Virginia “Ginna” Yost founded Provision in 2010, with an eye to meeting the developmental and operational needs of small profit and nonprofit firms and projects that are poorly served by existing business incubators. (Everyone wants to host the next Google or Facebook, but who wants to incubate a nonprofit trade association or a new collaboration among existing hospitals?) Ginna has worked in, and excelled at, almost every aspect of organizational development and operations over the course of her career: from recruiting and staffing, to administration and finance, to project management, to business-process and IT consulting. She has managed multi-national projects and helped missile systems move cross-country; she has nurtured health exchanges, trust networks, and trade groups, all with exceptional success. Her recruiting skills have come in particularly handy in pulling together an extraordinary–and eclectic–group of talented professionals to support her in making Provision a success.

Kelly Gwynn learned her member services skills in a rather unusual way for a nonprofit incubator: she comes to us from award-winning stints as a probation officer (she was Probation Officer of the Year in 2008 and 2010 with Georgia Department of Corrections) and as Chief Investigator for the Union County (GA) District Attorney’s Office. Not your typical incubator career-path, perhaps, but Kelly’s combination of extraordinary attention to detail and powerful analytical skills have made her beloved by our clients and their members. Nobody’s better at running down recalcitrant problems quickly and getting our clients’ focus back on the right track!  Kelly’s a graduate of UGA with a B.A. in Criminal Justice.