Leadership
Ray Bowman, D.B.A.
Position: Executive Director
Business expertise: Entrepreneurship, Finance, International Business, Management and Operations
Ray Bowman, D.B.A., is the director of the Small Business Development Center of Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. He ‘s a commercial enterprise veteran with more than 30 years ‘ feel. He started three businesses, including an external trade consult firm, and has worked as a adviser, flight simulator, and director for several SBDC offices. Ray is a specialize adviser in external deal logistics, trade finance, seller conformity, import and export conformity management, and abroad seller and buyer issues. He has been an external and national keynote speaker and donor in logistics infrastructure, external marketing, import and export, non-tariff craft barriers, and international export economy. Ray serves as adjunct at Babson in Executive Education. Ray has a green Belt in Lean Six Sigma and is the program chair for the District Export Council of Southern California .
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Business Advisors and Staff
Bill Bartels
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Entrepreneurship, Legal, Compliance, Management and Operations, Strategic Planning
Bill Bartels, B.A., is the principal in a diversify farming/management/organizational growth company generalizing in facilitation of diverse teams with divergent ideas and goals. Bill works in populace policy and spent 17 years with the city of Fillmore in respective roles, concluding his tenure as deputy city coach. Bill served on the Ventura County Planning Commission for 12 years and is a fourth-generation Ventura County farmer .
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Tracy Beard
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Entrepreneurship, Fundraising for Nonprofits, Operations
Tracy Beard has served as Executive Director of the Solvang Chamber of Commerce since 2015. Prior to joining the Chamber, Tracy worked as Human Resources Manager at Marriott Corporation Restaurants Division in Washington, D.C. specializing in work force development for over 25 years. She has owned and operated a property management company for the past 30 years. Tracy presently serves as President of the Association of California Commissions for Women ( ACCW ) which works to ensure the execution of key policy and legislative changes for women in clientele. Tracy is an preach for female entrepreneurs and regularly lends her expertness to local nonprofits looking to build their fund-raise capacity and improve functional efficiency .
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Erica Bristol
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Legal Compliance, Intellectual Property Protection
Erica Bristol is an lawyer and commercial mediator, specializing in cerebral property and business contracts/transactions. A calibrate of UCLA School of Law, Erica served as corporate in-house guidance for over 11 years. A commercial mediator for over seven years, Erica is the owner and chief mediator of a commercial mediation service supplier. She presently serves as a panel mediator for the Untied States District Court, Central District of California, the Santa Barbara Superior Court and the California Association of REALTORS®, Buyer/Seller Mediation Program .
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Adam Chapnick
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Entrepreneurship, Marketing Communications, Public Speaking
Adam Chapnick is an empowerer, disruptor, and entrepreneur who advises founders with big vision. Adam has a hard traverse criminal record of simplifying building complex problems and bringing revolutionary solutions to market in fields equally divers as entertainment, finance, and very estate of the realm. As a strategic communications specialist, Adam tailors consumer-facing and investor-facing caller messaging for dozens of companies, helping founders distill their imagination into inspire, engaging language that drives investment, sales and strong viva-voce. He is besides a partnership specialist who has prospected, negotiated and closed more than 70 strategic partnerships in divers fields to fulfill an range of strategic objectives. A prolific public loudspeaker, Adam has made more than 300 presentations to every upright conceivable across corporate, non-profit, arts, and fiscal categories .
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Carlos Conejo
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Management and Operations, Strategic Planning, Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing, Bilingual in spanish
Carlos Conejo, B.A., is president of Peak Performance Seminars, Training & Consulting. A leadership and management adviser specializing in Lean and Six-Sigma methodology, he is a lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Carlos started his career as a merchandise director and sales coach for the cope health-care industry, where he specialized in business turn-around. He is a publish writer and patronize speaker at conventions and conferences .
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Megan Cullen, BA, CGBP
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: International Business, Marketing and Sales, Proficient in Spanish, German and french
Megan Cullen, BA, CGBP, grew up in Europe and began her work in international trade processing letters of credit at a log export, woman-owned business in Portland, OR. In California, she has worked as the external sales coach for a rescue equipment company and a scientific equipment manufacturer, managing caller sales and distribution to a network of distributors worldwide selling to universities, research institutions and governmental agencies worldwide. Owner of a confer and commercialize firm, Cullen speaks respective languages and serves as the DECSC Secretary and Vice Chair, Central Coast .
