Corporate Sponsors
ARCHANGEL EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY
Archangel Education & Technology is the preferred supplier of technology and services to private schools. We strongly believe in the concept of partnership to achieve lasting relationships.
Gabrielle Dawkins
Marketing Director
(954) 708-7345
www.arch-te.com
EPIC BROKERS & CONSULTANTS
Offering a depth of industry expertise across key lines of insurance, including commercial property and casualty, employee benefits, unique specialty programs insurance, and private client services. EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants is fast becoming one of the top retail insurance brokers in the U.S. With its southeast region office (formerly McCart Group) based in Atlanta, 25 locations across 12 states, and corporate headquarters in San Francisco, EPIC is a nationwide presence. Business Insurance Magazine ranks EPIC as the 23rd largest broker of US business and is also ranked #6 in Atlanta Business Chronicle's Top P&C Brokers and Agents List.
Suzanna Gill
Benefits Strategy Consultant
(678) 215-3890
www.epicbrokers.com
HOMETOWN TICKETING
HomeTown Ticketing is the leading digital ticketing provider in K-12 and collegiate spaces, serving schools, districts, college conferences, high school conferences, and state associations at NO COST. A professional-level and fully automated ticketing solution, HomeTown's in-house developed proprietary ticketing platform is tailored specifically to the needs of the schools and governing bodies.
Ashley Lapka
Relationship Manager
(614) 964-2810
www.hometownticketing.com
MAULDIN & JENKINS, LLC
Our education practice of over 50 professionals offers a significant wealth of knowledge spanning K-12 schools through colleges and universities. We have the experience and aptitude to ensure your institution excels in tackling budgeting, fundraising and grant compliance, regulatory compliance and board governance, unrelated business income tax (UBIT), increased reporting responsibilities, taxable and tax-exempt debt financing, and compliance, alternative investments, student financial aid, and endowments.
Aleisa Howell
Partner
MMI DINING
MMI Dining is a leader in the hospitality and dining service industry with over 50 years of experience. As a privately owned company, we take pride in being able to offer customized food service solutions to meet your goals. Our partners include schools, universities, healthcare facilities, senior living facilities, and businesses.
Phil Wade
(615) 450-5768
TRUTH BOMB T-SHIRTS
Official Apparel Provider of GIAA Sports!
Gene & Karen Harper
(706) 206-3975
www.truthbombtshirts.com
FLYNN O'HARA UNIFORMS
Flynn O'Hara Uniforms is the largest privately-owned supplier and retailer of high-quality school uniforms, gym wear, and medical attire in the United States. Since 1972 we have remained family-owned and operated, providing industry-leading quality and customer support to over half a million students each year.
Eireann Flynn
VP Sales & Marketing
(800) 441-4122
www.flynnohara.com
JCI CONTRACTORS
JCI Contractors provides Construction Management, Design-Build and General Contracting services, specializing in K-12 facilities.
Ashby Autry
Director of Marketing
(229) 454-3265
www.jcicontractors.com
METZ CULINARY MANAGEMENT
Culinary Dining and Environmental Services Management Company.
Don Redmond
VP of Business Development
(678) 972-5927
NFHS Network
Digital Broadcasting of High School Sports
Patrick Euart
VP of Sales
VARSITY SPORTS RECRUITING, LLC
Our Company will provide athletes and parents with an online platform that gives them the opportunity to increase their visibility to collegiate coaches. By providing a quality site with personal attention Varsity Sports Recruiting can assist athletes in being proactive during the recruiting process. It is our desire to help as many athletes as possible with college assistance to further their education.
Mike Manning
(334) 546-0213
www.varsitysportsrecruiting.com
COMPASS FINANCIAL PARTNERS
A nationally recognized industry leader, Compass Financial Partners provides independent, objective retirement plan consulting and investment advisory services to plan sponsors across the United States. "Our fundamental philosophy in providing retirement plan consulting services is guided by developing a fiduciary process for everything we do and executing that process with passion in order to yield extraordinary results."
