The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) is a world-class

membership organization, serving the mission to help Georgia’s technology companies speak in a strong voice. TAG is dedicated to the promotion and economic advancement of the state's technology industry. TAG brings the technology community together through events, initiative programs and networking opportunities. TAG serves as an umbrella organization for 27 special interest groups, or Societies, including Women in Technology (WIT). The TAG Education Collaborative (TAG-Ed), TAG’s charitable arm, is focused on helping science, technology, engineering & math (STEM) education initiatives thrive.

This year, TAG brings additional value to its members and the technology community through its partnership with SHRM-Atlanta in the conference. TAG is hosting Technology Row—a row of booths representing TAG’s member companies and technology community in Georgia. Be sure to stop by to learn about the latest in technology and connect with top TAG companies.

In addition to Technology Row, the Technology Association of Georgia is proud to present the Technology Track of sessions, new this year, to the SHRM-Atlanta Conference. This two-day track features members of TAG’s Board of Directors, as well as representatives from Georgia’s leading technology companies. TAG’s track of programs offer the technology angle in industries such as Analytics, Security, Healthcare, and Business in a Down Economy. Participants will also get the chance to hear success stories from Georgia’s emerging companies, and learn of new, innovative technologies that will affect both the HR and technology industries.

TAG would like to thank SHRM-Atlanta for their partnership, friendship and ongoing support. We would also like to thank our speakers, panelists and moderators for their participation in this year’s Technology Track.

Thank you for joining us for TAG’s inaugural year at the 20th-Annual SHRM-Atlanta Trade Show and Conference!

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TAG Partners with SHRM

Sandra Hofmann serves as CIO-in-residence for the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) at Georgia Tech, a nationally recognized science and technology incubator helping launch and build successful Georgia companies through strategic business advice and connections. Her leadership has resulted in recognition including Georgia CIO of the Year 2003 from Georgia CIO Leadership Association (GCLA) 2003 & 2004 finalists for Woman of the Year in Technology by TAG's Women in Technology (WIT). She was named Mentor of the Year by PathBuilders, Inc. Sandra currently serves as President and Board Director for Women in Technology, and as a member of the TechBridge and the Technology Association of Georgia Board of Directors.

Joan L. Tolliver has been instrumental in the development and growth of the HR function within Cbeyond. Since joining Cbeyond in 2000, the company has grown from 35 to more than 1,700 employees. Her responsibilities include the design and administration of compensation and benefits; employee relations; corporate recruitment & staffing; management and compliance training; culture and internal communications. Prior to Cbeyond, Ms. Tolliver set up and ran the HR Department at Dallas-based NexTrend, Inc. She began her HR career at Intermedia Communication as the Director of HR, where during her tenure, the company grew from 26 to more than 3,000 employees. She is experienced in the education field as both an educator and school counselor.

Elizabeth Wysong’s career as an HR leader spans over 20-years in three industries with a wide range of responsibilities. She currently serves on the HR leadership team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta as Director of HR Technology, where she leads the design, development, implementation and optimization of Human Resources technology systems in support of HR and organizational people strategies. Children's has been nationally recognized as a premier employer by Fortune and Working Mother magazines, as a top learning organization by Training Magazine, while ranking among the nation's best pediatric hospitals by Child magazine and U.S. News & World Report. Liz currently serves as the President of SHRM-Atlanta, SHRM’s largest city chapter.

TAG Technology Track Tuesday Sessions

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Cigdem Delano is the Chief Information Officer of Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM). A private, historically black, relatively young, institution with a distinctive and largely public mission. Ms. Delano is responsible for implementing an information technology strategy that addresses the needs of the school’s academic, research, clinical, and administrative needs. She was a finalist in the Atlanta Telecom Professional of the Year award in 2009. And

she was recently named a finalist in the Georgia CIO Leadership Association’s 2010 Georgia CIO of the Year Awards. Ms. Delano is currently on the boards of Hands on Atlanta and the American Turkish Friendship Council.

Michael Hartness is Executive Vice President of Enterprise Delivery Services for SunTrust Banks, Inc. In this role, Mr. Hartness is responsible for Enterprise Delivery Services which includes Information Technology Application Software Delivery, IT Architecture, Client Relationship Management, IT Planning and Corporate Project Management. He is based in Atlanta. Mr. Hartness has spent 36 years with SunTrust in various management responsibilities throughout Georgia and Florida. His experience at SunTrust has spanned all areas of Information Technology and Banking Operations Management such as IT Risk Management, IT Infrastructure, and Technology and Operational Planning.

