Mark December 3 on your calendar now to attend the Atlanta CEO Council event for Junior Achievement of Atlanta. The goal for this event is to raise funds for the new Junior Achievement business simulation centers being built at the World Congress Center and to register Council members to participate in JA’s Atlanta CEO Council Goes […]

ATLANTA — May 16, 2012 — The Atlanta CEO Council, an exclusive organization for C-level executives, announced today its partnership with Junior Achievement (JA) of Georgia, an organization dedicated to preparing young people to succeed in a global economy. The Council will support the organization’s new program designed to help promote financial literacy and build […]

Atlanta CEO Council awards scholarship funds to Ron Clark Academy

The Atlanta CEO Council enjoys a great evening at Ferrari Maserati of Atlanta with students from the Ron Clark Academy.

Sig Mosley, RCA co-founder Kim Bearden, RCA’s Rosalyn Merrick, Ron Clark, Linnea Geiss and Raj Rajan Atlanta CEO Council hosted a holiday event at Ferrari Maserati of Atlanta to raise scholarship funds for the Ron Clark Academy.

Insights from Merrick Furst: When looking at your own organization, realize that the results are not going to be what you expect. Embrace and learn what makes your system immune to change. On Start-Ups: Change the model; start-ups aren’t companies, they are people with ideas. Bet wide and shallow; give a tiny bit of money […]

Merrick L. Furst, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, runs commercialization and new venture creation and directs undergraduate programs and faculty development in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. He recently founded the anti-botnet startup, Damballa, Inc. Prior to GT he was a professor at UC Berkeley, president of the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley and […]

It was standing room only at The Challenge of Raising Capital,Wednesday, January 26. Thanks to Venture Capital panelists: Gerald Benjamin,Atlanta Equity, Frank Dalton, Fulcrum Equity Partners; Tom Hawkins, Arcapita; Ross Mason, HealthTrain Ventures; and Fred Sturgis, H.I.G. Capital.