Gwinnett Magazine Staff

Logical Choice Technologies’ Cynthia Kaye Shares Her Success Story

Cynthia Kaye works in the 48,000-square-foot Lawrenceville corporate headquarters of Logical Choice Technologies – a big change from the home basement where she founded her education technology company in 1994 with a folding card table and her preschooler playing on the floor around her.

Since then, Logical Choice has become the largest full-service partner of Promethean in the U.S. The company, which produces interactive-teaching whiteboard systems for schools and government agencies, reached $100 million in sales this year.

“It was quite a journey from my basement to where we are today,” said Kaye. “But having a vision of what our company could become, and having employees that were focused and passionate on making the vision become a reality [were the biggest drivers of success]. The excitement was the opportunity to start a technology company that would make a difference in education.”

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Gwinnett Magazine Staff

I Will Make A Difference Foundation Drives to Do Good

We all have drives. Things that get us fired up, make us passionate, inspire us to actually do something. These inspirations may come from a childhood memory, an experience later in life – or at an “aha” moment.

In Gary Martin Hays’ case, losing both a dear employee and his beloved older brother to cancer sparked his determination to try to make a difference.

The well-known personal injury lawyer’s life was jarred beyond making annual charitable donations when paralegal and friend Chez Chapman passed away in 2007 after an 11-year battle with cancer. Hays’ brother Chuck was six years into his own long battle with cancer, with his family seeking out new treatments and clinical trials that might help.

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