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Jennifer Wilmoth with Grow Counseling and Paige Conner with Luxury Lash Lounge and Academy

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Paige Conner, Mike Sammond, Jennifer Wilmoth

Paige Conner, Mike Sammond, Jennifer Wilmoth

Jennifer Wilmoth/Grow Counseling

Grow Counseling is a practice of licensed therapists in the Atlanta Metro area with office locations in Suwanee and Buckhead. They provide counseling services to individuals, couples, families, teens and children for concerns such as stress management, marital conflict, life transitions, grief, parenting and more. They offer workshops in the workplace and community on a variety of topics to encourage team building and stress reduction in the workplace.

Paige Conner/Luxury Lash Lounge and Academy

Luxury Lash Lounge is the Premiere Lash extension studio in Atlanta. They are proficient in all lash extension enhancements such as perming and semi permanent mascara and clusters. They are licensed medical aestheticians and can compliment the lash services with hydra facial treatments and other personal spa services. Whether you’re in the mood for an eyelash extension service or looking for a personal make-up artist to help you relax and look your best for your next big event, the Luxury Lash Lounge is here to help.

Malinda Foster with Courtyard by Marriott Mall of Georgia and Steve Kendrick with Infiniti of Gwinnett

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Malinda Foster/Courtyard by Marriott Mall of Georgia

The Courtyard by Marriott Mall of Georgia is an award-winning hotel located in Buford, GA. Host hotel to the Gwinnett Braves, this Marriott hotel offers corporate and leisure travelers a place to call home while in the area. The hotel offers guests an exceptional facility, convenient location and outstanding customer service.

The Courtyard by Marriott Mall of Georgia is owned and operated by Hotel Equities which is a full-service hotel development and management company with headquarters in Atlanta. Hotel Equities collaborates with hotel brand representatives, institutional investors, high net-worth individuals and joint venture partners to build and grow world-class hotels.  Visit our website at www.hotelequities.com for more information.

Steve Kendrick/Infiniti of Gwinnett

A new car is where need meets desire. Anything that runs can get you from Point A to Point B. But you’re not just anyone and you don’t want just anything. That’s where they come in at Infiniti of Gwinnett. The expert sales staff at ttheir Atlanta Infiniti dealership will help you pick the new car, truck or SUV with the options, and at the price, that make this vehicle right for you. Treating you with courtesy and ensuring your satisfaction is important at Infiniti of Gwinnett. With a large inventory and competitive prices, they’re confident that they can meet your automotive needs and desires. They welcome the opportunity to add you to the long list of satisfied customers who’ve shopped at the Infiniti dealer in Duluth, GA.

Tary Drouault with Keller Williams Realty, Neil Scott-Barbour with The British Voice Talent and Shaun Boyce with Ankle Biters Tennis

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Mike Sammond, Tary Drouault, Neil Scott-Barbour, Shaun Boyce

Tary Drouault/Keller Williams Realty

A top agent in Georgia with over 20 years experience, Tary Drouault is with Keller Williams Realty. Since becoming a Realtor in 1990, helping others create wealth through real estate and turning houses into homes has been her passion! One of the marks of a great agent is their past success. It’s not enough to just have special awards – although she has many. The real measure of a great agent is how many past clients they have successfully helped purchase and/or sell a home… and she has helped hundreds! Picking the right agent to represent you can be the difference between getting what you want or not. Call her today at 770-277-2166 to find out more. Let’s get started!

Neil Scott-Barbour/The British Voice Talent

Scott Barbour & Associates (dba The British Voice Talent) was a company formed to exploit Neil’s voice talent (authentic & distinctive British voice plus many “character voices and accents). He records voice-overs, on-hold voice messaging, corporate narrations for promotional, educational and training audio and video presentations. His special passion or “niche” is to bring joy and laughter as an Expressive Reader (Voice Actor) to citizens of senior care communities and children in day care centers. Neil also acts as a Master of Ceremonies and Announcer for special corporate and social events.

Shaun Boyce/Ankle Biters Tennis

Ankle Biters Tennis offers weekly tennis programs for local tennis facilities, preschools and elementary schools. Ankle Biters Tennis is a great way to introduce young children to the game of tennis. Ankle Biters Tennis offers clinics on location, age specific lesson plans, new tennis racquets, and special events all in a flexible and safe environment.

