JON STURGEON - FOUNDER & CEO
Jon is a Tennessee Air National Guard Veteran of 21 years with 118 TAW/HQ. He began his business career at Southwestern Company for 10 years as District Sales Manager, Director of Recruiting and later Founder Director of the SW Executive Recruiting Division. He then joined MediFAX, a start-up health care pioneer of real-time EDI transactions. As EVP of Sales/Marketing he built a sales force of 70 calling on hospitals, made the INC.500 twice and $20M in revenue. He co-authored the federal guidelines for real-time switch vendors and got HCFA Medicaid to authorized use. He left when the company sold to WebMD/Emdeon. He is owner of TradeWind Digital a specialized digital marketing company.
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BLAKE MCBRIDE - CTO & PARTNER
Blake is an Air Force Veteran. His career as a software architect spans over 30 years. He is the architect of smallishEVENTS.com His career includes being co-founder and technical lead of several software companies, including Florida Software which produced tax software and supported 10,000 clients, Integra Software which produced mortgage banking software, and the Arahant Business Management software. Blake is also the author of the KISS Web Development Framework and Dynace Object-oriented extension to C.
KURT KIRTON - MARKETING
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STEVE CASSIDY - CXO/CMO & PARTNER
Steve is a U.S. Navy EOD Veteran. Following his military career, over 10 years ago he became the Founder/ President of EOD-GEAR an eCommerce distribution company of protective gear. He has built a specialized company selling millions of dollars of products and training to the EOD community including the military, special forces, police SWAT teams, and all levels of federal, state and local police.
MARIE WARD
CEO – Le Class Events, LLC
Marie is CEO of Le Class Events an Alpharetta, GA based Event Planning company she founded over 5 years ago. She takes pride in bringing people together using modern technology and specializes in event management, meeting planning, floor plan design and coordination. Her career in Event Planning is epitomized by her mantra “Modern Event Planning with Purpose”. After graduating from MTSU with a BBS in Entrepreneurship 2008 she never looked back. Previously she owned a successful personal training/fitness business and worked in the corporate world for seven years as an Engagement Manager with Kabanart.
MARIE WARD
CEO – Le Class Events, LLC
ROY LOFTIN
Investor / Entrepreneur / Bus Dev Executive
After a 32 year career as VP of Sales with Southwestern Company Roy became VP of Sales with MedCenter Displays. He built a sales team and signed up 100 hospitals where they increase sales over 400%. Over 10 years ago he became Founder/CEO Dynasty Health & Financial investing in and bringing new products to market. He is now an investor and SR VP of Business Development of Prevention Systems and their Healthcare Population Engagement Platform.
ROY LOFTIN
Investor / Entrepreneur / Bus Dev Executive
SHERMAN MOHR
Founder/CEO of Shared Spirits
Sherman is Co-Founder/CEO of Shared Spirits a Sampling-as-a-Service tech company. There Sampling-as-a-Service tech compliantly converts marketing dollars into drink credits that ACTIVATE spirits, wine, and beer brands. Sherman has been a Blue Ocean Strategist for the past 15 years helping companies find new markets from noncustomers is the Blue Ocean Way.
SHERMAN MOHR
Founder/CEO of Shared Spirits
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ABOUT US
Welcome to smallishEVENTS.com. We’re an event registration, ticketing, and payment platform primarily for paid events.
OUR SPECIALTY: Ticket sales funds are deposited into our Event Hosts' bank accounts typically the next business day! So you can CA$H FLOW your event! Now you can use ticket pre-sales funds to pay your caterer, event space, & other vendors on the day of the event! No more waiting until well after your event is over, common to other event registration systems. CA$H. FLOW. YES. PLEASE.
At smallishEVENTS.com we don’t touch your ticket sales funds—even a smallish amount!
GEORGE THOMAS
CEO/Founder of EEOG
George is the Founder/CEO of Education Equal Opportunity Group a 21 year old non-profit. EEOG provides underserved high school students with leadership and professional education from professional role models and a goal of attending 4-year colleges to gain a degree.
GEORGE THOMAS
CEO/Founder of EEOG
LYLE SPANN
CEO/Owner of Sparrow REI
Lyle is CEO/Owner of Sparrow Real Estate Investing where he raises investor funds and acquires residential properties to re-develop and sell. Previously he was Director of Acquisition for Altas Residential Development. Prior to that he was Client Engagement Manager with Mosaic Consulting Group selling major accounts a payroll software installation solution for almost 5 years.
LYLE SPANN
CEO/Owner of Sparrow REI
Kelli Zane
Owner of First Impressions
Kelli founded First Impressions Printing & Imprinting 10 years ago built around her Graphic Design work. During her 30 year career as a graphic designer she has worked with businesses across many industries and non-profits. Her design work was imbedded in many marketing campaigns and trade shows over the past decade. Also for over 12 years she was a part of Music City USA as an owner/partner of a downtown Nashville night club just outside Historic Printers Alley. Over the years they featured many live bands and hosted a multitude of special events.
Kelli Zane
Owner of First Impressions
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ADVISORY BOARD
RICK KLOETE
CEO/Kloete Group
Rick is Founder/CEO of The Kloete Group a Nashville based Executive Recruiting Firm. They specialize in retained searches for Mid-Level, Director and C-Level executives. Rich has over 25 years in recruiting senior level management across many industries. Rick is also the former Director of the Nashville Chapter of the COO Forum for 8 years.
RICK KLOETE
CEO/Kloete Group
MAX CARTER
Client Executive at Experian Health
Max has been with Experian Health for over 20 years and served as Vice President and currently Major Health Systems Client Executive. Previously Max was Sr. VP of Sales at MediFAX for 10 years. He has been responsible for winning thousands of large contracts from personal and his sales teams coaching. He is published "Principles of Marketing" textbook (McGraw Hill, 2018) college text books.
MAX CARTER
Client Executive at Experian Health
STEVE MINUCCI
SVP Client Development Group of One Trusted Advisor
Steve is Sr. VP of Business Development with One Trusted Advisor a Brentwood, TN based Multi-Client Family Office where he has served for the past 3 ½ years working with highly successful entrepreneurs, business owners and executives. Previously Steve was Nashville Market President of cityCURRENT who purchased Accelerent where Steve was Regional President.
STEVE MINUCCI
SVP Client Development Group of One Trusted Advisor