Nautical Control Solutions – CEO & President Mr. George is an advisor and investing partner with Global Trust Group and is President and CEO of Nautical Control Solutions. He is responsible for the strategic direction and oversight of the company as its President and Chief Executive Officer. He began his control systems engineering career in 1988 at Temple-Inland where he served …
Ali Najafian
Trendy Butler – Founder Mr. Najafian is the founder of Trendy Butler and serves as the President and CTO. In 1994, Ali created one of the very first proprietary online shopping cart systems which served major brands like ESPN and Clear Channel. He then settled at Maverick Records where he conceptualized, designed and created online platforms for widely known artists/brands …
Rahul Sonnad
Tesloop, CEO & Co-Founder Mr. Sonnad is a seasoned founder & operator that sold his first digital video startup to Comcast for >$100m. Rahul is President & Co-founder of Tesloop. Prior to Tesloop Rahul founded Geodelic Systems, Inc. in 2007 and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Rahul also co-founded the Platform, Inc., in 2000 and served as its Vice …
Haydn Sonnad
Tesloop – Founder & Chief Evangelism Officer Mr. Sonnad is a true entrepreneur founding Tesloop in 2015 at age 16. Since then he has been an auto enthusiast and first-class travel aficionado since his early teens. He is an enthusiastic Tesla shareholder and is on a mission to ensure that electric & semi-autonomous cars are used to their full potential.
John Wood
Syndicate Ventures – Founder & CEO John Wood, a professional fighter and industry veteran has been in the MMA world for over 15 years and trained some of the whos’ who of UFC and top fighting organizations fighters including, Forest Griffin, Mike Pyle, Martin Kampman, Frank Mir, “Big Country” Nelson and many others. He was an assistant coach on The …
Stephen George
Founder, Amaze Inc Stephen’s career began at Groupon as Head of Operations, building their operational foundation and seeing them through their IPO in 2011. Before joining as Surkus’ CEO, Stephen was an investor in what was then an events-based promotion company. Since joining as CEO, Stephen applied his knowledge of technology, relationship building and excess inventory optimization to automate and scale the Surkus platform …
Scott Sheridan
Riveting Entertainment – Vice President Mr. Sheridan joined the Riveting Entertainment team in November of 2014 with almost three decades in the hospitality, entertainment and promotion industry. During the early 90s, he founded the Cincinnati-based Entertainment promotional company Loco Bros, managing hundreds of events for almost a decade. In 2000, top restaurant mogul Jeff Ruby hired Scott to launch a multimillion-dollar renovation of Jeff …
Eric Suen
Mr. Suen was one of the first employees at Archaea International Corporation (DBA Aqua Forest Aquarium) where he focused on sales, customer relations and product user interface development. Eric holds a B.S. from the University of California, San Diego.
Will Ford
Aqua Design Innovations – Investing Advisor Mr. Ford is President and Co-founder of Launchboom.com, a product launch system and full service marketing agency that manages the entire crowdfunding process. Will has started and exited 3 companies. His most recent company Petbox has grown from $30,000 in sales to $1.5 million in 2014 and was on track to hit $5 million …
Kevin Liang
CEO – Aqua Design Innovations Mr. Liang started in the aquarium industry at the age of 14 and ran his own aquarium store out of his sister’s garage in San Francisco grossing over $100,000 before turning age 18. He has also managed several aquarium retail stores, managed the 100,000 gallon public aquarium exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences, performed …