Service Academy Business Mastermind

"The problem that we're solving here is that 65% of investors don't have a solid grasp of how their portfolios are performing… I find that to be unacceptable." -Greg Namrow, Marine Corps Veteran Greg Namrow is the Founder & CEO of TRACTIC, a real estate asset management platform enabling owners, investors, and landlords to assess the real-time performance of their portfolios. He is a passionate an...

"For me, it's all about helping others really understand what their brand strategy is so they can be the best that they can be." -Pete Canalichio, USNA '81 Pete Canalichio is a Brand & Licensing Strategist who is on a mission to help brands find the most authentic parts of their story so they can share it with the world. After successful careers in the Navy and global branding, brand expansion, an...

"Things in the legal career field don't happen in a vacuum… you're not doing everything yourself. The lessons of how to build teams and how to maintain teams, as both a leader and a follower, that you learn in the military translate well to the civilian sector." - Michael Segal, USAFA '02 Michael Segal is an attorney and graduate of the UCLA School of Law, with a specialization in Business Law. As...

"The most important thing that I can do in the next three to five years is… help as many people as I can develop wealth." - Keegan Wetzel, USNA '13 Keegan Wetzel is a real estate agent and mortgage broker with a passion for helping his clients develop their net worth. Keegan earned a B.S. in Control Systems Engineering from the United States Naval Academy and has eight combined years of experience...

"Use your network. Consider it as you're doing interviews with people just to learn more. Those are the industry experts. The longer they've been doing it, the better. They have that institutional knowledge outside of the military that they can share. A lot of times, people are really excited to share…people will be excited to share their knowledge on something they've been working really hard to...

"The mentality in entrepreneurial real estate of 'Well, that's someone else's job, that's someone else's problem.' That doesn't exist in my world. If there is an issue or concern… I need to be involved in every step. That way, I can fill the gaps and tie it all together. That type of mental ownership comes from being a Military Officer." -Curtis Cullen, USMA '09 Curtis Cullen is the Co-Founder and...

"I wanted more return on my investment and hard work, and I wanted more consistency on those returns. I also wanted to be in more control of my future and lifestyle which is why I entered into this entrepreneurial endeavor. The cannabis industry offers all of this and more." - Thomas Scuccimarra, USNA '82 Thomas Scuccimarra is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and served 14 years of ac...

"The Maguey Exchange is an exchange—an exchange of ideas, an exchange of communication, an exchange of product. Being at the center point of this relationship between producers and buyers, we are able to provide data insights that enable both sides to optimize and simply make better decisions." - Rob Weir, USMA '11 Rob Weir is the Founder and CEO of Maguey Exchange, a supply chain technology platf...

"It starts foundationally with planning and understanding how your money is coming in… and then building a long-term plan on how to more efficiently conduct your taxes for this year and moving forward. It really depends on the individual." - Paul Munch, USNA '10 Paul Munch runs his own office through Trust Point Capital Partners, a family office consultancy and investment fund that specializes in...

"The more I worked with different organizations, the more I just saw this need for strategic support. Being able to embed with the leadership team and walk them through that journey…I love it. I was born a planner…so it's a really good opportunity to wrap that into the work that I do." - Susan Maly (USAFA '03) Susan Maly (USAFA '03) is the Founder and CEO of Maly Strategies where she helps small t...

"We help people act on their dream of starting a nonprofit. With our experience, we guide that dream to reality. For those who have already started a nonprofit, we've had success helping people become more compliant, which leads to better fundraising, which leads to growth." - Vince Lindenmeyer (USMA '91) Dr. Vince Lindenmeyer (USMA '91) is a retired Army Colonel and currently a Principal of Beaco...

"EveryDoor is our B2B brand where we are coming alongside those large delivery providers and retailers so we can help them…grow their revenue and serve these customers in hard-to-reach markets. EveryDoor is an extension of our company where we take what we do best and we put it in the hands of delivery providers and retailers to make them successful."  -Todd Waldemar, USNA '89 Todd Waldemar is the...

