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Pete Marte & JP Sartori of Hannah Solar

Hannah Solar

Hannah Solar is a NABCEP certified solar integrator servicing the entire Southeast with offices in Atlanta and Savannah, GA, Asheville and Raleigh, NC, and Charlotte and Greenville, SC. The staff is dedicated to providing our customers with the very best in engineering, products, installation and service of solar arrays, electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, energy storage systems and critical backup generators.

Hannah Solar’s team is comprised of Certified Solar Photovoltaic Installers, licensed Professional Engineers (PE), master electricians, service technicians, project management professionals, business development managers, designers and installers-working together to serve our clients as a reliable and experienced resource in sustainable energy integration.

Pete Marte 

Peter Marte is the founder and CEO of Hannah Solar—located in the heart of Atlanta—and has worked diligently over the last eight years throughout the state of Georgia to develop a solar market where none existed only a few short years ago. Pete is a NABCEP certified Solar PV Installer and oversees the management team at Hannah Solar, LLC, Hannah Home Energy, and Worry Free Power under the Hannah Energy umbrella of companies.

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JP Sartori 

JP Sartori is the Regional Vice President of Business Development at Hannah Solar. Sartori is responsible for creating and maintaining healthy client relationships and ensuring delivery of exceptional solar solutions – always and without exception. Sartori works tenaciously at meeting his clients’ unique needs and is well-prepared to facilitate the successful design and construction of client solar projects.

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Jim and Bridget Fitzpatrick of CBT Automotive Network

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Jim Fitzpatrick / CBT Automotive Network

Jim Fitzpatrick is Founder and CEO of CBT NEWS / Car Biz Today, an online news source for the retail automotive industry. With over 110,000 subscribers, CBT hosts a morning and afternoon newscast that is viewed by thousands of automotive professional everyday.

Broadcasting from it’s studios in Atlanta, CBT News hosts most of the nation’s top industry trainers . consultants, authors and industry executives. CBT News provides dealers with the information they need to run their dealerships more efficiently while driving greater profits to the bottom line.

In May of 2015 CBT Automotive Network launched servicedrivetoday.com and Service Drive Magazine. Much like CBT NEWS, Service Drive provides dealership service personnel with online daily newscasts featuring news, information, in-depth interviews with industry executives, best practices, training tips, dealer profiles, and so much more. CBT reaches more automotive professionals each day than any other publication or website in the retail automotive arena.

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Bridget Fitzpatrick / CBT Automotive Network

Bridget Fitzpatrick is Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of CBT Automotive Network, also known as Car Biz Today. CBT Automotive Network is an informative daily news source engineered specifically for the retail automotive industry. CBT provides daily newscasts and features that cover advertising, marketing, social media, sales, management and service training, finance & insurance, fixed ops and much more. CBT Automotive Network proves a valued source of information for anyone who works within the retail automotive industry.

Fitzpatrick is a highly driven media professional with valuable operations and communications skills who has a strong background in corporate relations, project management and strategic corporate planning.

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Matt Pieper of Open Hand Atlanta and Jess White of Good Measure Meals

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Matt Pieper / Open Hand Atlanta

Matthew (Matt) Pieper is the Executive Director for Open Hand Atlanta, a community-driven non-profit organization providing nutritious and medically appropriate meals, nutrition education and counseling to those challenged by chronic disease or disability.  Additionally, Open Hand provides services to those at risk who desire to prevent the onset of chronic conditions. Open Hand’s goal is to empower individuals with the resources needed to manage their health and make better lifestyle choices. Open Hand’s clients include seniors, people living with cancer, renal failure, diabetes, HIV/AIDS and many other chronic conditions.  Through the support of  collaborative partners, 8,000 volunteers annually and the community at large, Open Hand prepares, packages and delivers more than 5,000 meals daily to those in need.

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Jess White / Good Measure Meals

Jess White is no stranger to the world of health and wellness as Senior Vice President of Good Measure Meals. As a Georgia Native and daughter of a health care professional and exercise enthusiast, Jess spent much of her life active in outdoor sports, fitness, and healthy eating. It wasn’t until her studies at Georgia Tech, that Jess started connecting all of the dots and decided that optimizing health promoting behaviors in the community would become a personal mission. From Georgia Tech, Jess traveled west to pursue her Master’s degree in Exercise and Sport Science at Oregon State University, focusing on Exercise and Sport Psychology, specifically Behavior Modification and prevention of obesity and diabetes in special populations.

