity.

Sharon Mason/Cobb Chamber of Commerce

As one of the most influential business advocacy organizations in Georgia, the Cobb Chamber of Commerce is the only organization in Cobb County dedicated to bringing the community and its leaders together to create jobs and strengthen the economy and quality of life so businesses and the community can achieve more. The Chamber achieves this by creating jobs and driving economic development; strengthening the community and the region; growing member businesses and nurturing leadership; and connecting businesses, government and the community.

The Cobb Chamber’s mission is economic and community development, advocacy and world-class member services.

Neil Stevens with Keyworth Bank, Chuck Paul with A Closer Look and David Read with Printpack

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Neil Stevens/Keyworth Bank

Keyworth Bank is a $350 million Community Bank with three full-service offices and a loan office, serving small businesses in North Metro Atlanta.

Chuck Paul/A Closer Look

It’s The Experience. Creating customer loyalty in today’s “multiple choice” marketplace goes beyond product, presentation and price. Repeat business is a direct result of providing your customers with positive, memorable experiences. By asking the right questions, collecting on-point data and synthesizing it into intelligent information, A Closer Look helps you measure your customer’s experience and deliver solutions tailored to drive repeat visits and build brand loyalty. For over 15 years, A Closer Look has developed innovative, intelligent and actionable systems with one goal in mind: Capturing your customer’s experience and then delivering solutions to elevate their experience beyond expectations.

David Read/Printpack

Printpack is a major converter of flexible and specialty rigid packaging with an over fifty-year history of innovation.  Twenty-eight manufacturing plants throughout the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Poland, and China, allow Printpack the flexibility to offer a broad range of packaging options globally. Every product that Printpack designs and produces addresses a real world marketplace challenge for our customers. Packaging is the differentiator and your products demand packaging that performs. Maximize your potential with solutions from Printpack.

Rob Goldberg with Promethean North America, Ryan Burton with Money Mailer of Lake Lanier and Michael Bryant with LED Consulting

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Rob Goldberg/Promethean, North America

Promethean, a global education company, harnesses the power of existing and emerging technologies to advance learning and teaching productivity. Their feedback driven learning environment engages students and provides teachers with tools to simplify and deliver differentiated instruction. Promethean improves learning productivity by developing, integrating and implementing innovative 21st century learning environments that work.

At Promethean, they believe in making a difference. From the classroom to the training room to the boardroom and beyond, their interactive solutions enable collaboration and engagement, unleashing human potential. Every day, hundreds of thousands of students and professionals in over 100 countries expand their knowledge by using Promethean’s award winning products and services.

Ryan Burton/Money Mailer of Lake Lanier

Money Mailer of Lake Lanier is a local direct mail company. They offer local businesses the opportunity to hit thousands of homes close to their business for a very low cost. Money Mailer of Lake Lanier also specializes in online listing management, search engine marketing and website design.

Michael Bryant/LED Consulting

LED Consulting is committed to organizational and personal growth one leader at a time though a variety of products and services that have a strong and lasting return on investment. Michael Bryant’s exceptional coaching style provides a platform for discovery and clarity in all types of complex business situations. He enjoys equipping business and non-profit leaders with the tools they need to achieve excellence in both work and life. His integrity, trust, and servant’s heart has earned him praise as a mentor, friend, and confidant to executives, leaders and front line employees.

Robert Bentley with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Ken Dalton with MRP Design Group and Waylee George with Eastern Data

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Robert Bentley/Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is one of the largest pediatric clinical care providers in the country. Whether treating a toddler in an emergency or supporting a teen through chemotherapy treatments, they are dedicated to the care of each patient. It’s through teamwork at every level of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and with you, the family, that they are able to achieve excellence in pediatric care.

Ken Dalton/MRP Design Group

Based in Atlanta, MRP Design Group is in its 25th year providing commercial architectural and engineering services to local and national restaurants, convenience stores and retail concepts. Tailoring their services to individual client needs, MRP Design Group has completed more than 2,000 projects both locally and across the United States.

Waylee George/Eastern Data, Inc.

Since 1997, Eastern Data, Inc. (EDI), a certified minority-owned business, has been a value-added provider of, and a trusted advisor for, building high quality customized and integrated IT systems, servers and computing solutions that are the lowest priced, offer the greatest quality and are quickly delivered to their customers from their 56,000 sq. ft. facility in Atlanta. Additionally, they offer quality IT systems and supplies from leading suppliers including HP, Microsoft, Lenovo, Intel and more.

