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Dr. Paul E. Cox of Oculus Skincare and Carey Sipp of Revenue Revealed

Dr. Paul Cox

Dr. Paul E. Cox / Oculus Skincare and Longevity Center

Paul Cox, MD is an integrative and anti-aging physician with a rapidly growing practice of healthy and happy patients. His practice at Oculus Skincare and Longevity Center is comprised of concierge medical care based on the latest science and diagnostics to ensure that every year is your best year.  He graduated from the University of Tennessee medical school in 1999. He is board certified in Family Medicine and has additional board certifications in Anti-Aging Medicine. He holds a master’s degree in exercise science and is a former medical director at Atlanta Medical Center hospital in downtown Atlanta, Ga. While at AMC he provided office and hospital care for all of his patients and was a member of the teaching faculty in Family Medicine as well as serving on the Medical executive committee, IRB and other boards. After 10 years as a solo practitioner, he closed this traditional practice in 2012 when he realized that he could not help patients improve their lives and health in 15 minute visit increments that were required to have a financially viable, insurance payment dependent practice.

Since 2008, he has done extensive post graduate training in Bio-identical hormone optimization, nutrition, and supplementation, prevention of cardiovascular disease and diabetes as well as non-surgical facial esthetics. The education in these areas has completely transformed his medical practice.  Unlike traditional practices that rely on short visit times, high practice volumes and healthcare by prescription drugs based on formulaic medicine; at Oculus you will receive unhurried, personal care dedicated to the optimization of your health based on the latest scientific evidence.  Dr. Cox wants you to know that problems like fatigue, weight gain, menopausal symptoms, depression and many others can be improved or eliminated by optimizing your mind and body.

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Carey Sipp / Revenue Revealed

Carey Sipp is a seasoned marketing strategist helping medical practices, businesses, and nonprofits alike develop ways to identify patients, customers, and donors and provide ways to nurture those relationships. She helps clients increase “share of customer” and increase patient-to-patient, customer-to-customer, or donor-to-donor referrals – one of the most effective, least expensive, and most overlooked means of increasing revenues.

As a former newspaper reporter and news producer, Carey honed her creative, writing, and marketing skills as an award-winning copywriter at Ogilvy & Mather Direct. She then became a freelance creative director working with top national and international advertising agencies and nonprofits.

Through the years of working with businesses and nonprofits alike, Carey developed a knack for unearthing the truth and leveraging it to her clients’ best advantage. She does this by getting to the core of a value proposition (or lack thereof), helping clients improve their services, developing marketing that resonates, inspiring clients’ employees, increasing loyalty and referrals, and boosting ROI and revenues organically.

Carey is best known as a community builder, connector, channel-partner and relationship marketing developer. She is an award-winning writer, inspiring speaker and presentation creator, a natural-born encourager and motivator, and the author of a book published by Chicken Soup for the Soul publishers Health Communications. Carey is a strong proponent of market testing and has developed processes for doing analytics to make it easier and less expensive than ever.

Some of Carey’s many accomplishments include:

  • Helped a medical practice to begin structured analytics and strategic marketing initiatives resulting in growth from $3 to $6 million in two years, and receiving recognition as one of Atlanta’s Top 100 Fastest-Growing Companies
  • Grew an international medical consulting firm via strategic marketing initiatives to rebrand and create key international channel partnerships, all contributing to the firm’s securing multi-million dollar contracts with the Military Health System, among other opportunities
  • Leveraged never-before utilized combinations of technologies to create “mass-customized” geo-targeted, personalized promotions to potential visitors of Georgia State Parks & Historic sites with great success
  • Played a role in selling millions of dollars worth of books and services for a major publishing company
  • Advanced Atlanta as a premiere convention and pre- and post convention destination
  • Delivered donors from one of the nation’s wealthiest zip codes as long-term supporters of an obscure nonprofit supporting persons with developmental disabilities
  • Helped elect a President of the United States of America

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Jon Wright and John Patton of Access Point Financial

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Jon Wright / Access Point Financial

Jon Wright, a 25-plus year veteran of commercial real estate and hospitality finance, currently serves as chief executive officer of Atlanta, Ga.-based Access Point Financial, Inc. (APF), a direct full-service lending and advisory firm focused on the hospitality industry.

APF ranked 17th on the prestigious Inc. 500 listing of America’s fastest-growing private companies. APF also executed the industry’s first Asset Based Securitization (A-rated) comprised solely of hotel loans, a first of its kind initial tranche.

Wright is a member of Center for Hospitality Research (CHR), an industry fellow of the Center for Real Estate and Finance (CREF) at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association, American Hotel & Lodging Association, Metro Atlanta Chamber, ICSC, IHG Owners Association, Honorary Board member of the Starwood Franchisees and Owners of North America (ASFONA), as well as involved in several charitable organizations.

Wright has been married to his wife, Paige, for over 20 years and together have two children.

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John Patton / Access Point Financial

John Patton is the chief financial officer at Access Point Financial. He has more than 25 years of commercial finance and banking experience. He most recently worked as chief financial officer at Specialty Finance Group, LLC (SFG). Prior to joining SFG, Patton was the corporate controller for U.S. operations with the parent organization GMAC Commercial Mortgage (GMACCM) and Vice President at GMACCM – Asset Backed Lending Division. In addition, he was previously the controller for NationsCredit Commercial Finance and has held various management positions with Bank of America.

Patton holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Delaware and is a certified public accountant.

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Aaron Hillegass of Big Nerd Ranch and Mark Sanchez of tops Software

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Aaron Hillegass / Big Nerd Ranch

Aaron Hillegass is the founder and CEO of Big Nerd Ranch. Aaron is best known to many programmers as the author of Objective-C: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, and iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide. Big Nerd Ranch provides end-to-end mobile solutions for a range of app development projects, including iOS, Android, backend, frontend, Cocoa and UX/UI design.

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Mark Sanchez / tops Software

Dr. Mark Sanchez is the founder, CEO and chief developer of tops Software, and a practicing orthodontist. He’s the only programmer of orthodontic practice management software who actually uses such a product on a daily basis. Mark developed his programming skills while pursuing a doctorate in physics at Georgia Tech. His dental degree and certificate in orthodontics are from Emory University.

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Gavin Cobb and Mike Wallace of Heritage Property Management Services

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Gavin Cobb / Heritage Property Management Services

With more than 20 years of experience, Gavin’s community management knowledge is extensive. He is both a licensed real estate broker and an active member of the Community Association Institute. Gavin is a licensed CPA and, prior to joining Heritage, served as the Director of Real Estate for a publicly traded company. Gavin also was personally recognized by the Atlanta Business Chronicle as part of the “Who’s Who” in the community management industry.

Gavin earned a Master’s in Taxation degree from Georgia State University and a Bachelor’s of Business Administration degree from University of Wisconsin – Madison.

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Mike Wallace / Heritage Property Management Services

Mike has more than 15 years of experience partnering with entrepreneurs to help manage and support rapid growth in emerging companies. Prior to Heritage, Mike served eight years on the executive management team of Teavana, where he helped the company grow from 30 stores to more than 300, launch a successful public offering on the NYSE, and finally a merger with Starbucks. Mike has extensive experience in operations, business analytics, accounting, and information technology.

Mike is a CPA and earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

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