Jason Navallo's Blog, page 14
February 5, 2019
Matt Singley – Founder & CEO, Pinnacle Furnished Suites
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Matt Singley is a graduate of Bradley University with a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. After a short career as a project manager working in nuclear power plants throughout the southern US, his entrepreneurial drive took over and he “retired” from his first job to start Pinnacle Furnished Suites and various other smaller companies. He currently calls the West Loop of Chicago home.
How did the concept for Pinnacle Furnished Suites come about?
After graduating college, I began my...
Cindy Koebele – Founder & President, TitleSmart
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Cindy Koebele started TitleSmart, Inc. in 2007, during the collapse of the housing bubble. Her intense focus on creating a positive customer experience turned TitleSmart into one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in America in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. Employees and colleagues alike count on Cindy’s frankness and generous nature.
A born observer of people, her curiosity contributes to her ability to find common ground with almost anyone. TitleSmart embodies Cindy’s m...
Clark Benson – Founder & CEO, Ranker
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Clark Benson is the founder and CEO of Ranker, the #1 digital media company for opinion-based, crowdsourced rankings on just about everything. Launched in 2009, Ranker is Benson’s fifth startup which he created with a simple concept: the wisdom of the crowd is better than one expert’s opinion. Today, Ranker creates votable editorial lists on virtually every topic, and its audiences’ opinions determine definitive rankings.
Prior to Ranker, Benson founded eCrush, the parent company to some of...
Barry Saywitz – President, The Saywitz Company
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The Saywitz Company is one of the largest privately-held commercial real estate brokerage firms in Southern California. The firm exclusively represents tenants, companies, and users of commercial real estate on an international, national, and local basis. Headquartered in Newport Beach, California, the company has been in business for more than 40 years and continues to be one of the leaders in tenant representation in Southern California.
Mr. Saywitz has more than 30 years of experience in...
February 1, 2019
Steve Weiss – Founder & CEO, MuteSix
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Steve is the founder and CEO of MuteSix, founded in 2014. He is responsible for the overall vision, strategic leadership, service delivery, culture, and growth of the creative agency leading to $1 billion in trackable revenue for clients. Under Steve’s direction, MuteSix has earned the distinction as most-awarded Facebook social advertising agency, with more Facebook and Instagram marketing case studies than any other agency.
MuteSix has grown into a comprehensive and integrated global marke...
January 30, 2019
Brent Lightner – Founder & CEO, Taoti Creative
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Brent Lightner is the founder and CEO of Taoti Creative, a Washington, DC-based creative/technology agency. Brent started Taoti from a college dorm (Juniata College) in 1996, where he started building websites to pay for his tuition. When business took off, Brent let go of his medical aspirations to devote his full attention to Taoti. From bedroom to dorm room to basement to their current headquarters on Capitol Hill in DC, Brent has worn every hat and served every role at Taoti. As Taoti pa...
Marc Reifenrath – Co-Founder & President, Spinutech
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Marc Reifenrath is co-founder and president of Spinutech, one of the Midwest’s largest all-digital agencies. Our team of over 65 serves clients in all 50 states and 10 countries. We have three locations (Chicago, Des Moines, IA & Cedar Falls, IA). When we started in 2000, we were only a web design and development shop. Over the past six years, we have evolved into a digital marketing agency. In the past four to five years, we have seen rapid growth as a result of the transition from traditio...
Craig Chinn – Principal & Founding Partner, Architecture Design Collaborative
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Craig Chinn is a principal and founding partner at Architecture Design Collaborative (ADC), an architecture design firm and an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing company based out of Laguna Hills, CA. Under his leadership, he has grown ADC from 4 original employees to over 33 employees. His clients include Brookfield Properties Retail, Simon Property Group, Trammell Crow Residential, Tommy Bahama, and Brixmor Property Group.
Prior to founding Architecture Design Collaborative, Chinn was steadily prom...
January 27, 2019
Liam Brown – Founder & Executive Chairman, Elevate Services, Inc.
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Liam helps general counsel and law firm leaders improve effectiveness and efficiency. In 2011, he launched Elevate as the law company to provide consulting, technology, and services to law departments and law firms. Elevate has won numerous awards and honors, recently receiving top ranking by Chambers & Partners in their global legal services providers category, being acknowledged by the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) as the most-used law company in their 2017 State of the Indu...
Casey Wright – CEO, Wright Brothers Inc.
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Casey Wright serves as owner and chief executive officer at Wright Brothers, Inc., an agile corporation that provides digital marketing services to the residential real estate industry and operates several eCommerce stores.
Wright Brothers, Inc. was started in 2005 and is currently headquartered in San Diego, California. The company’s growth has accelerated over the last several years, culminating with Wright Brothers, Inc. being recognized as one of San Diego’s fastest-growing companies for...
