Monique Mills, Serial Entrepreneur and ATDC’s Retail Tech Program Manager, is a degreed electrical engineer turned serial entrepreneur, having founded 4 companies. She began her career in the semiconductor industry then went on to hold positions in the energy, aviation, real estate, and technology industries. Now working with startups and small businesses on their strategy, […]

Brad Schweizer, Investor Relations Manager with ATDC, has extensive background in venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, significant financial modeling experience and private equity as an associate at Morris, Manning & Martin (MMM). He will be able to help companies understand the impact a financing round might have on their cap table, pro-formas, and option pools, among other considerations. As […]

Ben Damiani, CEO of Solar Inventions, has spent his career in solar. His innovations have enjoyed global reach through his work at early solar pioneers, Suniva and SolarWorld. He has worked across the world commercializing new solar technologies and building solar manufacturing facilities. Ben received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and did […]

Greg Coonley is a Georgia Tech Graduate with a EE degree. He worked for Motorola designing 2-way RF pagers as well as manufacturing lines for the pagers. Greg founded an embedded operating system company (Unicoi Systems) in 2002. Unicoi is still going strong and provides a full suite of embedded software offerings. Greg founded Wahsega […]

Statewide Program Manager Ben Andrews joined ATDC as Community Engagement Coordinator in the fall of 2017. After graduating from the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Scheller College of Business in 2009, Ben began his career working for the Community and Economic Development Department for the city of Americus. While working for the city, he earned his […]

Kell Canty has over 25 years of experience in technology development and building companies that  capitalize on identity, audit, and payments utilizing advanced technology. Kell is Co-founder of Verady, a blockchain asset accounting and audit technology company, and leads its product direction and business development efforts. Previously in the Blockchain space, Kell started Coinpliance in 2013 as […]

Betsy Plattenburg has been connecting corporate innovation teams and startups for mutual benefit for more than a decade. She created both the Industry and Investor Connect programs at ATDC and has worked as a consultant advancing innovation. Curiosity Lab is a unique economic development innovation investment that has allowed her to facilitate innovation in the […]

Anju Mathew, Co-Founder and CEO of Oncolens. Oncolens has created s software solution that replaces the manual and labor-intensive process of collecting, presenting and reporting of cases for cancer tumor board conferences and health system accreditation. It is a multi-disciplinary approach that has shown increased positive outcomes for cancer patients. Connect with Anju on LinkedIn. Puja […]

Bamboo Services was created in 2018 in the community of Oakhurst in Decatur, GA. Tamara Vrooman Lucas is a busy, entrepreneurial single mom of two school-age boys. Amanda Farahany is an attorney who owns her own successful law firm and has started several successful technology-based businesses. An idea conceived by a busy mom on a […]

Danielle Claffey is a Partner with Kuck Baxter Immigration LLC and practices in all areas of U.S. immigration and nationality law. She has more than 12 years of experience in business immigration matters including employment-based visa petitions, investor petitions, family based immigration, affirmative asylum, nonimmigrant visas, consular processing and federal court litigation. Ms. Claffey is […]