Debbie G. Crowder, president, chairman and chief executive officer of SunTrust Bank, East Tennessee, has been nominated by U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., to represent women in Tennessee at the Business and Professional Women’s Leadership Summit.
The summit is a national policy forum to address issues impacting American families and the United States. Government leaders and women from across the country will convene in Washington, D.C., April 29-30. The summit features a discussion of solutions to secure America’s competitiveness in a global economy including: strengthening economic security; lowering the cost of health care while increasing quality; improving educational accountability; and enhancing opportunities for entrepreneurs.
Crowder was selected to participate in the summit along with 349 other women from across the United States. She has more than 23 years of experience at SunTrust .
NOTE: This release was sent from Sandler Training/Herzog & Accociates, a Chamber member.
Sandler Training/Herzog & Associates, the regions leader in Sales and Management Training and Coaching, has hired Charlotte Kabler as its new Director of Business Development. Kabler has over 13 years of sales experience and will be in charge of generating new clients for the firm’s unique sales training programs.
Kabler is a graduate from Sandler’s Corporate Sales Training at an affiliate site in Charlotte N.C. and has lived in Knoxville with her three children for 6 years.
Sandler Training/Herzog & Associates is East TN’s largest Sales and Management training center providing on-going, incremental reinforcement training to the regions foremost companies and professionals. To learn more visit firstinsales.com.
Southern Business & Development Magazine has named Knoxville the fourth best city for manufacturing in the South.
According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, "The magazine mentioned Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Tennessee and the Y-12 National Security Complex as indicators of success in the Knoxville/Oak Ridge region."
The East Tennessee Section of AACE International is offering a 2-day Construction Claims seminar on May 15-16, 2008, in west Knoxville.
Leading the seminar will be Mr. James G. Zack, Jr., Executive Director of Corporate Claims Management for Fluor Corporation.
Full details, and online registration forms are now available on the East Tennessee Section website -- http://www.aace-ets.org/. Class size is limited. Sign up today to ensure your seminar seat.
NOTE: This release was sent from LBMC, a Knoxville Chamber member business.
LBMC Technologies, LLC, a member of the LBMC (Lattimore Black Morgan & Cain, PC) Family of Companies, is pleased to announce that Ani L. Ehlers, Marie Gray and David Ulrich have been added to its Knoxville office.
Ani L. Ehlers will join the Knoxville team as a technical manger. Ani, previously a project manager with Scripps Networks Interactive, earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing from the University of Toledo. She is an active member of the Society for Technical Communicators, Usability Professionals Association and Content Management Professionals.
Marie Gray, previously owner of and consultant with The Gray Area, will be a business development consultant in the Knoxville office. Marie has earned degrees from both the University of Phoenix and New York University. Marie is an active member and holds a leadership position in many professional organizations including the Help Desk Institute, East Tennessee Technology Council, American Society of Training and Development and Microsoft Organizational Assessment Team. She has also received a number of accolades for her work including the 2006 National Leadership Award from the National Business Advisory Council and the 2006 Congressional Medal of Distinction.
David Ulrich will join the Knoxville team as a Microsoft SharePoint network engineer. David previously worked as a server analyst with Memorial Healthcare System. He earned an associate’s degree in technical programming from The Computer Learning Center. David has extensive experience architecting and implementing enterprise wide Microsoft SharePoint solutions.
LBMC Technologies, LLC, is a leading technology partner which services the Nashville, Knoxville, Memphis, Chattanooga and Birmingham, AL areas. LBMC Technologies is a Microsoft-certified Gold Partner, has been a member of the Microsoft President’s Club for nine consecutive years and was recently awarded Microsoft’s elite Strategic Excellence Award. The firm has the only Microsoft Dynamics certified training center in Tennessee. For more information on LBMC Technologies, visit its Web site at lbmctech.com.
Note: This release was sent from Jim Ragonese, KAMA media relations director.
The Knoxville Chapter of the American Marketing Association (KAMA) recognized some of Knoxville’s top marketing professionals and students at its annual Gala on Friday, April 11 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Knoxville. The event, A Platinum Evening, marked the celebration of the organization’s 20th anniversary.
During the gala, emceed by UT director of broadcasting Bob Kesling, the 2008 Outstanding Marketing Professional of the Year award went to Ed Brantley, vice president and general manager of Citadel Broadcasting. Brantley has a 35-year career in broadcasting and manages radio stations WIVK, WNOX, WNML, WNRX and WOKI.
