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As Chief Executive Officer of Delaney Consulting LLC, Lorraine J. Chilvers leads the company’s executive financial management services, concentrating on delivering financial leadership to Fortune 1000 companies and fast-growing private companies. Delaney Consulting provides interim management, project-based consulting, and executive placement.
 
Prior to founding Delaney Consulting, Chilvers’ career included being a Partner with the largest executive services firm in the U.S. and the finance executive for two Fortune 500 companies. For over 20 years, Chilvers has actively managed business solutions and relationships for a number of larger clients. In addition to providing traditional business advisory services, Chilvers assists key clients with forensic reviews, business transformations, Sarbanes-Oxley implementation, and outsourced accounting services.
 
Chilvers began her career with Grant Thornton U.K. LLP before relocating to the U.S. She has led the financial operations of large and small firms alike, from a two-person accounting team to large, public companies in crisis. Her credentials include financial restatement for the world’s largest fraud and bankruptcy, Big 6 public accounting, and consulting within telecommunications, manufacturing, logistics, and technology industry sectors. As Partner and Regional Practice Leader of Tatum LLC, she led the Atlanta Accounting & Finance and Regional Technology Services practices. Chilvers was hired to the executive team of Novelis, Inc., an $8 billion start-up and spin-off from Alcan, to establish a corporate compliance and SEC finance function for Canadian and U.S. entities, and in 2005, Chilvers received the CEO “Award for Exceptional Achievement” for her role in leading Novelis’ financial restatement.
 
As Senior Director of WorldCom/MCI, the largest fraud and bankruptcy in the world, she led the 4-year financial restatement and $10 billion AR function for North and South America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. In 2003, she received WorldCom’s highest honor, the “Circle of Excellence Award.” As Practice Manager of Parson Consulting, the “#1 Fastest Growing Private Company in 2000” (Inc. Magazine), Chilvers was instrumental in the growth of the Atlanta consulting practice and managed the firm’s largest client. Chilvers managed the Global Consolidated Reporting and SEC functions for John H. Harland (Harland Clarke). Her clients also included AT&T (BellSouth), Cingular Wireless, Federal Home Loan Bank, TIAA-CREF, Travelogix, Turner Broadcasting/CNN, Internap, and WorldSpan.
 
Chilvers holds a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Business Studies with a concentration in Accounting, from the University of Teesside (U.K.). She was awarded a 1st class for her thesis, “Implementing Accounting Systems in Compliance with the Companies Act.”
 
In 2010, Lorraine Chilvers launched CFOradio™, an internet radio program by and for CFOs and Senior Financial Executives, to share real-time perspectives and tips on the finance function of today and tomorrow. CFOradio is also an education platform for academic and business finance curricula as it hosts leading financial executives from small-to-large public and private companies and nonprofits. Chilvers is passionate about education of and best practices for the finance function. In addition to CFOradio, she oversees DelaneyLearning™ and Delaney Dbooks™ (Delaney’s educational programs) and is a frequent speaker and mentor to Fortune 1000 companies, a network of entrepreneurs, professional associations and universities.
 
Chilvers is active in the business and volunteer communities, proffering her time and talent to the boards of Financial Executives International (FEI); British American Business Group (BABG); the local chapter of Zonta International, a non-governmental organization to the United Nations (U.N.) with consultative status to International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Council of Europe; and TheaterTek, Inc. Previously she served on the boards of the World Chamber of Commerce, the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). She is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG). Her nonprofit work includes assisting the U.N. and CIFAL Atlanta with the “Global Leadership Initiative on Gender Equalities” program chaired by the Mayor of Atlanta. She also speaks on the topics of domestic violence and human trafficking.

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Andy Lipman, who has cystic fibrosis, is 37 years old, the current median life expectancy for people with the disease. However, Lipman’s life expectancy now far exceeds the expected.  
In 2000, Lipman established an annual charity softball tournament benefiting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.  The event honors the memory of his sister, who died of cystic fibrosis in infancy.  Lipman’s experiences dealing with CF inspired him to write Alive at 25:  How I’m Beating Cystic Fibrosis in 2001. 

Lipman, a certified Toastmaster speaker, was chosen as the finale conference speaker of the Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Center at CDC. He was selected to run with the Olympic Torch for the 2002 Olympic Games for his work with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and received the Excellence in Community Service Award from the NBC affiliate in Atlanta in 2006. More recently, he was interviewed for a piece called Living with a Disability on WABE radio, and featured in articles in the “Dunwoody Crier”, “Jewish Georgian”, and “400 Edition” magazine.
Lipman’s novel, A Superhero Needs No Cape, was published in 2006. Centered on a boy’s dream of playing major league baseball, the story is an uplifting message to young adults and teenagers about the power of hard work, determination and positive attitude. 
His recently completed the manuscript for The Drive at 35, which is scheduled for release later this year, chronicles his journey of discovery in the methods for beating cystic fibrosis mentally as well as physically, and shares his vision for living positively, contributing to the community at large and attaining seemingly elusive goals.

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 Cary Green

Cary Green has been in the IT Services industry for over 25 years.  His background includes Sales, Engineering, Operations, Business Development and General Management. Currently he is working for CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation) where he is responsible to develop the solution offering for the pursuit of IT Outsourcing opportunities valued at greater than $500MM Total Contract Value (TCV). In his past he has worked for Bell Atlantic, Digital Equipment Corporation, Siemens and SITA.  He has managed P&L’s of over $175MM in a global setting having done business in all continents except Antarctica.  He’s held Board seats at CertiPath and the Aerospace Industry Association.  Locally, he is active with the Boy Scouts of America, The Kettering Executive Network, The Technology Association of Georgia, and  The Project Management Institute. Cary lives in Cumming with his wife of 25 years and their teenage son.

 Leigh Moore, MSW, PHR, CPRW, FJST

Leigh Moore, President of Bridge Career Management, Inc. is a Career Coach & Trainer with more than 15 years’ experience in resume writing and career coaching for both the private sector and Federal government job markets. 

After 9/2011 Leigh earned a Federal Job Search Trainer designation and began working with clients pursuing positions in the Federal arena.  She was featured on WGST Radio 640 Atlanta in March, 2003 and July, 2004 and in the Atlanta Journal Constitution in June, 2003, and January, 2011 regarding the federal job search process. Additionally, Leigh teaches meditation classes for Evening at Emory and has traveled to India, Mexico, and Switzerland to attend meditation retreats.

Eric Bell

Eric has been in the franchising industry for almost 10 years, starting out as a franchisee with the popular tanning concept Hollywood Tans.  Eric also oversaw operations for the Atlanta area, and even sold franchises.  In October of 2005 he joined FranchiseGator.com, the leading online destination for those seeking to invest in a business or franchise opportunity  Eric began his career with FranchiseGator.com as a sales representative, serving franchisors and other companies that had an opportunity to present to budding entrepreneurs, and by 2008 he was managing the sales team.   In his current role as Director of Sales and Service, Eric works very closely with the 300+ clients who use their services to find prospective franchisees.  Eric is very active in the franchising community, and is a member of the International Franchise Association (IFA) and the Southeast Franchise Forum (SEFF).