Staff/Volunteers
Lieberman, Liz
Executive Director
A connector, a motivator and a doer, Liz is a Human Resource Management and Organizational Development executive with more than 20 years of experience and a reputation as a true business partner. Since 1997, Liz has been designing and facilitating programs that participants request more of and evaluate well. They say that she puts a new spin on training and have made such comments as “I’ve taken a class on this topic before but it has never been this good!” Liz is a career coach who encourages significant results and helps clients achieve their goals. Her clients continually thank her for giving them the encouragement, inspiration, motivation and direction to make positive changes in their professional and interpersonal relationships. They also thank her for facilitating positive change in their organizations.
Liz has held senior level positions with The New York Times Company, Turner Broadcasting, AHL Services and SSL Americas. She taught English as a second language in Taipei, Taiwan.
She is a Certified Instructor of the Anti Defamation League’s (ADL) Classroom of Difference; is qualified to administer the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, is certified in Management Research Group’s (MRG), 360-degree feedback and attended the Justice Department of Atlanta’s Mediation Training Program.
Liz holds an MBA in Finance from the Fordham Graduate School of Business in New York, New York, and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
She served on the Boards of Refugee Resettlement and Immigration Services of Atlanta (RRISA) and the Cliff Valley School in 2003 and 2004. In 2009, she worked with Chayil, an organization dedicated to helping victims of domestic violence move forward in life and successfully stay away from their abuser. In 2009 she started working with a class at Grady High School, focusing on career preparation and has had unbelievable speakers join her in this endeavor.
Walker, Dave
Associate Director of Programs
Before going into private practice, Mr. Walker served as Corporate Counsel for Celsia Technologies, Inc., a publicly traded company that specializes in the use of nanotechnology to cool electronic components, from August 2005 to January 2007. At Celsia, he managed all legal affairs, including (i) advising executive management and the board of directors on critical legal and business issues, (ii) negotiating and preparing licensing and manufacturing agreements, (iii) managing the international patent portfolio, (iv) coordinating the issuance of shares and options under the employee stock option plan, (v) compliance with SEC filings, (vi) maintaining corporate governance in accordance with Sarbanes-Oxley, (vii) reviewing press releases and shareholder correspondence, and (viii) supervising outside law firms in the US, United Kingdom, and South Korea.
Prior to Celsia, Mr. Walker was President and Corporate Counsel for Hansen Gray & Company, Inc., a venture capital firm focused on hi-tech investments, from July 2004 to August 2005 where he was responsible for all critical business decisions and all legal matters, including (i) reducing the legal budget, (ii) preparing investor presentation materials and private placement memorandums, (iii) preparing due diligence data rooms for corporate investments, (iv) negotiating preferred equity and mezzanine financing term sheets and execution documents, and (v) managing the day to day operations of the Company.
As President of Hansen Gray, he was instrumental in structuring a transaction in which Celsia raised over $20 million in preferred private equity and became a US public company through a reverse merger with its UK parent.
From 1998 to 2004, Mr. Walker was a corporate attorney for Bodman LLP in Detroit, Michigan, where he was involved in general corporate legal matters including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, financing transactions, negotiating and drafting contracts, and private placements of securities.
Mr. Walker received a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Detroit-Mercy School of Law. He is licensed to practice law in the states of Georgia and Michigan.
Lieberman, Gary
Vice-Chairman of the Board
Gary is a veteran TV production professional who has trained editors and technical directors at nearly every major TV network and cable channel in the country. Recognized by his peers as a pioneer in the development of new video delivery systems and the creation of workflows that get video clips and metadata in front of eyeballs.
Previously, Gary served as the coordinator for Public Broadcasting Atlanta’s Forum Network, Chief Editor for the IOC’s Atlanta Olympic Broadcasting, and was the primary newscast director for WAGA-TV Atlanta.
He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in TV & Film from The University of Kansas and also attended graduate school there.
In addition to creating TV shows, Gary is the Co-Chairman of Talk About Your Future, Inc. and works to create video presentations for Grady Talks.