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I had the privilege to do an interview with Nick Konawalik, he is the Assistant Athletic Director for Marketing at the University of North Carolina at Charlottes Athletic Department. This interview took place on August the 15, 2013 in his office. The following is the transcript from this interview.

It is hard to start off a business and do it the right way, well here at UNC Charlotte (49ers) you are doing that in some ways seeing as you are starting a new football program here. So I would like to ask some questions about the start of the new football program…

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Angie Blakely is the Marketing Director for the Denver-based ophthalmology practice comprised of both Specialty Eye Care and Insight Lasik.  Specialty Eye Care has 6 doctors, including optometrists, medical optometrists, and ophthalmologists specializing in the cornea, glaucoma, and cataracts.  The Lasik portion of the practice has two doctors.    Additionally, the practice has a research department that has helped several new medications and procedures be approved by the FDA.  Angie oversees the marketing for all of the segments of this practice.  She was kind enough to spend some time answering a few of my questions, which you will find below.

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Sara LeHoullier has had a diverse background in working both in the states and abroad. She has earned an undergraduate degree is in English and graduate degree from the SIT Graduate Institute in International Development. She is an accomplished author who has also written advertisements for Living Social. She is currently located in Seattle, Washington and working for OPTYVA creating new possibilities for future generations.

I would like to thank you for taking time today to talk about your experiences in marketing and public relations. I am excited to hear more about your new position as Senior Business Optimization Consultant at OPTYVA.

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Marketing/PR Subject Matter Expert Interview

Madeline Gregory

Transcribed interview

Roy Stimits, MBA

“Entrepreneurial Pharma Exec”

August 9, 2013

Tell me a bit about how you got started in your career:  Well, I ended up in the defense industry out of undergrad.  As an engineer, it was great fun, but peace was breaking out all over, so I wasn’t sure how stable life would be for my young family.

So, what did you do?  I bit the bullet and went back to school… ended up with an MBA in finance.  Business wasn’t my forte, but numbers were! 

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