Debbi Shapiro, president of Henderson Shapiro, Inc., has been named metro Atlanta’s 2010 Small Business Person of the Year at the 24th Annual Small Business Person of the Year Awards.
Henderson Shapiro was established in 1994 in an effort to provide marketing and related business services in a non-traditional agency setting. The company is located in Roswell, Ga., and has approximately 20 employees.
Henderson Shapiro's accomplishments and awards include: the 1996 Coca-Cola Olympic City marketing roll-out initiative; 2007 Top 50 Small Businesses for Working Moms by Working Mother Magazine; self-publishing The Common Thread, a book highlighting 35 years of the Peachtree Road Race T-shirt; as well as 18 awards for outstanding creative for clients including Intelliverse, GreenGuard, Georgia-Pacific, Litchfield Research, Prevent Child Abuse Georgia, Hadassah, The Council on Alcohol and Drugs and others.
Other finalists for the 2010 Small Business Person of the Year Award were:
- Susan Bixler, president and CEO, Bixler Consulting Group
- Shelly Justice, CEO, Convention Models and Talent, Inc.
- Chad Massaker, managing principal, Carceron
- Shannon Russo, CEO, Kinetix, Inc.
The event, which for 24 years has honored one outstanding small businessperson for their contributions to Atlanta's civic and business community, is co-hosted by MAC and the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
For impressions from those who attended this year's event check out the links blow for a blog from the day.
Darrah Brustein
Broker
The MJT Group
Today’s event marks my first anniversary as a Chamber member, and I must say it’s certainly an exclamation point at the end of the year! I’ve already grown to love my time at MAC thanks to the high quality and professionalism of the members and staff, and today certainly reminded me of that. Mixing and mingling with several hundred small businesses allows for a concentrated opportunity to reconnect with old colleagues, introduce my trusted contacts to one another and meet new business contacts. I’m thoroughly looking forward to the event next year and highly recommend it to others in the metro Atlanta business community. Hey, I’ll even show you around if you’d like
Russ Hall President ActionCOACH Marietta
Great venue, great location, great program and most of all great people … it’s what makes this a must attend event for me each year. The members are a community of like-minded people, and this is “our day” at the Chamber. It’s akin to the old “main street” of businesses in a town. The formal presentations that MAC pulls together are always topical and excellent … this year’s Social Media panel was about as good as it gets for information and relevance (special kudos to Jennifer Dunphy and Vayu Media). My marketing manager, Susan Hooper, is here with me, and we are making great new connections while reinforcing our existing ones. As a now-famous governor once said, “I’ll be baack”!
Chris Goodwin
BlueWave Computing
We are thoroughly enjoying the event and our display table today. The MAC staff has done a great job putting together an incredible event with a very well thought out agenda and a consistent traffic flow. We have been able to make connections in one morning that could have otherwise taken months to develop. The presentations have been informative, timely and served as a good draw to enhance our exposure. Overall, I highly recommend the experience and would like to thank MAC for putting together an event with the focus on the small businesses of Atlanta. What a great venue and opportunity for us to raise awareness of our business and services.