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Founder of Pretty in My Pocket

In today’s broadcast, CFOradio interviews Caroline Van Sickle, founder of Pretty in My Pocket, a mobile and web-based solution for helping women shop for beauty products inside brick and mortar retail locations. Caroline won first place in this year’s “Startup Chicks Competition,” an Atlanta-based entrepreneur pitch competition. She was also chosen to pitch in “Startup Riot,” featured on CNN.com.

Caroline is no stranger to digital marketing and advertising. She formerly held project management consulting and sales strategist positions with Sparks Grove digital marketing firm and Time Warner’s AOL Advertising groups and other ad agencies.

Listen as Caroline describes her challenges and opportunities as a burgeoning entrepreneur and some of the ongoing hurdles toward acquiring requisite financing for her venture.

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Carol Fudge, Vice President of Finance for the American Heart Association – Greater Southeast Affiliate, joins CFOradio today at 5pm Eastern, to share her perspective on the role and duties of the chief financial officer for the affiliate.

In addition to her finance responsibilities, Carol also assumes oversight for facilities and technology for the American Heart Association (http://www.americanheart.planyourlegacy.org/southeast.php).

Carol started with the American Heart Association (AHA) in 1998 as the Manager of Affiliate Financial Services where she eventually was promoted to Director. She then assumed the role of managing AHA’s Financial Reporting Department, overseeing AHA’s consolidated financial reporting. In 2009, she was promoted to Vice President-Finance for the Greater Southeast Affiliate, and tasked with streamlining the financial operations for AHA’s second largest affiliate. Prior to joining the American Heart Association, Carol worked in the wireless telecommunication industry in Dallas, Texas.

Learn more about Carol’s journey, challenges, and insight on today’s broadcast of CFOradio.com.

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UK Trade and Investment:  A Bird’s Eye View from Both Sides of the Pond

Tune in as CFOradio host Lorraine Chilvers interviews Annabelle Malins, head of the British Consulate General in Atlanta, Georgia.

Annabelle took up her appointment as Her Majesty’s Consul General in September 2009. She leads a staff working throughout the Southeast on a wide range of issues, including support for British nationals, public diplomacy on the UK government’s policy priorities, scientific co-operation, and trans-Atlantic trade and investment.

Prior to her Atlanta post, Annabelle was the Consul for Science and Innovation at the British Consulate General in San Francisco. In addition to building UK-US bridges in all aspects of science and technology, she led broad-ranging exchanges on climate change and energy issues. She facilitated a collaboration with California on climate change and energy launched by then-Prime Minister Tony Blair and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at Long Beach in 2006.

Listen as Annabelle shares her perspective on the operation of the British Consulate General, the UK’s new Coalition Government and austerity measures, and the current outlook on UK trade and investment.

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Awards and Accolades Aside, Waste To Watts is on a Mission to Improve Lives

Tune in Monday, July 4th, to listen to Christopher Hamman, co-founder of Waste To Watts a new firm that creates innovative products from repurposed electronic waste to meet the growing energy demands of the developing world.

Co-founder Christopher Hamman is an experienced analytical and strategic problem solver with outstanding technical leadership skills, systems modeling expertise, and business and financial acumen. On today’s show, Christopher shares his perspective on W2W’s startup challenges, progress and successes.

After a few minutes hearing Christopher speak, you’ll want to know more about how this organization’s products truly merge innovation, science, business and ethics to improve lives.

W2W commits to following the triple bottom line (3BL) standard of People, Planet, Profit, adopted by the UN which emphasizes “an expanded spectrum of values for measuring organizational success: economic, ecological, and social.”

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