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Brad Rahinsky with Hotel Equities

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Brad Rahinsky joined the Hotel Equities team in early 2012. He brings solid operations experience and a valuable background in technology and e-commerce, revenue management, sales and marketing. With responsibility for creating and administrating models for operational excellence, Brad develops the criteria and guidelines for the company’s hiring practices for all associates and oversees the selection, training and mentoring of managers.

Brad’s previous positions include Managing Partner at Performance Hospitality Group for a six-hotel portfolio including Hilton and Hyatt brands, and Regional Director at TRAVELCLICK, the hospitality e-commerce leader. He holds a B.S. degree in Communication Arts with a minor in Marketing from the University of West Florida.

Diego Pantoja-Navajas with LogFire

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Diego Pantoja-Navajas is the Founder and CEO of LogFire, the genesis of years of working with customers around the world, implementing traditional supply chain and warehouse management solutions, and seeing the issues companies face when implementing on-premise solutions that they then have to support and maintain. LogFire was created by assembling a talented team with deep warehouse and supply chain software and services domain expertise with a passion for helping companies extract the full potential of their supply chain.

Jim Ballowe with Comprehensive Technical Group

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Since July 1, 2012, Jim Ballowe has held the role of Chief Technical Officer at Comprehensive Technical Group – in that capacity, Jim helps clients achieve economies of scale with managed services, converged infrastructure and optimized workflow via targeted implementation of key Information Technology (IT) solutions.

Jim co-founded Sound Enterprises in 2001 to bring fortune 500 infrastructure and best practices to the SMB marketplace. By leveraging considerable experience in operations, network management, enterprise architecture, web services and security best practices, Jim has helped many small and mid- marktet businesses thrive by keeping them ahead of the proverbial curve as well as their competition.

Prior to founding Sound Enterprises, Jim Ballowe held the role of CIO at Enterpulse, an enterprise web portal consultancy based in Atlanta. During that tenure, Jim simultaneously managed the IT supporting both the company’s 250 internal employees as well as dozens of Fortune 500 clients, in the process turning IT into a profitable center for Enterpulse. Jim was fortunate to have the opportunity to architect security, network infrastructure & portal solutions for entities such as Visa, Albertsons, Cox Communications, TBS, Hearst Interactive Media, Global Payments, Cingular, TMobile, The State of Florida and many similar entities with complex & robust infrastructure requirements.

Earlier experience managing staff, systems and process while at Lucent, Hewlett-Packard and Digital Equipment Corporation taught Jim that strategy should inform process, process should drive the business, and technology should serve to enable and/or accelerate achievement of business goals. While at DEC & HP, Jim built, managed and worked in Premier Enterprise support teams that managed WAN, LAN & Systems for large entities such as Ford, Alcoa, GM, Lego and many others, providing Enterprise Architecture Consulting and detailed technical expertise with an inherent sense of how to build good workflow for large-scale operations as well as the value of high signal-to-noise monitoring. All ofthat experience translates into his experience makes it possible for Jim to help SMB clients build truly Sound Enterprises.

Jim is a graduate of Vanderbilt University where he received his bachelor’s of fine arts degree in Economics and English. Additionally, Jim is certified as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), is a CheckPoint Certified Security Engineer (CCSE), earned the CISSP in 2003, has attained Cisco Certified Network, Security & Design Professional status (CCNP, CCSP & CCDP) with Wireless & Security specialization & is a Sun Certified Solaris Administrator (SCSA) and has been a member of Vistage since 2008.

 

Jeff Spence with Innovolt

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Jeff Spence joined Innovolt as President and COO in 2010 after more than 15 years in executive and corporate development roles growing companies in the energy, finance, telecommunications and technology sectors across five continents and dozens of countries. Since he joined Innovolt the company has grown its revenues by more than 1,000 percent.

