Partner and Chief Development Officer, coordinating strategic partnerships, sales, marketing, and expansion of our private lending origination platform. We fund business purpose loans, across America for acquisition, rehab, refi, rental hold, or portfolio management. We provide business purpose loans on non-owner occupied commercial and residential real estate for fix and flip, rentals, mixed use, and small balance commercial assets. As a direct lender with our own Sky Equity Capital Fund I, we are able to close faster, be more flexible, and use common sense underwriting. This has resulted in strong annual returns for our accredited investors to our fund year after year. Sky Equity is a Proud Founding Member of the NPLA (National Private Lending Association)* John Tedesco has served as the 2019 Chairman of the NPLA Best Practices Committee Sky Equity is a proud AAPL Member (American Association of Private Lending). * John Tedesco has served as the 2018-2019 Mid-Atlantic Chair of the Government Affairs Committee for Private Lending,* Mortgage Professional America named John Tedesco one of the 2018 Hot 100 Mortgage Professionals of the Year reshaping the American mortgage industry.

Small Business Development and Consulting.

Honored by Mortgage Professional America as one of the 2018 Hot 100 leaders in the mortgage industry. Help lead 5 consecutive years of recognition in the INC 5000 for America's Fastest Growing businesses with my work leading our business development, marketing, and strategic partnerships for the nation's premier full-service mortgage services company. Appraisal Nation is licensed and operating in all 50 states with 27,000+ appraisers in ALL 3,100+ counties in America. We now serve over 3,400 lenders nationwide, and perform over 150,000 appraisals annually. Ranked tops in quality by Morningstar and Fastest Growing Mortgage Services Company in the INC 5,000 with triple digit revenue growth for the past five years. We serve the mortgage and banking industry with solutions lenders can count on. We are proudly recognized industry-wide as a gold standard of AMCs. Appraisal Nation boasts some of the best turn-times and the lowest revision rates in the industry – because we get it right the first time. Named a Top 50 Mortgage Service Provider in America by Mortgage Executive Magazine for 3 years in a row. National Mortgage Professional, Housing Wire, and others have recognized our quality service. In 2015, 2016, & 2017 highlighted as the fastest growing AMCs in the nation. We are more than a website for an expensive time consuming self-managed solution. We are more than a low grade warehouse operations tech company linking appraisers to the streets. There is a better way - the Appraisal Nation advantage - learn more. We are a full service solution that puts people first.We currently work with wholesale lenders, correspondents, regional community banks, local credit unions, government entities, and servicers across America, along with the top private hard money lenders in the land. Let us help you.

Our Mission The North Carolina Center for Education Reform is the catalyst for a powerful transformation of K-12 public education empowering effective and innovative practices that can be replicated for maximum impact. Optimizing the learning experience, establishing high expectations, reducing bureaucracy, and producing measurable results for every child is essential to their future and ours.

Elected to the nine member board that provides leadership, governance, and oversight to the largest school district in the state and 16th largest in America. Provide budget review, analysis, and authorization of a $1.4 billion dollar system with 165 facilities and 18,000 employees serving 147,000 children. Serve as a community liaison throughout the county and direct representative to a large constituency in a defined district.Served as Board Vice ChairmanBoard Committee Leadership:• Chairman of the Student Assignment Committee leading a 12 member body in the strategic redevelopment of the district’s assignment model. This provided significant impact and redesign of the systems logistical operations, capacity management, growth & planning, fleet management, consumer satisfaction, and quality educational opportunities for all. • Chairman of the Economically Disadvantage Student Performance Task Force leading a 40 member collaboration of leaders from broad sectors of the community; such as city and county government officials, along with church, business, and non-profit leaders. Building targeted partnerships, addressing policy and systemic reform, and enhancing support for our community’s most vulnerable children to close achievement gaps, reduce suspension rates, and increase graduation rates.

Proven leadership with a bold vision to improve education in NC. Honored to have won the NC primary to serve as the 2012 GOP candidate for State Superintendent. Learn More at www.Tedesco4kids.comLook forward to seeing you again across North Carolina's 100 counties in 2016.

Led the increase of revenue for the organization by more than 200% during my tenure by increasing our private and public support. Managed our marketing, events, and grant writing departments. Managed a portfolio of individual giving and corporate giving. Developed and launched our Mentoring Children of Prisoners Initiative - a collaboration of mentoring agencies across NC. Developed and launched our Healthy Child Initiative a collaborative of regional agencies focused on the whole child development.