Jake Connors, AIF, CPFA
Senior Director, Institutional Retirement Plan Consulting
(919) 302-8872
GRAHL CONSTRUCTION, LLC
GRAHL CONSTRUCTION was founded in 2012 with an emphasis on honesty, integrity, and client-focused service. Above all else, our team of professionals is dedicated to quality construction through teamwork and outstanding project execution. With transparency and effective communication, we ensure that our clients receive the greatest value for their investment.
Jessica Roberts
Marketing Manager
LIGHTHOUSE COUNSEL
Lighthouse Counsel partners with respected nonprofits to develop and implement strategies that increase mission awareness, organizational effectiveness, and philanthropic support.
Jeff Jowdy
President
MINGLEDORFFS
Mingledorff's is here to help you navigate the complexities of the HVAC industry. As the southeast's leading distributor of HVAC brands like Carrier, we've helped our communities breathe easier for over 80 years. That’s because we care about more than just providing quality products. Our experienced team is standing by to assist you with quotes, project management, application advice, and everything in between.
Julie Gray
Ancillary Products Specialist
WILSON SPORTING GOODS CO.
Wilson Sporting Goods Co. is designated as the “Official Ball Supplier of the GISA.”
Craig Kalb
Territory Manager
ABM Building Solutions LLC
ABM partners with our clients to help cash flow facility upgrades such as infrastructure, technology, roofs, and athletic facilities. We help our clients get financing and use guaranteed energy and operational savings to help make payments. Our clients are able to fund facility needs and wants with no upfront cash and pay over time at a low interest rate within their existing budget.
Katherine Peoples
Account Manager
(470) 249-0581
ARISTA CONSULTING GROUP
Arista Consulting Group's mission is to lead school employees to financial security by educating them to make better health and retirement benefit decisions.
We have been partnering with schools on this mission since 2009, creating more productive employees that deliver a better student experience.
Darren Ross
Sales Director
CARTER ENGINEERING
A civil engineering firm founded in 2004 based right outside of Athens, Carter Engineering offers in-house landscape architecture, civil engineering, environmental engineering, land surveying, construction management, and site planning as institutions look at how best to use current and potential property. Carter Engineering's full-service approach allows clients to work directly with the firm from land use due diligence to construction completion.
Houston Gaines
Director of Business Development
(706) 424-9897
www.carterengineering.com
FLIK INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DINING
Flik Independent School Dining is a family-style company that strives to provide healthy, nutritious menus to school children and their communities. We are here to fuel students' minds. We treat every meal as a moment to eat, share, and connect. It is our mission to empower a community of kindness through great food, with respect for each other and our amazing planet.
Christine McGoldrick
Business Development
(561) 350-5429
www.flikisd.com
AVIGILON / MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS
Explore Motorola Solutions and Avigilon's integrated school security technology designed to ensure student safety, ranging from initial detection to final response across your campus.
Laura Schroeder
Business Development Manager - Education
(865) 755-6703
www.motorolasolutions.com/en_us/solutions/safety-reimagined/schools.html
PATHFUL
Pathful is your full college and career readiness system supporting K-12 students. Pathful offers a full continuum of college and career awareness, planning, exploration and live industry connections for a more insightful, impactful, and meaningful student experience.
Megan Moss
Georgia Sales Manager
(229) 395-6176
www.pathful.com
THE PREMO SOURCE, LLC
The Premo Source provides premium athletic flooring and weight room equipment for athletic facilities. We transform facilities into true environments of excellence to better serve its coaches and athletes. Contact us today if you are interested in transforming your athletic facilities.
Bryan Benzor
Owner & President
(678) 925-8562
www.thepremosource.com
SCHOOL WINDOW, LLC
School Window provides advanced integrated payment solutions for all departments and all payment types. Provides parents with a customized Amazon-like eStore module, allowing them to easily make payments using a single web portal. Staff can securely take office payments, run reports, and reconcile collections using a single customer portal. We are the payment leader in the state of Georgia serving over 117 of our counties.
Chuck Hobbs
Account Executive
SOUTHERN BLEACHER COMPANY
Since 1946, SOBCO has set the standard for high school bleachers, college stadiums, fairgrounds, and more. Fans in every U.S. state and Canada cheer from SOBCO grandstands.
