At 47G, we’re building the world’s premier ecosystem for aerospace, defense, and cyber companies. Our mission is to foster talent, fund entrepreneurship, and fuel innovation in Utah, America’s deep tech frontier.

DBT Aero is developing a family of revolutionary air vehicles challenging the status quo with environmentally friendly 250-450 mph cruise, luxury car-like comfort, reliability & safety, very low noise operation & luxury car operational costs. Optionally configured for cargo.Initially a 1 to 7 seat aircraft with future autonomous operation. Variants include unmanned UAVs, cargo, air ambulance, firefighting, business, air taxi & regional airliners. Easily adapts to propulsion system advances—from internal combustion & turboprop to hybrid-electric & full electric, fuel cell or future propulsion system innovations.Our planned family of market disrupting high speed, low cost, mass produced aircraft enable the 1st high margin on-demand mobility (ODM) services improving billions of lives, stimulating business opportunities & bringing people together in ways unimaginable today.

The quality of leadership, more than any other factor, determines the success or failure of an organization—business, family or volunteer. Learning, coachable executive teams build the fastest growing, most profitable companies.Through on-going coaching, education, proprietary tools & industry best practices, I help CEOs & their executive leadership teams tackle their most important priorities together to bridge the gap between where they are now & where they want to be creating alignment, accountability & daily execution rhythms resulting in increased profits & the gift of time.I utilize a variety of tools & frameworks honed over more than 25 years as a consultant, mentor & coach tailored to each client's situation & need. Some of these tools & frameworks include:• the Rockefeller Habits tools, disciplines & meeting rhythms• EMyth start-ups & small business tools & frameworks• proprietary financial models & profitability toolsEvery CEO needs a coach just as every professional athlete needs a coach. Sadly, not every CEO has the courage to be coached. Are you ready to achieve more than you’ve ever achieved? Are you ready to Do more & Make more so you can finally Live more? If you're looking to become a better leader while spending more time working on your business instead of in your business, let's discuss whether executive coaching might be right for you.Creating time & prosperity.™

Imagine traveling 5-6 times faster than your car at the same fuel efficiency. This changes everything!The dream of high speed, low cost, comfortable, quiet, safe, on-demand personal & group travel across distances of 50-1,500 miles is about to be realized. Aircraft winglets reduce drag & improve efficiency 6-7%. Our technology reduces drag & improves efficiency by orders of magnitude. Now that's an innovative breakthrough.

Founded in 1957 and headquartered in San Diego, California, Vistage assembles and facilitates private advisory boards for CEOs, senior executives, and business owners. Vistage members participate in monthly, Chair-led private advisory board meetings. More than 22,000 members in 16 countries also have access to one-to-one executive coaching, expert speakers, curated research and our global network of business leaders.Vistage Chairs are highly respected and trusted practitioners of Vistage’s well-established method for peer-group facilitation and executive coaching. A Vistage Chair is a trusted advisor dedicated to helping CEOs, executives and business owners to become better leaders, make better decisions and get better results, i.e., reach their full potential.Results that matter:• An independent 2015 D&B analysis reveals Vistage member companies have "3x higher Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) than non-members."• Vistage members personally report: 1,000-10,000% return-on-investment (ROI) and 3-30x faster revenue growth with a significantly improved bottom-line. • Almost all Vistage members surveyed say they are enjoying better work-life balance, working fewer hours and spending more quality time with family and friends.

Late in 2012 I joined Merrill Lynch after more than three decades as a financial advisor, entrepreneur, business owner, management consultant & Information Technology manager in order to better serve my clients' growing sophistication, desire for a broader range of products and integration of lending & liquidity products.My team followed a disciplined, wealth management process to define each client's unique goals & objectives, create a strategy for achieving their goals & objectives, implement the strategy using the most efficient investments & structures available and monitor for performance against the goals & objectives. This disciplined process eliminated the emotion that can lead to poor market timing, bad investments, excessive risk taking & under-performance.

My team had combined experience of nearly 100 years in the financial services industry & over 30 years as business owners. We had the experience, creativity, process discipline, intelligence, research, products and integrity necessary to serve both personal & business needs in an ever changing financial environment. We worked to leverage the global resources & capabilities of Merrill Lynch to create strategies for each life stage.

Above all, we strived to provide the extraordinary service discerning clients deserve through proactive performance monitoring, regular contact & prompt problem resolution. We never forgot that attaining and surpassing client objectives was core to our practice. Since our clients’ goals were constantly changing as they moved through life, exceptional customer service and follow-up were at the center of what we did. We were deeply committed to forming life-long relationships with our clients and their families.

In short, we specialized in simplifying the financial lives of a select group of families & businesses so they could spend more time on the things that mattered most to them.

Financial advisor & wealth management consultant specializing in the creation, preservation & transfer of wealth for families and high net worth individuals.Performed financial planning to model future impact of decisions on financial situation and the attainment of financial goals & objectives. Assessed the risk of different decisions and financial scenarios on the outcome of their financial plans. Recommended strategies to address gaps and/or shortfalls in a client's current financial plans. Worked with the client to establish new financial plans to better meet their stated goals & objectives. Developed investing and risk reduction strategies to help achieve the client's financial plan. Monitored & tracked progress to plan. Reviewed and adjusted investments as necessary.Also worked with business owners to provide retirement plans, executive benefits and buy/sell agreement funding. Developed Investment Policy Statements and audited Investment Policy Committee meeting minutes to ensure compliance. Provided training for Investment Policy Committee members. Reviewed investment selection. Reviewed plan documents & recommended changes to better align the plan with the stated goals & objectives of the business. Assisted with enrollment meetings & training of participants.Offered specialized services such as Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (QDROs) and assistance in divorce or other types of settlements."It's not how much you make that matters, it's the decisions you make to keep & grow your wealth for generations to come."

