WOULD YOU GET A LUNG CANCER SCREENING IF WE CALLED IT A “LUNG-OGRAM”? Business Briefs

The Possible Woman Conference 2016 will be held on Tuesday, May 10, from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Georgia World Congress Center. Opening Keynote Speaker is Hala Moddelmog, president of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. Following the keynote will be the Women of Power and Vision Panel moderated by Malenka Warner, managing director and owner of Atlanta Daybook. This year’s participants are Belinda Grant-Anderson, vice president, Workforce Development & Diversity at AT&T Services; Shan Cooper, chief supply chain and technology officer at WestRock; Patricia M. Falotico, CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership; Stacy Kilcoyne, vice president, Human Resources and chief diversity officer at the Southern Company; and Lee Pressley, vice president of sales at IBM Cloud for the Southeast Region. The closing keynote is Celeste Jonson, transformation coach and strategist at Celeste Jonson International. For more information, visit possiblewomanfoundationinternational.org.

home improvement store. Taking a page from Dollar Shave Club’s razor blade subscription business, he solved both problems by launching FilterSnap with 72 filter sizes and a choice of 1, 2, 3, 6 or 12-month replacement schedules. Visit filtersnap.com for more information.

Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH has opened its newest store in Buckhead at 1 Buckhead Loop. The store features in-season and on-trend looks for men, women and kids, boasting more than 800 top designer brands.

Carré d’Artistes, a chain of international art galleries, will open its latest space at Phipps Plaza in Atlanta this June.

Most women know to get a mammogram but not a lung screening. Yet lung cancer kills more women than any other type of cancer. The good news is a lung cancer screening can help detect it early when there are more treatment options. Northside Hospital Cancer Institute offers a low dose CT screening if you’re 55 – 80 years old and a current or previous smoker. It’s quick and easy and could save your life. For information call 404-531-4444 or visit http://www.northside.com/lung.

Two of the top 50 fastest-growing women-owned/led companies this year are in Atlanta. These women are ranked on the global list of flourishing womenowned companies, cosponsored by the Women Presidents’ Organization, a national nonprofit with 127 chapters located internationally, and American Express. Ranked #16 on this year’s list is Phyllis Newhouse, founder and CEO of information technology services and solutions provider Xtreme Solutions, Inc. Newhouse saw her company revenue grow from $38.6 million in 2013 to more than $59.3 million in 2015. During that time, the company headcount also jumped by 765. Also on the list at #44 is Amy Dresser of J Curve LLC, which provides experienced accounting and financial professionals on an interim and project basis. The company’s revenue grew from more than $5.6 million in 2013 to $7.2 million in 2015.

Six years ago, Atlanta’s Shane Kenny and his brother Aaron sold their 11-year-old internet filtering software business to McAfee for over $10 million. Today Shane is back in the filtering game – albeit in a completely different sense – as the founder of a service called FilterSnap that delivers air filters to consumers’ homes on a regular schedule to ensure timely replacement. Shane came up with the idea because of his own frustration in remembering to change filters and trying to find the size he needed at the local

Vine Vault, a secure wine storage and logistics retailer for wine lovers and collectors, has leased 5,650 square feet in Atlanta’s 764 Miami Circle retail center. The facility will include optimum lighting, refrigeration with back-up generator, state-of-the-art security systems, insurance and shipping services. More details soon.

Private Bank of Decatur President Judy Turner is retiring May 31. In anticipation of that change, the bank’s Brent Adams is working closely with Turner and will serve as her successor. “In 2011, at a time when she could have been resting on the laurels of a remarkable career in banking, Judy joined us to help structure and open Private Bank of Decatur,” said Charlie Crawford, president, CEO and chairman of Private Bank of Buckhead, in a statement. “Judy and her team opened the doors of the Decatur location in October 2012. Notably, last year about this time Judy celebrated a milestone of 50 years in banking. I am honored and proud to have worked with Judy, and look forward to her continuing support of the bank. Among other ways, Judy will remain active as a member of the Private Bank of Decatur Board of Advisors.”

Consumer credit reporting agency and data analytics company Equifax has signed a multi-year lease to expand its offices into 100,000 square feet of space at One Atlantic Center in Midtown. The expansion is expected to generate over $75.8 million of economic impact as a result of Equifax’s $17 million investment in the project, as well as nearly 700 new jobs.

Built in 1987 between the intersection of 14th and West Peachtree streets, the new office space in the 50-story skyscraper will serve as an extension of Equifax’s operations and join the company’s other two current metro Atlanta locations. Construction is expected to begin in September and the company plans to begin occupying the space in two phases, with the first occurring in February 2017 and the final phase occurring in July 2017.

“After considering several locations, we decided it was in the best interest of the company, our Atlanta-based employees, and the community, to expand in Atlanta and further strengthen our roots that date back 117 years, and position for a great future that includes a growth trajectory of 600-700 jobs over the next several years,” said Andy Bodea, chief global operations officer for Equifax, in a statement to the media. “We naturally gravitated to Midtown with its terrific access to a prominent engineering school and a growing reputation for innovation and technology hubs that are a magnet for great talent.”

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