By not outsourcing our aluminum or steel fabrication, we control both quality and schedule, and a project manager is your single point of contact, your advisor and ally, from your complimentary design through your stadium build and beyond.
Sarah Lundgren
Communications Director
SYNERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS OF GEORGIA
Synergy provides copy, scan, and print solutions for schools.
Two ways that Synergy is proving to be an industry disrupter by changing some of the copier norms in the client's favor are by providing:
- Unlimited (unmetered) B&W prints included in the agreement
- Tiered colored printing so you are not paying 0.060 or 0.080 per image
Christopher Roupp
Senior Account Manager / Partner
(404) 655-1235
www.mysynergyss.com
YAY LUNCH
Yay Lunch provides an end-to-end dining service that is FREE for schools, easy for parents, and deliciously nutritious for students and faculty. We develop custom programs with a focus on providing real food, made fresh daily from local food partners.
Daniel Klein
Senior Manager of Growth Enablement
(804) 543-7442
www.yaylunch.com
ACT, INC.
ACT is a mission-driven, nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people achieve education and workplace success. Grounded in more than 60 years of research, ACT is a trusted leader in college and career readiness.
Lydia Griffin
ACT Account Executive, Georgia
BJU PRESS / PRECEPT MARKETING GROUP
Precept Marketing Group specializes in advancing Christian education by providing excellent customer service and quality products that contain academic rigor, Biblical worldview, critical thinking, and many technology resources. These products include BJU Press textbooks, Boxlight and Newline classroom technology, and Trajectory computer curriculum.
Brian Keith
Territory Manager
(770) 815-5418
COGNIA, INC.
Cognia is the world's largest school improvement network. We partner with GISA for dual-accreditation services. Member schools benefit from tools and resources including professional learning, strategic planning, formative assessments, teacher observation tools, student engagement observation tools, and stakeholder feedback surveys.
Laine Reichert
Senior Director
(229) 379-5944
FORWARD DATAWORKS
Led by a former independent school teacher, Forward Dataworks has unparalleled expertise in the ability to understand how schools function. From Development and Admissions to curriculum analysis and community feedback, Forward Dataworks uses data to help schools with strategic planning, answering questions that arise in pedagogy, school administration, and in school communities.
James Riley
Data Scientist
NGS
NGS is the largest dealer and installer of 3M solar and security films, Riot Glass access denial products, and ballistic glazing security products in America. We complete over 7,000 installations annually and lead the industry in government and K-12 installations with hundreds of school districts serviced across the country.
Jesse Chase
VP of Marketing
jesse.chase@filmsandgraphics.
(470) 869-9344
PAYMERANG
Paymerang provides a streamlined invoice and payment automation platform that brings Accounts Payable (AP) departments into the modern age. Paymerang's platform saves AP departments thousands of hours annually, enhances visibility, increases accuracy, improves efficiency, and earns rebates while reducing paper, fraud risks, and operating costs.
Saman Aghaebrahim
AE, Strategic Partnerships
SCHOOL GROWTH
Whether your goal is to increase enrollment, fundraising, academic quality, board performance, campus safety, or all of the above, you have come to the right place. We grow schools and the people who have the courage to lead them. We do this through organizational audits, professional development, and consulting (design) services.
Scott E. Barron
Founder & CEO
SHIELDCAMPUS, LLC
ShieldCampus is a software platform that manages attendance and accountability, behavior, wellness, crisis planning, and management, all from a single platform.
ShieldCampus increases the visibility of your entire student population by showing you exactly where your students are at all times while at school and during off-campus events, and identifies behavior and wellness issues.
Jackie Littlefield
Chief Executive Officer
(678) 923-2629
www.shieldcampus.com
SOUTHERN TEACHERS AGENCY
Southern Teachers is the premier agency for independent schools in the South. We offer teacher recruitment, head & leadership search, and consulting services. Our mission is to support our member schools so that they may offer the best possible education to their students.
