GCG PARTNERS
FOUNDING Partners
SENOUR REED
global connect group
founder AND managing parnter
Website || LinkedIn
Senour Reed provides business development innovation and community engagement offerings in the Atlanta market – enhancing business development via prospect relationship mapping methodologies and community engagement programming.
With over 35 years of business development and marketing experience in domestic and international markets, Senour brings strategic vision, deep experience, and an unwavering commitment to excellence.
jaymen chavda
chavda law group
partner AND attorney
Website || LinkedIn
The Chavda Law Group provides fractional general counsel services for companies in various industries. As fractional general counsel, CLG becomes intimately familiar with the company and its needs, with predictability around ongoing legal costs allowing the client for more accurate budgeting. This reduces the unknown about the communication and cost to discuss ongoing matters. CLG takes a proactive approach with more focus on risk navigation and prevention.
Vicki flier hudson
Highroad global services
chief collaboration officer
Website || LinkedIn
As a Chief Collaboration Officer, a coach, a traveler, and a bridge-builder, I am passionate about differences. I’ve also seen the difficulties leaders face trying to navigate them. Let me and my team help you transform your struggles to advantages.
ULI DENDY
truelanguage
ceo
Website || LinkedIn
Uli Dendy is CEO of TrueLanguage, a global translation services company. She has been advancing the language service industry with her expertise in technical writing, translation, and software localization for more than twenty years. Born in Germany, she came to the United States when she was 21, and after earning her degree in microbiology from the University of Alabama, her study of genetics translated into an interest in linguistics. She began to work as a freelance translator, and later managed the translation staff at an Atlanta firm for 13 years, before founding TrueLanguage with her friend and colleague Ingrid Hurtubise in 2006.
GCG PARTNERS
Jeff Bond
Chat with leaders media
ceo AND executive producer
Website || LinkedIn
Jeff Bond is the CEO and Executive Producer of Chat With Leaders Media, the Atlanta-based production agency on a mission to help purpose-driven business leaders launch their own podcasts, cultivate authentic relationships with key stakeholders, grow revenue, reduce attrition, and maximize their capacity towards social impact. His vision is to elevate purpose-driven business leaders as a force for good that sustains and unifies our communities while empowering our next generation to carry that torch.
Shannon Price
wegotcode.com
managing member
Website || LinkedIn
Shannon is Managing Member of WeGotCode.com, a professional services firm focused on providing the highest quality custom business software and systems integrations. Shannon moved to Atlanta in 1993 to attend the Georgia Institute of Technology. After receiving his degree in Mechanical Engineering, and working as a system designer and project manager, Shannon returned to his first professional interest – computers. He has been working professionally in software development in Atlanta for over 20 years, providing custom solutions to companies like Coca Cola, Home Depot, Aaron Rents, and NCR.
Eric Pittman
websiteclosers.com
owner & consultant
Website || LinkedIn
With more than 25 years' experience, Eric is recognized for his leadership in high-growth financial services & credit industry organizations. His expertise has been leveraged in leading key aspects from start-up to acquisition to exit transition. He offers a dynamic and diverse background of experience through corporate and consulting roles for the industry.
Trevor Williams
global atlanta
managing editor
Website || LinkedIn
Global Atlanta is the only news service dedicated to covering how Atlanta connects with the global economy. The world is here. Now published solely online, GlobalAtlanta.com knits together Atlanta’s disparate international communities, revealing its ties with the world while helping local readers navigate the nuances of the global economy. Our international calendar is the most comprehensive source for the latest academic, business and cultural events around the city. Readers can expect to a steady stream of articles on cross-border business, education, culture and trade with a focus on “actionable” content. We’ve always sought to inspire emails, phone calls, event attendance and personal connections. Our only bias is toward promoting Atlanta as a global business center.
Julie Bryant Fisher
Mirador Communications
Principal
Website || LinkedIn
Julie is the Principal of Mirador Communications, a full-service marketing firm specializing in content, media relations, PR and helping great brands tell their story
Julie is the Chief Experience Officer (CXO) at the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), working to ignite and inspire Georgia's technology community, lead TAG’s digital transformation and create great experiences for TAG members, sponsors and supporters.
Richard Warner
aware force
ceo
Website || LinkedIn
Richard is CEO of Aware Force, an innovative service that engages employees in cybersecurity while raising an IT team's visibility across the organization. Aware Force is branded for your organization and incorporates timely and interesting videos, quizzes, podcasts, infographics, and articles. It's cost-effective, easy to implement and generates impressive metrics.
