John Sheppard's 30-year career has prepared him well for the calamities of 2020. So, when the Sykes College of Business at the University of Tampa wanted a seasoned executive to talk about managing through a crisis, Sheppard got the call.

This week on Trusted Counsel’s podcast show In Process: Conversations about Business in the 21st Century, Managing Partner, Evelyn Ashley and Partner John Monahon lead a new podcast series on leading during COVID-19: planning and action. Their first guest was Jane Gentry, CEO of Fusion, an experiential and trade show staffing company.

This week on Trusted Counsel’s podcast show In Process: Conversations about Business in the 21st Century, Managing Partner, Evelyn Ashley and Partner John Monahon speak with Alan McKeon, President and CEO of Alexander Babbage. Fifteen years ago McKeon bought a market research company focused on shopping centers. Shortly thereafter, he recognized an opportunity for growth and embarked on the company’s first strategic business transformation.

This week on Trusted Counsel’s podcast show “In Process: Conversations about Business in the 21st Century,” we interview Dan Drechel, Senior Vice President of BIP Capital, a venture capital firm based in Atlanta about his experience as the lead investor overseeing Saas, fintech, and devtools investments and in business transformations as an actual operator.

In our final installment of our six-part podcast series, Managing Partner, Evelyn Ashley of Trusted Counsel and Partner, John Monahon, speak with Michael Levy, Partner-in-charge of Aprio’s Transaction Advisory Services practice and Yelena Epova, Partner-in-Charge of Aprio’s International Services Practice about financial and tax considerations. Aprio is Georgia’s largest full-service CPA-led advisory firm.

Many entrepreneurs and business leaders tend to put off thinking about selling their business, and what will happen to their assets without them, until it’s too late. Listen to this very informative conversation about estate planning and your business.

In this fourth installment of our six-part podcast series, Partner, John Monahon of Trusted Counsel speaks with firm colleagues Partner, Allen Bradley and Attorney Valerie Barton regarding the legal side of selling a business. Trusted Counsel has led numerous businesses through the exit process and this interview provides very practical advice on what business owners need to do now to prepare legally to get their legal house in order, before an exit.

Massachusetts Executive, Peter Paglia. Paglia led two businesses through the exit process in the 2000s. He is the former President and CEO of Azimuth Systems that was acquired by Anritsu, a Japanese public company in 2016. He is also the former COO and Chief Revenue Officer of OnBoard Security, Inc., a top cyber security solutions provider for automotive and IoT organizations. He led its sale to Qualcomm Technologies Inc. (QTI) in 2019.

In this second installment of our six-part podcast series, Managing Partner, Evelyn Ashley and John Monahon of Trusted Counsel speak with Trey James, co-founder and (former) CEO of Atlanta-based Xcentric, a managed network services company, that sold to Right Networks in 2017.

In the first installment of our six-part podcast series, Managing Partner, Evelyn Ashley and Valerie Barton of Trusted Counsel speak with Vijay Rawat, the Managing Director GrowthPoint Technology Partners for his insight. GrowthPoint Technology Partners is a Silicon Valley based technology investment bank that provides financial and M&A advisory services to technology companies.