1:45pm—2:45pm

CIOs & HR: Building the Relationship Historically striving for a "seat at the table", both IT and HR executives are increasingly becoming powerful partners in their shared quest to deliver value and drive innovation within the organization. With technology changes accelerating at breakneck speeds, these two functional areas must align for effective change management and transformational opportunities. This cross-functional panel of executives will discuss the intersection of technology issues like mobile workers, 24/7 culture, and exploding social media with the HR policies and practices. The panel will also touch on issues like access to talent, labor shortages and outsourcing as opportunities for partnering.

TAG Technology Track

Monday; October 18th

8:00am - 9:00am Lessons Learned in Start-up Land Joan Herbig, ControlScan

9:45am - 10:45am Power Management of The Most Important Asset You Have – Analytics To Supercharge Human Resource Performance Panel Discussion

11:00am - 2:00pm Technology and Information Security Trends - Issues and Concerns for HR Professionals Panel Discussion

1:15pm - 2:15pm Technology in the 21

st Century Marketsphere:

Applying Technology Solutions to HR’s ―Pain Points‖

Panel Discussion

Tuesday; October 19th

8:15am - 9:15am Uncovering the Undocumented in Every Business Andy Monin, Vendormate

10:00am - 11:00am The Health IT Prescription For Health Care Dr. Mark Braunstein, Health Systems Institute

11:15am - 12:15pm Innovation in Our Backyard – Georgia’s Innovative HR Technologies

Panel Discussion

1:45pm - 2:45pm CIO & HR: Building a Partnership

Panel Discussion

**all sessions will be held in TAG Breakout Classroom 120

TAG Partners with SHRM Agenda

8:00am—9:00am

Lessons Learned in Start-up Land Joan Herbig, Chief Executive Officer, ControlScan

In this session, “Lessons learned from Start-up Land”, serial CEO Joan Herbig will discuss the top 10 lessons learned during her 25-year career in early-stage technology companies. Most of this “education” came from the school of hard-knocks, and Joan will provide practical tips on topics that include the importance of listening, the dynamics of growing teams and the fundamental characteristics for success in early stage companies.

Joan Herbig has over 20 years experience in the high-tech world. She has served in many roles throughout her career and has managed her teams to consistently successful outcomes. Named CEO of ControlScan in

September 2007, Joan is responsible for business operations and is focused on growing the company's revenues and expanding its position as a leading PCI compliance and security provider focused on small- to medium-sized merchants. As a long standing contributor to the Georgia technology community, Joan serves on the Board of Directors for the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), and served as its Chairman in 2008. She was also named 2001 Woman of the Year in Technology by Women in Technology (WIT).

9:45am—10:45am

Power Management of The Most Important Asset You Have – Analytics To Supercharge Human Resource Performance One of the biggest technology trends across every industry and in every business function is the exponential growth in the use of Analytics to help super-charge employees, managers and executives to manage their business. Increasingly the ability to manage a business tightly is “table stakes” for global, national or local competitiveness as every market wrings out excess costs and the positive and negative business impacts of management capability and employee behavior become ever more amplified. This is no less important in the management of the most important resource an entity has, the Human Resource. HR leaders are at the center of a long list of major socio-economic and business trends including the replacement of the boomer generation with the new working generations, increasing diversification of the workforce and markets, the increasing geographical distribution of resources, increasing pressures on workforce productivity, changing markets after one of the 3 deepest global recessions in the past 100 years, increasing government responsibility and on and on. Whether a for-profit enterprise, non-profit enterprise or government we will explore what is possible and what the market leaders are doing with Analytics to maximize the return on investment of their people.


Armistead Whitney is the founder and CEO of Preparis, a global technology company helping Fortune 1000 corporations and organizations of all sizes prepare their workforce for terrorism, pandemics, natural disasters, and other 21

st Century threats. Mr. Whitney

has been featured in numerous media outlets including CNN, ABC News, NBC, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and USA Today and participated as a key speaker at industry events and conferences such as SHRM, National Association of Broadcasters, Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Senate Homeland Defense Conference, Digital Hollywood, and numerous other panels.

