At Business Owners Resource Network, we provide the connections to the People, Capital and Resources that business owners need to successfully build and grow their company. We are a network of former business owners, operating executives, investors and service providers who've all built and run middle market companies for our entire careers; and today we help other business owners solve the difficult challenges we've already had to solve for our own businesses.

Construction Capital Group (“CCG”) is an investment firm established to make controlling equity investments in the specialty contracting industry. CCG focuses on the Lower Middle Market and Middle Market specialty contractors in the Central and Southeastern US. CCG partners with best-in-class business owners and management teams to leverage pre-assembly manufacturing capabilities combined with best practice shared services to deliver world class contracting services at a lower cost and higher quality to national and regional GC’s, building owners, and engineering design partners.

The Triple G Ranch is an organic family farming operation located in the idyllic Amish country of Western Kentucky. In addition to our private dog training business, we raise cattle and small batch produce, including asparagus, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, 3 varieties of mint, peaches, pears, pecans, walnuts and various medicinal plants.

Vice & Virtue Dog Training provides personalized training experiences in home and at our custom kennels located on the Triple G Ranch, with particular emphasis on service animals supporting returning veterans and first responders.

John has over 25 years of executive management, sales management and direct selling experience across multiple industries and executive roles that he brings to his clients. A consistent theme across all of these roles was identifying unmet opportunities, pulling together the appropriate resources to meet those needs, putting a deal structure in place that rewarded all stakeholders and managing the relationships through to success. At ForteONE, as Executive Director, John continues to build similar relationships and engagements with:*Private business owners*Private Equity portfolio owners*Family Offices*Trusted advisors that support them

Turnaround of a regional Alaskan bush airline which resulted in a resurgence of the business in core markets within 180 days and positive revenue growth for the first time in 3 years.

Executive placement and human capital consulting across multiple industries.

Strategic Business Development - Increased topline revenue of StraightSource by 25% and participated in sale of company to Kenexa, and subsequently integrated RPO operations into overall Kenexa operations while generating $3mm in incremental revenue.

Early stage growth investing and professional services.

Start-up recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) and staffing technology provider that we built to a $20mm run rate, secured $5mm in series A funding and commercialized the first internet based staffing management system before exiting out of the business in 2000.