Atlanta.Area Covered: Atlanta metro Year Founded: 1944 Number of Members: 170 Diversity: Chapter membership is 10 percent female. Companies Represented: Coca-Cola Co., Time Warner Inc., Delta Air Lines Inc., Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. Inc., SunTrust Banks SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE: STI) is an American bank holding company. The largest subsidiary is SunTrust Bank. It had $182.2 billion in assets as of December 31, 2006. Inc., Automated Data Processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a Inc., LexisNexis Group and Equifax Inc. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Chapter Sponsors: Accountants One Inc., Automated Data Processing Inc., Aon Corp., Arnall Golden Gregory LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , BDO Seidman BDO Seidman, LLP is the United States arm of BDO International, one of the largest accounting firms outside of the Big Four. History BDO Seidman, LLP was founded as Seidman and Seidman in New York City in 1910 by Maximillian L. Seidman. LLP, Deloitte, Houlihan Lokey, Robert Half International Robert Half International is a staffing firm, and a member of the S&P 500. External links
Annual Dues: $375 Meeting Schedule: Nine meetings per year, September-May, mostly dinners. Regional Challenges: Declines in membership due to a number of organizations no longer paying their employees' dues. Recent Highlights: The chapter has an annual holiday party for members and spouses. It also has an annual golf outing for members. This fall, a "fall formal" is planned for members, which will be more of a social event. Unique Qualities: The Atlanta Chapter created a chair of Member Retention to work with the New Member Committee and Speaker chair. The idea is to provide more interesting speakers and topics and convert the meetings to a place where members can walk away with a few key things to improve what they do in their ordinary course of business. This can be a number of things, such as cost reduction strategies, revenue enhancement revenue enhancement An increase in revenues, especially by way of increased taxes. Revenue enhancement includes reducing taxpayer deductions and eliminating tax credits. or managing through tough times. The chapter is moving away from having speakers come who are just going through an investor pitch of "Here is my company, here's what we do and why we are great." The new format has been embraced by members and sponsors. The chapter is also actively working with its sponsors to ensure they are receiving value from their sponsorship. Incoming President: Tad Selby, chief financial officer of BeavEx Inc., 404.593.3488 or tselby@beavex.com. --Edited by Marian Raab |
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