Experience

Anavate Partners

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founding Partner & Chairman

  • 2018 - Present

  Anavate Partners is a global best-in-cloud technology advisory and implementation firm that specializes in cloud-based planning and forecasting solutions, most specifically in using the growing Anaplan, www.anaplan.com, platform to digitally transform supply chain management processes and relieve time-consuming pain points. We are based and focused in Phoenix, Arizona, with the ability to assist clients across the country and the globe. With a supreme dedication to client success and satisfaction, Anavate Partners chooses only to take on engagements where our expert team can provide measurable, discrete and value-adding solutions. Show less



Entryway (formerly Shelters to Shutters)

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Advisory Board Member

  • 2022 - Present

  Shelters to Shutters is a national 501(c)(3) organization that transitions individuals and families from homelessness to economic self-sufficiency by educating and engaging the real estate industry to provide employment and housing opportunities. Shelters to Shutters pairs leading property management companies with individuals experiencing homelessness who are ready to work. The result is an innovative program that provides full-time employment and housing opportunities for individuals facing homelessness and a pipeline of high quality, motivated employees for the multifamily housing industry. Shelters to Shutters currently operates in seven major markets: Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Nashville, the National Capital Region, Orlando and Phoenix. Show less



72SOLD

• United States
• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board of Advisors/Shareholder

  • 2018 - Present

  The newest and best way to sell your home featured on every national TV network! We are proud to have introduced a more effective way to sell homes. How is it different? It shortens the process, drives up the sale price, is more convenient, and provides more certainty. Thinking about selling your home? Learn more at 72hour.com, or simply put in your address at 72SOLD.com. Almost half of the homes we sell are at or over our sellers’ asking price, many generating multiple offers from excited buyers willing to pay top dollar. If you are in the real estate business, you owe to yourself and your clients to check it out too. You will sell a lot more homes and have happy clients who get more at closing. Show less



Legendary Shift

• Entertainment
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chairman

  • 2017 - Present

  We are a 'Human Connection' company that connects and engages the young and young at heart via gaming to Entertain, to Compete and to Learn. Our category creating and premier brands of www.gametruck.com and www.bravous.com deliver over 30,000+ in person and virtual transformational experiences every year for 1 Million+ customers across the country with an almost unheard of Net Promoter Score of 86. We are a 'Human Connection' company that connects and engages the young and young at heart via gaming to Entertain, to Compete and to Learn. Our category creating and premier brands of www.gametruck.com and www.bravous.com deliver over 30,000+ in person and virtual transformational experiences every year for 1 Million+ customers across the country with an almost unheard of Net Promoter Score of 86.



Nerds On Site

• Canada
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Shareholder, USA Expansion Executive Team

  • 2017 - Present

  Established in 1995, in London Canada, Nerds On Site began expanding internationally in 2001. Today we have operations in across Canada and in USA, UK, Australia, South Africa, Bolivia, Brazil and Mexico; serving more than 200,000 Clients with a global Client satisfaction rating of 96.5%. Nerds On Site works to make itself a more enjoyable and effective partner of choice for Clients everywhere. We don't service computers... we serve people with computers. WHAT we do and HOW we do it, contributes meaningfully to an ever more engaged, empowered, enterprising and sharing world. Show less



CaptureNet

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder, Member

  • 2006 - Present

  CaptureNet is the premier provider of active self pay revenue capture solutions for progressive and innovative patient financial professionals looking for the best way to capture more highest-value patient responsibility revenue. CaptureNet™ combines intuitive software, intelligent analytics and gold-standard service to improve net collections of active self pay receivables while nearly doubling operational efficiency historically delivered by outdated in-house methods and third party letter service, outsource, EBO, and early-out tools. Hundreds of patient financial services professionals have used CaptureNet™ to capture tens of millions of dollars in active self pay receivables. Show less