Fred Elsberry with Better Business Bureau, David Geller with GV Financial Advisors and Greg Galvez with PROSHRED Security

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Dominick Rainey, David Geller, Fred Elsberry, Greg Galvez, Nikole Toptas

Fred Elsberry/Better Business Bureau

The Better Business Bureau’s vision is a marketplace where buyers and sellers can trust each other. They want to be a leader in advancing marketplace trust. The BBB of Metro Atlanta, Athens and NE Georgia is a standards-based organization and is one of five BBB’s in the state of Georgia and 113 BBB’s in North America. They are one of the largest BBB’s and provide pre-purchase information to the public, rating companies from A to F. They handle over 50,000 complaints each year (over 80% are resolved) and receive over three-million inquiries on their web site. The BBB reviews charities against their standards, they offer mediation/arbitration services where they believe it is necessary to resolve an issue between a consumer and a company, they do ad reviews and investigations on practices that need attention, and they invest a great deal of time and resources to consumer education.

David Geller/GV Financial Advisors

Since 1991, GV Financial Advisors, one of Atlanta’s leading wealth management firms, has worked to find ways to help its clients enhance their lives by helping them better manage their money and mindsets. Led by CEO David Geller, eight senior advisors and partners, and more than 40 dedicated professionals, GV Financial believes that its clients can, and should, use their wealth to create the life they desire. GV Financial Advisor’s Guided Wealth Transformation process includes more than 40 tools to help clients overcome the five barriers that often prevent them from effectively using their wealth to build a more satisfying life.

Greg Galvez/PROSHRED Security

PROSHRED Security is a customer service and security focused mobile shredding company, providing the most secure on-site document and hard-drive shredding services available, to safeguard private information, maintain legislative compliance and protect public image.

With more than 25 years building trusted relationships, unmatched mobile paper shredding expertise and a rigorous commitment to ISO 9001 and NAID AAA quality standards, PROSHRED Security offers a proven and effective system that certifies the shredding of confidential documents and electronic data storage devices “at your door”.

As a locally owned and nationally operated network of mobile shredding companies, all PROSHRED Security operators combine unparalleled customer service with absolute document security for business, home office and residential customers.

Cary Ichter with Ichter Thomas LLC, Dr. Paul Feldman with Advanced Aesthetics and Tom Leatherberry with Leatherberry Associates

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Cary Ichter/Ichter Thomas, LLC

Ichter Thomas is a new breed of law firm. Their founders bring to bear 75+ years of large law firm and Fortune-100 in house experience in an agile and highly efficient firm structure. They have quickly become the “go to” firm for difficult, complicated disputes due to their successful track record of creative and imaginative, yet coldly efficient results. They identify theories of recovery or dispositive defenses that other lawyers have missed and advocate for their clients with an appropriate degree of aggressive energy coupled with creative solutions. They are the lawyers other lawyers hire.

Dr. Paul Feldman/Advanced Aesthetics

Advanced Aesthetics is the premier plastic surgery practice on Atlanta’s south side. Established in 1987, it has 41 board certified plastic surgeons, four offices and a stet-licensed accredited Surgicenter plus computer imaging.

Tom Leatherberry/Leatherberry Associates

Leatherberry Associates is a performance driven provide of CRM, BI Reporting, marketing and workflow automation software solutions. If you are serious about finding the right solution for your business, one that will provide measurable value through increased employee efficiency, reduced fiscal costs and improved customer tracking, they want to talk to you.

 

Greta Cairns with SCI Companies, Cindy Southwell with AFR Furniture Rental and Lisa Kennedy with Bobby Dodd Institute

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Greta Cairns/SCI Companies

SCI Companies is a first in class Human Resource Provider specializing in offering solutions to help companies leverage the full potential of their human capital. SCI offers professional HR and business consultation, Human Resource Information Technology, HR administration in the areas of payroll, benefits, workers’ compensation, performance management, talent acquisition and efficient processes to help maintain compliance with both state and federal regulations. SCI’s professionals maintain expertise in all areas of Human Resources to support companies at every stage of their life cycle. SCI Companies has developed innovative services designed to allow businesses to focus on their core areas of performance in order to fully support the business goals of the organization.

Cindy Southwell/AFR Furniture Rental

AFR Furniture Rental is a national company that provides office, event, trade show and residential furniture. AFR is headquartered in Pennsauken, NJ and has sixteen locations across the United States. The Atlanta location of AFR expanded into a 30,000 square foot facility in January 2013 after purchasing the office division of Aaron’s in September, 2012.

AFR was first introduced to the Atlanta market in 2011 with the Events division and rapidly grew adding on Office, Trade Show and Residential furniture. The success of Atlanta’s growth is due to the leadership skills of Ron Benedit, formally of Aaron’s, and the skilled team he has built.

