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Tune in and listen to Brett Lockwood, a Partner in the Corporate Practice of Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP and chair of that firm’s Technology Law Practice Group. Brett devotes a substantial portion of his practice to acting as principal outside counsel with his clients, advising on corporate and technology issues and significant transactions matters. In today’s interview, Brett discusses how his practice areas can be critical to successful finance.

Mr. Lockwood is AV Rated (top rating) from Martindale-Hubbell and has been recognized as a Georgia Super Lawyer. His current professional affiliations include serving as a Board member and officer of the Southeast Chapter of the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals, a member of the Executive Committee of the State Bar of Georgia’s Technology Law Section and as a member of the Licensing Executives Society (through which he holds the Certified Licensing Professional designation) and the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG).

Mr. Lockwood previously served as a Board member and/or officer of the Business & Technology Alliance, the Atlanta Electronic Commerce Forum, the Georgia Technology Forum, Literacy Volunteers of America — Metro Atlanta, the Emory University Law School Alumni Council and as the Editor-in-Chief of the Georgia Bar Journal.

Mr. Lockwood received his B.A. degree, cum laude, from the University of North Florida, performed graduate studies at Columbia University’s School of International Affairs and received his J.D. degree, with distinction, from Emory University School of Law. During law school he served as Executive Managing Editor of the Emory Law Journal and received the Laughlin Award for excellence in legal research and writing.

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Listen as CFOradio.com host Lorraine Chilvers interviews Linda Posner-Downing, Fraud Auditor at the Department of Justice. Linda’s experience is in fraud investigations, financial analysis, auditing, internal controls, and government programs compliance in the Healthcare industry.

Prior to her present position, Linda was a Senior Internal Auditor for the St. Joseph’s Candler Health System in Savannah, Georgia. While there, she investigated and reported to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors regarding audit results and investigations, using analysis of financial records, evaluation of public records, interviewing, and assessing intelligence information. She initiated  investigations based on continuous monitoring of financial and operational data and conducted investigations in response to Compliance Hotline tips and Senior Management requests.

In this interview, Linda Posner-Downing will discuss the auditor’s perspective on fraud vigilance and intelligence.

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In this broadcast of CFOradio, host Lorraine Chilvers interviews Stuart Johnson, Managing Partner at Barnes & Thornburg LLP (www.btlaw.com), a 550-person, full service law firm with 12 offices in Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Washington DC, offering cost effective “money center” legal acumen and solutions.

At Barnes & Thornburg, Stuart assists middle-market clients in consummating acquisitions, sales, joint ventures, private equity investments and strategic partnerships. He also counsels private company clients in structuring business relationships between owners, employment matters, succession planning and in federal and state tax matters.

Stuart is on the Global Board of Directors of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) (www.acg.org), and is the Chairman of the 2010 InterGrowth Conference, which is the world’s largest private equity conference. He is a past President, and member of the Board of Directors, of the Atlanta Chapter of the ACG, and he is a founder, and member of the Executive Committee of the ACG Atlanta Capital Connection, which is the largest M&A and private equity conference in the Southeastern United States.

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Jeremy Sperring, CFO, Partner and COO for Frazier & Deeter, is interviewed by host Lorraine Chilvers in our May 30 2011 CFOradio broadcast. Sperring has a multiplicity of roles at this CPA firm that keeps him busy with day-to-day operations, business process efficiencies, and overseeing the administrative and technology functions of the firm in addition to his finance role. Listen as Jeremy describes his career path from audit manager to finance and operations executive.

Jeremy’s background includes performing audits, reviews, compilations and other assurance and attestation services of closely held companies. Additionally, he has extensive experience providing cash flow analysis, financial forecasting and corporate and individual income tax services. In the past, this M.A. Georgia Tech grad has worked with manufacturing, contracting, technology, distribution and professional service entities on the road to his current position.

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Mary Madden is Chairman and Executive Director of the Atlanta office of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).  Mary recently grew Information America, Inc. from $0 to $25 million in profitable revenue with venture capital backing, executed an IPO, and finally the sale of the entire company. The venture capitalist doubled their money.

Mary has experience with several other early stage companies as well as large and later stage companies, who often acquire entrepreneurial companies.  She also has worked to turn around companies that have misjudged the market, ignored financial warning signs, become too complacent to change, or were unable to position themselves strategically in a particular market.

Mary has been active for eight years in the Central Eurasia Leadership Academy providing education and contacts for rising leaders in the nine countries of the Caucasus, Central Asia and Afghanistan.

Listen as this interview describes how this 3-time finalist in Inc.’s ” Entrepreneur of the Year” competition helps turn companies around.

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Listen as CFOradio.com host Lorraine Chilvers interviews Jim Wanserski, founder of Wanserski & Associates.  Jim possesses 30 years of work experience: ten years in consulting, turnaround, financial operations; and over 20 years of telecommunications, high-tech and related services industry experience in finance, accounting and operational roles.  He has held internal audit, telecom management and executive positions with MCI, Telecom USA and Sprint, consulting management with a specialty telecom office within Arthur Andersen Business Consulting, and turnaround consulting with Morris Anderson & Associates, Ltd.

Jim Wanserski is sometimes referred to as a “fraud-buster,” having uncovered fraud multiple times during management roles at Sprint, Telecom USA, MCI, and having assisted several clients in their efforts to identify and/or prevent fraud. In today’s broadcast, Jim will draw upon those experiences, and will present in-depth views of his experiences.

Jim is an independent management consultant, a published author and speaker on a variety of fraud, ethics and operational topics.

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Steve’s career is somewhat untraditional. His career began in Operations Management and transitioned to becoming a CFO when RockTenn’s CEO asked him to take the position.

Listen as he discusses his “ACTIVE” approach to business…kind of the Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs for the finance function.

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Louise Fisher  is the Group Resources Director of XEROX in Europe, having held executive operations and HR roles in a variety of international blue-chip retail organizations including ICY/Fujitsu Services, Hurst Publishing Group and Woolworths.

Through her leadership not only in Europe but across other parts of the world she has a broad international experience of leading the HR functions of companies.  By her mid-twenties she had led the down-sizing of several thousand people.

In a career spanning 30 years, she is an expert in delivering major restructuring and organizational change programs, as well as in acquisitions and disposals – a role where she has worked very closely with CFOs of those companies to achieve success.

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Mark Wendling, Founder and Managing Partner of Bannockburn Securities LLC joins CFOradio.com to share his perspective on coming from the trade/analyst side of finance and how foreign currencies work with the treasury function.

Prior to founding Bannockburn Securities, Mark was a Managing Director of Capital Markets Trading at Fifth Third Bancorp for sixteen years. While there, he managed various aspects of their foreign exchange business assisting clients with currency related issues. Mark is a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) and a graduate of the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio with an Economics & Finance degree, Summa Cum Laude.

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To listen to Jane Fonda and Michele Ozumba’s PODCAST, click on the player bar.

Jane Fonda founded the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention in 1995 to combat Georgia’s number 1 ranking of the highest teen pregnancy rate.  With the help of their organization, Georgia now ranks 10th.

Jane and Michele discuss the social, economic and financial aspects of their non-profit.  Not only do they serve young girls who may have their first child as young as 10 years old, but they save the State of Georgia $224 million per year by doing so.  Many non-profit organizations have felt the strong impact of the economic downturn, however, they create a positive “GDP” for Georgia in the work they do. 

Listen to our conversation as Jane and Michele explain how childhood pregnancy is an economic and financial issue impacting the poorest demographic and how GCAPP achieves this positive impact on the state’s economy and to their clients.

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