Peter has almost 30 years professional experience in business operations, finance and accounting, contract negations, procurement, globalization, process design and analysis, and IT.  He joined Qualcomm in 1991 and held a variety of leadership positions in various functional aspects of the company while it grew from a small privately held, defense contracting firm to the 20,000 employee global presence it is today.  His experiences include strategic business planning, financial modeling, pricing strategy, cost accounting, budgeting,  procurement, logistics, supply chain operations, customer care operations, software asset management, intellectual property portfolio management, litigation discovery, contract negotiations and management.

Peter joined Qualcomm’s IT leadership team in 2000.  As Vice President of IT, he was responsible for cultivating a staff of 400 global professionals responsible for business and customer facing application needs of emerging profit centers and corporate functions.  Peter has actively managed teams responsible for web design and development, analytics, Saas/PaaS based solutions, middleware integrations, payment gateways, recurring and subscription billing and tax solutions, sales force automation tools, customer relationship management tools, and ERP solutions.

Peter is a well respected talent cultivator, peer mentor, and team builder.  He enjoys building disparate skill sets into strong, capable, focused teams.  A leader of both technical and functional talent, Peter easily builds rapport across talent pools through mutual respect and collaboration.

Peter is heavily engaged in board advisory and charitable advisory causes.  Peter is a board member of the Triangle Technology Executives Council (www.ncttec.net), a non-profit organization dedicated to collaboration among executive leaders of technology companies in the Research Triangle. He is a Mentor for CED’s Venture Mentoring Service.  He lectures at NC State University and Wake Tech Community College. Peter is passionate in the education and health care of children; he has spent the last decade in philanthropic support of Rady Children’s Hospital, donated time and resources to both public and NGO-private school systems nationally and internationally.  He is a frequent guest lecturer and career advisor to those who may need it most.

Peter holds a B.S. in Accounting from the State University of New York at Albany and an MBA from San Diego State University.

Michael Siegel comes to SCORE with over 35 years’ experience in healthcare and healthcare IT.  Michael grew up on Long Island, NY and after earning a BS in Biology from Moravian College and an MA in Developmental Biology from Temple University, Michael started his healthcare career at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. Michael’s early work with the National Cancer Institute at NIH led to his selection as Executive Director of the new Comprehensive Cancer Center for the State of Florida under the auspices of the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center. Following the successful launch of the statewide Cancer Center, Michael joined IBM as a Medical Industry Account Executive, selling and implementing computer systems in healthcare organizations throughout South Florida. Michael then became minority owner of a Medical Personnel Pool homecare franchise (now Interim Services) where, combining his sales, systems and operations knowledge, he tripled the company’s sales and achieved profitability in only thirteen months. Michael then joined Interim’s Corporate Management Team to establish the company’s first professional IT Department where he served as CIO for the next 8 years. During Michael’s tenure at Interim, the company expanded rapidly and increased annual revenues from $250 million to $650 million. Over the next twenty years, Michael served as CIO for several other large, successful homecare organizations, including Maxim Healthcare Services, Addus Healthcare Services, and Memorial Health’s home health division, CareOne.  After a thirteen year absence to pursue his work at Maxim Healthcare Services in Maryland, Michael and his wife, Gail, returned to Savannah in 2010. Happy to be “back home” in Savannah, Michael now works part time as a successful homecare IT consultant, is honing his skills as a nature photographer, enjoys using his marine biology background as a volunteer at the UGA Marine Extension Service on Skidaway Island, and is looking forward to working with the SCORE team helping aspiring Savannah-area entrepreneurs to achieve their dreams.

I spent 20+ years as a Law Office Administrator handling everything from Human Resources to Marketing, Advertising, Customer Service and running a service office. 

I have spent the last 4 years as a Business and Life Coach. Counseling, Consulting and Coaching businesses and business owners to reach their greatest achievements.  

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Vlad Molchadski is a Co-Founder of Dallas based BizTraffic, LLC (2007), an online marketing, web design and development, analytics, social media and strategy company.

His areas of expertise availble for online or in-person mentoring are:

• Web design and development
• Online marketing
• E-mail marketing
• Analytics
• Google and Yahoo / Bing paid marketing
• Social Media
• Sales and business development

Vlad earned his BA at Saint Martin's University (Washington State) in Business Management. Prior to BizTraffic, he was a Director at 1-800-CashOffer / FastHomeOffers.com, connecting 100k+ motivated sellers each year with real estate professionals throughout North America. Prior to that, he held successful leadership roles in consumer finance and mortgage lending verticals.

Vlad is fluent in Russian and immigrated to the United States in the late 90's.