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Month: December 2012

Jeff Hilimire with Engauge and Noah McNeely with Slingshot

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Jeff Hilimire/Engauge

Jeff Hilimire is a lifelong entrepreneur with a passion for digital marketing, technology and mentorship. His journey began in 1998, when, while still in college, he casually started a web-design company with his roommates. When business took off, Jeff realized they were on to something. So he dialed in, growing the new business—Spunlogic—one interactive experience at a time. Then, in 2007, after 10 years of consecutive growth, Engauge acquired Spunlogic. Today, Jeff is President and Chief Digital Officer, responsible for shaping the company’s vision and elevating agency innovation, which he does through a focused digital innovation practice and technology leadership. Jeff also remains an active force in the startup community, co-founding technology accelerator Shotput Ventures. He also serves on the boards of The Children’s Museum of Atlanta and Junior Achievement of Georgia.

Noah McNeely/Slingshot Product Development Group

Noah McNeely is one of the founders of Slingshot Product Development Group, and he lives and breathes innovation and new product businesses. Noah has spent over a decade in the trenches of real world product development, balancing tight budgets and narrow development schedules to create everything from toys to military equipment. He has spent much of his career helping to shape and guide a seemingly endless series of “good ideas” into successful product businesses.

Noah, in conjunction with his partners, was instrumental in building a more comprehensive type of product development organization that blends science, design, engineering, prototyping, and manufacturing into a single, powerful innovation engine.

As “Chief Troublemaker” for Slingshot, Noah has built a culture of collaboration, and embraces a business-centric approach of “get it done, get it right, get it to market!” He has consistently and successfully navigated the myriad challenges of new product development to launch real products for real people, and to launch them on time and on budget.

 

 

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Ashish Mistry with BLH Venture Partners and Heath Hyneman with Hypepotamus

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Ashish Mistry/BLH Venture Partners

Ashish Mistry is Managing Partner with BLH Venture Partners. Ashish functions as an investor and adviser to young companies. His experience includes leadership roles with high-growth companies in the technology-enabled services, enterprise IT, e-commerce, and consumer markets.

Ashish spent two tours as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), working with start-ups across Georgia. He is active in non-profit organizations that foster entrepreneurship, including board positions with Venture Atlanta and the Atlanta CEO Council, as well as serving on committees with the Metro Atlanta Chamber. Ashish is a graduate of Emory University and resides with his wife and children in Atlanta.

Heath Hyneman/Hypepotamus

HeathHyneman is a search marketer who provides his organizations roadmaps to product viability through agile product development practices. Heath has spent the past decade on enterprise-level ecommerce marketing technologies, with a focus on D2C commodity SKU search traffic generation and conversion optimization. He covered responsibilities for leading HM Wallace’s marketing and CMS efforts and setting the strategic direction of NationalBuilderSupply.com and its network of properties. He has recently opened up Hypepotamus, a co-working space in Midtown Atlanta focused on enabling consumer oriented digital startups within the Atlanta community. Prior to founding HM Wallace, he co-founded Celecast, broadcaster of live NCAA event audio through mobile devices.

Heath is an active member of a number of Atlanta’s professional communities including AiMA, SEMPO and Shop.org as well as offering his time to help local start-ups decipher and define their Search + Social Marketing strategies and development cycles.

Heath started off at Georgia Tech, duly transferred, and completed undergraduate studies at Samford University followed by an MBA from Georgia State University.


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Ortez Gude with Corvado and Bart Newman with FLIR Integrated Systems

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Ortez Gude/Corvado

A Georgia native, Ortez Gude has served as Corvado’s chairman and CEO of Corvado since 2007. In this role he chairs the board of directors and is responsible for managing the company’s development, formulating and executing long-term strategies; and directing relationships with customers, employees, partners, investors and other stakeholders.

Prior to Corvado, Ortez served as Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President of Strategy & Development for GMG, a leading Atlanta-based construction consulting firm. During his service GMG was named the 6th fastest growing private company in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle and was awarded prominent projects including the internationally recognized Center for Civil and Human Rights, a noise abatement contract for the world’s busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson International, and Metropolitan Atalnta Rapid Transit Authority among others.

Prior to GMG, Ortez was Vice President and Chief Information Officer for The Haskell Company, one of America’s leading Design-Build companies. At Haskell, he led a business-technology transformation that resulted in Haskell being named the construction industry’s most highly performing and innovative company in the US.

Prior to The Haskell Company, Ortez served in various technology leadership roles for Skanska AB, a $17 Billion Fortune Global 500 construction services firm. Ortez’s roles included Chief Technology Officer, Chief Information Officer for Beers Skanska, and General Manager of Skanska IT Solutions’ Hub Operation for North and South America. During his tenure, Ortez led Skanska to the top ranks of Information Week’s list of most innovative companies five consecutive years.

Ortez has been a featured speaker at business and technology conferences around the world.