Spence is an active participant in the technology landscape and speaker across multiple industries; most recently Jeff was invited to attend and speak during TEDx in Atlanta and was an invited guest to Techonomy 2012. Under his leadership, Innovolt has been recognized locally and nationally as a fast growing technology company by the Technology Association of Georgia, Atlanta Business Chronicle, American Business Awards and Lead411. Additionally, the company was a 2013 finalist on Forbes Most Promising Companies List.

Spence holds Bachelor of Science degrees in both Electronic Engineering and Physics from California State University, Chico where he was a competitive decathlete. He currently serves on the board of a number of domestic and international companies and is actively involved in the financing and development of a number of charities and foundations.

Norman Radow with The RADCO Companies

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The RADCO Companies is a national real estate development company with extensive experience managing and repositioning well over $4 billion of distressed real estate. Norman Radow established RADCO in 1994 when he redeveloped a 53-story Atlanta hotel, office and condominium tower in distress, which later became the Four Seasons Hotel. Eighteen years and dozens of successful developments later, RADCO is one of the most respected turnaround real estate companies in the United States and is active in acquisitions. Previously, Norman was a real estate litigation, workout and transactional lawyer. He has been involved in some of the most complex workouts and successor developer issues in the country.

 

Wanda Cronic Howell with Cronic Automotive Group

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The Cronic Automotive Group is a family-owned business consisting of three car dealerships in Griffin – Cronic Chevrolet Buick GMC, Cronic Nissan, and Cronic Chrysler Jeep Dodge RAM. The president and dealer is Wanda Cronic Howell, who grew up in the automobile business and has been involved full-time since 1985. She was formerly a college teacher and holds a master’s degree in business education from The University of South Carolina. Her undergraduate degree is from Sweet Briar College in Virginia. She is an Atlanta native, has been married for 25 years to Lee N. Howell, and they have two teenage daughters.

Dr. Andrew Toledo with Reproductive Biology Associates

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Reproductive Biology Associates (RBA) was established in 1983 as Georgia’s first IVF treatment center. Their physicians boast more than 172 years of cumulative experience in the diagnosis and treatment of infertility and they have achieved in excess of 30,000 babies. Their specialized treatment plans combine compassionate patient care with state-of-the-art technology, much of which its physicians pioneered.

Tim Schrager with Perennial Properties

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In 1988, Tim Schrager founded Perennial Properties, Inc., an Atlanta based real estate development and property management company. Schrager started as a one-man shop, learning the business from the ground up by building and renovating multi-family projects in Atlanta’s intown neighborhoods. From the beginning, Schrager saw a need for quality housing choices in Atlanta’s older neighborhoods where the rental housing stock was deteriorating. Thus, the company focused on infill development in gentrifying Atlanta neighborhoods. Over more than two decades, Perennial has been responsible for the development of several multi-family communities as well as multi-family & retail mixed use developments in Georgia and in Florida. The company also owns and operates Midtown Bowl, a bowling center in Midtown Atlanta.

Schrager was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He received a B.S. degree in Real Estate Finance from the University of Southern California. Schrager moved to Atlanta in 1986 where he and his wife now live with their three children.

Schrager is currently involved in several Atlanta community organizations including the following:

• Atlanta Contemporary Art Center: President – Board of Trustees • Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta: Annual Campaign Major Gift Fundraiser • Atlanta Apartment Association: Treasurer – Board of Directors, 2009/2010/2012 Co-Chair of the Association’s Annual Food-a-Thon benefiting the Atlanta Community Food Bank • Jewish Family & Career Services: Real Estate Facilities Committee Member • Founding member of a private task force that is working to end homelessness in the City of Atlanta

 

Brandon Dale and Monica Jacobs with Equity Estates

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Brandon Dale has been the Director of Operations with Equity Estates for 4 years. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and 2 border collies. His favorite vacation spot is Costa Rica, but enjoys the challenge of finding somewhere better.

 

 

Monica Jacobs has been a Destination Manager with Equity Estates for 3 years. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, and has 2 daughters; one is in high school and one is a sophomore in college. She visits Hilton Head every year and is ready to travel anywhere at a moment’s notice.