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Jonathan Davis
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Government Procurement, Marketing, SBA Women/Minority Owned Certifications
Jonathan Davis is a third genesis SBA 8 ( a ) little Business graduate and union Government Roofing and Construction Contractor. Mr. Davis has over 15 years ’ experience in Government Procurement, Marketing, and obtaining SBA Women/Minority Owned Certifications. He has served as a mentor to minority and women entrepreneurs in Ventura County since 2010 and has continued to keep strong ties to the youth community in Ventura County through his make with youth organizations .
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Sebastian De Vivo
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Business Financing, Entrepreneurship
Sebastian De Vivo, Ph.D. is the co-founder of List Ventures and Sophist Capital, both focused on inclusive access to capital for women and minority entrepreneurs. In this function, he has facilitated over $ 35M in debt and venture capital investments to portfolio companies. He serves on the Investment Committee at Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs of Southern California. In addition, he has worked on several initiatives focused on building inclusive ecosystems countrywide. Sebastian received his Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford University .
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Dean Dela Cruz
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing, Management and Operations, Strategic Planning
Dean Dela Cruz, B.S., is a chief adviser with a consulting tauten supporting commercial enterprise leaders in the deployment and prepare of Lean Six Sigma in manufacture and healthcare. In addition, his team of highly skilled consultants provides specialize engineering-based studies key to generating cash menstruate : R & D/manufacturing, software development tax credits, cost segregation and energy management .
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Deborah Deras
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Digital Marketing, Social Media, Public Speaking
Deborah Deras has a Master ‘s degree in Education and Bachelor ‘s degree in Marketing. Deborah is a occupation owner since 2002, providing Fortune 100 companies with point performance corporate educate, and is besides an international loudspeaker and writer. She has served as a marketing adviser to assorted Small Business Development Centers with expertness in digital marketing with a specialization in content creation, social media scheme, YouTube, SEO, Facebook, livestreaming, podcast, Instagram sales, and how to speak with assurance on television camera. She speaks english and spanish and has been a sought after professional speaker for over 20 years .
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Anthony Curtis Elliot, CPA
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Finance and Loan Packaging, Venture Matchmaking, International Business
Anthony Curtis Elliott, B.A., CPA, is a forensic accountant and intellectual property “ royalty audit ” specialist who performs royalty and contract conformity and related consult services to a across-the-board base of companies. With more than 30 years ’ experience in account and finance, he has held positions as accounting director and restrainer for both average and large companies. In 1993, he developed a broad-based account and consult practice. His corporate clients are based in the United States, Canada, and Japan .
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Gonzalo Fernandez
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Finance and Loan Packaging, Venture Matchmaking, Strategic Planning, Bilingual in spanish
Gonzalo Fernandez has a commercial enterprise degree from La Salle Business College in Havana, Cuba. He is the founder of a little business financing advisory tauten. His areas of expertness are analyzing and securing occupation loans, and strategic planning. An experience banker, he had held elder management positions at national, regional and residential district banks, including First California and Santa Barbara Bank & Trust. He has besides developed and grown SBA lend programs throughout California .
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Melissa Forziat
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Marketing Strategy, Email Marketing, Social Media
Melissa Forziat is a Hermosa Beach-based seller, speaker, adviser, and author. She helps small businesses market on a budget with specialties including market scheme, electronic mail marketing, social media market, sponsorship selling, and partnership market. Before starting Melissa Forziat Events and Marketing, Melissa ’ s career involved roles with the Olympic Winter Games, Rugby World Cup, and the US Olympic Committee. now she adapts this cognition for microbusinesses and those operating with more limited resources. Melissa is the generator of the release eBook Small Business Marketing on a Budget and is the early Board President of Ventures nonprofit in Seattle .
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Erin Fredregill
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Marketing and Branding, Social Media, Web Design
Erin Fredregill, B.A., is the Founder/CEO of a full-service sociable media agency providing scheme, content market, and implementation services to small and medium-sized brands in a variety of industries. Her experience spans over 6 years of in-house and representation know cope incorporate marketing campaigns for accounts in numerous industries arsenic diverse as software, retail, entertainment and construction .
