About
Marc Dewalle is an experienced management and start-up consultant with extensive experience in corporate entrepreneurship: injecting innovation and entrepreneurship in corporate governance, strategy and execution. Marc has 10+ years experience in business development, sales and channel management. In 2005 he started the on-line business video streaming service www.streamdallas.com which he sold in 2007. Marc is the author of the North Carolina StartUp Blog and can be reached at: ncstartupblog at gmail dot com
Scott Brewster (@jrmozart) is a serial entrepreneur, blogger/podcaster, and educator. Born in Louisiana, Scott now resides in North Carolina where he is active in the entrepreneurship community. Scott sees his involvement in the entrepreneurship community as a way to give back to the state by helping budding entrepreneurs build businesses to grow the state’s economy and put more NC residents to work. Scott holds a Ph.D. in music education from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), and his expertise is in the areas of new media, educational technology, online learning, serious games, and electronic music. Currently, Scott is Director of Online Learning and Support for the Division of Continual Learning (DCL) at UNCG where he leads a team of 30 instructional designers, coders, and artists to develop online courses that focus on student-centered learning and cutting edge technology such as simulations and serious gaming. Additionally, Scott is partner in Triad Interactive Media, a company that provides new media services and products for instructional and training purposes, and is co-founder of several tech companies including TapTrend, Rare Brew online team community, and Startup Junkyard.
Adam Arney (@adam10) is the Director of Communications at a North Carolina university; his work keeps him busy with project management, research, writing, and marketing. He has won several national awards for interactive course development and is passionate about incorporating 21-century skills into modern education. Adam is a startup junkie and is co-founder of BoomClickaBoom, an agile software development company, whose products include PracticePlanr, TweedleDM, and Tweetasy, a miniature literature site built for the twitter community.
A self-made entrepreneur, Donna Maria is the Chief Executive Indie and the Original Lifestyle CEO, known for empowering small, independent (Indie) business owners to maximize their potential through small business ownership. A popular blogger, small business expert, attorney, author and media personality, Donna Maria has a passion for sharing the stories of people who pursue their dreams to create profitable and long lasting business ventures that make the world a better place. A native of Washington, DC, Donna Maria now makes her home in Charlotte where she lives with her husband and their two children. You can also follow Donna Maria’s entrepreneurial journey at http://www.IndieBusinessBlog.com. You can follow Donna Maria on Twitter and connect with other small business owners on the Indie Business Facebook Page. You can reach Donna Maria at: donnamaria at carolina dot rr dot com
Mack Sperling appears regularly as a guest blogger on NC startup litigation issues. Mack is a business litigation lawyer with Brooks Pierce LLP, an 80 lawyer firm with offices in Greensboro and Raleigh, North Carolina. Mack frequently litigates cases involving disputes among members of closely held business, and he writes about business litigation issues on his own blog, the North Carolina Business Litigation Report.
