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Everett helps CEOs build world-class B2B sales and service. He founded Catalytic Advisors in 2011 to focus on manufacturing and distribution clients with revenues between $50 and $250 million. His point of difference is his operating experience combined with a passion for competitive strategy. Catalytic Advisors is known for delivering outstanding value to clients by drawing upon a network of specialists in areas such as lead generation, sales compensation, CRM implementation, sales training, and leadership development.

Everett is a veteran of Coca-Cola Enterprises, Rohm & Haas, and DuPont whose first career was in sales for small manufacturing companies.

In his most recent operating role, Everett was SVP and General Manager for a $250 million unit of Hostess Brands, which included 850 unionized Route Sales Representatives and a key account team calling on mass merchandiser, grocery, drug, and convenience store customers in the southeast. Prior to that, he was a senior executive at Coca-Cola Enterprises, formerly Coca-Cola’s largest bottler worldwide. As Vice President, On Premise Sales and Foodservice, North America, Everett was responsible for the gross profit performance of a $1 billion business with a sales force of 1,200.

Everett established his General Manager track record of driving simultaneous top-line growth and cost control by building great teams, developing a shared vision, installing metrics and management routines, and applying technology to standardize high-volume business processes. He has built and optimized numerous field sales, key account sales, call center, and technical service organizations in addition to distribution operations. He has been a featured speaker in sales and technology forums.

Bob Kelly is Chairman of The Sales Management Association, a global, cross-industry association for sales management and sales operations.  The Sales Management Association serves members in 30+ countries with research, content, workshops, and peer networking resources.

In October, SMA hosts the annual Sales Productivity and Performance Management Conference.  From 2003 to 2009, Mr. Kelly was Vice President of Sales Operations and Strategy at Genuine Parts Company (NYSE:GPC).

Previously, Mr. Kelly was Senior Director of Business Planning, and Director of Marketing Strategy at MCI WorldCom; from 1994 to 1998 he was a management consultant in The Alexander Group’s sales force effectiveness practice, supporting clients in the technology, telecommunications, and healthcare industries.

Robert Kelly holds an MBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, and a B.A. from Washington and Lee University.

Jill Pollard began her professional career at U.S. Franchise Systems, Inc. (USFS), a national hotel franchise company, headquartered in Atlanta, GA.  She held positions in marketing, sales, and operations while at USFS.

In 2001, Jill transitioned into academia, when she returned to Emory University, her alma mater.  She joined the BBA Program at Emory’s Goizueta Business School as the Assistant Director, and in 2002, became the Associate Director, overseeing advising for all BBA students and advisor training.

Jill earned her MBA from Goizueta in 2007 with a focus in Organization & Management, and specifically Leadership Development.  She also worked with the school’s senior leadership to develop a leadership competency model for Goizueta that is the foundation for leadership programming for all degree programs across the school.

In 2008, she developed and launched the BBA Leadership Program, including an internal 360 degree assessment and individual coaching sessions, and was promoted to Director, Advising and Leadership Development.  Under Jill’s direction, the BBA Leadership Programming continued to expand, with service leadership as a central component.  In 2011 Jill left her position at Emory to focus exclusively on coaching.

She began coaching at the senior executive level at The Coca Cola Company in January 2010.  Jill became a Birkman certified consultant and completed a coaching training program at the Center for Creative Leadership in 2010.  She has been coaching at CSX since January 2011.  She is also a coach in Emory’s Executive Education program.

Jill has played a major role and has been instrumental in the creation, organization and development of Head Coach, Inc.  Among her coaching interests are high-potential mid-career leaders, managing work-family activities and responsibilities, and the complementary development of physical and mental fitness.

Jill resides in Atlanta with her husband and their three children and is an avid runner.

Duane Gingrich is a strategic marketing and business development leader. He effectively develops strategic and competitive advantage – and creates customer and enterprise value.  He advances strategies and plans for reaching and serving the right customers, in the right markets, through the right channels, with the right products, and the right value proposition. Duane has led the marketing and business development efforts in several significant and successful business and product startups with rapid and sustained profitable growth – strategically developed to gain and sustain market-driven and customer-focused competitive advantage and value.

Duane has three decades of strategy, marketing and business development leadership experience with world-class, industry-leading logistics and supply chain management organizations. His experience includes over fifteen years in management with UPS, a Fortune 50 company that is one of the most recognized and admired brands in the world, and where he successfully developed a global product portfolio in excess of a billion dollars.

He was one of two partners with UPS Supply Chain Solutions from the original startup team to $8 billion in annual revenue, and was also Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Schneider National, another multi-billion dollar market leader.

Recognized as a positive, customer-focused, results-oriented professional with integrity, business acumen and common sense, Duane’s professional competencies include researching and assessing market, customer, competitive, and internal environments. He also assesses market positioning, product offerings, and capabilities and resources to competitively deliver customer value.

Duane holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in International Business and lives in Atlanta, GA.

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With an aging work force, retirees outnumbering the active employees and a volatile economy; employers are searching for the solution to reduce their retiree medical costs. We have created a turn-key operation to reduce the risk, cost and exposure to medical claims. This turn-key operation can be customized to meet each employer’s individual needs as well as remove the burden from Human Resource Division.