Mike Veronesi has over 15 years of human resource, recruiting, sales, and management experience in companies ranging from start-up to Fortune 500 organizations. Since launching TALENThire.com in 2004 Mike has helped lead the Company from a direct hire marketplace into a full flexible workforce solution organization with clients such as AOL, Brandsmart and CBeyond. Previously he was Director of Human Resources at Budget Rent a Car, where he led a team responsible for recruiting, training, payroll, benefits, and culture.


Eric Blumthal has over 21 years of success as a technology sales executive. He is now CEO of count5, a software company that improves sales communicat ions, coaching and change management. Prior to count5, Eric was Senior Director of Customer Relationship Management at enterprise software provider Knowlagent, where he improved sales from existing customers by over 800%. As Vice President of System Sales at Stratix Corporation, Eric turned around a failing systems division which now produces over $80 million in revenue.

Shannon W Russo is the Chief Executive Officer for Kinetix. Shannon founded Kinetix with the goal of creating a firm that could help growing companies get the talent they need to compete. She thought it would be cool to build a company with the ability to deliver a triple play in an integrated way: RPO, Staffing and Recruiting and HR Consulting. Kinetix is a recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) firm for growth companies.

Joe Gruca is currently President and CEO of Toomah, LLC an innovative interview management company which automates early phone screens and provides analytics and language assessment tools for high volume hiring environments such as Contact Centers and Staffing firms. Toomah was named the winner of the TAG/GRA Business Launch competition as the top technology company for 2010 in the state of Georgia. Joe brings over 25 years of Sales Leadership and Executive management experience, in a variety of industries including enterprise software, Information Technology, and Telecommunications.

11:15am—12:15pm

Innovation in Our Backyard – Georgia’s Innovative HR Technologies HR Practitioners search far and wide to find technology solutions to their challenges. The great news is that we have a tremendous amount of innovation right here in Georgia. Further, these new age solutions innovate by incorporating high-touch with high-tech! Learn what challenges local companies are addressing and confront your bias that says that many HR issues cannot be solved via technology.


As COO of VueLogic, Ron Garmon is responsible for leading the company's overall business strategy and guiding day-to-day operations. Ron brings over 20 years of international executive management experience to the VueLogic team. Ron’s brings extraordinary depth and understand to the issue of managing and monetizing consumer data in privacy protected environments. Ron’s commitment to improving consumers experience and a site owner’s profitability while ensuring data privacy are foundational to VueLogic’s solutions.

Dave Upton is the Vice President of Sales for Information Builders’ Southern Region, a role he has held for the past four years. Information Builders is an industry leader in Business Intelligence and Integration software. Dave started his career at IBM, where he spent sixteen years in a variety of sales management roles. Dave also has worked in sales management at EMC and Sequent, before co-founding Gazelle Consulting, a business intelligence and data warehousing consultancy in 2000.

Sanjay Bhatia is a first generation American, inventor, entrepreneur and pioneer in decision science and interactive data visualization. Sanjay is founder of Izenda, the market leader in self-service reporting for Microsoft's ASP.NET platform. The company has been highlighted by Microsoft for its refreshingly simple approach to data analytics, is an ATDC Graduate and has been named one of the most innovative companies in georgia by TAG. TechAmerica nominated Izenda "Cool Technology" of the year. Sanjay has also won TIE entrepreneur of the year award as well as The Apex society's Power 30 under 30.

Graham Clark currently serves as the South USA VP for Touchbase, a global leader in helping midsized, multi-national and multi-regional clients optimize Collaboration, Communication and Customer Contact related business operations and technologies. Graham also serves on the board of 4 startup companies helping grow the largest from $0-$50m in revenues generated in just 5 years. Born in the UK and residing in Atlanta since 1990 Graham brings 29 years experience in analysis, consulting, organizational leadership and entrepreneurship. Much of this time has been focused on the use of analytics based approaches for improving employee, customer and business partner effectiveness and satisfaction levels.

TAG Technology Track Monday Sessions

Chris Bauserman is a Program Director, and responsible for product management and strategy of IBM Tivoli security and compliance software products and has over 15 years experience leading and executing technology based business strategies. Chris has previously worked as a consultant to several startup companies in the fields of homeland security, home automation, and new media product design. Chris began his career in management consulting where he advised Global 2000 clients on the strategic use of information technology.

