Atlanta Business Radio

Kevin Song is withco's Founder & CEO. Driven by the experience of his family's Brooklyn grocery store being displaced, Kevin started withco to make it exciting to be a small business owner in America again. He's spent his career investing in, managing, and advising over 50 companies and has deployed over $1B of equity capital. [...]

Seth Radman, Co-Founder & CTO of Infinite Giving. He is an Atlanta-based tech entrepreneur and Georgia Tech alum who has started and grown multiple successful companies. He is a 4x startup founder with 2 exits, and he has built 40+ products used by more than 300 million people. Seth was previously the Founder & CEO [...]

From the island of Guam, Richard Lee is an engineer/designer and now cofounder at Bettersum building Supercopy where we believe marketing should communicate to people in the manner they want to be communicated to. Connect with Richard on LinkedIn. What You'll Learn In This Episode Favorite part about building a startup Favorite growth hack This [...]

Heath Wilson is the co-founder of Aro Technology, Inc., a tech company that aims to help people put their phones down and live life uninterrupted. An entrepreneur, visionary, culture builder, and idea generator, Heath co-founded eVestment prior to Aro, and sold the company to NASDAQ in 2018. His experience in data-driven solutions coupled with his [...]

David Aferiat, CoFounder and Managing Partner at Trade Ideas LLC. He helps FinTech product and marketing managers grow and retain their trading communities with content designed to make better market decisions. Trade Ideas was founded in 2003 by a team of financial technology entrepreneurs who had already been leaders in the Self Directed Investment movement. [...]

Georgia State's Main Street Entrepreneurs Seed Fund (MSESF) is a 2-day experience on entrepreneurship and innovation. The 2022 summit was held on Oct. 13-14 in partnership with Zane Venture Fund, an early-stage investor in companies founded by diverse entrepreneurs. MK Khan, MSESF EIR / Georgia State's Main Street Entrepreneurs Seed Fund LinkedIn DOWNLOAD HERE Recha Reid, [...]

Hank McLarty, Founder and CEO of Gratus Capital. His obsession with truly knowing his clients and their unique needs led him to start Gratus in 2005 and remain the firm's driving value. A thought leader in the industry, sought-after speaker, and recipient of numerous awards and accolades throughout his wealth management career, Hank has been [...]

Natural disasters happen. Oftentimes, they are sudden with no way to prepare. After a disaster, business owners are not only faced with property damage but also with business closures, damage to their employees' properties and other aspects that make it hard for their business to stay afloat. But what if you could put a plan [...]

Jake Gocke is Deloitte & Touche LLP's National Audit & Assurance Payments leader and a partner in the Fintech practice. He has extensive experience in the payments industry and is passionate about its growth, expansion, and evolution. He serves clients across the payments ecosystem, including merchant acquirer and issuer payment processors, gateways, independent sales organizations, [...]

Alon Bender is the CEO and founder of CLEER Security, a Miami-based cybersecurity startup. Backed by industry leaders, CLEER Security offers a SAAS Cybersecurity solution to help SOC teams respond quickly to the alerts that need their immediate attention. Prior to his current role, Mr. Bender spent 20 years as an enterprise cybersecurity engineer working [...]

Amber Cleveland, CEO at Peace of mind Popsicles. She is a serial entrepreneur, a mom, a mental health therapist, and a GSU alumni. She has been in private practice for 12 years in Decatur, GA treating adults with anxiety, depression and stress management. She's the mother of a child with learning differences and food sensitivities. [...]

Cordero Tanner is the Founder and Executive Director of Athleaders 360°. He holds a Master's of Public Health from Georgia State University and a bachelor's of science in Sociology for Virginia Tech. Tanner has over ten years of youth and community development in a variety of roles from coaching to being an outreach coordinator. His [...]

Ngozi Ahanotu-Anorue is an ambitious, well-versed Founder across content creation and customer experience. As early as she could remember, she was shuffling words on paper and selling something to someone, somewhere. So she's turned her passion for entrepreneurship and community, into the story-driven content agency NIA NIA Creative Studio and community-led website hiihat, a search [...]

Meridith Rose, MS, CCC-SLP is a pediatric speech-language pathologist and owner of HomeTele SLP, which was founded in June 2020. She was inspired to become a speech-language pathologist over 20 years ago, following her youngest brother's diagnosis with an autism spectrum disorder. Her passion to help her brother and other children with communication and neurodevelopmental [...]

Jason Russell is the CEO and Co-Founder of Stable Kernel, an Atlanta-based software company that builds scalable software solutions for cutting-edge enterprises including some of the most innovative Fortune 500 companies in the world. Possessing proven entrepreneurial skills, Russell is an experienced leader with a successful track record in software solutions, executive leadership, and accelerati...

Ambria Hardy, Founder & Qualifying Broker at The Maxwell Haus. Ambria is a real estate broker by trade and an economic developer. She is currently a Project Manager with the Georgia Dept. of Economic Development, specializing in business attraction. She is also a veteran of the GA Army National Guard where she held two MOSs [...]

Rob Garcia serves as Pinnacle Financial Partners' Atlanta president. Before he joined Pinnacle in 2019 to lead the firm's de novo entry into Atlanta, Garcia was responsible for Synovus' largest division, which includes metro Atlanta and northwest Georgia, as its division CEO. Garcia began his financial services career in 1986. He has extensive commercial banking [...]

Martine Resnick, Co-Founder at The Lola. After almost 20 years of building brands for global companies, she realized the traditional corporate environment no longer fit her life. Compounded by adding the pressures of a growing family to an already busy schedule, she noticed the same feelings of frustration from her friends and peers, and she [...]

Roger Barnette has spent the past two decades leading companies in the Atlanta tech scene, growing multiple businesses from inception to acquisition. He is currently the CEO of MessageGears, a unique cross-channel campaign management provider that's a homegrown Atlanta startup. He's received numerous awards, including Atlanta Internet Marketer of the Year and Emory's Goizueta Business [...]

Scott Ryan, CEO at Montra. Scott has more than 20 years of experience in successfully building and selling companies that develop products in the IT infrastructure and media technology industries. His exits include Concurrent Computer, Senoia Systems, Asankya Networks, and Elastic Networks. Additionally, Scott's leadership experience includes running successful teams at storage leader, EMC; networ...

Xavier Hatten, Founder & CEO at Xnalysis, a financial services company that was founded on the basis of financial literacy, ethics, and the creation of exponential growth for their customers. They were built to offer our customers an array of products that range from simple to complex to increase the awareness of their finances, expand [...]

Amir Helmy is a recent computer science graduate from Georgia Tech, and CEO of HealthAppy Tech. Since high school Amir has been interested in pursuing research related to epilepsy and mobile health, and published research related to mobile fall detection algorithms. While in college he refined his computer science skills and specialized in research on [...]

JT Trujillo, CEO & Founder at hand+sum 2023 MBA Candidate at Emory Goizueta Business School JT Trujillois a first-generation Colombian-American as well as a first-generation college grad. He is married and has three little girls. He is a grad student at Emory University's Goizueta Business School. Coming from a banking/FinTech background and he leaned on [...]