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Rigo Gonzalez-Nossa
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Human Resources, Industrial Relations, Corporate policy
Rigo Gonzalez-Nossa, GPHR, is U.S. Army Gulf War veteran with 20 years of international human resources know in the anoint & gas diligence, living and working both in the U.S. and overseas. eloquent in spanish, he earned his B.A. in International Relations from San Francisco State University, and his Master ’ randomness in Public Administration from Georgia Southern University. His experience includes catastrophe easing with the SBA-ODA, angstrom well as in the individual sector. He is the founder and CEO of Ubiquity Digital, a consulting firm focused on helping organizations to connect with their human component while evolving in the strategic, tactical, and technical challenges of HR. other areas of expertness include : organizational polish, ball-shaped mobility, HRIS, industrial relations, bodied policy, performance management, HR consolidation .
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Elizabeth Haffner
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Restaurant Management
Elizabeth Haffner has over 14 years ‘ feel managing all aspects of a full-service restaurant and barroom, including a private boom room, takeout and delivery services, from systems and software integration, to forcible execution and staff management. She is a self-motivated and progress-driven owner/operator with an extensive and varied background and a drive to optimize. Elizabeth has a long-standing record of first step, initiation, and growth, and has developed and executed strategies to help restaurants make money, while providing ace service .
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Joshua Halpern
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: E-commerce, International Business Bilingual in spanish
An external market-entry leader, Joshua Halpern consults on cross-border e-commerce optimization in intersection categories including beauty, retail & apparel, medical devices, agribusiness, baby products, health food & supplements and other goods. From 2011 through 2015, Mr. Halpern led the e-commerce, retail, franchise, license, cosmetics and logistics portfolios for the U.S. Embassy in China, where he provided market-entry consult for U.S. companies. He founded and launched the U.S. Department of Commerce ’ s National E-Commerce Innovation Lab. His work has led to his creation of the Getting to Global Initiative and its exempt on-line Export Accelerator. Halpern has led start-up teams for multiple companies, including his own, throughout the populace. He holds a B.F.A. from New York University ’ s Tisch School of the Arts, an MBA from INSEAD and an EMBA from Tsinghua University. He speaks chinese and spanish .
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John Haughey
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Entrepreneurship, International Business, Management and Operations, Marketing and Sales
John Haughey, B.S., is the CEO/managing collaborator of a domestic and international party. John lives in Beijing, China, and has spent more than 28 years working in Asia, Europe and the U.S. He formed his company as a Foreign Invested Commercial Enterprise that focuses on reselling enterprise solutions used in datum centers. John has created long-run business plans, advised marketing and sales departments, and managed the government relationship team in China .
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Shalene Hayman
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Finance and Accounting
Shalene Hayman, B.S., has worked in the account industry for more than 20 years. She has feel with local public account firms and as a collaborator and chief in her own firms specializing on managerial finance/accounting functions. She is the CFO/Controller for many large nonprofit organizations and small businesses in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties .
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Greg Hayward
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Web Design, market
Greg Hayward has been the owner and operator of an on-line market and web presence company since 1997 and has served a variety of clients in vary diverse industries. Greg besides plays a role in an IoT company that he cofounded and has served on the board of directors for many local nonprofits. Greg has had success in business development, plan, scheme, on-line commercialize and startup initiation .
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Noel Heredia
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Enterprise Management, International Operations
Noel Heredia has more than 25 years of global experience and an outcome-driven, entrepreneurial mentality that underpins his successes in establishing, supervising and motivating multinational teams of specialists. His visionary think leadership is based on a solid, routinely update, engineer background. He is a practicing software technology procedure architect and enterprise management executive with a servant leader mentality and business acumen, accomplished at inspiring and driving successful tactical teams on a mission, a well as managing complex international operations. He designs and implements digital-centric manoeuver models for enterprises and governments looking to compete and grow in the evolving digital economy .
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Vikram Jadhav
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Strategic Marketing, Product Development, Digital Transformation
Vikram Jadhav is the head Digital Officer for LACERS, one of the largest retirement systems and pension funds in the U.S., where he leads its digital transformation across a diverseness of operational verticals, including customer experience, data architecture, and work flow. Over the course of his career, Vikram has developed a diverse professional portfolio in building out product development, sales enablement, strategic market, and business news practices in the civil, technology, finance, and real estate of the realm sectors. Prior to his stream function, he helped launch a venture backed mobile POS solution in play in over 32 sports and entertainment properties throughout the U.S. ( NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL ) and led the design-build of a mixed-medium digital selling platform for a Fortune 100 wealth management company. In his spare time, he advises pre-revenue founders on growth strategies through the Startup Launch SBDC program and is a guest lecturer on initiation methods and tactics at University of Southern California .