Roy Hadley leads the Cloud Computing and Cyber Security team at Barnes & Thornburg, LLP. He has an extensive background in counseling clients in complex corporate transactions, particularly those involving outsourcing, information security, intellectual property and technology. His previous roles as general counsel and chief privacy officer in the corporate sector have provided him with invaluable insight on the impact of legal issues on his clients' business needs and allow him to provide them with "real world" solutions.

Brad Childress is Executive Vice President of Sales for nuBridges. Prior to joining nuBridges, Brad was President of The Complex Sale, Inc., a leading sales consulting and training firm where he was responsible for all company operations globally. In that role he worked with dozens of software companies such as Oracle, SAP and Manhattan Associates to achieve sales excellence by optimizing their sales processes. Brad spent 13 years at MSA and Dun & Bradstreet Software, holding key executive roles in field sales and product marketing. Prior to MSA, he spent seven years at Automatic Data Processing (ADP).

11:00am - 12:00pm

Technology and Information Security Trends - Issues and Concerns for HR Professionals

This session will highlight and explore current technology and information security trends and related issues and concerns for human resources professionals. Our panel of industry leaders will provide thoughtful insight on current technology trends and how those trends are impacting their business and the personnel assets. The panel will discuss how they see technology evolving and how the enterprise, and HR professionals, must also evolve in order to stay relevant in the marketplace.


10:00am—11:00am

The Health IT Prescription For Health Care Mark Braunstein, M.D., Health Systems Institute

The US has the world’s most expensive and complex health care system and yet we compare poorly with other countries with regard to our quality of care. This is not only one of the most serious problems facing governmental policy makers but it’s a competitiveness issue for US business. Many people, including our last two presidents, feel that health information technology can be a critical part of the strategy for reducing cost and improving quality. This talk will explain the reasons for this belief and provide a high level overview of the new federal programs to achieve widespread and meaningful deployment of HIT. We’ll also look at what this will mean for business in Georgia and how it can play a role in assuring success.

Dr. Mark Braunstein is the Associate Director of the Health Systems Institute, and teaches health informatics. He is involved in research aimed at wider and deeper adoption of health information technology to improve the quality and efficiency of care delivery. He was co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Patient Care Technologies, Inc. ("PtCT"), an ATDC Graduate company, a 1998 Inc 500 company, and a leading provider of electronic patient record and care management systems to the home care industry. PtCT was acquired by MEDITECH in 2007.


8:15am—9:15am

Uncovering the Undocumented in Every Business Andy Monin, Vendormate CEO

From start-up to over 1,200 hospital customers in less than 6 years, Vendormate has solved the need to capture, credential and monitor the various individuals and entities that pose a threat to a safe working environment. Vendormate founder and CEO, Andy Monin will take you through their company story of how they revealed the need to know every individual roaming the halls of a hospital. From administrators, physicians and volunteers to contractors, vendors and medical school students, hospitals depend on the credentials and competencies of these "non-W-2" employees to deliver quality care.

Andy Monin is Founder, Chairman and CEO of Vendormate, a business credentialing and compliance solution for over 1,200 acute care hospital clients across the US. Vendormate was recognized by INC Magazine as the #1 Fastest Growing Privately held software company in 2010. Mr. Monin is responsible for the overall strategic direction and vision of the organization. Prior to founding Vendormate, Mr. Monin co-founded BroadSource, a telecommunications expense management software and solutions company. Mr. Monin served as Chairman of the Board and successfully led the company’s sales efforts, as the company became a member of the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) incubator.


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Tyler Winkler is Executive Vice President of SecureWorks. He joined SecureWorks in 2002 and today is responsible for all European operations as well as global sales, business development, consulting services and marketing. Prior to joining SecureWorks, Winkler was Vice President of Sales for SafeNet, a leading provider of information security products based in Belcamp, Maryland. Winkler began his career at ICARUS as a commission-only salesperson eventually launching their Latin American and European offices before taking over as Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing.

Tony Spinelli is Senior Vice President, Chief Security Officer, Corporate Security & Compliance for Equifax, Inc. In this role, Mr. Spinelli oversees six global organizations to include Security Compliance & Risk, Security Operations, Physical Security, Security Engineering, Investigations and Fraud, and Ethics. He has responsibility for the global security, regulatory compliance, and risk posture for Equifax. With deep industry expertise, Mr. Spinelli was honored in 2008 with an appointment to the United States Department of Defense, Information Assurance Board. He also maintains an external presence on corporate advisory boards of leading information security companies and is a member of Consumer Credit Counseling Service’s Board of Directors.

