The Program

Welcome from SCORE National

Christine Banning
Vice President of Marketing and Communications
The SCORE Association

Dr. Joyce McGriff is the president of Banner Marketing Information Services, Inc. She has consulted with organizations on advertising, marketing, and marketing research for over 25 years. She is also an accomplished qualitative focus group moderator and has conducted well over 800 focus groups and in-depth interviews for over forty corporate and small business clients. Her service portfolio includes focus groups, depth interviews, observational, ethnography, concept and taste tests, retail site location, and more. Dr. McGriff is on the faculty in the Department of Business Administration-Marketing at Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta.

Peggy Duncan is a personal productivity expert and author of six books on organization, time management, and technology tips and tricks. Learn no-cost strategies that have placed her at the top of Google's search engine's organic results for her training expertise. And learn how she has built a national reputation by landing interviews with major media such as The TODAY show, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Entrepreneur, Self, O-The Oprah Magazine, Black Enterprise, Real Simple, Fortune Small Business, and more (www.PeggyDuncan.com).
 

JB Brathwaite is an Internet technology coach and broadcast email expert and will show you how to use Web tools such as blogs, widgets, blidgets, affiliate programs, and more to increase your customer base and boost your productivity and profits (2TheNextLevel.com).

Brent Leary is a technology industry analyst, advisor, speaker, radio host, and award-winning blogger. He is co-founder and partner of CRM Essentials LLC, an Atlanta- based CRM advisory firm covering tools and strategies for improving business relationships. Brent, a blogger for Inc. and Black Enterprise magazines, will show you how to use social networks to build your business reputation and increase your bottom line (www.crm2.typepad.com).

Barbara Giamanco capped a corporate sales career at Microsoft, where she led and trained sales teams and coached sales executives, before establishing Talent Builders, Inc., in 2002. She has more than 25 years of experience in selling to enterprise, mid-market, and retail accounts, and knows what it’s like to walk in the shoes of the sales person. During her career, her accounts have included American Express Worldwide, Motorola, Best Buy, Circuit City, Anheuser-Busch, Target, and Honeywell. Since establishing Talent Builders, Barb has worked with organizations to build high performing executive teams, develop leadership bench strength, build sales capabilities, hire the right people the first time, decrease turnover, and improve employee retention (www.talentbuildersinc.com).

Jeffrey Mesquita BSIE MBA has spent over 25 years in sales and sales management. He took on the challenge more than once to build sales and service teams, and in one case, became the region of the year in the first year of operation. With this experience, he was hired to be on the faculty of the Keller Graduate School of Management, conducting courses in sales management.

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Kim Waymer McClure has over 20 years experience in sales and marketing. She honed her skills in the pharmaceutical, telecom, and now television industry. 

Her current position is an Account Executive at Comcast Spotlight which is the advertising division of Comcast Cable. Prior to Comcast, Kim was a television producer for Black Family Channel where she produced commercials, promos, and children’s programming. Kim’s show “Lisa Knight and the Round Table,” was a 30-minute teen talk show and was recognized by the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) as the Best Children’s Program in 2007. Lisa Knight shared this honor with “That’s So Raven.” 

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