White worked in the corporate sector before getting back to her wellness roots and taking the position of Director of Corporate Wellness and Interim General Manager of Peachtree Center Athletic Club. While at PCAC, she partnered with Good Measure Meals to incorporate nutrition into their wellness programing. Shortly thereafter, Good Measure Meals came calling when they decided to develop a Corporate Wellness program of their own, so Jess came on board in the beginning of 2010 to head that initiative. Jess has since developed strong relationships around the community in both the corporate and medical sectors and implemented a wide variety of wellness initiatives to promote healthy lifestyles within these populations.

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Charlie Whitfield of Whitty Apps and Rick Crain of Breakthrough Business Solutions

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Charlie Whitfield / Whitty Apps

Charlie Whitfield is the CEO of Whitty Apps LLC, a SBA certified 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WBE, Woman Owned and Operated Company.

We are an emerging Software Engineering & Integration Company, specializing in mobile and device technology. We provide architecture, design, development, and project management expertise for our clients.

Our innovative mobile software solutions focus on solving unique challenges, productivity, customer experience, and marketing strategies that have an impact on your success.

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Rick Crain / Breakthrough Business Solutions

Through his innovative, get-it-done, people-oriented approach to leadership development and bottom-line performance, Rick is inspiring others and delivering on his promise of transforming thought leadership into measurable results. Rick uses a rare blend of entrepreneurial agility and a 4-step breakthrough program that transitions leaders and teams from awareness to accountability.

Rick’s vast training, experience and innate knowledge, including a master’s certification in strategic organizational leadership, insure that his Clients sustain results for the long-term. Rick has over three decades of experience in business, personal, and professional development, rising from an entry level position to become an award winning Regional Vice President in a multi-billion dollar employer services corporation, the largest in the world – Automatic Data Processing (ADP).

As a certified and licensed Business and Executive Coach, a successful corporate executive leader, and a current business owner, Rick is accountable to perform at the highest level of standards in the industry. By transferring his personal and professional knowledge with a leading leadership coaching program, Clients can rest assured that Rick has all of their bases covered, not by force, but by sitting down, rolling up his sleeves and collaborating, to hammer out a realistic, do-able action plan that fits the leader’s potential. Often, his Clients see a return on investment within 90 days. As behaviors, team dynamics, and business systems become more self-sustaining for the short & long term, his Clients get back on track as well, with less stress and more quality time with family & friends.

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Judy Mod and Trent McEwan of Revenue Sphere

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Judy Mod / Revenue Sphere

We are in the midst of a significant business transformation – as organizations are having to deal with the acceleration, frequency and convergence of multiple disruptive technologies, all at the same time.  Ask any executive – and they will tell you that this phenomenon is now the “new normal.”

Today, as the Founder, CEO and Chief Adoption Officer of RevenueSphere and Social Gastronomy (for-profit) and the Founder and President of the Social Executive Council (non-profit), Judy is helping senior executives understand and address the new complexities this is creating and the foundational changes that are needed to bridge the widening gap between the innovation and the adoption.

Judy has 30+ years of experience in driving top line revenue in multiple areas (CEO, sales, business development, channel, strategic alliances, marketing, consulting).

As a Chemical Engineer, Judy has dedicated her career to pioneering new innovation (hardware, software, services) and their operational adoption, in a wide variety of complex markets (agriculture, appliance, automotive, chemical, cosmetic, defense, environmental, food +  beverage, government, metals processing, microelectronics, mining, oil & gas, paint + coatings, plastics, printing, research & development, semiconductor, textiles.)

Judy is a prominent blogger, speaker and evangelist on the operational adoption of innovation.

Judy is on the advisory board of Kennesaw State University’s Masters in Healthcare Management and Informatics Program.  Judy is the Founder and CEO of the Arts Council of Woodstock.  She has also served as a chapter president of the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals and on the boards of Global EXEC Women, Women in Technology and It’s The Journey, a 501 © 3 serving the breast cancer community.

A graduate of Cleveland State University with a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Judy also holds an MBA from the University of Dallas.

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Trent McEwan / Revenue Sphere

Trent McEwan: A Results-driven, strategically minded and self-directed entrepreneur with a successful track record of delivering the strategies plans and tactics to help “C” level executives identify and fix their problems with the adoption of innovation.  Is a visionary leader and problem solver, with strong collaborative communication, organizational, operational and analytical skills.

With degrees in both Management Information Systems and Finance, as well as 18 years in Information Technology, he has had the unique opportunity to provide consultation services as well as run very large internal/external development groups both on and offshore.

Has held multiple technology positions, serving as a developer, architect, Director, partial CTO and CIO.  This experience has provided a unique perspective into the challenges organizations face in adopting disruptive technology and innovation. Clearly a thought leader, innovator and problem evangelist, helping executives and organizations solve strategic business problems.

Having had the responsibility of Strategy, Program Management, Sales, Delivery and Execution in various verticals and industry including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Oil and Gas, Logistics, and Retail.

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