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Mike Wien, founder and senior consultant at Wien & Associates, helps clients grow more consistently and profitably by applying nearly three decades of senior level marketing and sales expertise to their operations. Wien & Associates clients benefit from both time-tested instincts and the predictive power of a 50-point marketing diagnostic tool. Success is delivered in the form of stronger implementation and more predictable sales growth.

Wien’s own track record has been notable for this type of value delivery.
As a senior marketing executive, he has developed marketing programs that increase sales and market share for such major organizations as:

Deloitte & Touche
Cole Taylor Bank
Citibank
Omni Hotels
PepsiCo (Frito-Lay and Pepsi-Cola Bottling Group)

Wien’s most recent role was national director of marketing for Deloitte & Touche, the global audit, accounting and consulting firm. In that position, he drove the e-Business marketing initiative, along with the national industry marketing program, new service development and marketing human capital services.

Mike has a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Colorado State University and an MBA from Northwestern University.

 

Daniel Bowers has served as the Executive Director of the French American Chamber of Commerce – Atlanta, sinceOctober 2010. Daniel received his undergraduate degrees in Finance and French from Rockhurst College in KansasCity, Missouri, and his Masters in Business Administration from Thunderbird – The American Graduate School ofInternational Management in Glendale, Arizona.

Prior to joining the French American Chamber of Commerce –Atlanta, Daniel worked as an investment banker, specializing in middle market mergers and acquisitions and most recently owned his own fine-dining restaurant in Winston Salem, North Carolina. In addition to his training in business administration and finance, Daniel has earned the Grand Diplome de Patisserie from the Cordon Bleu in Paris, France.

As the Executive Director of the French American Chamber of Commerce – Atlanta, Daniel is responsible for promoting and enhancing business opportunities for companies with operations in the Southeastern United States who have business interests in France or are simply interested in French culture and language. The FACC-Atlanta represents some 80 corporations, from major international companies like Delta Airlines and InterContinental Hotels to small, privately held companies. The Executive Director of the FACC-Atlanta is tasked with providing a platform for these companies to interact and create valuable business contacts. This is achieved primarily through hosting or promoting functions or events, educational, social or otherwise.

 

Danny Kofke is currently a special teacher in Georgia. He is also the author of two books – “How ToSurvive (and perhaps thrive) On A Teacher’s Salary” and “A Simple Book of Financial Wisdom: Teach Yourself (and Your Kids) How to Live Wealthy with Little Money.”

Danny has appeared on numerous television shows including Fox & Friends,CNN’s Newsroom, The 700 Club, CNN’s Your Bottom Line, Fox Business Network’s Follow The Money, ABC News Now, FOX Business Network’s Varney & Company, HLN’sThe Clark Howard Show and MSNBC Live. He has also been interviewed on over 200 radio shows and featured in publications such as USA Today, Bankrate.com,PARADE, Instructor Magazine, CBS MoneyWatch.com, FoxBusiness.com, The WallStreet Journal, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, ABCNews.com, Yahoo Finance,USA Weekend, Woman’s Day, Consumer’s Digest, CNN.com, Bottom Line Personal, YourFamily Today and The Huffington Post.

Danny wants to show others if this 35 year-old school teacher can gain financial wisdom, then they can too. I am living proof that a family can live wealthy on little money.