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Georgia Official Named Head of Protocol Professionals Group
Chris Young, who was appointed by Gov. Sonny Perdue in 2005, will be president of Protocol and Diplomacy International—Protocol Officers Association for the next two years. The association is open to protocol professionals in any level of government or industry, including academics. At age 30, Mr. Young is the youngest person chosen to lead the organization since its founding in 2002. In his role with the state, he arranges visits for international dignitaries and for Georgia officials abroad. Ken Stewart, comissioner of the Georgia Department of Economic Development, said international activity has increased since Mr. Young took office. "During Chris’ tenure, Georgia has seen a significant increase in inbound and outbound missions, as well as the number of countries with consular, trade, or chamber of commerce offices," he said. For more information visit www.protocolinternational.org.
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German Software Firm Expands in Atlanta With Executive Hires
CAS Americas announced Aug. 18 that Davis Bennett is to serve as vice president of services. This follows the June appointment of Todd Fryburger as CEO of the U.S. operation. The company develops applications for the consumer products industry, and Mr. Fryburger said the appointment underscores CAS’ efforts to attract new U.S. customers and provide expanded services to existing clients.
CAS also has subsidiaries in Australia, France, Singapore and the United Kingdom and has a number of international customers. These include Camden, N.J.-based Campbell Soup Co., home appliance producer Electrolux Group of Stockholm, Sweden, and Leuven, Belgium-based brewery group InBev, which purchased Anheuser-Busch Inc. in June. For more information, visit www.cas.com.
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Atlanta Consulting and Software Firm Hires CFO
Mr. Henn was previously CFO of Atlanta-based RCMS Group, a provider of building models and three-dimensional imaging to construction companies. Astadia has U.S. offices in Boston, Dallas and San Diego. International offices are located in India, Singapore, Thailand and the United Kingdom. The company’s customers include a number of information-providing businesses, such as search engines Google and ZoomInfo and New York-based market intelligence firm Dun & Bradstreet Corp. For more information, visit www.astadia.com.
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PRG-Schultz Chairman to Resign a Year’s End The chairman, president and CEO of PRG-Schultz International Inc., an Atlanta-based corporate auditing firm, is to resign at the end of this year but will assist in training his replacement. James McCurry informed the company’s board of directors of his pending resignation on Aug. 19. A search committee led by presiding director Patrick Dills has been appointed to find Mr. McCurry’s successor. Mr. Dills said the company is grateful for Mr. McCurry’s service. “The board recruited Jim to PRG-Schultz back in 2005, during a very difficult period for the business,” he said. “He has been instrumental in leading the company through its successful financial and operating restructuring, while building a world-class team and planting the seeds for new lines of business.” Mr. McCurry expressed confidence that the company would continue to perform well after his departure. “We are now strategically, operationally and financially very strong,” he said. “The company’s worldwide management team has a proven track record for producing net earnings and positive cash flow, and the pathways for future growth are clear.” PRG-Schultz specializes in reviewing its client purchases to prevent or recover overpayments. The firm operates 27 countries and has offices in 17 of them. For more information, visit www.prgx.com.
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Acting SBA Administrator Addresses Competitiveness Forum Sandy K. Baruah, the U.S. Small Business Administration’s acting administrator, called for “pooling resources and developing unified regional development strategies” during his remarks at the second Americas Competitiveness Forum held in Atlanta Aug. 17-19. “The competitiveness of nations will increasingly depend on the competitiveness of economic regions,” Mr. Baruah said. “In order for a company to be fully competitive, the economic region in which it does business must be competitive as well.” Mr. Baruah’s appointment as administrator is pending Senate confirmation. He spoke at the forum, which was attended by the presidents of Colombia, El Salvador and Guatemala; the vice presidents of Nicaragua and El Salvador and more than 25 other senior officials from 20 nations. “We need to look beyond traditional political jurisdictions – the city boundary, the county line, even the division between nations – and work together,” he said. He also underscored the importance of small businesses as innovators, saying that they produce some 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and provide some 75 percent of the net new jobs added to the American economy. Mr. Baruah is the assistant secretary for economic development at the U.S. Commerce Department. Once confirmed by the Senate, his term is expected only to last until there is a new administration in January.
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Toulouse Students Meet With French Consul During Atlanta Trip
The city of Toulouse paid for the winners of an annual essay contest on “The Dream of Martin Luther King” to spend Aug. 2-12 with host families in the city where the nonviolent civil rights activist was born and is now buried. Betty Davis of the Atlanta-Toulouse sister city committee told GlobalAtlanta that the French city’s government established the competition independent Atlanta. “It was their idea that did it because the French people love Martin Luther King,” she said. During the trip, the students met with Philippe Ardanaz, France's consul general in the Southeast.
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