Service Academy Business Mastermind

Dan Lesniak (USNA '02) is a billion-dollar real estate agent, best-selling author, investor, developer and coach. He began his career in real estate in 2012 after having successful careers both as a Naval submarine officer and defense contractor.  His HyperLocal strategy led to one of the fastest starts in real estate with over $22 million in sales in his first year. In this episode, we discuss: H...

Episode link: https://www.sabmgroup.com/intellispex Blake Ratcliff (USNA '84) is the founder of IntelliSpeX , a company that is revolutionizing how the construction industry handles time and workforce management. IntelliSpeX's patent-pending site-performance technology captures Evidence of Performance and other high-value data to increase productivity on the job site.  We are also joined on the po...

Barry Gittleman is a 1989 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, retired submarine service Commander, and a 2003 graduate of Harvard Business School. After a few years doing strategic consulting with Boston Consulting Group, Barry got into the home building industry just as the Great Recession was beginning. Ten years later, Barry moved from Atlanta to Salt Lake City for the opportunity to become an...

Tom Coyle (USMA '97) is the co-founder of Adventures in Leadership and the author of the book, Leadership Lessons from the Battle of Gettysburg . He has written many articles and appeared on many video blogs about leadership. He gets students and clients out of their comfort zone and working together through hands-on experiential leadership exercises. His goal is to pass on lessons from his milita...

Episode link:  https://www.sabmgroup.com/ chandra-adusei / Chandra Adusei is the Founder of Veteran Wealth Partners, a financial services company whose mission is to serve Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners by providing innovative and alternative solutions to the traditional model of planning, scaling, and protecting a business. Chandra was a Surface Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy and serve...

Webinar Registration (Oct 12th):  https://zoom.us/meeting/register/12e863c3d8d1efb0c5b9141539e44ee6 Set up a call with the team:  https://form.jotform.com/91924547858170 The  Real Estate Investing Accelerator  is a six month course for service academy graduates and their family members who are serious about creating financial freedom for themselves and building a legacy of generational wealth thro...

Episode link:   https://www.sabmgroup.com/ chip-neidigh / Chip Neidigh (USNA '93) is the Founder of Kairos Consulting , a leadership development company that sparks personal transformation and shifts organizational culture. His career has included consulting, teaching, coaching, and leadership roles in the U.S. Marine Corps and the private sector.  Chip combines logic and intuition to help leaders...

Apply here:  https://globalgoodfund.org/programs/veterans/ The Global Good Fund supports United States Veterans through its partnership with the Smithfield Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Smithfield Foods, Inc.  Through a $400,000 capital investment from Smithfield, The Global Good Fund can provide its flagship year-long leadership development program to veteran entrepreneurs.  These innovato...

Sean Drake (USMA '90) is the Founder of Stony Lonesome Group , a boutique merchant bank that focuses on early-stage seed capital investing encompassing Stony Lonesome Advisors and the Stony Lonesome Capital funds. Founded in 2011, Stony Lonesome Group is a pioneer and thought leader in the Vetrepreneurship ecosystem with a commitment to investing in Veteran founded and Service Disabled Veteran led...

Neal Gouck (USMA '98) is the Founder of Freedom Wind Tunnel, an indoor skydiving facility that will be located at Patriot Place, near Gillette Stadium, the home of the New England Patriots in Foxboro, MA.  The three-floor building will be highlighted by a wind tunnel that will allow customers to feel like they are skydiving.  It will also include a virtual parachuting simulator which will allow gu...

Layne Kasper (USAFA '92 ) is the Managing Partner of Kasper & Associates , a Mergers & Acquisitions firm specializing in facilitating the sale of medium-sized manufacturing, distribution, and service businesses with annual sales revenue from $1 to 70 million.  They provide current market data and professional advice to assist owners in making decisions regarding their company and personal plans. ...

Female craft beer drinkers are growing twice as fast as the industry itself, yet breweries are not effectively targeting this group. As two passionate homebrewers working in the beer industry, LeAnn Darland (USNA '08) & co-founder Tara Hankinson are seizing this opportunity. Design-forward packaging, an elevated taproom experience, flavor-first beers, and an engaging, empowering brand will make TA...

The Military Influencer Conference (MIC) is a dynamic three-day event; connecting entrepreneurs, business executives, and brands with the influencers who shape and support the military community.   In 2019, MIC will convene in Washington, DC from 8-10 September, where 750+ service members, veterans, military spouses, and civilians will gather to network, explore ideas, be inspired, find solutions...

