{"id":4,"date":"2014-04-03T16:54:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T16:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.talklou.com\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:57:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:57:04","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/talklou.com\/?page_id=4","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>OUR MISSION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Workforce and Economic Development. In short: Create and identify jobs. Train people.             <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Goal<\/strong>: To create opportunities for job growth, job training, STEAM curriculum, plus public policy and advocacy around technology subjects <br> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>One of 60+ tech councils in North America, including Canada.  Member of TECNA (Tech Councils of America and CompTIA)<\/strong><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Independent, non-profit educational organization.<\/strong>   <br> Registered 501C3.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Established officially April 22, 2014. First meetup February 2013.<\/strong><br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>TALK BOARD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>TALK Executive Director\/CEO\/Chair<\/strong> Dawn Marie Yankeelov<br>Founder, TALK and ASPectx<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>TALK<\/strong> <strong>VP<\/strong> Bryan Eugene, Independent IT Consultant<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brock Jamison, Vice President and Partner, Orion Networks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dan Lutes, Sr. Business Development Manager, Technology Consulting, Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael Newkirk, National Sales Director, Experis Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Siddharth Patel, Founder, Infinitice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sam D Smith, Senior Vice President, ASB Resources<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sara Holubar, District Manager, ADP TotalSource<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stacy Mill, SVP, NOC &amp; SOC, Pomeroy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Srini Pavuluri, Angel Investor | QCA Ventures<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OUR MISSION Workforce and Economic Development. In short: Create and identify jobs. Train people. If you&#8217;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 YankeelovFounder, TALK and&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/talklou.com\/?page_id=4\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;About Us&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talklou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/talklou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/talklou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talklou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talklou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":58,"href":"https:\/\/talklou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3460,"href":"https:\/\/talklou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/3460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talklou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}