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I am a five-time technology CEO with more than 30 years of experience leading SaaS and…
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Forecasting is Crucial to Controlling Labor Costs - AI Can Help!
Forecasting is Crucial to Controlling Labor Costs - AI Can Help!
By Samuel Gerace
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How One Florida Restaurant Chain Reduced Labor Costs Even as Wages Rose
How One Florida Restaurant Chain Reduced Labor Costs Even as Wages Rose
By Samuel Gerace
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Restaurants: Stay Profitable Amidst Higher Wages by Reframing Labor Costs
Restaurants: Stay Profitable Amidst Higher Wages by Reframing Labor Costs
By Samuel Gerace
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Sundays are for learning! Today: Ikigai 🧠 This weekend I was listening to the podcast We're Not Marketers 💀, and in one episode, Gab Bujold 💀…
Sundays are for learning! Today: Ikigai 🧠 This weekend I was listening to the podcast We're Not Marketers 💀, and in one episode, Gab Bujold 💀…
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Dhulfiqar will attend Cleveland State University this fall where he will pursue a degree in business and marketing. We couldn't be more proud of…
Dhulfiqar will attend Cleveland State University this fall where he will pursue a degree in business and marketing. We couldn't be more proud of…
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Wishing everyone an amazing Labor Day weekend!! If you're heading to #QSREvolution early next week - safe travels, and hope to see you there!…
Wishing everyone an amazing Labor Day weekend!! If you're heading to #QSREvolution early next week - safe travels, and hope to see you there!…
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Experience
Education
Honors & Awards
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Ernst & Young 2015 NEO Tech Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Ernst & Young
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Technology Fast 500 Company
Deloitte & Touche
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Best Company
Interactive Media Council 2000 Awards
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Inaugural Speaker, Technology and Entrepreneurship Center
Harvard University
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Most Innovative People in Direct Marketing Award
Response Magazine
Organizations
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Cleveland Jazz Orchestra
President, Board of Directors
- PresentFor 35 years, The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra has been Northeast Ohio’s premier jazz voice. The CJO promotes jazz in its historical and contemporary forms, through concerts with gifted jazz musicians, arrangers, composers and educators in northeast Ohio. The CJO looks to shepherd young musicians toward the future of jazz. This season exemplifies this mission and vision through a variety of new music, new compositions and arrangements, and a stellar line-up of well-known guest artists and young…
For 35 years, The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra has been Northeast Ohio’s premier jazz voice. The CJO promotes jazz in its historical and contemporary forms, through concerts with gifted jazz musicians, arrangers, composers and educators in northeast Ohio. The CJO looks to shepherd young musicians toward the future of jazz. This season exemplifies this mission and vision through a variety of new music, new compositions and arrangements, and a stellar line-up of well-known guest artists and young up-and-coming talent! Our VISION is to celebrate jazz as a uniquely American art form. Our MISSION is to enrich the cultural and intellectual fabric of the communities we serve through jazz. We NOURISH our community by actively leading in our region’s cultural community, promoting Cleveland, reflecting Cleveland’s diversity, and serving as a musical beacon. We PERFORM to play the best jazz you’ve ever heard and the best jazz you’ve never heard. We EDUCATE our community by celebrating cultural unification through jazz and by inspiring new generations of jazz listeners, players, teachers, and jazz lovers. We SUSTAIN our existence in the community by optimizing earned revenue, providing appropriate market compensation, and securing funding to ensure our survival in perpetuity.
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Hawken School
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MInds Matter of Cleveland
Chairman
- PresentMinds Matter of Cleveland helps high school students from low income families achieve academic excellence and gain admission to leading colleges.
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Chardon will attend Princeton University debt-free this fall! Chardon has been recognized nationally as a QuestBridge Scholar, a Gates Scholar, and a…
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