Kyle Tothill
e-Hire
Co-Founder
Website || LinkedIn
Kyle is the co-founder of eHire. Founded in 2009, eHire, LLC is a high growth, recruiting and technology services company based in Atlanta with three primary divisions eHire ( www.ehire.com), Make& Build ( www.makeandbuild.com) and Collective Insights (www.collectiveinsights.com). Kyle is responsible for the leadership, management, and oversight of the eHire division, which is the firm’s staff augmentation and executive recruiting business. eHire helps to build high-performance technology and sales teams for diverse set customers both on a national basis as well as locally here in Atlanta. We provide executive search, direct hire recruiting and staff augmentation services.
bruce kopkin
IBM
SALES DIRECTOR
Website || Linkedin
As a Sales Director at IBM & Board of Advisors at Success Rocket, Bruce has over 35 years experience in executive, sales and marketing positions in high tech, manufacturing, retail, and distribution industries. His experience includes start-ups, turn-arounds, small companies and large global enterprises and is focused on driving companies to reach their full potential by becoming more customer focused, results oriented and process driven. He has a proven track record in driving turn-arounds to profitability, stagnant companies to growth, and average companies to industry leading positions. It is his focus on sales, marketing, process and metrics that drive these improvements.
Shawn Brown
snap tech it
President and COO
Website || LinkedIn
Shawn is President & COO of Snap Tech IT. Headquartered in Cumming, GA with offices in Tempe, AZ and San Francisco, CA, Snap Tech IT is a leading provider of Cloud Services, IT Managed Services, Professional Services, Data Center Services, and Internet Marketing Services. Snap Tech was founded to help businesses and schools use technology to solve their business problems. Over the years, we have helped many clients improve their operations, reduce risk, grow their businesses.
Ryan Curry
ACR Development and ACR Real Estate Services
Founding Principal
Mr. Curry is the founding principal of ACR Development LLC and ACR Real Estate Services LLC.
Prior to founding ACR, Mr. Curry served as managing director at a global estate services firm where he advised major corporations on global real estate portfolios, serving as an extension of the corporate real estate team with the ability to provide clients with insights from both the service provider, corporate real estate, and ownership perspectives.
Rudy AugsburgeR
Arrakasta
Founder and President
Through Arrakasta, Rudy is currently providing Global Business Consulting to executives seeking business growth, focused on international market expansion in Europe, Latin America and the US.
Rudy thanks his multi-faceted background for the success he enjoyed through his career. A 15-yr. Corporate career in Telecommunications with Siemens and Ericsson; he worked in Germany, China, Uruguay and the US. He then took his Entrepreneurial side more seriously, founding his own Strategic Business Consulting company, advising companies out of Europe, Israel and the US on how to expand their businesses with new customers and territories. His last corporate role was as GM EMEA for Synchronoss in Madrid, where he oversaw the acquisition of Honeybee (UK), specialists in design and implementation of omni-channel customer journeys.
Having been in executive-level leadership roles, in the field and in regional corporate offices, he has led change-management, turnarounds or established new offices, and readily shares his diverse experience and vast international executive network to provide savvy and creative solutions to challenges that could seem insurmountable.
Zach layman
NFP
Advisor
Website || LinkedIn
Zach works as the “CFO” of his clients’ employee benefit plan by delivering expertise in cost-control management while leveraging technology to deliver a seamless Human Resource experience. Eight years and counting giving professional guidance on Fully-Insured, Level-Funded, and Self-Insured plans, Zach makes sure your benefit spend aligns with your company's goals. With a focus on international companies, Zach leans on his experiences living in both Japan and Germany to merge the foreign business strategies with domestic culture.
Lori Ray
LNJ Solutions
Principal | Bookkeeper
Website || LinkedIn
Lori is adept at handling the intricate administrative, accounting, and compliance facets of small businesses and entrepreneurships. As a QuickBooks Online Certified ProAdvisor, Lori is able to customize the appropriate bookkeeping services that perfectly match the needs of companies across various industries.
Sree Vattikuti
Venture X Atlanta
Owner
Website || LinkedIn
As the owner of Venture X Atlanta, Sree is driven by a vision of creating a space that prioritizes productivity and wellness. Venture X Atlanta is bringing together innovative companies that prioritize the health and wellbeing of their employees. Join to work together toward a better work experience. Collaborate with Sree to elevate productivity and wellness together.
Chad McCloud
Jabian Consulting
Executive Director
Website || LinkedIn
Chad designs and implements customer and product strategies for companies that drive deeper and more profitable relationships with their customers. He specializes in cross-channel customer experience strategies and product development in industries including financial services, healthcare, property and casualty insurance, telecommunications, consumer products, industrial products, and advisory services. Chad has directed a number of initiatives with large client and consultant teams that help companies forge trusted relationships with their customers, with roadmaps with business cases that deliver upon their sales, marketing, and servicing vision.
