Keynote Speakers

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Kathryn Petralia, President and Co-Founder

Kathryn Petralia is the President and co-founder of Kabbage Inc., a financial services, data and technology platform solving cash flow challenges for small businesses. A seasoned leader in financial services, Kathryn has more than 20 years’ experience across credit, payments and lending. Recognized as one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World by Forbes, Kathryn helps lead Kabbage to simplify the way small businesses access the capital and services they need to build a lasting business. www.kabbage.com

In 2008, Rob Frohwein recognized that companies like eBay offered automated access to small business transaction data via APIs. Rob realized small businesses can simply share this data to allow underwriters to make better, faster credit decisions and provide a great user experience. He co-founded Kabbage in Atlanta, Georgia to leverage this power of real-time data automation through technology and has since expanded the business to serve all small businesses throughout the U.S. In the U.S., Kabbage has provided over $6 billion to 165,000 customers. In addition, Kabbage has licensed its technology to large, global banks such as ING and Santander so they can provide the same experience to their small business customers and Kabbage’s technology now powers automated small business lending in Spain, the U.K., Italy and France.

Rob holds a law degree from Villanova University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.  He is the listed inventor on ten United States Patents, a co-author of three books on intellectual property and has been recognized four times as one of the top 300 intellectual property strategists globally by Intellectual Asset Magazine.

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As the first female president and CEO of the nearly 160-year-old Metro Atlanta Chamber, Hala works on behalf of FORTUNE 500 companies and SMEs in the country’s ninth largest metro region. Prior to joining MAC, Hala was president of Arby’s Restaurant Group, president and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and the first woman to lead an international restaurant company as president of Church’s Chicken.

Hala Moddelmog is a business and civic leader with more than 20 years in president and CEO roles. She also serves as a corporate director for two NYSE companies – FLEETCOR Technologies and Lamb Weston – and as a board member of several blue-chip nonprofit organizations.

David Cummings is an Atlanta-based tech entrepreneur who has founded 10 companies collectively valued at nearly $1 billion, including Pardot, SalesLoft, and Terminus. David is also the founder of the Atlanta Tech Village — the 4th largest tech hub in the US — and the largest investor in Calendly, the world’s most popular scheduling app. He was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year winner and one of the 100 Most Influential Atlantans by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Michael Tavani is an Atlanta-based serial entrepreneur focused on consumer-facing platforms. Tavani co-founded SkyBlox, a local Wi-Fi marketing company. He then co-founded Scoutmob, a venture-backed and nationally recognized e-commerce and local mobile company that was named one of the top apps by Wired and Mashable. He recently launched Switchyards Downtown Club, a design-focused startup hub focused on producing more consumer-focused startup winners in Atlanta.

A pioneer in technology law, Partner John C. Yates launched the firm’s technology practice more than 35 years ago and has practiced exclusively in this area since that time. Under John’s leadership, Morris, Manning and Martin‘s technology practice has represented more than 1,000 tech companies and offers comprehensive legal and corporate services to start-ups, growing tech companies, and investors.

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Bob Nardelli serves as a Partner and Senior Advisor to Emigrant Capital Corp.; Senior Advisor to SAP, EY, among others plus a number of equity investments.  He sits on the Board of Directors for BWXT Technologies, Inc., plus on the board of a number of private equity investment firms.

Widely recognized as one of the best operating executives in the United States, Bob Nardelli has grown the sales and profits of a number of multi-national corporations. During his nearly 30-year tenure at GE, he quadrupled operating profits for GE Power Systems.  As chairman and CEO of The Home Depot he doubled the size of the Company. And, as chairman and CEO of Chrysler he helped save Chrysler and its iconic brands when the American auto industry began to collapse.

His firm, XLR-8, LLC, Investment & Advisory Co., combines his 47-plus years of experience augmenting business performance with a team of professionals that has unparalleled skills in fixing and growing companies. XLR-8 helps companies identify weaknesses and improve performance.

Morning

  • 8 AM – Registration and Breakfast
  • 9 AM – Welcome
  • 9: 15 AM – Opening Keynote
  • 10:30 AM – Perfect Your Pitch
  • 10:30 AM – Get Funded

Midday

  • 11:30 AM – LUNCH
  • 12:15 PM – Built In Atlanta Keynote Panel
  • 1 PM – Diversity and Inclusion
  • 1 PM – Innovation at Fortune 500s
  • 2 PM – Networking Break

Afternoon

  • 2:30 PM – Closing Keynote
  • 3:30 PM – TiE Top Entrepreneur Awards
  • 4 PM – Closing
  • 4:30PM – Post-Event Reception

Registration

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