It was a fateful day that brought a telephone call from her grandmother that set her on this path. She had received notification that the corporate retiree medical plan had been cancelled, leaving her grandparents anxious and not knowing where to turn. Through this process, Cambria realized that there wasn’t anywhere to turn to learn about Medicare but there were plenty of people “selling” Medicare products.

As she worked with more and more people on the individual front and realized there has to be a better way to protect people, she created Transitions, RBG. Where Retirees receive the “Soft Landing” they deserve. Transitions RBG was created as a result of this situation, a firm that believes in education, counseling and full customer service support.

Cambria graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Family, Child and Consumer and Sciences and a minor in Elementary Education from Florida State University.  Cambria currently lives in the Atlanta area with her husband of 11 years and her two daughters Addison and Meghan. As a person who has always wanted to make the world a better place, she is doing it now by helping people navigate their Medicare needs.

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BARRY OGLE, with 20 years plus executive experience is a seasoned professional in the area of organizational and executive development. At BMG, he providesleadership development, performance driver intelligence, change management, executive coaching, hospitality training, and more.  Recent clients include a major hospitality service provider, a national sports merchandise company, and mega-churches. He earned a B.S. Degree in Business and Master of Arts degrees’ in Counseling and Education. He has spoken at global executive conferences including but not limited to the Linkage GILD (Global Institute of Leadership Development).

His tenured business career includes hospitality giants such as Marriott, Walt Disney World, and Wyndham Worldwide, as well as banking institutions First USA and Chase Paymentech. Prior to BMG, he served as VP Leadership Enrichment & Hospitality Training for Wyndham where he was responsible for developing 1,400 leaders and providing operational and customer service training for approximately 6,000 employees at 150 global resorts and contact centers. With years of experience honing his skills as an expert in corporate leadership development, he’s adept at building a pipeline of successful leaders and engaging all levels of employees for greater productivity.

Recently, Barry served on the Advisory Board of the Central Florida Christian Chamber of Commerce and chaired the Chamber Ministry Business Alliance (CMBA), a sub-group with over 80 member organizations. CMBA’s mission is to Unite Ministries and Businesses to Build, Equip and Serve Together.
In 1996 Dianne founded Business Momentum Group.  With 20 years plus of solid business expertise, Dianne’s experience has ranged from growing and small to mid size businesses to working with Fortune 500 companies.  Her accomplishments range from creating, launching and growing a 501c3 professional CEO peer group organization with chapters in Dallas and Houston to building healthy growth for other non profits.  Dianne’s infectious passion motivates in assisting companies grow and develop their organizations from the inside out.

Dianne loves to come alongside leaders infusing her expertise to help them fulfill their visions as well as their personal and professional aspirations. As an executive coach, she has helped her clients soar to new heights.

In 2011, Dianne launched a C-Level Women’s Executive group in Orlando, Florida called Areté-Executive Women of Influence.

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Dave is a leading authority on how to plug 21st-century strategic marketing techniques and enabling technology into businesses to drive performance.

Dave co-authored Enterprise Marketing Management: The New Science of Marketing. This ground-breaking book puts ROI at the center of everything Marketing does by enabling companies to create sustained, profitable, organic growth.

Industry analysts such as Forrester Research, Gartner Group, AMR Research, and publications such as Fortune, Forbes, Business 2.0, CEO, and The Advertiser regularly look to Dave for strategic marketing insight.

In his work with clients, Dave delivers a truly unique package of credentials and expertise: blending the art of a marketer with the science of an engineer and the business acumen of a former public company CEO.

Global 2000 organizations seek out Dave to help them develop compelling marketing and sales strategies to grow their businesses. His clients have included McDonalds, Blockbuster, Coca-Cola, ConAgra Foods, Eli Lilly, Georgia-Pacific, Kimberly-Clark, Miller Brewing and RaceTrac.

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Leslie Becker is Vice President of Sales and Operations at 32^nd St. Media.  Her previous experience as an executive at AT&T prepared her for this role. Leslie knows how to build winning sales teams and develop strategic partnership with customers. She has found these skills necessary to lead the sales and operation initiatives for the company.

Leslie has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience. She has held sales leadership assignments in New Jersey, North Carolina, Minneapolis before relocating to Atlanta. Leslie led a team of sales executives and managed a revenue base of more than $200M. Leslie supported some of the largest customers, including Best Buy, US Bank, 3M and Norfolk Southern.

Leslie won numerous awards for her sales and marketing leadership.

She is an AT&T Leaders Council winner, a premier award of distinction, for sales leadership. Leslie was also named by The Business Journal of Minneapolis as one of the “25 Women to Watch”.

Leslie served on the Board of Directors for Junior Achievement of the Upper Midwest and Downtown YMCA. In her role as Executive Committee member she was instrumental in supporting the planning and development of the organization. Leslie is a graduate of The Ohio State University with a B.A. in Fine Arts.

Regenald J. Flake has 30 years of experience in broadcast TV and a passion for technology and media services. He and Leslie L. Becker, a former sales executive with AT&T, had a vision to create content for businesses on the web. It became a company known as 32^nd St. Media.

32^nd St. Media creates content for companies that allows them to tie brand exposure to a “call to action”. Companies are investing in social media and marketing campaigns to gain a better return. Customers who purchase content from 32^nd St. Media are uniquely positioned to understand how viewers of their videos will translate into digital touch points.  This content will create awareness for companies that can differentiate their products from the competition.