About Us

OUR MISSION

Workforce and Economic Development. In short: Create and identify jobs. Train people.

  • Goal: To create opportunities for job growth, job training, STEAM curriculum, plus public policy and advocacy around technology subjects
  • One of 60+ tech councils in North America, including Canada. Member of TECNA (Tech Councils of America and CompTIA)
  • Independent, non-profit educational organization.
    Registered 501C3.
  • Established officially April 22, 2014. First meetup February 2013.

If you’d like to join, pay your membership dues of a minimum of $300 on this site, and we will add you to our mailing list.

TALK BOARD

TALK Executive Director/CEO/Chair

Dawn Marie Yankeelov
Founder, TALK and ASPectx
dawny@aspectx.com or
dawny@talklou.com

TALK Vice-President  and Techfest 2023 Co-Chair

Bryan Eugene, Channel Sales Manager
Spectrum Business bryan.eugene@charter.com

Other Active Board Members

Da-Wyone Haynes, Network Security Engineer
Aegon Global Technology Operations
da-wyone.haynes@transamerica.com

Phillip K. Brown, Government Affairs Manager, Crown Castle Phillip.Brown@crowncastle.com

Michael C. Drury III, CPA,CITP, MBA, Mcloud3 LLC  Michael@mcloud3.com

Eric Satterly, PE, Chief Information Officer & AVP for Digital Transformation, Bellarmine University, esatterly@bellarmine.edu

Brock Jamison, Technology Account Manager, Dean, Dorton, Ford, bjamison@ddaftech.com

TALK’s Skate Board Chairman & TALK Secretary
Jim Martin, President
Marwood, Inc.
jim@marwoodveneer.com