 | Architecture, Engineering & Construction
Fiona Haulter, P.E., LEED AP
CBRE
Program Manager, Global Change Management, Global Corporate Services
Fiona Haulter is a registered professional civil engineer and project manager with more than 10 years of experience in land planning, urban design and commercial real estate development in both the public and private realms. Her previous professional experience includes work with Gresham, Smith and Partners, as well as other design and construction companies. For her numerous professional achievements, she received NAIOP's 2011 Developing Leader award, which recognized only 15 young professionals nationally, and the 2012 Middle TN Developing Leader award. She currently serves on the Tennessee Economic Development Council and is also a member of the Urban Land Institute. Haulter is involved in nonprofit organizations such as the Martha O'Bryan Center, Young Leaders Council, Rotary Club of Nashville and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
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 | Arts, Entertainment & Music
Ashley Segroves
Ashley Segroves Photography
Owner and Photographer
Ashley Segroves is the owner of the Ashley Segroves Photography and Bombshell Creative photography studios. She has been named Nashville's best photographer by Nashville Parent magazine for nine years. She started an "I Am Beautiful" video campaign to encourage a movement in which women start seeing themselves and other women in a different, positive way. She is involved with monthly student mentorship with Metro Nashville Public Schools, and she helped found the YMCA's artEMBRACE, a no-cost afterschool arts program that serves 8,000 youth each year. In 2008, she won Volunteer of the Year for YMCA's school-age services. Segroves is also chair of the Nashville Chamber's East Advisory Council.
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 | Business Services
June Manning
VerusMed, Editor-in-Chief
Premier W.E.D., Director of Events
June Manning is editor-in-chief at VerusMed, where her key responsibilities are hiring, training and managing an editorial department of writers and editors. She manages the editorial budget (up to $1 million), and she received the Employee Leadership Award, which is given to only three employees annually. Manning also works as the director of events for Premier W.E.D. She is a member of CABLE Young Professionals, where she was awarded the Rising Star Award. Manning is an alumna of Young Leaders Council, and serves on the board of PENCIL Foundation and the American Cancer Society's Junior Board. She also volunteers at Second Harvest Food Bank.
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 | Community Service & Nonprofit
Ronda Helton
Nashville Symphony
Senior Director of Marketing
Ronda Helton, senior director of marketing for the Nashville Symphony, joined the orchestra's staff in 2005. Helton directed an award-winning campaign to introduce the orchestra's new music director, Giancarlo Guerrero. She also led the efforts to communicate with patrons in the wake of the May 2010 flood that forced the Schermerhorn Symphony Center to be closed for eight months. Helton is an active member of the Young Leaders Council and Avant-Garde of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, and she is currently vice president of communications for the Association of Fundraising Professionals. She serves as steering committee co-chair for Generation Conservation, and she spends much of her time volunteering as a board member for the Martha O'Bryan Center. While serving there, Helton has participated in strategic planning sessions that have resulted in a new charter school, East End Prep in East Nashville.
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 | Education
Laura A. Williams
Lipscomb University
Assistant Professor of Management
Laura Williams is an assistant professor at Lipscomb University, where she has taught classes including Foundations of Business, Principles of Management, Women in Corporate Leadership, Global Business, Culture and Travel to China and Management Communication. She completed her Ph.D. in organizational behavior at the University of Mississippi, graduating with a 4.0 GPA. She was the only student to be awarded the School of Business Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award and the Graduate Instructor Teaching Award. Williams is a member of Academy of Management, the Southern Management Association and CABLE, where she serves on the Women on Corporate Boards committee. She is also involved in two prison programs (LIFE and DC4) specifically designed to reduce the criminal recidivism rate of incarcerated individuals.
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 | Environment & Sustainability
Emily Parish
The Land Trust for Tennessee
Land Protection Manager
Emily Parish is the land protection manager for the Land Trust for Tennessee, one of the most successful land trusts in the Southeast. As a team
leader, she has been instrumental in the permanent protection of more than 60,000 acres since starting with the Land Trust for Tennessee in 2004. Parish is the founding member of Farmland Legacy Partnership, which received the Governor's Environmental Stewardship Award for Excellence in Agriculture. She has played a key role in forming a strong partnership with the State Department of Agriculture, and the Land Trust for Tennessee receives an annual grant to protect working farms in the area. Parish is a member of the USDA technical committee and the Nashville Audubon Society, and she has represented the Land Trust by speaking at the Farmland Conference and numerous other conferences.
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 | Financial Services
Michael D. Williams, Jr.
Reliant Bank
Vice President, Commercial Banking
With more than nine years of banking experience in the Middle Tennessee community, Michael Williams works for Reliant Bank as vice president of commercial banking, where he is responsible for developing and managing commercial deposits and lending relationships. Williams graduated from the University of Wisconsin's Graduate School of Banking, and is an honors graduate of The Southeastern School of Commercial Lending. He has volunteered for many organizations, including United Way of Williamson County, Waves, The Boys and Girls Club and Second Harvest Food Bank. Williams is past chair for the Young Professionals Council of the Brentwood Cool Springs Chamber. He is a Leadership Brentwood graduate, and he currently serves on the board for the Interfaith Dental Clinic of Nashville.
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 | Government and Public Affairs
Michael Skipper
Nashville Area Metro Planning Organization
Executive Director
Michael Skipper has more than a decade of experience in transportation policy, planning and research, beginning his career with the Nashville
Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) in the mid-1990s. Since his return to the MPO in 2007, as its executive director, Skipper has played
a leading role in the passage of state legislation to provide additional authority to Tennessee's large urban areas to address their multi-modal needs.
