July 2010

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The Salabarria Family and Hedy Rubinger:  Making an Impact on Care for Seniors

The Salabarria Family and Hedy Rubinger: Making an Impact on Care for Seniors

The assisted living industry has gone through years of consolidation resulting in larger and larger organizations and less and less personalization.  But Alex Salabarria and his father had a different vision for Oaks Senior Living.  Together, the have created an assisted living community that is more like an extension of their own family.  And the [...]

Recap: Beth Miller and Mark Stiles: Ensuring Success For Non-Family Member Executives in Your Family Business

Recap: Beth Miller and Mark Stiles: Ensuring Success For Non-Family Member Executives in Your Family Business

On July 22, 2010, Family Business Radio’s hosts Pat Romboletti and Meredith Moore led guests Mark Stiles and Beth Miller in a discussion about how best to develop non-family key executives within a family business. Most recently, Mark was CEO of  a family-owned business. Beth Miller, CMC, heads her own leadership development and coaching firm, [...]

Beth Miller and Mark Stiles: Ensuring Success For Non-Family Member Executives in Your Family Business

Beth Miller and Mark Stiles: Ensuring Success For Non-Family Member Executives in Your Family Business

Our guests on July 22nd are Beth Armknecht Miller, Founder and President of Executive Velocity and Chair of two Vistage groups, and Mark Stiles, a member of the Vistage Chief Executive program.   Many family businesses turn to non-family members for key executive-level positions in their company.  Mark has held such a role and will [...]

Recap:  Ken and Kirk Driskell:  A Family Full of Entrepreneurs

Recap: Ken and Kirk Driskell: A Family Full of Entrepreneurs

On July 15, 2010, Pat Romboletti and Meredith Moore, hosts of Family Business Radio, led a discussion about the entrepreneurial spirit with the father-son duo of Ken and Kirk Driskell. Ken Driskell spent 30 years in banking and served as Chairman and CEO of First Colony Bank from 1983 to 2003 when he sold the [...]

Kirk and Ken Driskell Share the Story of a Family of Entrepreneurs

Kirk and Ken Driskell Share the Story of a Family of Entrepreneurs

Ken Driskell launched a bank in 1983 and hasn’t stopped helping to build businesses since then. He has served as a mentor to his son Kirk as Kirk has grown his highly successful real estate business, Power Realty Partners. There have been many lessons learned and much wisdom passed along over these years, and Ken [...]

Recap: Angel Investing and the Family Business with Karen Robinson and Michael Blake—Insights, Resources and So Much More

On July 8, 2010, Pat Romboletti and Meredith Moore and Family Business Radio welcomed Michael Blake, co-founder of Start-Up Lounge and Director of Valuation Services at Habif, Arogeti & Wynne, LLP, and Karen Robinson, a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist and angel investor in family-owned businesses. The day’s discussion centered on angel investing and its role in [...]

Michael Blake and Karen Robinson Discuss Angel Investing and the Family Business

Michael Blake and Karen Robinson Discuss Angel Investing and the Family Business

If you follow start-ups in Atlanta at all then we know you have heard of this week’s guests. Michael Blake is co-founder of Start-Up Lounge and Director of Valuation Services at Habif, Arogeti & Wynne, LLP, and Karen Robinson is a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist and angel investor in family-owned businesses.  Our show will look at [...]