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Mark Kapczynski
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Strategic Business Development, Fundraising, Operations
Mark Kapczynski specializes in strategic business growth, fund-raise, product/market/fit, pitch decks, IP and operations in a across-the-board roll of industries, including data, FinTech, AdTech, media, consumer services and consumer digital health manage. He has worked for Microsoft, Experian and Yodlee and guess capital organizations Arrowroot Capital and the UCLA Venture Capital Fund .
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Doug Korte
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Strategic Planning, Management and Operations
Doug Korte is an internationally recognized ball-shaped engineering occupation executive, investor, and transformational drawing card, experienced in turning-around and growing high-tech companies sized from start-up to Fortune 50. In addition to serving as an executive for IBM, HP and Harris Corporation, responsible for multi-million-dollar business operations, he has helped over a thousand C-level and other exceed executives at companies of all sizes around the universe break through to modern levels of achiever. today, Doug serves as an Executive Partner, Leadership Advisor, and Interim Executive, providing actionable, outcome-based advice and execution to accelerate the accomplishment of customer goals .
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Jeffrey Lambert
Position: Business Advisor
Jeffrey Lambert, AICP, is an experience local government administrator, most recently serving as the Community Development Director for the Cities of Oxnard and Ventura, California. Jeffrey is a license City Planner with the American Institute of Certified Planners and has held senior leadership positions with the American Planning Association. Complementing his populace sector have, Jeffrey has spent much of his career working in the secret sector for a Los Angeles-based land use and political lobby firm, Kaiser Permanente and for his own firm Lambert Consulting Services. After years of public sector commitment, Jeffrey has recreated his own firm and is dedicated to bridging the gap between the public and secret sector in support of local economic development .
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Ed Lee
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Business Consulting, Strategic Marketing, Operations
Ed Lee is a go-to-market technical, and CEO of HelloAdvisr, a emergence consultancy helping leadership teams accelerate growth with high-impact strategies. Ed works with businesses across growth stages and draws on experience from industries including eCommerce/retail, software, digital health and health and consumer goods .
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Robin Lee
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
Robin Lee has been at the vanguard of startup and venture capital ecosystem for both Asia and Silicon Beach since 2007. She funds, grows and expands boundaries of startups she helps. Having been on both sides of the board, as both a funder and a laminitis, Robin has a long track record of producing successful inauguration. She ’ s worked with many accelerators, universities, government-funded programs, and VC funds. At Sophist Capital, a inauguration she founded, Robin provides “ Entrepreneur Talent Assessment, ” which aims to discover entrepreneurial talents. At Expert Dojo, she discovers asian unicorn startups and provides them funds and patronize for their exponential growth .
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Sean L. Leonard
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Management and Operations
Sean L. Leonard, MBA, is the president of the united states and fall through of his party which oversees multi-million dollar actual estate of the realm projects chiefly for nonprofits, developers and public entities. He has more than 30 years ’ experience in the Southern California very estate development and construction diligence. Sean brings the allow resources into projects at the allow time and is an expert at project closeouts and turnarounds. Sean managed two projects, which were awarded the esteemed AIA Presidential Award for Project Team of the year .
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Bonnie Lu
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Marketing and Sales, Management and Operations, Strategic Planning, Access to Capital, Bilingual in spanish
Bonnie Lu is the founder and CEO of an import/export consultancy. Bonnie has over 14 years of experience assisting clients in managing all areas of international exile of goods, including negotiating requital terms, shipping arrangements, memory, customs and regulative complaisance. Bonnie is besides well versed in manage and delivering deal show presentations and besides the logistics involved in international shows and exhibitions .
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Tova Mac
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Business Operations, Strategic Development, Marketing .
Tova Mac is a self-starter, focused on occupation operations, strategic exploitation, and selling. With more than 15 years in start-ups and little businesses, her passion is supporting founders, diverse businesses, and developing talent .
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Sylvia Martini, B.A., CGBP
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: International Business, Marketing and Sales, Bilingual in german
Sylvia Martini, B.A., CGBP, supports clients with external trade, commercialize and sales, public relations and web communications. Bilingual in German and English, she has over 30 years experience in international marketing and sales in several divers industries, where she conducted competitive analyses, identified markets for start-ups, developed commercialize strategies, provided sales training, organized events and trade shows. Sylvia has an international business certificate, and is a attest ball-shaped business professional from NASBITE International .