Ronaldo Venci
Boomi
Vertical Sales
Website || LinkedIn
Ronaldo is a seasoned sales executive with 25+ years with proven track record of strong revenue and quota overachievement. Ronaldo has also been through his extensive career an experienced strategist and effective leader of high-performance sales, business development & marketing teams with key abilities to develop territory strategies, white space analysis, and market attractiveness x ability to deliver, coverage model, go-to-market strategies, sales strategies, ROI, and revenue achievement. From strategy to execution and operations. Ronaldo has also led Sales and Global Account Managers in the US, Canada, Latin America, China and Spain through successful revenue results. Very knowledgeable of working for mid-sized Software, Security, Messaging, SaaS and Cloud solutions companies during the last 15 years. Tri-lingual professional with solid international experience in Latin America and business acumen in Portuguese, English and Spanish. One daughter, avid sportsman, and volunteer at JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation).
GCG Advocate Partners
andy payment
Maxex
CMO
Website || LinkedIn
As TCMO of Maxex and CEO & Founder of Symbiom, Andy Payment has more than 20 years of experience building marketing organizations that win. His unique blend of servant leadership, cross-channel storytelling and digital acumen helps businesses make markets, grow revenue and reach successful exits. He specializes in SaaS and enterprise sales across complex markets such as fintech, retail and gaming. As the Head of Marketing for MAXEX, Andy is responsible for all aspects of brand, digital, field marketing, events and communications. Also, Andy Payment is CEO of Symbiom, a B2B marketing strategy and services firm. His unique brand of problem diagnosis, storytelling and overcoming obstacles helps organizations achieve better results faster.
Carol Pittman
RedKnot Resources Group
President and CEO
Website || LinkedIn
Carol is the President & CEO of RedKnot Resources Group. RedKnot provides a fully managed service to support all aspects of the Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) lifecycle. The firm offers a “rolled up sleeves” approach with keen strategic insight – because we’ve been there. Our seasoned veterans are serving Clients in highly regulated environments, of all sizes from coast to coast.
Randy Romanaux
Scope AR
Head of Partnerships
Website || LinkedIn
Scope AR is the pioneer of enterprise-class augmented reality solutions, delivering the industry’s only cross-platform AR tools for empowering frontline workers the knowledge they need, when they need it. The company revolutionized the way enterprises work and collaborate by offering a visual “knowledge base” solution that provides effective and efficient knowledge-sharing to conduct complex remote tasks, employee training, product and equipment assembly, maintenance and repair, field and customer support, and more.
Anne Gildea-Olt
Leanswift
VP of HR
Website || LinkedIn
As VP of HR Leanswift & Principal HRMS, I am an accomplished human resource executive with experience aligning worldwide human capital initiatives with business strategy. Demonstrated ability to develop and execute innovative solutions to business challenges. Skilled at analyzing data, managing complex projects, and improving processes.
Brett Shaw
DTSpade
Sr. Partner and Broker
Website || LinkedIn
Brett is a passionate specialized commercial real estate broker at DTSpade SRE, helping build up the great city his clients have imagined. Brett works with healthcare practice groups, medical systems and growing technology groups. DTSpade is an Atlanta-based, specialized real estate firm, utilizing a tip of the spear data platform that helps identify opportunities, adjacencies, and risk based on his clients’ portfolio and footprint.
Angela Elliott-Wingard
Angie & Co.
CEO and Lead Creative
Website || LinkedIn
Angie is the lead creative and CEO of Angie & Co., a creative agency and one stop shop for all things to do with your visual strategy: design, photography, video, and social. Since 2007, Angela has been lucky to collaborate with companies such as Chick-Fil-A, Payments 20, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Mars Inc, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Altria, RJ Reynolds, Circle K, Sunoco, Hess, Rukket Sports, Body Design University, and non-profits like Jeffrey Fashion Cares.
GCG Interns
Alan Wang (2022)
Alan is an Intended BBA Management Information Systems Major with an area of emphasis in Data Analytics at the University of Georgia, with career interests in Project Management, Business Data Analytics, and Information Technology.
Kevin Feng (2021)
Kevin is an Alumni of UGA, recently starting a position at EY as a Technology Consultant. He received his degree in Management Information Systems with an emphasis in Information Security.
Christopher Le (2019)
Christopher is currently pursuing further education in Engineering, after receiving his degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Georgia in 2020.
Alyson Krenze (2018)
Alyson is currently a Pre-Closing Paralegal at Traditions Law Group, LLC. She graduated from the University of North Georgia in 2018, with a Bachelor in Applied Science from the Mike Cotterell School of Business.
Jeffery Xu (2018)
Jeffery is currently a Business Consultant at REFLEX Solutions, with previous positions at Manhattan Associates and RentPath. He graduated from UGA in 2018 with a degree in Management Information Systems.