He is a member of the American Planning Association, Urban Land Institute, Institute of Transportation Engineers and the Association of Metropolitan
Planning Organizations, where he serves on the technical committee. He is a graduate of Leadership Middle Tennessee, and is heavily involved with
Cumberland Region Tomorrow and the Middle Tennessee Mayors Caucus.
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 | Hospitality & Tourism
Phillip Shmerling
Choice Food Group
Director of Retail
After working for three years in investment banking, at the age of 26, Phillip Shmerling was recruited to run the retail division at Choice Food Group and moved to Nashville to begin working at Nashville Cash and Carry. He is now responsible for operations, management, marketing and accounting, as well as strategy and project execution. In 2010, Shmerling was invited to serve on the Nashville Food Policy Council, where, as chair of the Issues Committee, he helps identify policy issues and form the strategies to address them. Shmerling also serves on the board of the Nashville Junior Chamber and is currently the Civic Committee Chair, for which he created VoteTN.com to help members learn more about election candidates and encourage more young professionals to vote. He also serves as an advisor for BBYO, Inc., which has allowed him to teach teenagers about leadership, charity and community service.
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 | Human Resources
Matt Lowney
The Buntin Group
Executive V.P., Talent and Operations
Matt Lowney has 11 years of recruiting and talent development experience, having worked for large Fortune 500 companies and smaller, locally owned organizations. Lowney is president and co-founder of Talent Acquisition Networking Source (TANS), a Middle Tennessee recruiting organization that has grown to more than 500 members in the past five years. Lowney directs TANS events, including the Career Expo, an awards luncheon and other events throughout the year. He also created "Career Talk," which was a weekly career advice program on NewsChannel5+. Each Thanksgiving, Lowney and his wife organize a food drive for families in the Franklin community, and he is also involved in the Buntin Group's charitable outreach, AdHope, which supports the Carter Lawrence School.
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 | Legal Services
Kolin B. Holladay
Adams and Reese, LLP
Partner and Corporate/Securities/Mergers and Acquisitions Regional Team Leader
Kolin Holladay joined Adams and Reese in 2001 and is a partner and the team leader of the corporate/securities/mergers and acquisitions team. Holladay focuses his practice on a wide range of legal matters, including reporting and filing obligations under federal and state securities law, public and private offerings of securities, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and contract negotiation and interpretation. While holding his full-time job at Adams and Reese, Holladay also owned and operated two BlueCoast Burrito franchises, which he later sold. Holladay also serves on the boards of the Nashville Sports Council, Front Porch Ministry and the Middle Tennessee Fellowship of Christian Athletes. He is a member of the National Alumni Advisory Council for Lipscomb University, and former board member of the Maryland Farms YMCA.
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 | Medical & Health Care Services
Candice Haynes
BioHorizons, Inc.
Manager of Market Development and Senior Product Support Specialist
Candice Haynes currently works for BioHorizons, Inc., one of the fastest-growing oral reconstructive device companies worldwide. Haynes has been the manager of market development and senior product support specialist since 2008, and has experience in biomedical research, development, marketing and sales. Within her second year at BioHorizons, Inc., Haynes received the Representative of the Year award based on her sales in competition with 60 representatives in North America. She volunteers with the Arthritis and Juvenile Arthritis Foundation, Crohn's and Colitis Foundation, the Interfaith Dental Clinic's annual gala committee and a domestic violence shelter. Haynes also participates in Gift of a Smile, a volunteer organization that helps people receive life-changing oral and dental treatment.
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 | PR, Advertising & Marketing
Mary Beth Ikard
Nashville Area Metro Planning Organization
Communications Director
Mary Beth Ikard is an accredited public relations practitioner with more than 10 years' experience in service to government, nonprofit and private-sector organizations. She currently directs communications for the Nashville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) - a regional partnership for mobility, economic prosperity and environmental sustainability through quality investments in transportation. Ikard is the founding co-chair of Generation Conservation (Gen C), and she is an alumna of Nashville Emerging Leaders and Young Leaders Council. She serves on the board of Tennessee Conservation Voters and the advisory board for Transit Now Nashville. She is a member of the Nashville Women's Political Caucus, Friends of Warner Parks, the West Meade Conservancy and the 2012 class of Leadership Middle Tennessee.
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 | Real Estate Services
Matthew Wilson
Gateway Property Services
President/CEO
Matthew Wilson is the president and CEO of Gateway Property Services, a second-generation commercial real estate, investment and development company that serves the Middle Tennessee area. He has played a direct role in brokering, building and developing commercial real estate with a combined value in excess of $85 million in the Middle Tennessee market over his career. Since 2007, Wilson has been an adjunct professor at Belmont University's business school, where he teaches various courses such as Family Business Management, New Venture Management and Stakeholders Relations Management. He is an alumnus of Young Leaders Council, and he has been an active volunteer for organizations such as Junior Achievement, Monroe Carell Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt and Vanderbilt Cancer Center. Wilson is also active with Nashville Area Habitat for Humanity, serving as vice chair in 2009 and board chair in 2010.
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 | Technology
Kate Bamberg
Advanced Network Solutions
Manager, Marketing and Communications
Kate Bamberg is the marketing and communications manager at Advanced Network Solutions (ANS), where she helps manage the sales team and develops strategic initiatives to successfully hit multimillion-dollar goals per quarter. In 2011, Bamberg contributed to the 18 percent growth of ANS. She is a board member of Women in Technology Tennessee and maintains memberships with the Nashville Technology Council and Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce.
She is active with Nashville Downtown Kiwanis and has co-chaired events for the organization including Children's Christmas Party, Dog Days in the
District and Amour on the Avenue. She also is a past president of the University of Notre Dame Young Alumni.
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