Carey Goodman
President
TEAM ASSURE
Over the past 35 years, Team Assure has evolved to be one of the leading full-service insurance companies, specializing in zero-deductible student-athlete insurance. Our mission is clear - to deliver quality programs and insurance products to our clients with a high level of service, responding to the challenges of the client's needs and budget. And to work towards earning lasting relationships built on a foundation of honesty, integrity, and trust.
Dax Anderson
President
VS AMERICA
VS America is a classroom furniture manufacturer committed to manufacturing and providing furniture resources that truly act as an aid in the learning process and support your teachers and students. We are best known for our thought-leadership around advancing learning spaces, our high quality and engineering, as well as providing truly dynamic solutions for agile spaces.
Karina Kentsis
Territory Manager
(704) 561-1186
http://vsamerica.com
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
The Kids Heart Challenge and American Heart Challenge programs are service-learning programs that give elementary, middle, and high school students the opportunity to feel good while doing good. It is a way for you to better your life - all while changing someone else's.
Elizabeth Ellis
Youth Market Director
(404) 218-7984
http://heart.org
THE BUDD GROUP
For over 50 years, The Budd Group has developed and executed facility solutions for clients in education, medical, government, corporate, manufacturing, commercial, retail, religious, and hospitality facilities. Our solutions are carefully customized to the needs of each customer and facility. Whatever your facility needs, contact us today and let us develop a customer solution for you.
Amber Wooten
Sales & Marketing Support Specialist
(336) 409-8406
www.buddgroup.com
COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM
Collaborative Classroom is a mission-driven, nonprofit organization committed to ensuring that all students become readers, writers, and thinkers who learn from, care for, and respect one another. Our evidence-based programs help children develop as proficient readers and writers, appreciate the ideas and opinions of others, learn to agree and disagree respectfully, think critically about big ideas, and become responsible citizens of the world.
Katharine Bonasera
Manager of Educational Partnerships
FACTS MANAGEMENT
FACTS serves more than 11,500 schools with a suite of services that includes tuition management, student information system, financial needs assessment, and online admissions/enrollment solutions.
Jana Kane
Regional Vice President
GENERIS
Generis is a generosity consulting firm that provides capital campaigns, annual funds, and generosity culture coaching to K-12 Christian schools, faith-based non-profits, and churches.
Alan Wildes
Vice-President
(404) 435-5755
www.alanwildes.com
MERCER UNIVERSITY
Mercer University is a private research university, nationally recognized for excellence in education delivered in class and online throughout the state of Georgia.
Nick Driver
Asst Director of Advertising & Promotion
(678) 547-6462
OUR FUNDRAISING SEARCH
At Our Fundraising Search, we help schools build and grow high-performing teams using proven strategies for fundraising excellence. Our Fundraising Search will deliver high-quality service in a cost-efficient manner in a timely fashion.
Ailena Parramore
Senior Fundraising Consultant
(706) 424-2649
www.ourfundraisingsearch.com
PLAYSOUTH PLAYGROUND CREATORS
We provide and install commercial playground equipment, outdoor fitness courses, site furnishings, shade structures, and other related outdoor products.
Andy Bryant
President
(678) 488-6572
www.playsouth.net
SCHOOL OUTFITTERS
At School Outfitters we are dedicated to bringing your learning space visions to life, whether it is new construction or renovated classrooms. We pride ourselves on enterprise-level project services like expert space planning and hassle-free installation. And with our ready-to-ship inventory, your project will get done on time and on budget.
Nicole Hilliker
Sales Manager
(866) 619-5303
www.schooloutfitters.com
SMITH + HOWARD
Independent schools around the country rely on the enterprising, values-driven accountants and advisors of Smith and Howard to provide guidance on accounting, governance, and operations, legislative updates, industry trends and so much more. Our team focuses on what’s best for your organization, bringing a fully integrated approach that leverages our expertise across the board.
David Lee
Partner
YANCEY BUS SALES & SERVICE
Yancey Bus Sales & Service is Georgia’s largest full-service school and activity bus dealer with service and warranty locations throughout the state. On-site service technicians are also available by appointment.
Brantley Sims
Commercial Bus Account Manager