Bart Newman/FLIR Integrated Systems

Bart Newman is a former U.S. Army officer, Iraq war veteran, and author of “Because of Baghdad: What a Father Would Say About Life, If He Didn’t Come Home to Say It.” The book has been featured in numerous media outlets including the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, Georgia Super Lawyers magazine, and The Atlanta Journal— Constitution. Bart and his family donate all book profits to the children of service members who died at war.

Bart speaks to churches, civic groups, and leadership organizations about the book and what he learned in Iraq. He has shared his message with audiences across Georgia and as far away as Canada.

Bart is the Director of Program Management for FLIR Integrated Systems. In this role, Bart leads two business units and is responsible for the execution and growth of U.S. Government programs. One such program is the Mobile Surveillance Capability initiative of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection. In this program, FLIR is responsible for providing surveillance technology to aid and protect Border Patrol Agents on the U.S. southwest border. As a result, Bart spent several weeks in 2012 on the border working with Border Patrol Agents and refining the technology FLIR will provide. FLIR’s contract with the Border Patrol has a total ceiling of $101,000,000.

Prior to joining FLIR, Bart was an attorney at Arnall Golden Gregory in Atlanta. As a member of the commercial real estate practice group, Bart represented numerous Georgia businesses in the negotiation and disposition of real estate transactions.

Bart received his B.A. (magna cum laude) from the University of Georgia; his Masters in Management, Economics, and International Relations from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland; and his J.D. (cum laude) from the University of Georgia School of Law. While an undergraduate, Bart served as UGA’s Student Government President and was a member of two SEC Championship Tennis Teams. During law school, Bart won the Eugene Talmadge Moot Court Championship (Best Oralist Award) and the Richard B. Russell Moot Court Championship (Jere Morehead Best Oralist Award).

As a graduate, Bart received the University of Georgia’s Blue Key Young Alumnus Award in 2007 and was named to the University of Georgia’s inaugural 40 Under 40 class in 2011. In October of 2012, Bart was also recognized by the Atlanta Business Chronicle as one of Atlanta’s Top 40 Under 40 for 2012.

Bart is also an active participant in nonprofit boards. He serves on the Board of Advisors for Souly Business, a retreat-based ministry founded in Georgia. He is also on the Board of Directors for the Georgia Delta Chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon and previously served on the Executive Committee of the UGA Alumni Association Board of Directors.

Finally, Bart is a devoted family man. He has been married to Julie, his Woodward Academy high school sweetheart, for over twelve years. They have four children: Kate (8), Luke (5), Lyla (4) and Elise (1). As a family, they attend Johnson Ferry Baptist Church where Bart coaches soccer and serves in the children’s ministry.

 

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Ashish Mistry and Heath Hyneman Appear on Disruptive Business

On Friday December 14th, 2012, Lee Kantor and Stone Payton, co-hosts of Disruptive Business Radio on Business RadioX®, were joined by Ashish Mistry with BLH Venture Partners and Heath Hyneman withHypepotamus to talk about the challenges of online business and how their companies are disrupting the space.

Ashish Mistry is Managing Partner with BLH Venture Partners. Ashish functions as an investor and adviser to young companies. His experience includes leadership roles with high-growth companies in the technology-enabled services, enterprise IT, e-commerce, and consumer markets.

Ashish spent two tours as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), working with start-ups across Georgia. He is active in non-profit organizations that foster entrepreneurship, including board positions with Venture Atlanta and the Atlanta CEO Council, as well as serving on committees with the Metro Atlanta Chamber. Ashish is a graduate of Emory University and resides with his wife and children in Atlanta.

During the interview Ashish explained that in addition to his work with BLH Venture Partners, he also runs an e-commerce company. Though he admits that he may hold the businesses he invests in to a higher standard than his own, he says; “We use our portfolio company as a testing ground for a lot of the investments we make. By operating a business in the morning we’re much better at investing in the afternoon”.

Heath Hyneman is a search marketer who provides his organizations roadmaps to product viability through agile product development practices. Heath has spent the past decade on enterprise-level ecommerce marketing technologies, with a focus on D2C commodity SKU search traffic generation and conversion optimization. He covered responsibilities for leading HM Wallace’s marketing and CMS efforts and setting the strategic direction of NationalBuilderSupply.com and its network of properties. He has recently opened up Hypepotamus, a co-working space in Midtown Atlanta focused on enabling consumer oriented digital startups within the Atlanta community. Prior to founding HM Wallace, he co-founded Celecast, broadcaster of live NCAA event audio through mobile devices.

Heath is an active member of a number of Atlanta’s professional communities including AiMA, SEMPO and Shop.org as well as offering his time to help local start-ups decipher and define their Search + Social Marketing strategies and development cycles.

Heath started off at Georgia Tech, duly transferred, and completed undergraduate studies at Samford University followed by an MBA from Georgia State University.

During the interview Heath talked about how his attempt to get away from technology led him right back to it. He discussed how he realized that tools and resources he was creating for his online business could be leveraged for other e-commerce businesses.

To learn more about BLH Venture Partners, and Hypepotamus , listen to the complete interview on the Disruptive Business Radio page for Business RadioX®.