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Ogden, Ut, Us

Ogden, Ut, Us

After years of hard work and with the support and collaboration of many wonderful colleagues, I was promoted to Associate Professor and awarded tenure.

Ogden, Ut, Us

Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the Professional Sales Program within the College of Engineering, Applied Science and Technology (EAST). Courses and topics that I teach at EAST in Professional Sales include Sales Technology, E-Commerce, Internet Tools, Sales Proposals, Big Data and Social Media Sales. I also have taught E-Commerce in the MBA Program (Goddard School of Business & Economics). My research interests and work are in the areas of Sales, Big Data, Internet technology, Internet sales, Social media sales and other technology related fields that help impact and grow the revenue of various online and brick/mortar sales organizations.

Ogden, Ut, Us

I worked with faculty, staff, community leaders, business owners and other stakeholders that support and grow a variety of economic development initiatives in and around Northern Utah. These efforts included the creation of Weber State Downtown, Startup Ogden, the Technology Commercialization Office, The Concept Center at Weber State and a number of other successful and permanent initiatives. I also worked with both the public and private sector to help start or grow companies in a variety of high and low tech industries, resulting in research and development that creates more high-paying jobs for the area and the state.

Ogden, Ut, Us

I oversaw the operations of the Foundation and substantially grew its footprint, resources and scope during my five year tenure. The Weber State University Research Foundation provides technology transfer services, intellectual property commercialization, and enterprise creation support to Weber State University faculty, staff, and students, as well as entrepreneurs, innovators, and business owners.

Ogden, Ut, Us

After a two years of creating and leading the Entrepreneurship Program and Minor at Weber State, I helped find and hire a new full-time Director and transitioned to this new role. As an Entrepreneur In Residence, I continue to work with students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members to help them apply real-world experience and opportunities to their active businesses and startup ideas.

Ogden, Ut, Us

As Director, I created the Entrepreneurship Minor at Weber State (now available to all students, regardless of major). I designed the curriculum and worked it through the approval process at WSU and at the Utah Board of Regents. Next, I recruited talented, world-class Professors to teach the courses. I also teach the sales and marketing courses in the minor and work to advance the topic of entrepreneurship on the Weber State campus and in the Weber and Davis County communities. Weber State provides unique, hands-on opportunities for students to learn more about entrepreneurship thru real-world, applied techniques guided by proven success from well-known entrepreneurs. A new Director began in February of 2014, at which time I continued teaching in the program and remained on for an additional year as an Entrepreneur In Residence to help transition the program.

EVCars.com will be the worlds largest marketplace platform for private parties and dealers to sell their EV’s. In closed beta now, EVcars.com will be launching publicly in 2023.

EVauto is Utah's largest high end used electric vehicle and hybrid dealership with a brand new location under construction from the ground up in Davis County (Summer 2023 opening) and a second location to be announced soon. EVauto carries all brands of premium, low mile, clean title electric vehicle and hybrids including Tesla, Rivian, Lucid, Ford, Audi, Hyundai, Kia, Fisker, Porsche, Chevy and more! We will also be Utah's only dedicated EV and Hybrid service center providing support for allmakes and models.With meteoric growth since founding in late 2019, we have helped hundreds of customers purchase their first (or upgrade an existing) EV or Hybrid! We operate as a true service oriented, customer first business. No weird fees. No pressure. No sitting in various rooms signing documents forever. As a technologist that happened to start a car dealership, we make sure the experience is different by making it easy, chill and fun to get a super high quality EV or Hybrid.

Lehi, Utah, Us

Lendio is a financial technology company that is the World leader in matching qualified small business owners with thousands of active banks, lenders and other funding sources. Lendio was named in 2010 as a member of the Inc. 500 list by being the #1 fastest growing company in Utah (any category), #2 in the USA in the Business Services Category (highly competitive category) and #34 in the USA in all categories.As a Partner I advise the executive team at Lendio as they grow it into a national brand. I have helped lead our Internet marketing strategy, contributed to the successful execution of high growth plans, closed large business development deals, closed and managed significant strategic partnerships, built local market networks and events and have overseen all of our SEO/SEM/Social marketing efforts.

Ogden, Utah, Us

As CEO, I launched Datafy and lead the company towards incredible growth and profitability while building and launching a completely new core product from the ground up. I also led the recruitment, hiring and retention of nearly all of the technical, design and sales teams. This world class group helped add over 125 new Enterprise SaaS clients during my tenure. During this same time the Datafy business overall increased both annual recurring revenue and profits 4.5X (eight and seven figures, respectively) with no outside funding or debt.In addition to the incredibly innovative and industry leading products we built, another primary reason for this amazing success was because of the culture I was able to completely reboot. Turnover during my tenure was almost zero, amongst a very competitive market for technical and sales talent. Datafy is recognized by team members as "the best job they've ever had" and I am perhaps most proud of these types of comments. Culture eats strategy for breakfast and that was the mantra I lead Datafy with in conjunction with incredible sales growth and EBITDA performance.After launching Datafy, creating an amazing team and culture, and building a very strong base and direction of recurring enterprise SaaS revenue and high profitability, we were able to promote our very capable CRO/CMO to the CEO position. She is amazing and they continue to crush it!What a ride! I am excited for Datafy and am grateful for the opportunity to play a critical role in setting the company up for long term success.

