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Karla Sinclair
V.P. Operations and Managing Editor
Voice: 770-671-0213
E-mail: ksinclair@daybooknetwork.com

Karla Sinclair serves as Managing Editor for Daybook Network and manages all operations for the company. Karla focuses on staying in tune with the needs of Daybook readers and customers and is available to Daybook customers when planning their story and ad campaigns on Daybook. She also advises customers regarding the Expert Network. She produces original content on Daybook such as Journalist Spotlight. With her unique view into both the local press and PR communities, she is a great resource to Daybook customers and uses reader feedback for continuing improvement at Daybook.

Karla is a member of the Atlanta Press Club and is the 2007/2008 Vice President of the Atlanta Women's Network. She also sits on the advisory board of CONNECT magazine.

As Contributing Editor, Gay brings 25 years of experience in public relations throughout metro-Atlanta and the Southeast. She previously was Director of Public Relations for Consumer Credit Counseling Service, directing marketing, media relations and community affairs for CCCS in Atlanta; Palm Beach County, FL; Jackson, MS and Knoxville TN.

Watson also works with clients through Gay Watson Public Relations and serves Of Counsel to Sarah Douglas Communications LLC. She was previously Director of Communications for the Cobb Chamber of Commerce in metro-Atlanta and also handled public relations for the Cobb County Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Cumberland Community Improvement District.

Her affiliations have included Atlanta Press Club, The Commerce Club, Georgia Press Association, Public Relations Society of America, and Chambers of Commerce throughout Georgia and Florida. She was selected to Leadership Cobb 1994 and Honorary Commanders Association 1998 and is active in both alumni associations. She served on the Marietta Board of Lights & Water and boards of United Way in Cobb County, Cobb Habitat for Humanity and Fulton County Workforce Development.

Watson is a graduate of the University of Missouri at Columbia and earned a master's degree from Georgia State University in Atlanta. She has been an adjunct instructor in public relations in the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University.

For nearly 30 years, Richard Warner has been a familiar name to viewers and investors across the southeast.

He is in his 27th year as host and managing editor of Georgia Public Broadcasting’s "Georgia's Business," airing twice weekly on GPTV, the PBS station serving Atlanta and all of Georgia. Warner has interviewed hundreds of CEOs one-on-one for the program including the heads of BellSouth, Delta, UPS, Turner Broadcasting, AFLAC and Equifax.

Warner is also CEO of What's Up Interactive, a Web services and technology firm whose roster of clients includes FOX Television Stations, Coca-Cola, the Georgia Aquarium and dozens of other companies. What’s Up Interactive helps companies tap the sales and marketing power of the Web through design and technology, streaming video and audio, and social media strategies.

Richard has been appointed by Governor Sonny Perdue to serve on the Georgia Film, Video and Music Commission, and is a columnist for “Business to Business” Magazine. He also served as 2004-2005 President of the Atlanta Chapter of the American Marketing Association.

He is in demand as moderator and emcee for events held by the Technology Association of Georgia, Georgia Public Television, the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Women in Technology, the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Georgia Trend Magazine, the Business Marketing Association, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Emory University’s Goizueta Business School and many others.

His career includes a long stint as reporter and anchor for Atlanta radio stations WSB AM and WGST AM.