"We are automating one of the more complex problems out there called prior authorization which, up until now, has not really been touched that much by technology… We're in a good spot at a good time and having a measurable impact on providers that just want to get care to patients."  - Ron Wince, USNA '88 Ron Wince is the founder and CEO of Myndshft, a prior authorization software company that red...

"It creates a stickiness and a partnership between our clients and their customers. That's really what complete offers are there to do: make it easy to sell, make it easy to adopt, and create stickiness with the two businesses that ends up being a longstanding partnership for both companies… that's the value of a complete offer. It creates the stickiness that you actually need."  - Shaun McAndrew,...

"We were able to take the technology associated with blockchain and cryptocurrency and use that as a fundraising mechanism, initially, to help support cannabis operators."  - Greg Anderson, USMA '92 Both 1992 graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Greg Anderson and Charlie Uchill came together to create CeresCoin, a financial services company for the highly regulated legal...

"I wanted to build my business from the ground up… having the power to choose the clients you work with, figure out how you want to build your business strategically and for the long-term. It's been exciting… doing it all from scratch."  -Matthew Wang, USMA '06 After graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point and serving as an active-duty military intelligence officer in supp...

"It's not a question of whether you can or can't do it…it's about mindset."    -Brett Hadley (USAFA '05) Brett Hadley is an Air Force veteran and the Managing Partner of BAB Investments, which he founded in 2019 with his brother JJ. Using their combined knowledge and ambition, the two brothers founded BAB Investments with the hope of providing friends, veterans, and other investors the opportunity...

"If you align incentives in purchasing a home… you create value for the resident of the home who wants to share on the upside and you create a tremendous amount of value for the investors who want a resident who cares about the home and wants to take care of it." -Kent Keirsey, USMA '03 USMA alumni Kent Keirsey and Peter Crawford are co-founders of Acre Homes, an innovative real estate company tha...

"Some people say, 'I am cancer' or 'I am bipolar,' but it's important to note that it's just a health problem. They have a disorder…'I have bipolar' or 'I've had cancer.' I think that's an important thing to note….My hope is that I can help impact the lives of folks that are struggling with a mental health challenge." - Charlie Eadie (USMA '07) After serving in the U.S Army for ten years and overc...

"Culture really drives a lot of where people go. When you can create a family or team environment, that seems to attract a lot of folks from our community…our ultimate goal is to be able to serve everybody under the Special Operations umbrella who wants to come through our program." - Matthew Stevens (USNA '91) Matt Stevens is CEO of The Honor Foundation (THF), a non-profit organization whose virt...

"I feel like I'm at the leading edge while also taking care of my team…they have ambitions and goals and dreams and so the fact that we win together and solution together, that's the most exciting part for me…it's the build up and the big presentation for the deal." - Lance Kallman (USAFA '04) Lance Kallman is the President and Co-Founder of DataPrime, a company focused on building machine learnin...

"In a partnership, you need to have trust and friendship…commitment to the people and systems that go is what I get really excited about." - Josh Kristoff (USNA '07) In 2021, Navy veteran Josh Kristoff and his wife Kassandra (also a Navy veteran) joined longtime friends and Army veterans Jered and Carly DaCosta, to form Nomad Capital Ventures LLC, a vertically integrated group of real estate busin...

"The continuous development of future leaders is something we're big on. That's a piece where we set ourselves apart from other companies. We spend a lot of time recruiting and finding the right resources, but when we bring you on our team we don't care if you've been with us for a couple of days or a few months. If you have the right solution, we're putting you in front of the customer…instilling...

"We are an outdoor furniture company that is on a mission to help people spend more time outdoors. My co-founder and I think there is something special about spending time outdoors with the ones you love. From personal experience, those are the most special memories whether it's dining outdoors or sitting around a fire pit or even watching college football on a Saturday. If you're doing it in an o...

"There's so much more that goes into financial planning, especially when you're talking business planning, than pie charts and spreadsheets. More often than not, it's just clearing the way for the business owner to be able to work on the business instead of being sucked in to work in the business on a day-to-day basis." - Donald Pearson (USNA '16) Donald Pearson (USNA '16) is a Wealth Management A...