Angeline Kelly with Caliber Home Loans and Jimmy Lin with The Network

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Angeline Kelly/Caliber Home Loans

Caliber Home Loans is a full-service national mortgage lender and agency direct seller/servicer taht offers a variety of loan programs for purchase and refinance such as conforming, jumbo and government products. Caliber also offers innovative servicing solutions for both conforming and non-conforming loans. Caliber is not a bank and they provide a superior service experience for their customers, a fulfilling work environment for their employees, and a track record of quality.

With the numerous regulatory changes that have occurred in recent years, technology has never been more important within the lending industry. In response to this reality, Caliber has made a substantial investment in building their own proprietary, end-to-end loan origination system. H2Online is a single sign-on system that allows you to complete a loan from start to finish with a paperless process designed around today’s mortgage banking industry. They employ a veteran team of mortgage banking technologists to enhance and maintain H2Online. While most national mortgage bankers are struggling to change processes supported by multiple outdated legacy systems, H2Online allows them to gain a competitive advantage through their agility.

Caliber is dedicated to preserving the entrepreneurial spirit of a mortgage bank while ensuring the necessary operational controls to originate and service quality loans and create a company with longevity

Jimmy Lin/The Network

The Network, based in Norcross, is a leading provider of integrated governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions that allow organizations to create better workplaces and ethical cultures. The Network’s Integrated GRC Suite, recognized as the “Apple of GRC” by the research firm GRC 20/20, is the first natively integrated enterprise GRC software platform in the compliance industry, and leverages the way employees retain and apply ethics and compliance information and helps companies prevent, detect and re-mediates non-compliance and unethical conduct.

The Network offers integrated solutions for policy management, training and communications, Code of Conduct, surveys and assessments, and case management, all on a reporting and analytics platform. The Network is privately held and established the first whistleblower hotline in 1982 and today serves thousands of global organizations in every industry, including nearly half of the Fortune 500.

Jimmy Lin is the Vice President of Product Management & Corporate Development at The Network and leads corporate and product strategies for the company’s Integrated GRC Solutions. He is responsible for defining long-term product strategy and managing the product portfolio for the company.  Jimmy has more than 15 years of experience in and around software and technology, from implementing software to analyzing new markets and leading product strategies for organizations like Oversight Systems, Manhattan Associates, UPS Supply Chain Solutions and IP2Biz.  Jimmy is a Certified GRC Professional (GRCP).

Randy Wellborn with Wellborn Heating & Air Conditioning and Steven Julian with Cornerstone Private Client Group

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Randy Wellborn/Wellborn Heating & Air Conditioning

Wellborn Heating & Air us a third generation family-owned heating and air conditioning contractor business. Randy has been in the industry full time since 1980. He is licensed by the state of Georgia since 1992 as a Conditioned Air Contractor. As the owner since 1993, Randy brings quality heating and air conditioning solutions to the Metro Atlanta area.

Steven Julian/Cornerstone Private Client Group

Cornerstone Private Client Group is a full-service financial services firm committed to helping people pursue their financial goals. They offer highly personalized financial products and services to individuals and business owners. They understand that each client brings their own unique circumstances and experiences to the table. They strive to provide successful financial planning to each client through creative strategies for their needs.

William Lawson with Metropolitan Capital Funding Group and Dr. Leslie S. Gaskill, MD, LLC

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Mike Sammond, Dr. Leslie Gaskill, William Lawson, Steven Julian

William Lawson/Metropolitan Capital Funding Group

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.

Dr. Leslie S. Gaskill, MD, LLC

Dr.  Leslie Gaskill is a board certified Family Medicine physician in Duluth, GA. She is the owner of her private practice, Leslie S. Gaskill, M.D., L.L.C., and the Founder and CEO of Plaque Busters, L.L.C. (www.plaquebusters.net). She is graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry. She received her Doctor of Medicine degree from the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine in Augusta, GA. She has a passion for prevention. Throughout her years of private practice, she has participated in community health fairs and screenings involving high blood pressure, high cholesterol, strokes, heart attacks, obesity, diabetes, breast cancer, and anti-tobacco counseling. 

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

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.

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

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Ryan Bonilla, Matt Hyatt, Gerald McDowell, Mike Sammond

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!

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

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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.