Acquired & managed a full service FBO (Fixed Base Operator) including an FAA Repair Station providing piston & turbine aircraft maintenance, fuel, executive hangar, tie-downs, flight training, LaserGrade testing & aircraft sales. Turned business around from losing over $350,000/year to break-even in 26 months through a combination of accounting & financial system analysis & controls, enhanced sales and improved productivity. Performed an accounting system migration & a telephone system upgrade. Established & documented all processes & procedures creating an employee handbook. Instituted employee training program. Acted as FAA drug testing compliance officer. Established fuel handling safety standards and trained all employees. Ensured compliance with EPA & State of California fuel & water contamination requirements. Managed & directed a staff of 15.

Founded aircraft dealership to address FAA’s new Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) rules. Established the legal entity & all accounting/financial systems, product line selection, dealer territory negotiation & contracts, floor planning, importing, finishing center establishment, staff selection, hiring & training, demonstration of aircraft, direct sales of all aircraft and post sales support. FAA regulatory compliance & document filings. Territory included Southern California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah.

Assisted a German aircraft manufacturer to establish a U.S. corporate subsidiary, established international cost accounting & transfer pricing, performed market analysis, strategic planning, product development, sales & marketing materials development, recruited & trained new dealers as well as inside sales staff, planned & coordinated all aspects of three national air shows including Oshkosh, established company policies & procedures and established the company’s first import & finishing center in the U.S.

Founded Internet start-up company to enter highly-fragmented vacation rental market. Established the legal entity & all accounting/financial systems; conducted market research; conceived, architected, and directed development of web-based database software providing unique features & usability that have yet to be equalled in the industry; hired & managed developers and consultants; hired, trained & managed sales & marketing staff. Oversaw Internet marketing, direct sales call center, accounting/finance and all aspects of the business.

Co-leader enterprise application integration team for worldwide integration of accounting/financial, supply chain & manufacturing systems providing technology assessment, vendor selection, project implementation & consultant oversight. Evaluated IT systems & infrastructure of companies targeted for acquisition. Developed migration plans, P&L responsibility & managed migrations of the acquired companies’ enterprise systems (HR, Accounting/Finance, Procurement, etc.) & infrastructure (voice, data, desktop, servers) to corporate standards. Developed & implemented novel, low cost migration tools as well as all training materials & conducting training for employees of new acquisitions. Developed process for evaluating & adopting computing standards across all divisions worldwide. Directed multi-divisional team to select corporate computing standards using the process I developed. Coordinated adoption & implementation of standards across all divisions. ISO 9001 IT Division process implementation, ISO auditor & trainer.

Managed division IT systems, staff & consultants including P&L responsibility. Coordinated the IT architecture across 3 research facilities worldwide. Directed over 50 support staff providing daily operational application, infrastructure & desktop support for over 2,000 scientists. Created a technology council composed of representatives from each research discipline & each business unit to coordinate resources, budgets & initiatives across the division. Developed proprietary systems to interface scientific systems with business systems yielding significant cost savings. Pioneered & proselytized standards-based computing technologies many of which were later adopted as worldwide corporate standards saving millions of dollars in life cycle support costs. Pioneered “thin client/net computing/cloud computing” technology allowing scientists remotely to better utilize shared high performance computing resources.

Technically & financially analyzed & evaluated promising technologies for sale and/or licensing. Developed financial models to support sale/licensing decision. Successfully lobbied Gas Research Institute for a $1 million technology development grant resulting in a $95 million manufacturing cost savings over 5 years. Provided financial, analytical & sales support to the gas-oxy team. Conceived and investigated a novel gas-oxy burner design. Submitted a patent disclosure.

Developed computer models to more quickly & accurately forecast domestic & international glassware demand in units & currencies. This work laid the foundation for a subsequent re-engineering of all forecasting & logistics processes saving millions of dollars and better linking customer demand to production output. Pioneered new computing technologies that reduced forecasting cycle times by a factor of 12. Evangelized the advent of the Internet, a move to open computing systems and company-wide computing standards to reduce IT costs.

Independent consultant providing business valuation, financial/accounting systems, information technology, operations, strategic planning, sales forecasting and business process improvement services. Also developed customized marketing & sales materials. Clients included national telecommunications companies, high-tech start-ups in northern Utah and local small businesses.

Developed computerized pricing models & strategy for use in telecommunications Public Utilities Commission rate hearings that accurately predicted costs with less than a 0.005% error over a 50,000 line wire center. Evaluated & cost modeled central office & outside plant technologies. Developed sophisticated central office & outside plant technology migration plans. Regarded as the company expert on central office switching & outside plant systems & pricing. Established a telecommunications practice library comprising the collected intellectual property of the firm including benchmarks, computer/financial models & analytic algorithms. Preparation & presentation of analysis & results to clients. (Strategic Planning Associates merged with Mercer Management Consulting in 1989. Now Oliver Wyman.)