December Joaquin Luna has been promoted from Chief Financial Officer to President of USCarrier Telecom, a Southeastern provider of wholesale high-speed long-haul telecommunications transport. Ingenious Med (IM), a provider of inpatient practice management solutions, welcomed S. Hart Williford as Chief Executive Officer. Williford comes to IM from Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah, where he […]

WHY SOME WELL MANAGED COMPANIES FAIL By: Paul Odomirok, Senior Associate, Transformation Systems, Inc. Over the past several months, we’ve all witnessed the failure of numerous well managed companies. A number of reasons have been given for these failures: poor economy, credit crisis, banking crisis, oil crisis, energy crisis, employee costs, material costs, transportation costs, […]

The Landscape for Business Method and Software Patents Has Been Changed: In re Bilski Greg Kirsch T.J. DoVale Scott Anderson Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP The availability of patents for business methods and software implemented processes has been restricted somewhat by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the federal appellate court […]

  Interview with Mike Slawson 1.Most people probably don’t understand the concept of inertial sensors. Please explain the technology you are developing at Qualtre? The two main types of Inertial, or motion, sensors are accelerometers, which essentially sense gravity and linear motion, and gyroscopes, which sense rotational motion. These sensors translate motion into electrical signals, […]

January 14, 2008 The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Buckhead 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. March 10, 2008 The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Buckhead 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.  Executive Receptions “The relationships you create today, build your foundation for the future.”May 12, 2008 The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Buckhead 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. July 21, 2008 The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Buckhead […]