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Ron Meritt
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: International Business, Manufacturing Assistance, Management and Operations, Marketing and Sales
Ron Meritt, B.A., is the president of an external technology company. He invented and patented a portable video system for vehicles and created a market that grew to more than $ 200 million in 18 months. He has worked in many countries as a field engineer in the semiconductor and robotics industries, and has been an executive managing ball-shaped mastermind organizations. His party now designs, manufactures and globally distributes multiple products in unlike industries .
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David Mitroff
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Business Consulting
David Mitroff, Ph.D. is a commercial enterprise adviser, market adept, keynote loudspeaker and generator who has held numerous advisory positions for diverse organizations such as LexisNexis, United Healthcare, U.S. Department of Justice, Providian Financial, Nordstrom, Limited Brands, Constant Contact, Ben & Jerry ‘s and the YMCA. David brings to the EDC SBDC his experiences as the Founder and Chief Consultant of Piedmont Avenue Consulting, Inc., through which he provides business consult and market services to create mark awareness, strengthen customer commitment and generate new opportunities. David works with divers clients, including restaurants and retail forte stores, franchises, professional services firms, start-ups and individual entrepreneurs .
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Lauryn Nwankpa
Position: Business Advisor
Lauryn Nwankpa specializes in early stage impact/social enterprise support including affect business models, impingement measurement, impact scheme, product/market/fit, customer discovery, sales talk decks and narrative development, intersection and most valuable player development, and monetization strategy .
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Simona Racek
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: International Expansion, Export Planning, Entrepreneurship, Fluent in romanian
Simona Racek is an International Expansion Advisor. She is the founder and managing extremity of an external trade company that provides export management services to little businesses. Simona ’ second expertness focuses on exporting solutions including assessing export regulations and facilitating applications for export-related financing and government grants. She assists with developing ball-shaped export grocery store plans/budgets, general cross bound ecommerce scheme, export documentation, international distribution and logistics plans, conformity reviews, structuring international trade transactions and finance, STEP export grants and EXIM/SBA export loan products. Speaks Romanian .
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Ramin Ramhormozi
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: E-commerce, Marketing, SEO
Ramin Ramhormozi is a results-driven, technology and e-commerce focus entrepreneurial executive with a path record for launching innovations and growing new product offerings and businesses. Highly technical in all areas of e-commerce including commercial enterprise strategy, fulfillment, architecture/platform strategy, digital advertising, social media, financials and day to sidereal day operations of an e-commerce enterprise .
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Juliana Ramirez
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Quickbooks, Bilingual in spanish
Juliana Ramirez is an accountant, entrepreneur, business adviser and Certified QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor. With over 20 years of know, she has trained and helped small businesses including her own—from restaurants to retails stores, car dealerships to alveolar consonant offices and Non-profit organizations .
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Elianne Rodriguez
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Entrepreneurship, Business Consulting
Elianne Rodriguez is a serial entrepreneur with 15 years of experience in modest businesses, department of education and technical school. Elianne fosters community and designs culturally competent programming to connect diverse endowment to opportunities that reflect the intersectionality of Los Angeles across racial, socioeconomic, gender, education, sex, and immigration condition. She works with clientele owners to leverage engineering, break field glass ceilings, compete globally, and disrupt a wide-eyed range of industries including : education, healthcare, digital media, artificial intelligence, sustainability, department of transportation, fabricate, consumer packaged goods, logistics, green engineering, procurement, big data, software, hardware, e-commerce, internet of things, blockchain, social affect, finance and entertainment .
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Tracie Schneider
Position: Communications and Marketing Manager
Business expertise: marketing, Communications, Qualitative Research, Project Management
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Karen Scuncio
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Entrepreneurship, Finance, International Business, Strategic Planning, Marketing and Sales
Karen Scuncio, B.A., has over 25 years of experience in international business. Scuncio ’ randomness expertness touches on all areas of exporting from export pricing, screening potential customers, distributor agreements, product tag requirements, international transport and payment terms a well as sales and market. Since 1997, she has been a principal in a occupation consult and sales representative services company which she helped start, to assist little occupation in increasing their uracil and International sales .
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Steve Sedlic
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Operations
With a business career spanning over 25 years, Steve Sedlic is a consummate renaissance man and an entrepreneur at heart. Armed with an MBA from USC, he went to work assisting international corporate R & D departments to develop new products based on wide scientific discoveries. From there he took his beloved of technology and design and co-founded an interactional commercialize and advertise agency where he honed his advertise skills and further developed his know in sales, leadership, and operations. Steve has co-founded and successfully exited several startups and today focuses on giving back to his community, teaching college courses on creative think, advancing environmental causes, and advising for the SBDC .