Lisa Kennedy/Bobby Dodd Institute

Bobby Dodd Institute (BDI) helps people with disabilities and disadvantages gain the dignity of work and the security and purpose that work brings. They fulfill their mission by sustaining good jobs in their mission-based businesses, offering high quality job training, and connecting businesses with talented, committed employees.

BDI employs more than 200 people with disabilities in their own businesses and social enterprises. These deliver critical services for community businesses, such as call centers, packaging and fulfillment services, mail room operations, janitorial services and grounds maintenance.

Todd Rielly with IPG, Kile Lewis with oXYGen Financial and Edward Henderson with Synergy America

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Todd Rielly/IPG

IPG collaborates with health plans in partnership with providers, physicians, manufacturers and patients to develop market-based solutions that deliver tangible value in the implantable Device Benefit Management (DBM) space.

Their model effectively manages the complexities associated with device coordination, billing, replacement and tracking, which subsequently delivers increased transparency and predictability to implantable device spend.

Kile Lewis/oXYGen Financial

What’s the scoop about oXYGen Financial? Guitar Hero is to a financial services firm what a treasure chest full of toys is to a dentist’s chair: it doesn’t change the office operation, but at least it makes you quit yer snivelin’. Face it, kids: we all have to do our financial planning and our income taxes unless we want to get cavities. No, wait. That’s not it. We all have to do taxes lest we end up like Wesley Snipes. The way they see it at oXYGen Financial, you might as well have financial advisors that are not only good at planning your future, but also deliver your experience with a twist of fun… and an oxygen bar in the lobby just in case you need a last-minute happy boost before you get down to business with them.

oXYGen Financial is a full service family office offering financial services for the X and Y generations. Their mission is to help clients breathe easier about life by providing financial advice, wealth management, insurance, group benefits and tax and accounting services. oXYGen Financial also offers coordination of legal services and concierge services. They aren’t your parent’s firm, but oXYGen Financial can help you breathe easier… and it will feel a lot less like having teeth pulled. Take a spin today!

Edward Henderson/Synergy America

Synergy America, Inc. (1993)  is a minority, women owned, full service Professional Services firm located in Atlanta. They have 20 years of experience in the staffing, consulting and professional services industry. They specialize in the fields of IT, engineering, finance and accounting, healthcare, administrative areas and all professional staffing services. Synergy America can help fill any position, whether it’s contract, contract to hire or a permanent position. They have highly trained and seasoned experts who are proven… getting superior results by focusing within a given area of expertise sets them apart! Their passion at Synergy America is finding the right SOLUTION and TALENT for your specific organization while servicing the communities in which we live.

Dr. Seth Yellin with Marietta Facial Plastic Surgery, David Lee with The Intersect Group and Dan Eberly with Eberly & Associates

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Dr. Seth Yellin/Marietta Facial Plastic Surgery

Cosmetic and reconstructive procedures can change the way you see yourself and how others interact with you. Cliché or not, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Everyone knows beauty when they see it. Beauty is not just one thing; it is many things to each of us. The doctors and staff at Marietta Facial Plastic Surgery have applied their skills to thousands of cases; however, no two have been exactly alike. They promise to listen carefully, explain thoroughly, act precisely and treat you respectfully.

David Lee/The Intersect Group

The Intersect Group, founded in 2006, is a different and better business partner. They create unparalleled value for their clients by combining industry-leading consulting capabilities with comprehensive staffing and recruitment services. Clients trust them to deliver results based on their deep expertise and proven resources within finance, accounting, and information technology. Through their flexible delivery approach, you get the right solution, at the right time to accelerate your success and achieve all of your mission-critical objectives.

Dan Eberly/Eberly & Associates

Eberly & Associates is a land planning, civil engineering and landscape architecture firm with a reputation for solid engineering solutions which demonstrate environmental awareness. They deliver a unique approach of combining both the design capabilities and experience of their engineers and landscape architects. This creates a thorough, uniform process by which to service their clients’ needs.

The engineers and landscape architects at Eberly & Associates work in close partnership with architects, developers, general contractors, institutions and government agencies to develop long term relationships. They have a reputation of thinking like their clients and they know their clients’ reputation is riding on their performance. Their clients value this approach, and come back to Eberly & Associates time after time. Clients include those from the private and public sectors, including multi-family housing, office, retail, mixed-use, healthcare, education, industrial & distribution, institutional, hospitality and recreation. Their experience and leadership, excellent client relationships and outstanding reputation are their strengths. All of this and more has placed Eberly & Associates as one of the most respected engineering firms in the Southeast region.