James Watson
James is the Program Director for Village Capital in Atlanta. James also teaches Entrepreneurship, Accounting, Economics, and Mathematics at a private high school in Atlanta, and recently completed Level 3 of the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) program. He graduated from the University of St Andrews in Scotland with a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics, and upon […]
Charles Ross
Mr. Ross is a director with the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds, an organization focused on creating and growing innovation capital through out the U.S. He is also a director of The Center for Working Families, an employment and asset-building initiative to improve the economic well-being of Atlanta’s inner city residents. Currently, Mr. […]
Howard Franklin
Howard Franklin is one of the South’s most sought-after political strategists. He has distinguished himself by running successful campaigns for first-time candidates, including State Sen. Jason Carter’s (grandson to President Jimmy Carter) 2010 special election and a 2009 race in the Cayman Islands, winning nine seats in Parliament to form a new government. Franklin has also played a role in […]
James Harris
CEO and Co Founder of N4MD and Elemental Interactive Simply put, N4MD empowers corporate communicators to “automagically” blend local news, social media and corporate content into e-books and Flipboard-like e-magazines for niche customer and internal audiences. Leveraging social magazine apps like Flipboard, Google Currents, Pulse and e-book reader devices like Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes & […]
Maurice Cherry
Maurice Cherry is a web entrepreneur, freelance technology journalist, and technology consultant for non-profit organizations and politicians. He is best known as the founder and chairman of the Black Weblog Awards, the world’s premier event for showcasing bloggers, podcasters, and video bloggers of the African diaspora. Since 2005, the Black Weblog Awards has conferred over […]
Aerial M Ellis
Emerging among the brightest in the industry, Aerial has shaped Urbane Imagery to become a lead agency in public relations for emerging companies and entrepreneurs. With a growing commitment to startups in the technology space, she has led social brand awareness and online media relations strategies for web, mobile, entertainment technology startups to include Beat […]
Tanika Gray
An award-winning CNN journalist, education visionary, and academic strategist, Tanika Gray’s unique combination of formal education, real-world experience, and passion for education reform have established her as one of the country’s emerging young leaders in the classroom, the media, and beyond. While still working in the school system, world news leader CNN took notice of […]
Quentin B “Que” Lynch
Que Lynch is an attorney with the international law firm Holland & Knight LLP where he counsels business clients in legal matters involving closely held business organizations, private wealth management, M&A, and entertainment law. Mr. Lynch focuses particularly in the areas of ESOPs, Entity Management, Contract Negotiation, and Brand Maximization. Mr. Lynch has leveraged his […]
Vincent Baskerville
Vincent Jordan Is the co-founder of two companies: TripLingo, Glancely, and founded 8bitFeed He is a 10+ year industry specialist & adrenaline junkie whom has traveled to 12 countries, and is known for creating highly intuitive-engaging digital products. Vincent has consulted and managed teams for many Fortune 500 clients like Disney, BB&T and Lockheed Martin […]