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Month: June 2016

Jeff Hilimire and Ryan Tuttle of Dragon Army

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Dragon Army

Jeff Hilimire / Dragon Army

Jeff Hilimire is the CEO of Dragon Army, a mobile experience company (one part agency, one part app & game studio), which he founded in 2013. Jeff started his first business, Spunlogic, from his dorm room at UNC-Charlotte and has been a serial entrepreneur ever since. Spunlogic grew to 75 people and was acquired by Engauge in 2008. Jeff stayed on as the Chief Digital Officer and President, helping grow Engauge for five years until they sold to Publicis Groupe / Moxie in 2013.

Jeff is on the boards of The Metro Atlanta Chamber, The Children’s Museum of Atlanta, and Central Outreach and Advocacy Center. He also serves on advisory boards for Zoo Atlanta and the American Marketing Association. Additionally, Jeff founded the nonprofit 48in48 (building 48 nonprofit websites in 48 hours), which is running in Atlanta and New York in 2016. Jeff was also in the Leadership Atlanta class of 2013 and an Atlanta Business Chronicle 40 under 40 winner in 2013. Jeff is married and has five children.

You can read more about Jeff on his blog: www.jeffhilimire.com

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Ryan Tuttle / Dragon Army

Ryan Tuttle has nineteen years of award-winning expertise in consumer marketing and promotions with specific experience in customer relationship management, full life-cycle web development, video game development, mobile application development, information technology infrastructure, interactive/graphic design, and social media management. Tuttle also has extensive experience building development teams and running operations in his roles as COO for multiple technology centric companies that makes him invaluable in overseeing the operations of Dragon Army.

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Catherine Downey and Scott Dixon of CATMEDIA

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Catherine Downey / CATMEDIA

Catherine began her career in media as Director of Marketing & Broadcast Promotions for a Memphis-based television station. Through this, and other executive level positions, she honed her skills in media buying, budget development, staff and project management and creative processes such as writing, directing and producing. Perhaps one of the most important things she learned was the value of building and maintaining solid customer relationships.

Fifteen years later, after continued growth and success in the television and advertising arenas, Catherine struck out on her own founding CATVIDEO in 1997. Catherine’s commitment to core
values distinguishes her as a person, an entrepreneur and as a service provider. Ms. Downey’s highest values for her own life, her family, and also for her company, are: integrity, hard work,
creativity & innovation, and excellence in customer service. Downey persistently applied these values to every task and every project, all the while raising her family as a single mom.

In 2011, with a steadily growing business and client base and a keen awareness of the ever-changing world of technology, Catherine transformed CATVIDEO into CATMEDIA. This name change reflects the way in which Catherine seeks out and embraces advances in technology and the changing ways in which people use media, in an effort to bring about the results her clients want and need.

An innovator at her core, Downey is named on several patent-pending training and communications technologies. Downey, a lifelong learner, was honored by the SBA’s Georgia District as the 2014 Class Valedictorian in the “Emerging Leaders Program” and successfully graduated the Tuck Executive Program under a full WBENC scholarship. She is actively involved in her Vistage International group of successful CEO peers in order to continuously improve as a leader. Surrounding herself with respected advisors, Downey carefully takes calculated risks to attain the company’s strategic goals and business plan. Under her leadership, CATMEDIA was named to the Inc. 500 list of fastestgrowing private companies in America for 2014 & 2015.

As CEO, Catherine Downey continues to lead CATMEDIA—on the same bedrock of core values—to fulfill CATMEDIA’s brand promise: “Using our creativity to solve problems that help our clients
succeed.”

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Scott Dixon / CATMEDIA

Scott is the President of CATMEDIA and joined the company in early November of last year.  Scott is charged with managing our Federal and corporate business development and capture proposal teams and it ultimately responsible for growing the company’s revenue and profitability.

Prior to joining CATMEDIA, Scott was the president at New Point Media Group – the nation’s largest publisher of advertising sponsored free to the consumer shelter titles.

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Kraig Torres of Hop City Craft Beer & Wine and Jonathan Baker of Monday Night Brewing

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Hop City Beer

Kraig Torres / Hop City Craft Beer & Wine

Kraig Torres is an experienced beer tasting professional with over 8,000 beer ratings. He is a 20-year Atlanta resident with an entrepreneurial background. As an avid beer enthusiast, he has traveled the world drinking beer in pubs and breweries. His specialty is beer/food pairings. In 2009, Kraig made the leap from amateur imbiber to professional drinker by founding Hop City Craft Beer and Wine. Hop City is craft beer heaven – home to the East Coast’s largest selection of sudsy fun – with over 1,900 unique ale and lager opportunities every day. Hop City is not just a beer destination – with over 1,100 wines, most from small producers, Hop City can be equally engaging to your inner oenophile.

Kraig was the first person to jump in to the beer Growler scene in Georgia, starting with just 12 taps, and expanding to 60 in 2011. Beer Advocate has awarded Hop City an A+, their highest rating; and RateBeer considers Hop City one of the country’s top 10 retailers. Kraig was a 2012 finalist for Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneur of the Year and in both 2014 and 2016, Hop City was ranked among the fastest growing businesses in the city.

In 2012, the state of Georgia could no longer contain Kraig’s ambition: Hop City Birmingham opened – and to great acclaim. It quickly became the top beer destination in Alabama. Not only does Hop City carry every beer available in AL but all 66 of our taps in Growlertown are available for by-the-glass enjoyment. This makes Hop City a beer-lover’s paradise. Sit and enjoy a beer, shop the amazing selection, then sip on a pint while putting together a new homebrew creation. In December 2014, Kraig opened his 3rd Hop City in the highly anticipated Krog Street Market in Inman Park. The newest Hop City was quickly voted “Best New Place to Grab a Pint” by Atlanta Magazine in 2015. Much like Birmingham, the Krog Market location has a full-service bar, growler station and all the great beer and wine selections our fans have grown to expect.

Most recently, Kraig announced his newest venture – a beer bar with gourmet kitchen in the newest phase of Avalon in Alpharetta – slated to open April of 2017.

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Jonathan Baker / Monday Night Brewing

Jonathan is the reasonably qualified creative guy at Monday Night Brewing. He develops and maintains the Monday Night brand, including all design, social media and our obsession with Bryan Adams. He graduated from Emory in 2005 with a BBA in Marketing and a minor in Religion. His background is in marketing strategy consulting, where he worked with some large beer brands that you’ve definitely heard of.

He is married to the lovely Sarah, and has a daughter named Addie Gray and a pitbull mix named Eden who comes to the brewery everyday. She’s a lover, not a fighter.

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