Page 22 THE JEWISH GEORGIAN <strong>January</strong>-<strong>February</strong> <strong>2012</strong> BUSINESS BITS By Marsha Liebowitz PRESIDENT’S MEDAL. George S. Stern, founding partner of Stern & Edlin, PC, received the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers President’s Medal at the academy’s 25th anniversary meeting in Harrogate, England, September 10, 2011, in recognition of his work as academy treasurer, 1991-2011. Active in the Atlanta Bar Association and State Bar of Georgia for years, Stern has been included in “Best Lawyers in America” since 1997, serves on the Temple Sinai and Breman <strong>Jewish</strong> Heritage and Holocaust Museum boards, is a vice president of the Amit Program, and is a past president of the Marcus <strong>Jewish</strong> Community Center of Atlanta. George S. Stern (left) and David Salter NEXT GENERATION LEADER. Renée Rosenheck has been selected for the inaugural class of the Zin Fellows Leadership Development Program of American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. This exclusive innovative program is designed to create a community of “next generation leaders” committed to furthering David Ben-Gurion’s vision for Israel’s Negev region. <strong>The</strong> program will provides insight into challenges presented by the Negev and intends to imbue in fellows a commitment to the region. Rosenheck is a founding member of Limmud Atlanta + SE and serves on the board of the Atlanta Chevre Minyan. PIEDMONT NATIONAL EXPANDS. Piedmont National Corporation is expanding into South Carolina, with the acquisition of Winder Packaging LLC, in Greer. Allen Ivester, Winder Packaging’s president, will join Piedmont National and assume the role of sales director for the Carolinas division. Piedmont, headquartered in Atlanta, has distribution warehouses and offices in Atlanta and Albany, Georgia; Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tennessee; Charlotte, North Carolina; Montgomery, Birmingham, Decatur and Dothan, Alabama; and Tampa, Florida. SWARTZ JOINS AICC. Barry Swartz is the new vice president of Trade & Development at <strong>The</strong> American-Israel Chamber of Commerce, SE Region (AICC), and executive director of the American Israel Educational Institute, AICC’s charitable affiliate. Swartz was senior vice president of the J e w i s h Barry Swartz Federations of North America, where he created the continental system-wide emergency preparedness and response system and directed the JFNA Consulting division, Next Generation programs, and the Washington Public Policy Office. He received a BA from York University and a master’s in <strong>Jewish</strong> communal service from Brandeis University and graduated from the Mandel Executive Development Program. FEATURED EXPERT. Karen Botnick Paz, director of Programming and Development at <strong>The</strong> Amit Program, was the featured expert for the week of October 4, 2011, on the Impact ADHD Blog. Her blog entry, “Life Under the Big Top,” describes how her children’s various Karen Paz diagnoses, including learn- ing disabilities, ADHD, OCD, and Tourette Syndrome, led her to volunteer with the Amit Program, eventually leading to fulltime employment. Impact ADHD (impactadhad.com) is a national community that was created to bring a coach-approach to parents; it is intended to effectively support entire families by helping parents positively raise their ADHD kids. Lauryn Elizabeth Solodar IN THE BAG. L a u r y n Elizabeth Solodar, a 2011 fall graduate of <strong>The</strong> Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Atlanta Campus, is the new art director and designer for the handbag c o m p a n y Hammitt Los Angeles. She interned with the company this summer, where she created her first design, <strong>The</strong> Viper, which is being shown all across the country. Solodar also attended the Hebrew Academy and Riverwood International Charter School and is the daughter of Helena and Seymour Solodar. SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYTICS TECH- NOLOGY. Over 200 participants attended the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce, Southeast Region’s “Social Media: Making Business Sense through Analytics,” a demonstration and discussion of the latest Israeli technologies, December 7, 2011, at UPS world headquarters in Atlanta. Three leading Israeli companies, ActivePath, Pursway, and Verint, made “Ignite” presentations, and a panel moderated by Professor Benn Konsynski, Emory University Goizueta Business School, and including Adam Naide, Cox Communications; Martin O’Conner, Equifax; Del Ross, Intercontinental Hotel Group; and Joe Guerrisi, UPS, discussed the latest trends from the enterprise perspective. AICC Social Media event panelists Dov Wilker has been appointed director of the American <strong>Jewish</strong> Committee’s Atlanta Regional Office. He succeeds Sheri Labovitz, interim director, who served on the search committee. Wilker previously worked as AJC Atlanta’s assistant director, a position he held for two and a half years. He also brings international experience from his time representing AJC in the United States’ first professional exchange to South Asia and his service as regional director of Academic and Community Affairs for the Consulate General of Israel to the Southeast. Wilker returns to Atlanta after earning his international MBA from Tel Aviv University and working in the private sector with an Israeli company. Founded in 1944, the Atlanta Regional Office of AJC is dedicated to building bridges of understanding between the <strong>Jewish</strong> community and other ethnic and faith communities, as well as the diplomatic corps representing numerous interna- 30 YEARS. Abbadabba’s is celebrating 30 years of improving people’s health through better footwear. Janice Abernethy opened a tiny crafts shop in the late 1970s, but her passion for comfort shoes began when she discovered Birkenstocks, which were not carried by traditional shoe retailers. She began selling them at the Atlanta Flea Market and then at Abbadabba’s first brick and mortar store, in Little 5 Points, in 1981. Abbadabba’s, now with five locations, carries numerous other brands, including Israel’s Naot footwear. International shoe designers and manufacturers consult Abbadabba’s for input and critique, sometimes before a new line goes into production. Abbadabbaʼs sales associate Laura Sultenfuss with the Buckhead storeʼs Naot selection Dov Wilker named director of AJC Atlanta Regional Office Dov Wilker tional governments in metro Atlanta and the Southeast. AJC Atlanta is known for such successful initiatives as ACCESS, AJC’s national young adult division; <strong>The</strong> Atlanta Black-<strong>Jewish</strong> Coalition; and <strong>The</strong> Atlanta <strong>Jewish</strong> Film Festival.
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