Herty Advanced Materials Development Center is a new product accelerator. Focused on value added materials manufacturers, it provides technical, market, manufacturing and development support. Herty has for 70 years been a world leader in pilot plant operations, product development and commercialization. A leader in renewable energy developments, Herty provides a secure location to test and develop technologies into commercial products and processes.

HunterMaclean is the largest law firm in the state of Georgia outside of Atlanta. The Firm maintains its principal office in Savannah, the center of a booming coastal region. It also maintains an office in Brunswick. HunterMaclean represents a wide variety of companies and individuals throughout Georgia, South Carolina, the Southeast, and the United States. The Firm has extensive experience representing businesses and individuals in litigation, corporate, tax, real estate, employment and business planning matters. In recent years, HunterMaclean has expanded its business practice areas to include healthcare, employee benefits, immigration, bankruptcy and environmental law. For over 100 years, HunterMaclean has served its clients and community with distinction. Our lawyers are dedicated to continuing that tradition well into the future.

A history of growth since 1910. Clients we’ve served as long as 60 years. Obviously, Hancock Askew knows its field, and its clients, well. We combine this rare, long-term perspective with intense focus on your situation, taking care to learn your specific needs, and employing what we learn in every audit, tax filing, financial plan and business recommendation. With offices in Savannah and Atlanta, we have six partners, two principals and a staff of over 70 professionals serving clients throughout the Southeast. Hancock Askew also brings you the specialized knowledge of the thousands of professionals in the BDO Seidman Alliance, the nationwide association of independently owned CPA firms and businesses. So when you face unique challenges such as IPOs, facility construction, other types of expansion, and corporate succession, you can be confident of expert insight in all pertinent fields.

Miller & Martin PLLC is a leading Southeastern law firm that emphasizes service to businesses developing technology for alternative energy and other green applications. We have a strong international network of law firms (the World Law Group) and are experienced in representing international companies that seek to launch their business in the U.S., especially companies from Scandinavia (Mattias Jannerbo, a native of Sweden, leads our Scandinavian practice), Germany (Tom Harrold leads our German practice), and Brazil (Tim Perry, former Honorary Consul of Brazil, leads our Latin American practice). We understand the challenge of financing growth companies, and are adept at identifying and obtaining local incentives. This year we were named the Number 1 Economic Development Law Firm by Southern Business & Development magazine. Contact Tim Perry 404 962 6493 for more information.

Headquartered in Savannah, GA, the professionals of Seacrest Partners offer a “boutique” style approach that combines intense client service with tailored insurance and consulting solutions to a wide range of commercial clients predominately in the Southeast, with a focus on several key industry groups. The associates of Seacrest include a diverse group of professionals with backgrounds in underwriting, claims management, risk management consulting, employee benefits consulting and retail insurance brokerage. The firm’s associates average over 25 years of experience in the commercial insurance industry.

Liberty County is home to Fort Stewart and the 3rd Infantry Division, which offers excellent supplemental labor force advantages. Approximately 200-300 personnel retire or leave the military each month, in addition to the 13,000 military spouses residing in the area. The Liberty County Development Authority provides Solutions Driven Economic Development. We have a proven track record, having developed several successful industrial parks with a new 5,300-acre mixed-use park currently in progress. Our new project, Tradeport Business Center, is on track to be one of the largest county owned development parks on the East Coast.

By producing unmatched public relations and strategic marketing support that can’t be beat, Abshire Public Relations (APR) continues to establish new markets and conceive new opportunities for today’s diverse clientele.Whether you’re an international corporation, small business, non-profit organization, or a budding entrepreneur in the Coastal Georgia/South Carolina Lowcountry, the unique expertise of APR delivers creative, concrete results for every client.

The Savannah Economic Development Authority – SEDA – exists to improve the standard of living for all residents of Chatham County, Georgia, by stimulating economic growth through the attraction of new investment, the creation of new jobs and the support of established businesses.

Bryan County has a multi-talented work force, reasonable land and construction costs, and excellent infrastructure.We have a Class A industrial/business park at the Interstate 16 and U.S. Highway 280 interchange. It is 10 minutes away from Interstate 95 and has water, sewer, electricity, gas and fiber optics on site.Bryan County offers an acclaimed education system, wonderful recreation parks, woodlands for hunting, and fresh water rivers as well as coastal waterways for fishing and boating. Beaches of the Atlantic Ocean are only an hour away. Plus, we’re minutes from the cultural diversity of historic Savannah.

Mr. Eckler is the principal of Savannah Ventures and provides commercial banking, investment banking, insurance, logistics, and business services to industry. He has also served as a Senior Partnership Manager in Silicon Valley, and he has co-founded a number of new ventures including a business services company that was venture financed in Europe and is now owned by a large multinational. Savannah Ventures focuses on companies that are logistics intensive, and in the alternative energy space. His focus is on working with them on developing business plans, organizing the financials, servicing in an interim top management capacity, and working with Boards and investors.