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Sonata Taman
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Business Consulting, Strategic Marketing, Operations
Sonata Taman is an have business adviser specializing in B2B growth, strategic commercialize, option gross streams, and global scale. As a Fortune 100 trained CSO and an entrepreneur, she has extensive feel in ball-shaped strategy and market operations with an eye for sustainable scale .
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Jay Tsao, M.B.A.
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Entrepreneurship, Finance, International Business, E-commerce, Strategic Planning, Manufacturing Assistance, Marketing and Sales
Jay Tsao, M.B.A., is the founder and CEO of a ball-shaped B2E e-commerce market-place startup utilizing innovative media and SaaS technology to facilitate commerce transactions and make trade between SME ’ s easier around the universe. Tsao was a partner and board penis of a lead international trade and distribution conglomerates. There he built respective of the companies ’ ecommerce platforms and managed provision chain partners from bare-assed fabric source, OEM/private label development, pre/post production supervision, logistic strategies, and customer clearance .
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Bryan Went
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Entrepreneurship, Strategic Planning, Venture Matchmaking
At the age of 16, Bryan Went started his first gear caller, one of the first option fuel companies to generate power from hydrogen and developed the first flexible fuel vehicle that could run on four different fuels. Born and raised in Silicon Valley, he cofounded another company with his brother Erick to provide strategic technologies for companies like SAP, Microsoft, Honda and FOX studios. Bryan has studied, traveled and lived all over world. Currently his focus is being the founder of a startup studio and corporate invention lab .
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Erick Went
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Entrepreneurship, Strategic Planning, Venture Matchmaking
Erick Went is the CEO and co-founder of a startup studio apartment and corporate invention lab. Erick is passionate about distilling complex business problems down to their practical essence, helping organizations look beyond their own boundaries to discover raw ideas, cognition, and ways of working. He has managed large-scale innovations engagements for companies ranging Fortune 100 companies to early stage startups. Partnering with universities and venture-backed startups, Erick has developed roadmaps that communicate the invention potential of a congress of racial equality technology / process at the earliest possible stages, helping to protect, project, and expand the setting of their intellectual place claims and long-run competitiveness .
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Craig Wilson
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Entrepreneurship, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Financial Operations
Craig Wilson supports startups in preparing the C-Corp for bylaw, share allotment, participant shareholders and term sheets. He is certified in Investment Banking for Private Equity and Venture Capital, and has experience in pre- and post-acquisition, having gone through two startup exits. Craig is an engineer who has built software and hardware companies and can help founders architect and identify areas to improve scalability, including how to hire engineers. Craig ‘s experience besides includes operations for rent and staffing growth, and fiscal operations .
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Dr. Eric Zackrison
Position: Business Advisor
Business expertise: Entrepreneurship, Management and Operations, Marketing and Sales, Strategic Planning
Dr. Eric Zackrison, MBA, MA/PhD Organizational Communication, has been teaching, train, and consulting in Santa Barbara and Ventura for the final five years, with a heavy focus on team construction, leadership, and strategy. His published research indicates that workplace relationships are at the core of coordinated teams and organizations. His employment embraces the reason that we have diverse ways of interact and empowers people to manage those differences to be more successful .
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Alondra Gaytan
Position: Client Services Manager
Business expertise: Entrepreneurship, Bilingual in spanish
Alondra Gaytan serves as the Client Services Manager for the EDC SBDC. She is responsible for assessing small business owners and innovators seeking professional/ technical aid. In addition, Alondra assigns small businesses to the SBDC ’ sulfur business advisers who provide co-cost confer to businesses in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties .
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Stephanie Gonzalez
Position: Client Services specialist
Business expertise: Proficient in spanish
Stephanie Gonzalez serves as the Client Services Specialist for the EDC and the SBDC. Stephanie helps assess little commercial enterprise owners who are seeking professional technical aid and connects them to the appropriate business adviser. In summation to her status at the EDC Stephanie is completing her B.A. in Psychology and a transformation certificate for spanish at California State University of Channel Islands .
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Kelly Noble
Position: Office Manager
Business expertise: Entrepreneurship, Management and Operations, Finance
Kelly Noble has been the agency director for EDC since 2003, giving her extensive experience managing work flow and agency systems. She has expert organizational skills, honed through provide and party-planning. She is an entrepreneur and former owner of an appliance animate shop, where she handled all aspects of the business .
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