2008

Episode # 403
Joel Manby
CEO, Herschend Family Entertainment

This week, a company you may never have heard of...but have probably experienced. They’ve got the contract to run Stone Mountain Park, and about 20 other entertainment properties in places like Branson, Missouri and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. The company is called Herschend Family Entertainment, and its president and CEO, Joel Manby joins us.

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Episode # 410
Mary Parker
President and CEO, All(n)1 Security

This week... an award winning entrepreneur whose fast-growing company provides security personnel and technology to schools, malls, hospitals... even concert venues and sporting events. The company is Atlanta-based All(n)1 Security and the President and CEO is Mary Parker.

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Episode # 403
Joel Manby
CEO, Herschend Family Entertainment

This week, a company you may never have heard of...but have probably experienced. They’ve got the contract to run Stone Mountain Park, and about 20 other entertainment properties in places like Branson, Missouri and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. The company is called Herschend Family Entertainment, and its president and CEO, Joel Manby joins us.

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Episode # 402 (Repeat)
Chuck Leavell
Conservationist, Musician and Author

This week we offer a break from our usual roster of CEOs and economic experts. We're focusing on the Rolling Stones and sustainable tree farming. I'm serious: one guest covers both topics. One of the world's most accomplished keyboardists… 25 years with the Rolling Stones; performed with Eric Clapton, the Allman Brothers and Indigo Girls, George Harrison and many others… conservationist and tree farmer in Dry Branch, southeast of Macon in Twiggs County. Chuck Leavell’s new CD, "Live in Germany," is out from Evergreen Arts Records. Some of his earlier work is available on iTunes.

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Episode #421
Rod Laughlin
Founder, Regency Hospitals

This week on “Georgia’s Business,” another in our special series spotlighting Enterprising Entrepreneurs: successful Georgia businesswomen and businessmen, making a difference their own way. We’re featuring this week a Georgia entrepreneur who is changing the face of health care for those who need it the most... patients whose cases are the most medically challenging. The company is Regency Hospitals...and its founder is Rod Laughlin.

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Episode # 414
Lesley Hatfield
President and CEO, NiteSweatz

This Week… another in our special series spotlight: enterprising entrepreneurs... successful Georgian business women and business men making it their own way. Our guest, well, she went from personal trainer to the owner of a multi-million dollar business because of something that one of her customers said. She launched a sleepwear business called NiteSweatz, sold around in hundreds of stores in the country. Entrepreneur, marketer, and mom… Lesley Hatfield.

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Episode # 331
David Peterson

photo credit: Ellis Vener

The second in a series of profiles centered on Georgia’s Enterprising Entrepreneurs… dynamic leaders who made a mark by building their own companies. The focus this week is the North Highland Company and its chairman, David Peterson. North Highland Company is a consulting firm that helps other companies to grow smarter, more efficiently, and more profitably. In the course of their growth, they’ve opened 14 offices, employed more than 600 and embraced a corporate culture that is different from all their competitors. The man who launched the company in the attic of his house is David Peterson.

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Episode # 330
Frank Argenbright
Chairman, AirServ and SecurAmerica

A repeat this month on our series of profiles of Georgia’s Enterprising Entrepreneurs... dynamic leaders who’ve made a mark by building their own companies. This program was taped in front of a studio audience, including students from the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. In our first installment… Frank Argenbright, Chairman and founder of two Georgia-based companies. In 2002 he founded AirServ Corporation to provide outsourced business services to aviation clients. AirServ has grown to over 8,000 employees. In 2005, he founded a sister company, SecurAmerica to provide commercial security services.

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Episode # 423
William Pate
President, Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau

This week: January 1, 2009. The organization charged with bringing tourists and conventioneers to Atlanta gets a new boss. William Pate replaces longtime executive Spurgeon Richardson at the Atlanta Convention and Visitors’ Bureau. William’s organization supports the largest commercial industry in the state, responsible for a quarter million jobs in Atlanta alone and nearly $11 and a half billion dollars in spending. And he is taking over at a time when business is, to say the least, challenged as most businesses these days are.

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Episode # 422
Paula Kerger
President, PBS

This week: the president of PBS. For nearly three years Paula Kerger has led the nation’s largest non-commercial programming service. 348 TV stations including this one. She came from WNET in New York where she established a reputation as a fundraising powerhouse, and prior to that, tenure at the Metropolitan Opera and UNICEF.

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