Atlanta CEO

Crisis Management – Predict, Plan and Execute: Porter Novelli

Crisis Management – Predict, Plan and Execute By Brad MacAfee, Executive Vice President, Porter Novelli Atlanta Just about every Atlanta-area executive has spent some time playing Monday morning quarterback in regards to ChoicePoint, a company that is still making headlines six weeks after revealing it had fallen victim to identity thieves. What many of those […]

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New Domestic Production Activities Deduction: Grant Thornton

  Federal Tax: The New Domestic Production Activities Deduction By Mel Schwarz For many taxpayers, the centerpiece of last year’s tax legislation is the new domestic production activities deduction. Estimated to reduce taxes by more than $76 billion over the next 10 years, this provision primarily benefits those who produce products or build things in […]

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Trademark Considerations in Naming a Corporation: Needle & Rosenberg

  What’s In A Name? Trademark Considerations in Naming a Corporation Bernie Zidar, Esq. TJ DoVale, Esq. Needle & Rosenberg, P.C. www.needlerosenberg.com The name of your newborn company can include the first and probably the most important trademark your company will ever own. Unfortunately, misconceptions about the right way to choose, secure and protect that […]

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CEO Council Member receives Presidential Appointment

President Bush Appoints Atlanta CEO Council Member Greg Peters to National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) Greg Peters is looking forward to the challenges ahead as he’s been recently selected to join President Bush’ exclusive Advisory Council. Comprised of C-level executives from leading companies such as Cisco, eBay and Intel, Greg is in great company.

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Winter 2005 Executive Moves

March 2005 Bellsouth named Mark Feidler as Chief Operating Officer, effective Jan. 1. Feidler joined the company in 1991 as Director of Strategic Transactions, and in January, he was named Chief Staff Officer for BellSouth. VistaScape Security Systems named Steve W. Chaddick to its Board of Directors. Chaddick is currently Senior Vice President and Chief […]

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Trends in Corporate Governance: Korn Ferry International

    Trends in Corporate Governance Highlights of Korn/Ferry’s 30 th Annual Board of Directors Study By Alan Neely, Senior Client Partner, Korn Ferry International When Korn/Ferry International launched our annual Board of Directors Study in 1973, no one could have predicted that corporate governance would be the critical issue that it is today. A […]

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Positive Stockholders Equity: HA&W CPA’s

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD POSITIVE STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY By Mitchell Kopelman, CPA Partner, Habif, Arogeti & Wynne, LLP “When the accountants changed their minds again” Your company may have raised equity in the form of Preferred Stock or Common Stock over the past few years. If so, FASB No. 150 may impact your company’s […]

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Tenants Benefit in Commercial Real Estate Downturn: Miller Richmond

    Tenants Benefit in Commercial Real Estate Downturn David J. Rubenstein, Principal,The Miller Richmond Company Rarely, these days can we go a week without stumbling on doom and gloom articles in the local and national business press about the devastating commercial real estate recession – Rents are down, vacancies are up and tenants continue […]

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Who doesn’t know Ricky Steele? Baron PR

Ricky Steele Who doesn’t know Ricky Steele? by Peter Baron, Principal, BaronPR For so many of us in the Atlanta high tech community, Ricky has been an ever present and towering figure at industry events over the years. It did not take long for most of us to realize that Ricky has a special talent […]

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