Under Brantley’s leadership, WIVK has won the Country Music Association’s Station of the Year award in 2000, 2001, 2004 and 2006, the National Association of Broadcasters Station of the Year award in 2003, 2004 and 2006 and the Academy of Country Music’s Station of the Year award in 2002, 2004 and 2006. During Brantley’s tenure, WNOX won the Edward R. Murrow award for overall excellence in 2000. Always community oriented, Brantley founded WIVK’s annual Coats for the Cold campaign and The Dream Connection.
Other marketing professionals recognized during the gala included Billy Rivet, partner at BlueGill Creative, who earned the Locander Award for Outstanding Service to the KAMA chapter, and Amy Styles, marketing manager at Covenant Health, who took home the Volunteer of the Year award. The organization also recognized past presidents of the chapter from each of the past 19 years.
KAMA recognized two University of Tennessee-Knoxville marketing students, Ashley Owen and Karen Key, with the Brantley Scholarship Award. Owen is a senior at UT with a 3.7 grade point average and serves as president of the UT – AMA chapter. Key, a UT junior, has a 3.2 grade point average and comes to Tennessee from Massachusetts, where she earned her Associate’s from Berkshire Community College, in Pittsfield, Mass. Each student was awarded a $4,000 scholarship by KAMA.
The annual awards gala and benefit auction raises money for the Eagle Endowment for Marketing Education. The scholarships awarded by KAMA are made possible through the endowment, which was created by the organization in 1990. The endowment is a permanent fund to provide scholarships for marketing majors at UT-Knoxville who have proven their leadership abilities and commitment to the marketing profession.
The American Marketing Association is the world’s largest and most comprehensive professional society of individual members with an interest in the practice, study and teaching of marketing. KAMA, a nonprofit chapter with a volunteer board of directors, strives to enhance and inform marketing professionals throughout East Tennessee and to educate and inform the general public about the function and purpose of marketing. For more information about KAMA, visit www.kama.org, or call (865) 539-1300.
Gregg Morton, President of AT&T Tennessee told a group of Chamber Premier Partner members about the changing landscape of the communications industry Thursday at the Knoxville Chamber office.
He said that his company is responding to the changing market by expanding existing services and by looking into new ways to connect customers to the information and entertainment that they want.
One example of this is a new option in video that would compete with cable television. He said that their program would be "cooler than cable" because of additional features such as interactivity and multiple-program DVR.
Here is the PowerPoint presentation that he gave to the Premier Partners.
Note: This release was sent from LBMC, a Knoxville Chamber member business.
Lattimore Black Morgan & Cain, PC (LBMC), one of the Southeast’s largest accounting and business consulting firms, has added Sara Wilch in its Knoxville office.
Sara Nicole Wilch will be a senior accountant in the audit division of LBMC. Sara, a Certified Public Accountant, has experience working with a big four firm as well as another regional accounting firm. She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Findlay and a master’s degree from Ohio State University. Sara enjoys traveling, reading, cooking and attending various community events.
Virtual Interactive Center will host an open house Thursday, May 1st, from 5:00-8:00 p.m. to celebrate its recent office expansion in downtown’s historic Keller Building.
Virtual Interactive Center (VIC) is a web technology agency specializing in web application design and hosting. VIC has been in business since 1995 acting as an outsourced technology partner for multiple Knoxville businesses including marketing and advertising agencies and various non-profit organizations. Included in its client list are the Knoxville Chamber, the Central Business Improvement District downtownknoxville.org and the East Tennessee Television & Film Commission ettfc.com/
Questions and R.S.V.P. for the open house should be directed to Lindsay Parrott at 865-246-5042 or lparrott@vic.com.
Tierney Bates, president of the Knoxville Area Urban League Young Professionals, has been awarded the Chancellor's Award for extraordinary community service from the University of Tennessee.
Bates is also the assistant director for Minority Student Affairs.
According to the University of Tennessee website, "Under his leadership, the organization received its charter from the national Urban League. Since then, he has been instrumental in recruiting young professionals who have joined together on community service projects such as Shoes for School, the Academic Summit and a minority health fair."
See the other winners and learn more about the award by visiting The University of Tennessee Chancellor's Website.
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