Don Bravaldo founded Bravaldo Capital Advisors in 2006 to provide full-service investment banking to middle market clients, a segment underserved by larger advisory firms. As managing partner, Don has led BCA through successful transactions across a wide variety of industries. Prior to founding Bravaldo Capital Advisors, Don led the middle market group at a Southeastern [...]

Mr. Daniel H. Fitch is the Founder/CEO of Natural Leaders Media. Daniel is a serial entrepreneur, real estate professional and filmmaker originally from Roselle, New Jersey. He has been residing comfortably in Atlanta, GA since 1996 and is a proud husband and father. The filmmaker journey began in the early 90 s when Daniel took his [...]

Perry Binder is an award-winning legal studies professor in Robinson, and the co-founder of GSU s Corporate Intellectual Property Institute, a premier two-day annual conference for practitioners. Perry is a founding Board Member of the Georgia IP Alliance (GIPA). Though GIPA, he secured five Governor Proclamations to recognize IP s value to Georgia businesses. October 2019 is IP [...]

Baiyina Jihad is a native of Atlanta who was raised in the communities of West End and East Atlanta. Baiyina loved the city so much she attended Georgia State University. During her senior year in college, she applied and got accepted to Teach for America. She just transitioned out of the classroom after teaching for [...]

Mikayla Joy Oberlton is a transfer student to Georgia State University. She is a junior with a love for writing, people, and pageantry. She has been published in Our Voice magazine, received the Miss America DC congeniality award, the Harper Avery and Biggest heart award. As the Founder of Crowns Without Boundaries, and the new [...]

Jagdish N. Sheth is Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Business in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. Professor Sheth has over 50 years of combined experience in teaching and research at the University of Southern California, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Columbia University, MIT, and Emory University. Professor Sheth is the recipient of [...]

Ron McMurtrie oversees all marketing disciplines across Sage s 23 markets, driving new customer acquisition and customer loyalty in Sage Business Cloud. He first joined Sage as EVP of Customer Marketing in 2016 and oversaw the integration of market leading US cloud accounting solution Sage Intacct in 2017. Mr. McMurtrie aligns the strategic direction of product, [...]

Savannah Manning, Owner of Space Below Your Feet, is an avid rock climber and explorer with a tendency towards entrepreneurial endeavors. After graduating from Georgia Southern University, she traveled North America climbing big mountains and working odd jobs until she started a rock climbing company in the Eastern United States. She uses Space Below Your Feet [...]

Aren t we all really in the customer experience business? During the 20+ years in residential real estate and corporate relocation, the #1 cornerstone of Jill s business has always been the experience she and her team delivers. Little did she know that this strategy that would become a leading best practice for the world s greatest businesses to survive in the [...]

Mindy Godwin is a native of Atlanta and resides in Sandy Springs with her husband and business partner Rodney and their two sons Jack and Spencer. Mindy is the president of her family operated woman owned company, ARC, that began back in 1978, the year she was born. She earned a degree in hotel restaurant [...]