Episode link:  https://www.sabmgroup.com/ gary-griffiths / Gary Griffiths (USNA '72) is the co-founder and managing director of Wisdom LLP. A 35-year veteran of the high-tech industry, Griffiths has led some of the web's most innovative companies. Prior to co-founding Wisdom LLP, Griffiths was CEO of iPass (NASDAQ: IPAS), a leader in global Wi-Fi technology and services, which was acquired by Pare...

Episode link:   https://www.sabmgroup.com/ lewis-baker Lewis Baker (USMA '91) is the owner of Rock Creek Wealth Advisors in Washington D.C. and his wife Melissa is a broker with Transworld Business Advisors.  Together, they match buyers and sellers of small businesses and navigate them successfully through the process. In this episode, we discuss: Their trusted process for helping business owners...

Episode link:  https://www.sabmgroup.com/ bill-militello-92 / Bill Militello (USNA '92) is the Founder of Militello Capital and LocalVest.   Militello Capital  is a team of veteran entrepreneurs who invest capital in joint ventures with a select group of highly successful private equity and real estate operators.   LocalVest.com is an exclusive community for accredited investors to discover, resea...

Episode link:  https://www.sabmgroup.com/ scott-sanders / Scott Sanders (USNA '80) is the owner of Tobacco Barn Distillery , a true ground-to-glass distillery bringing the best whiskies, bourbons and rums to the Maryland area.  Their signature "Constellation Rum" is fermented, double-distilled, and sealed in four bourbon barrels for an embarkation aboard the U.S.S. Constellation in Baltimore, Mary...

Episode link:  https://www.sabmgroup.com/ lane-beene / Lane Beene (USAFA '91) is the Founder of Pilot-Legacy Private Equity Group , an experienced team with over 100 years of combined subject matter expertise in the areas of investing, leadership, syndicating, project development, construction, operations, and management. The objective of Pilot-Legacy is to deliver outstanding investment results t...

Episode link:   https://www.sabmgroup.com/ jaden-risner / Jaden Risner (USNA '07) is the Founder of Family Proud , a company that connects patients and families to the technological resources necessary to effectively maximize their quality of care.  Their mission was founded on the principle idea that no patient under any circumstances should be afforded less support then the next.  Jaden is dedic...

Website link:   https://www.sabmgroup.com/ trung-tran / Trung Tran (USAFA '95) is the Co-Founder of Amplio , a company that combines the power of AI, the data of consumer wearables, and the wisdom of human expertise to enhance a person's ability to maximize their potential. Trung has over 17 years of experience designing and bringing 72 products to market with $2.2B in total revenue. In this episo...

Episode link: https://www.sabmgroup.com/mark-mooney Mark Mooney (USNA '74) is the owner and operator of multiple wellness and home health care businesses under the Massage Envy and BrightStar Care franchise brands.  His vast experience in franchising includes building a market from scratch along with buying and selling existing franchise businesses. In this episode, Mark and I discuss: His strict...

Real Estate Accelerator:  https://www.sabmgroup.com/realestate/ Erin Helle (USMA '09) is a former Engineer who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan.  After serving in the U.S. Army for 12 years, she embarked on a career as a Real Estate Investor and fell in love with everything about it!  As a top performer in our Real Estate Investing Accelerator, she recently purchased a 10-Plex in Fort Campbell...

Episode link:  https://www.sabmgroup.com/ tom-kent / Tom Kent (USMA '95) is the Founder of Career Nerds , a career coaching company for successful professionals who want great jobs.  After graduating from West Point in 1995, he served as an Army Intelligence Officer for several years. After the Army, he was hired to work in over 10 cities on 3 continents for large companies like IBM and Expedia as...

Episode link:  https://www.sabmgroup.com/ john-oliver / John Oliver (USMA '89) is the Investment and Operations Manager at Battle Monument Partners , a private commercial real-estate fund that recently was named by RVA BizSense as the 2018 Fastest Growing Company in Richmond, Virginia.  He is a 1989 graduate of West Point, and a 1995 graduate of Yale School of Management. In this episode, John and...

Episode link: https://www.sabmgroup.com/bruce-cleveland/ Bruce Cleveland attended the United States Military Academy and is a Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners , a venture firm that invests in market disruptors and category leaders. Their differentiation as an early stage B2B and B2B2C venture firm is based upon the fact that each Wildcat general partner has been an entrepreneur, a memb...