Friday Dec 13 | 9:00-11:30AM 

Meet 1-on-1 w/ the Experts you need.
100% VIRTUAL Format

Please set all your appointments by 7 pm, Thurs 12/12/24.

STEPS

1. Review our roster of Experts, below
2. Click on the link below the Expert’s name to schedule an appointment
3. Make individual appointments w/ the experts you need – just ONE – or, up to a max of FIVE
4. You’ll receive an email & a calendar invitation – w/ a Zoom link for each appointment
5. Fri Dec. 12, 5 minutes before each appointment, click on Zoom link to meet w/ your selected Expert

NOTE:

Questions? Email Neil Collins at neil@InnovateNewAlbany.org

 

Schedule up to FIVE 30-minute meeting(s) below:

Ryan Steele | Porter Wright
Startup & Emerging Business Law

At Porter Wright, Ryan Steele helps early stage entrepreneurs choose optimal business structures and complete the documentation needed to establish their business foundation, grow and expand, and ultimately exit on their own favorable terms.

Ryan also handles corporate contractual matters to bring mergers, acquisitions, financing, startup operations, and other general business transactions to fruition. Combining business operations knowledge with legal acumen, Ryan efficiently executes complex business contracts so that rapidly growing companies, business owners and early stage entrepreneurs can cost-effectively achieve their growth goals.

Ryan also brings great business savvy to his client relationships. Having managed an office of over 100 people, Ryan can apply his first-hand knowledge of everyday business functions including project management, employee management, and independent contracting, providing practical counsel to fast-growing entities so they can overcome challenges and achieve their business goals.

Great Questions for Ryan:

• Incorporating Your New Business – What forms are possible and the pros/cons of each
• Capital Tables – How to structure company ownership to ensure achieving my long term goals?
• Business Operating Agreements – What are these and when does my business need one?
• Liability – How do I protect myself and my business?
• Written Contracts – When and why should my business use them?
• Regulation & Red Tape – What docs must I file to comply with laws/rules for my industry?

Click here to schedule 30 minutes with Ryan.

Miglena Kotevski | Huntington National Bank
Access to Capital for Small Business

Miglena Kotevski is a Community Lending Program Manager for the Huntington’s Lift Local Business Program, as part of the bank’s 2020 community plan commitment. Participants of Huntington’s Lift Local Business program include women, veterans, and racially and ethnically diverse business owners, as well as businesses located in LMI/MMT areas.

Miglena has over 18 years of experience in banking (all with Huntington), 17 of them working with businesses of different industries and revenue size. She has Master of Business Administration degree (MBA) from Franklin University and Masters and Bachelors degrees in business from Trakya University in her home county of Bulgaria.

Great questions for Miglena:

• How should I finance the launch of a new small business?
• What kind of financing can I obtain to grow my business?
• How do Small Business Administration (SBA) guaranteed loans work for a small business?
• How should I prepare for a lending application with a bank or other lending institution?
• What questions should I ask the lender during the process of pursuing a business loan?

Click here schedule 30 minutes with Miglena.

Allison Ditmer | Allison Ditmer, LLC
Web Copy & SEO Writing

Allison is a content strategist and SEO writer.

She has worked for 15 years building websites for a Fortune 100 CPG nutrition company, and today, she is helping other nutrition and wellness businesses create web copy and SEO blogs that attract their audience and grow their brand.

Great questions for Allison:

• How do you ensure content speaks directly to audience’s needs?
• How can content help build trust and authority with potential clients?
• What metrics should I track to measure the impact of SEO blogs and web copy?

Click here to schedule 30 minutes with Allison.

Emily Fehrman Cory | Airship Consulting
Defense Technology, Tech Transfer, SBIR

Emily Fehrman Cory has her doctorate in Electro-Optics, with a specialization in nanofabrication of polymer photonic devices. Her technical interests include advanced manufacturing, additive manufacturing, photonics, and optics. She started her career at AFRL, where she was the chief technology advisor for America Makes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute. She was also a program manager in Manufacturing and Industrial Technologies, specializing in Air Force tech transfer and commercialization. Emily then went on to create the AFRL Maker Hub, the first public-private makerspace for collaborative prototyping for the Air Force, to give small businesses a physical space to co-create with Air Force researchers. After her time at AFRL, Emily spent three years as Faculty of Practice for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Dayton School of Engineering, where she created a business incubation program that supported 11 student and faculty-led startups.

In 2021, Emily founded Airship Consulting LLC, where she uses her broad experience to help startup to small businesses leverage academic and government partnerships to grow their research and development programs towards commercialization and tech transfer goals. Emily is also an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) for the Entrepreneurs’ Center and a facilitator for Wright Brothers Institute.

Her specialties include tech transfer and commercialization, partnering with academia and government, management consulting, executive leadership and coaching, corporate strategy, and innovation techniques. Emily is a Black Belt Certified practitioner of Innovation Engineering through Eureka! Ranch.

Great questions for Emily:

• How can I use the SBIR program to grow my business?
• What does “commercialization” mean to the Department of Defense? Why do they care?
• How can I create commercial products using my government-funded research?
• As an engineer founding a tech company, who else should I be adding to my team?

Click here to schedule 30 minutes with Emily.

Satish Albert | E2 Infosystems
Custom Software & App Development

Satish Albert is Founder & CEO of E2 Infosystems. Satish offers a unique combination of experiences: enterprise software development and practical entrepreneurial a, the latter gained while bootstrapping and then selling his own successful SaaS startup. Satish has an advanced degree in computer science and deep experience leading development teams at premier tech companies including: AT&T, Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs), and Docomo Intertouch.

Satish launched E2 Infosystems to help emerging and scaling companies by engineering software solutions that meet their unique needs.

 

E2 Infosystems has developed software and mobile applications serving:

• SaaS startups
• Healthcare & Assisted Living businesses
• Travel, Manufacturing and Enterprise Legacy Systems

Great questions for Satish:

• How do I turn my idea into a software product or application?
• What factors influence the price of software or app development?
• What are the latest trends or best practices in software/nas/content/live/innovatena development?
• How can I make sure my software or app is built to grow as my business grows?
• What’s a realistic timeline & what milestones can I expect when developing my products?

Click here to schedule 30 minutes with Satish.

 

Please note: If you register and then don’t attend, your time slot will go unfilled, potentially preventing other business owners from accessing the expert advice they need. If you can’t keep your appointment, please email Neil Collins at info@InnovateNewAlbany.org .