ConvergeSouth

Developers & Tech Consultants 🔹
Looking for meaningful dev projects, real founders, and tech challenges that inspire?
Join the innovation conversation at — a 2-day startup summit full of investor meetings, pitch decks, and technical founders who need your skills to build the future.
👨‍💻 Whether you're into SaaS, AI, or custom builds, your next project starts here.
📍 Winston-Salem | 🗓️ Sept. 4–5
🎟️ Register: www.convergesouth.com

Hank Hoffmeier is an author, speaker, podcast host, and senior Marketing Operations manager at Kickbox, a Ziff Davis Company. With a passion for all things digital and social and over 25 years of experience in sales and marketing, he has been dubbed the Digital Marketing Infotainer because he makes marketing fun and successful.

Hank will present "Secrets to Email Marketing That No One is Talking About"

Psst… can you keep a secret? Want to know what superstar marketers do to ensure their email campaigns have the best results? This is your chance to find out as I’ll be spilling ALL the beans. Once you know, you know! Join me and become a secret-keeper, too!

Here is what you will learn:

📧 Proven strategies that ensure more emails get delivered to the inbox.
📧 How AI has a different set of rules for email marketing and how you can tap into that super power.
📧 Use the untapped potential of your email subscriber list to drive more brand awareness and profit.

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https://whova.com/portal/registration/conve1_202406/

Rick Leander spent 30 years at the cutting edge of Business and Technology Transformation in London, Tokyo, and New York. He built and led the Strategic Technology Group at Bank of America and built a $500 Million Strategic Investing Fund. He created and ran Mellon Labs, a new business incubator that ran innovation challenges for Fortune 500 companies. He was the CEO of a Fintech before Fintech was thing. He now leads LFB Holdings, using behavioral design to help companies improve results. He is heavily involved with the entrepreneurial ecosystem in North Carolina and speaks, coaches, and writes on company culture, behavioral economics, payments, and future trends in society, work, and life. He sits on the boards of a number of for profit and non-profit firms and is an advisor to a wide portfolio of startups.

His presentation will introduce 5 behavioral economic tools that founders and their companies can immediately use to improve their relationships with customers, clients, employees and investors. Each tool will be introduced and examples of how the tool has been used for maximum impact will be provided. Participants will be able to leverage these tools in marketing, pricing, product development and customer service areas.

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https://whova.com/portal/registration/conve1_202406/

Faye Postma has over 20 years of experience in launching startups and running a Los Angeles-based marketing agency for Fortune 500 brands. She has been instrumental in advising small and medium-sized businesses on maximizing their marketing budgets. She has assisted numerous entrepreneurs in launching their ventures as a fractional Chief Marketing Officer (fCMO), consultant, adviser, or mentor. Currently, Faye advises several brands and has developed methodologies to simplify marketing. She teaches these strategies in her One Weekend Marketing Strategy (OWMS) course, designed to help entrepreneurs craft their marketing plans in just three sessions.

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https://whova.com/portal/registration/conve1_202406/

Marketing is a must for your business, and we've rounded up some incredible folks ready to help you grow!

Chrissy Santos is a seasoned local small business owner with over 12 years of experience. As a devoted mom, wife, and entrepreneur, she expertly balances her personal and professional life. With degrees in business marketing, Chrissy actively contributes to her community by offering small business consulting and marketing classes. Her store proudly supports 17 small businesses, fostering a collaborative and vibrant local economy.

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https://whova.com/portal/registration/conve1_202406/

Ethan Foulkes is the CEO and Co-Founder of Magic Button Labs. He brings a wealth of leadership experience from his roles as chief product officer and COO at Totem Building Cybersecurity and as VP of Professional Services at Cprime, Inc. Known for building high-performing teams and driving innovation, Ethan has excelled in various industries, including supply chain management and IT. He holds educational credentials from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and numerous certifications in technology and cybersecurity, underscoring his expertise in the field.

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https://whova.com/portal/registration/conve1_202406/

Shondra Washington founded TBC-Capital, a fractional CFO and accounting firm specializing in accounting, business development, and strategy services for VC-backed companies and small businesses. Under Shondra's guidance, TBC-Capital has helped clients secure over $40M+ in funding and grow to be valued at $100M+.

Shondra is also the CEO and co-founder of Black@ Labs, which provides education to budding entrepreneurs.

Through Black@, she has forged partnerships with notable institutions such as Andreessen Horowitz, where she runs a nonprofit supporting Black digital artists, and Benedict College, who chose Black@ Labs as their partner to run the inaugural Benedict College Statewide Investment Accelerator.

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https://whova.com/portal/registration/conve1_202406/

As a business attorney, Jeff Wolfe focuses on all business cycle stages. He regularly advises startups, small businesses, and middle market companies on various business legal needs, including private securities offerings and mergers and acquisitions. Jeff will help you understand the do's and don'ts of fundraising.

This week, we're highlighting the speakers from our Fundraising sessions! This is Greg Brown. Greg is a Managing Partner of Cardinal Finance (finance and accounting advisory) and the Fund Administrator of Charlotte Angel Fund. His career has been split between CFO/COO roles in privately backed and public companies and angel/VC investing.

His presentation, "Decoding Investor Speak ... What They Say and Why They Say It."

The key takeaways will be an enhanced understanding of and empathy for investor viewpoints.

This is critical for entrepreneurs to understand in order to avoid inadvertently violating norms in early-stage funding and to present themselves to the investor community in a manner that maximizes their chance of being funded.

🚨 Early bird rate ends September 15th!

ConvergeSouth 2024 is just around the corner! Join us on October 3-4 at the Wake Forest Biotech Place Conference Center in Winston-Salem for two days packed with entrepreneurial energy and opportunity. Whether you're an entrepreneur, solopreneur, or startup founder, this event is tailor-made for you. Engage with industry leaders, attend transformative sessions, and ignite your entrepreneurial spirit. Don't miss this chance to network and grow in the heart of the Southeast's innovation hub!

Get your tickets here:

https://whova.com/portal/registration/conve1_202406/