As Chairman I oversee the daily operations, finances, grant program and future growth decisions for the Startup Ogden Program at Weber State Downtown.

Stillwater, Ok, Us

Successfully completed defense of dissertation for Ph.D. (Business) at Oklahoma State University in the Spears School of Business.OSU is a well-respected research institution and offers a highly sought after, top tier Ph.D. program. For more details, visit their website at http://phdexec.okstate.edu/#

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

BoomStartup is a mentorship-focused investor program focusing its efforts on providing money, mentors, and markets for its energetic tech entrepreneur participants. They mentor tech startups from ideation through execution. I am a volunteer mentor helping BoomStartup companies.

As the author and owner of Startup Flavor I wrote about all things business and have guests that share their experience with other small and large companies that have led to success and failure. My writing style is as a passionate, energetic, fiery competitor that is enthusiastic about work, helping other entrepreneurs and seeing people and processes get better.

Provo, Utah, Us

As a member of the Advisory Board, we meet quarterly with the Peak Venture Capital Founders and Management to discuss current and potential startup investments, strategy for the fund as well as fundraising planning and growth.

Volunteer experience, service, time and effort via participating in meetings, mentoring and speaking opportunities with the Junto Partners entrepreneurship program based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Springville, Utah, Us

I served three terms on the Board of Directors for Five Star Franchising and exited as an investor in 2011. Five Star Franchising is a venture capital backed, international franchisor of several franchising concepts. With over 95 franchisees in 24 states and 4 countries, Five Star Franchising is growing quickly by adding new concepts such as Sub-Zero Ice Cream to it's portfolio. Five Star has also won numerous awards for franchisee satisfaction and growth and experienced it's highest level of profitability, sales growth and recognition during my tenure as President. The company was noted as the #1 fastest growing painting franchisor in the World and the 10th fastest growing business by Utah Q Magazine.

Springville, Utah, Us

Five Star is a venture backed franchisor of multiple concepts with over 90 locations in 23 states and 4 countries. I served three terms on the Board of Directors for Five Star Franchising and have remained a shareholder. Five Star Franchising is growing quickly by adding new concepts such as Sub-Zero Ice Cream to it's portfolio. Five Star has also won numerous awards for franchisee satisfaction and growth and experienced it's highest level of profitability, sales growth and recognition during my tenure as President. The company was noted as the #1 fastest growing painting franchisor in the World and the 10th fastest growing business by Utah Q Magazine.

Lawrence Capital Management (LCM), a multi-industry holding company I founded as a self-made, boot-strapping entrepreneur. LCM has invested in a variety of startup, growing and mature businesses from several industries, including international franchisor, venture capital firm, consumer technology, commercial real estate development, software, mobile apps and franchise restaurant chains. LCM has successfully exited three previous ventures (technology, multi-state restaurant chain, and venture investment firm).

TwitJump offers corporations, individual users, small to medium sized businesses, bloggers and anyone looking to build their social brand a unique all-in-one solution via the Twitter network. TwitJump was featured by TechCrunch (unsolicited) as one of the top targets for Twitter to acquire in 2010. I started, built and sold TwitJump in approximately 6 months realizing a terrific investment return and creating a great entrepreneurial success story.

Dallas, Texas, Us

I was a partner in three TGIFriday's locations (one in Utah and two in Idaho). These 3 locations where operated by my partners who own and operate 50+ other restaurant locations. Each of our TGIFriday's locations were highly profitable and successful during my time as an owner. I was an integral part of the capital formation, construction, opening and ultimate sale of the restaurants.

Franchise Foundry creates strategic partnerships with proven businesses and develops them into successful franchise companies thru a mixed model of investment, operations and franchise sales. The company’s experience, skill set and business model empower franchise partners to strategically grow and build their brands nationally. Hired CEO and VP's who eventually purchased the company from us. They continue to successfully grow Franchise Foundry using our founding business model.

ELM properties held various commerical and residential rental properties in Davis County, Weber County and Washington County, Utah. Properties were held for reasonable periods and sold during the peak of the 2005/2006 real estate market. ELM portfolio included single units, duplexes, triplexes, vacation rentals and office buildings. Every property was sold for a profit, and every property maintained positive cash flow during our ownership. As founder and principal owner, I located, negotiated, purchased, managed and sold all properties. Many of the properties sold at the highest dollar per square foot in the history of their market areas.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Business

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Management

Diploma, General Education