Venture differently through service; to create value for investment partners while encouraging shared values & faith in founders we partner.Our strategy comes alongside founders with funding and discipleship to ensure a healthy culture and create lasting, enduring enterprises. Doubling down on people provides a generative opportunity for decades to come.

I help people find their "Wherewithal" through the following:• Short term engagements meant to accelerate growth or company direction• Strategic planning and execution• Creating paths for growth by actively listening to clients and their staff and harnessing the internal resources of the group• Assess, locate, or find resources to direct positive change in the organization• Share new and innovative ways to pursue business for the company and its stakeholdersClients credit me in coming from a different angle, capitalizing on lateral thought, creativity, and ability to see both the long and short term opportunities...all of which provide the advise and insight for meaningful action.

• Directed & produced annual gathering from its inception 2014• Managed up+down informal organization's relationships as well as across multiple (roughly 50 people) companies to deliver results• Designed all marketing materials, websites (front & back end), workflows, logistics, and communication• Leveraged relationships, resources, and skills to achieve value that exceeded the organization's expectations and investment• Created an environment of trust and competency for new partnerships to develop• Distilled numerous ideas, voices, skill-sets, and input from volunteers and individual contributors into a meaningful, highly-valued asset in an burgeoning market for impact investing and faith-driven interestsThe Lion's Den event was created with a group of businessmen with the aim to inspire, educate, and mobilize professionals to use their resources for a more dedicated purpose than profit alone. Similar to impact investing, the terms Faith-Based or Business As Mission describe the type of person; whether operator, owner, investor, or professional. The experience has several events over a 36 hour period, at multiple venues and in multiple formats, to appeal to a variety of attendees. The Main Event is a shark tank-style, pitch competition with innovative live audience voting. A Professional Summit was created to dive deeper into the growing dynamics of this emerging market. The 2019 event drew approx. 700 to the Main Event, 200 to the Professional Summit, and the attendees came from 11 countries, 80+ cities, and close to 30 U.S. states. Other events have developed from this venue, in Dallas and abroad. I played a strategic role in either starting, operating, or advising these events and new groups. To date, these events have enabled presenting companies to receive north of $30 million in new funding from exposure to attendees.

• Managed technology team for web application development of custom website and platform. • Designed and Built Wordpress site as well as payment platform/process. • Oversaw branding, messaging; presentations development and delivery to clients, investors, and strategic accounts. • Supervised contractors; trained, mentored interns; negotiated contracts and partnerships; event management lead. • Researched industry dynamics across a variety of fields such as psychology, medicine, governmental, education, and business concerns. • Designed one-of-a-kind athletic youth experience in 10 weeks that brought 80 children and their families (approximately 200 in attendance). I created new branding, event website, and several other operational needs during this narrow timeframe.A technology & services start-up to encourage better education and insight for youth athletic development. Fitness/health were natural by-products of this goal as well. The company evaluated over 700 athletes during 2013, ran several pilot programs to gauge possible lines of business and developed relationships in medicine, business, and education. We closed the company due to several factors and constraints. It was difficult to leave this sector, though I still advise & connect people in sports-related businesses to each other.

• Led Operations and Development of Noble Brands • Created a new product line (organic teas) • Secured bulk accounts and custom offerings • Increased operating profits through tight management of expenses• Built website and implemented e-commerce solution• Developed unique system for finding cheapest shipping costs across country to ease customer experience• direct engagement for customer assistance, issues, and needs Description of Company:Coffee Distribution that uses every sale to benefit a cause of the customer's choice. With web subscriptions, custom product design & delivery, as well as bulk wholesale, Noble creates an easy way for businesses and people to connect great drinks with great causes.

• Decreased expenses while increasing revenue for the startup• Redesign of website• Analyzed business model and product offering to maximize profit margins and net income• Oversaw supplier / roaster relationship and all customer issuesWe use specialty coffee as a vehicle for social change. This is through grocery sales in our founding market of SoCal., our website and corporate sales, and our main driver for success, partnerships with noble non-profits to encourage their coffee-drinking supporters of a new, different way to help their cause; drinking Crown Coffee.We have been in 150 grocery stores, ship to customers nationwide, and deliver an relational experience that is not common in web or grocery sellers. In the end, it's about enjoying great coffee, while supporting noble causes.

• Broker for new office in Alabama• Assisted a variety of transactions from agents nationwide at M&M while managing the compliance and standards within state RE laws• Developed relationships with owners and brokers around the state through cold calls, meetings, and transactions• Assessed $140m in real estate for owners' properties• Brokered sell-side retail property transactions for ownersReal estate investment sales in Alabama as well as aided in brokerage duties between M&M agents out of the area. I worked with various clients to determine a plan for their investments to build and preserve their wealth; valuing property to the market and brokering deals to buy or sell property.

• Helped buyers and sellers throughout the Birmingham area with residential real estate transactions• Secured the Accredited Buyers' Representative (ABR) credential for volume and quality I represented buyers of properties.• Involved in buy-side, sell-side (listings), and dual agency relationships• Transacted through referrals and relationships, which had me involved in deals from $40,000 to $700,000 I did business by referral for my clients in residential sales and become a trusted advisor for their real estate needs in the Birmingham area. I also worked new new construction and development of property.