Griffin Phoenix Capital LLP

• United States & Canada

• Co-Founder, Chairman

  • 2008 - Present

  Griffin Phoenix is an international private investment firm with holdings in sectors including technology, data, healthcare, consumer, real estate and esports across multiple countries. The firm makes highly selective investments in companies with strong leadership teams across a variety of industries, often in areas undergoing rapid transformation. The firm takes a long-term view on its investments and focuses its efforts to create value through growth and superior performance. Griffin Phoenix funds its investments with internally generated capital, not through a fund. Free from the restrictions of a fund, the firm is able to move quickly and decisively when investing, and with no requirements to return capital to outside partners, Griffin Phoenix is able to make investments that create maximum value for the long-term. Griffin Phoenix's team consists of people who have been both operators and investors who provide invaluable sector expertise in terms of content as well as process. The firm is also informed by a network of esteemed advisors who share with their wisdom in areas such as business processes, industry developments, consumer trends, and marketplace influences. What this means to entrepreneurs is the resources and support go well beyond funding—depending on their needs and wants. Griffin Phoenix leaders often serve on the portfolio companies' boards, and assist with operations, sales, marketing, recruitment, management and brand-building. Show less



The Board International

• Professional Training and Coaching

• Chairman

  • 1984 - Present

  The Board is an executive leadership and brand accelerator, focused on elevating value perceptions and identity of Transformational Leaders™ as an individual, and the company they lead, with the goal to drive marketplace performance. The Advisory Chairman guides, challenges, and nourishes the Leaders development to gain the most authentic and powerful relationships necessary to take their game to the next level. The proven and proprietary program, The Board BluePrint™ , creates a lifetime thinking and focusing process that empowers and equips Leaders to make their amazing future a reality. The Board’s high-caliber, carefully curated group of Transformational Leaders™ , each expert in their respective fields, to work 1-1 in a collaborative-advising format to leverage their collective business acumen, hard-won insights, tools, and relationships to break through the biggest barriers in their business. Combined with a suite of services and access to our global and robust network, The Board's world-class development strategy has proven time and time again to push forward even the most accomplished of Leaders. The program has advised and coached thousands of Leaders of Leaders™ to new heights of success, happiness and fulfillment. Show less



flexxCOACH, LLC

• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Advisory Board Member

  • 2015 - 2020

  Redefining coaching education through innovation & technology flexxCOACH gives you unprecedented access to tips and drills from pro and youth coaches and the tools to use them right! Designed and developed by a group of individuals with extensive coaching, management and playing experience at the Professional; International; Collegiate and Youth levels of Sports. The flexxCOACH Founders include Stanley Cup Champions, Pittsburgh Penguins Head Coach, Mike Sullivan; Yale University Head Coach, Keith Allain; former NHL Defenseman and Assistant Coach for the Edmonton Oilers, Jim Johnson; and former USA Hockey Executive / Coach, Keith Blase flexxCOACH delivers cutting edge Coaching Education Programs for youth sports coaches, in cooperation with National Sports Governing Bodies and youth sports organizations including an exclusive relationship with USA Hockey. Show less



National Center For Fathering

• United States
• Public Safety
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer & Member of the Board of Directors (2 year Sabbatical)

  • 2015 - 2017

  WATCH D.O.G.S, www.dadsofgreatstudents.com. is the nation’s largest and most respected school-based, family, and community engagement organization in the country. Since the program’s creation in 1998, more than 6,450 schools across the country have launched a WATCH D.O.G.S. program of their own. Each school year hundreds of thousands of fathers and father-figures make a positive impact on millions of children by volunteering millions of hours in their local schools through this amazing one-of-a-kind program. Who are WatchDOGS? Fathers, grandfathers, step-fathers, uncles, and other father figures who volunteer to serve at least one day a year at the school and in the classroom in a variety of school activities as assigned by principal, teachers and administrators. Show less



PeopleInk, Inc.