Val Rahmani serves as the Chief Executive Officer, bringing to Damballa over 25 years of customer-driven business and technical leadership. Prior to Damballa, Val served as General Manager of IBM's Internet Security Systems (ISS) division after IBM's $1.3 billion acquisition of the company. At ISS, she was responsible for the strategic direction, growth and integration of all ISS products, services and research into IBM's overall security offerings. Prior to ISS, Val held several general management roles within IBM, including multi-billion dollar hardware, software and services businesses. Her IBM experience includes UNIX, mainframe, telco, utilities, global wireless and media markets in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.


Todd Boney joined PreVisor in 2005 as CFO and assumed responsibility for PreVisor’s international business activities in 2009. With over two decades of experience in finance including over fifteen years experience with money center banks (First Chicago and Citibank) and a regional bank (KeyBank). During that time, Mr. Boney focused on financing leveraged buy-outs for private equity groups as well as rapidly growing companies. In 1999, Mr. Boney joined Magnequench as CFO and was a member of a small management team that transformed the private equity backed company from a single facility company based outside of Indianapolis into a multinational company with operations in Europe, North America, and Asia. The transformation of Magnequench was accomplished in a one-year period.

1:15pm—2:15pm

Technology in the 21st

Century Marketsphere: Applying

Technology Solutions to HR’s ―Pain Points‖

Technology is ubiquitous in today’s business and consumer world. In solving HR’s most challenging issues of the day technology plays a critical role. Always at the top of the list in tough economies are reducing the cost of day-to-day HR processes, supporting managers in people management and deriving benefits that can only be accessed through technology. Chris Reinking, Partner and co-founder of Jabian Consulting will moderate a panel of leading C-Levels in reviewing their latest successes and how HR and technology played a role in these headlines.

As EarthLink's Chief People Officer, Stacie Hagan leads the company's Human Resources Organization. Stacie's top priorities are to ensure the company has the right talent at all levels, provide leadership resources for the Executives and Board of Directors, and create engaging employee programs that attract, retain and motivate employees to deliver on EarthLink's strategy as an IP Infrastructure & Solutions company. Stacie joined EarthLink in 2002 and held several leadership positions within the Human Resources organization prior to her role as CPO, including the organization's first director of employee communications and change management and the vice president of total rewards strategies. Stacie's

background in strategic human resources planning, including organization design and restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and creating a performance culture, ensures HR alignment with company strategy to promote growth.


As CEO, Jon Winsett is responsible for the managing and leading NPI's performance and business strategy, while driving the growth of NPI's multiple spend management practices. With more than 22 years of experience leading IT companies in the US and abroad, he fosters a success-oriented and accountable team environment based on trust, respect and commitment - all of which has been instrumental in NPI's client success. Prior to NPI, Jon was VP of North American sales and UK Country Manager at Seagull Software, a publicly-traded technology company. Jon shares his perspective on spend management as a frequent contributor to major news outlets such as CNN, Fox and CNBC.

Ken Rabun is currently the CIO at Manhattan Associates (MANH on NASDAQ), the leading supply chain solutions provider in the world with revenues of over $300 million and 1900 employees worldwide. At Manhattan, Ken is responsible for the global IT infrastructure, all business applications, as well as quality management programs for the company. Ken has spent all of his career in IT and most of his career in or supporting the wireless industry with companies like Bearing Point, Alltel Information Systems, Contel Cellular and Contel Telecom. Ken has been quoted in publications on Quality Management and Wireless technology. He is a member of the Advisory Boards for the Georgia CIO Leadership Association (GCLA) and Georgia State University CRIS program.

Chris Reinking, founding partner of Jabian Consulting, is known for solving complex business problems using a creative and analytical approach for breaking down issues and developing innovative business solutions. Chris specializes in Customer Interaction consulting with a focus on Strategy, Customer Experience, and CRM delivery. Additionally, Chris is considered a market leader in driving Operational Excellence through Process Optimization, defining and teaching organizations how to properly do Business Analysis, and helping clients deliver high quality through a focus on Quality Management and Demand Management. Prior to co-founding Jabian Consulting, Chris worked with Accenture in their Business Consulting practice within the Communications and High Tech industry group.


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