• United States
• Human Resources Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Advisor

  • 2010 - 2017

  Most leaders know that a winning, engaged culture is the key to attracting top talent—and customers. Yet, it remains elusive how exactly to create this ideal workplace —one where everyone from the front lines to the board room knows the company’s values and feels comfortable and empowered to act on them. Based on Ann Rhoades’ years of experience as Chief People Officer with JetBlue, Southwest, and other companies known for their trailblazing corporate cultures, Built on Values reveals exactly how leaders can create winning environments that allow their employees and their companies to thrive. Companies that create or improve values-based cultures can become higher performers, both in customer and employee satisfaction and financial return, as proven by Rhoades’ work with JetBlue, Southwest Airlines, Disney, Loma Linda University Hospitals, Doubletree Hotels, Juniper Networks, and P.F. Chang’s China Bistros. Show less



Arizona State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Advisory Board Member, W.P. Carey School of Business, Center for Entrepreneurship

  • 2013 - 2015

  The Spirit of Enterprise at W. P. Carey is the home of entrepreneurship at our top-ranked business school, supported by the thriving ecosystem of entrepreneurship at Arizona State University. Our mission is to honor, connect and empower entrepreneurs, including students, alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of ASU. http://wpcarey.asu.edu/research/spirit-enterprise The Spirit of Enterprise at W. P. Carey is the home of entrepreneurship at our top-ranked business school, supported by the thriving ecosystem of entrepreneurship at Arizona State University. Our mission is to honor, connect and empower entrepreneurs, including students, alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of ASU. http://wpcarey.asu.edu/research/spirit-enterprise



OpenSymmetry

• Business Consulting and Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Advisory Board Member

  • 2013 - 2015

  OpenSymmetry is the only global full-service incentive compensation (IC) consulting firm – offering Plan Design, Solution Selection, Deployment & Managed Services – all delivered across the industry’s leading solution providers with offices in US, Canada, UK, Australia, South Africa and Asia. Service Offering sample: • Incentive Compensation Plan Assessment, Design & Rollout • Business Case, RFP Administration & Software Vendor Selection • Software Implementation • Technical & Function Staff Augmentation • SPM/ICM Application Upgrade • Plan Changes & Maintenance • Managed Services, Training & Support Show less



SHR PERCEPTUAL BRANDING

• Scottsdale

• Chairman

  • 2008 - 2011

  Privately held and Fortune 1000 companies alike use SHR's unique and comprehensive branding and strategy process. It begins with an extensive education of what perceptual branding is at every touch point within a company. We then can initiate a revealing “discovery” phase that overviews the impact the right brand enhancements can have on your organization, management, staff, and certainly, present and future customers. • SHR’s unique approach to brand transformation is aligned with the organization’s business strategy to create a framework for helping the organization achieve its overall business objectives in both the short and long term. • The Transformational Brand optimally communicates the vision, mission and values of your company; drives the organization internally, and aligns with the values and needs of its customers. In other words, the entire company is in tune with the needs and values of its customers. • The Transformational Brand, as the face of an organization, helps to drive strategies, everyday decision-making, and reinforces internal alignment, while distinguishing the organization from all others externally. It makes the best impression possible on existing and potential customers and the community at large. The Brand, in all of its expressions, represents the customer’s entire emotional connection from pre-experience, the experience, and through the post experience. Show less



Impact Data

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer

  • 2005 - 2011

  Impact Data is a leading provider of geo-economic analytic solutions that increase the profitability of customer interactions. It assists industry leaders optimize interactions throughout the customer life cycle from early customer management (Market to Customer Cycle) through the extending and recovery of debt (Customer to Cash Cycle). Impact Data is a leading provider of geo-economic analytic solutions that increase the profitability of customer interactions. It assists industry leaders optimize interactions throughout the customer life cycle from early customer management (Market to Customer Cycle) through the extending and recovery of debt (Customer to Cash Cycle).



The Harwood Group

• Niagara, Ontario, Canada

• Board Member

  • 2000 - 2008



Bill Gosling Outsourcing

• Canada
• Outsourcing and Offshoring Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vice President - North America

  • 2000 - 2005