STARTUP EXEMPTION - Key Persons
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Berkeley Geddes, CEO of Grow America Insight and DooBizz.com, has been elected chair of the Crowdfunding Professional Association Executive Committee and Governance Board. The Crowdfunding Professional Association's Executive Committee will work closely with Mr. Geddes to build a lasting network and organization that will provide advocacy, foster integrity and champion the burgeoning global crowdfunding industry and vast ecosystem. For more information on the governance structure visit http://crowdfundingprofessional.org/leadership/
"America needs to get this right," said Mr. Geddes. "As a nation, we need to lead and restore our seed funding markets in support of good people with good ideas, chasing their dreams. As members of the crowd, we can build a powerful and credible crowdfunding coalition that fuels the creation of new ideas, new businesses and jobs. We look forward to supporting the evolution of this community and harnessing the experts, entrepreneurs, pioneering platforms and visionary investors across the globe."
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- Founder of the Industry Website Crowdsourcing.Org
Sherwood Ness & Jason Best, founding members of the Start-up Exemption, and leading lobbyist and advocate for crowdfunding
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- First US Crowdfunding Platform to Express Interest in Our Initiative
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- First Equity - Based Platform in the UK. Shares Data & Success Stories With Us
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- Interviews Startup Exemption Chief Advocate, Sherwood Neiss
Sherwood spoke to Dylan about the importance of young businesses asjob creators, the need for capital to help fund these companies and how the Startup Exemption is a framework under which the SEC can allow equity-based crowdfunding to take place.
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- Ethical Markets / Another Early Supporter and Advocate to All Their Followers
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- Co - Founder of Startup Exemption and
Jason Best is a Co-Founder of Startup Exemption and brings over 10 years of executive management experience at 2 SaaS healthcare businesses (one of which he co-founded) in the bay area. His work there included starting a business from the ground-up during the dot com crash, building broad coalitions of US medical societies in support of Internet-based physician-patient communication and changing FDA regulations to enable physicians to receive electronic medication and device warnings instead of paper. This change dramatically increases patient safety while reducing time and costs for physicians and the pharmaceutical industry.
He is a successful entrepreneur and consultant to technology companies on business development and strategy issues to enable companies to grow quickly and effectively. In both 2010 and 2011, his work in strategy development, building scaleable processes, partnership development and branding/marketing, led to one of his clients, Kinnser Software, being named by Inc. Magazine as one of the 500 fastest growing private companies in the USA.
In Dec 2010, he also Co-Founded A Single Production Company, a documentary film company based in Bangkok Thailand. He has served as the Executive Producer for its first feature "The Cheer Ambassadors". The film will premier at the Bangkok World Film Festival in January 2012. He is also working on a program with local entrepreneurs and educators to create a more entrepreneurial Web development industry in Thailand.
Jason earned his MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, the world ™s top international MBA program as well as a BA from William Jewell College, ranked by Forbes and US News and World Report as one of America's best national liberal arts colleges. He has lived and worked in Europe, South America and Asia. He grew up in Louisiana and is now based in San Francisco, California to be near snow skiing, the ocean and wine country.
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- Author of Crowdfunding Revolution
- Author, the Crowdfunding Revolution
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- Community Manager for Startup Weekend Corporate
Maris McEdwards Community Manager for Startup Weekend Corporate had the following to say, œStartup Weekend ™s mission is to empower entrepreneurs to create new and innovative solutions to real-world problems. We encourage teams to incorporate customer validation and feedback at every stage of development. Personal experience provided Sherwood years to think about and perfect this funding and investment option for entrepreneurs. Their win at Startup Weekend Miami was not simply due to a great solution; a large part of their success can be attributed to a thorough knowledge of the problem they were tackling. Given the positive response from the Startup Weekend Miami judges and attendees, they have clearly defined entrepreneurs' needs and are building some serious momentum for Crowd Fund Investing.
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- Thought - Leader in the Securities Space Provides Experience and Advice
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- Author & Expert
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Chairman Issa, Ranking Member Cummings and members of the Committee, thank you for holding this hearing today and allowing me to share an entrepreneur ™s perspective on improving capital formation through regulatory modernization. My intention is to explain why outdated securities laws - put in place before the Internet age - need to be modernized and overhauled, and how these reforms can boost our struggling economy. By revamping the Security and Exchange Commission ™s (SEC ™s) position on solicitation and accreditation, we can open the doors to small business growth and prosperity. Allowing for an exemption for Crowd Fund Investing, which includes protections for investors, will spur innovation among your constituents, create jobs, increase consumer spending, and reinvigorate our economy. Continue reading →
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- Entrepreneur / Sherwood Speaks, LLC / Miami Beach, Florida
Sherwood Neiss, Chief Advocate of the Startup Exemption testifies September 15, 2001 in front of a Congressional Committee on the ways in which we can get capital flowing to entrepreneurs, spur innovation & create over 500,000 companies and 1.5M net new jobs over the next 5 years.
Chances are this entrepreneur has already helped you, your child, someone very close or even your pet. As a 3-time INC500 winner whose company won E&Y's Entrepreneur of the Year, Sherwood understands the keys to entrepreneurial success from concept to company to sale.
Sherwood Neiss started his post-MBA career on Wall Street and moved to Silicon Valley where by his 29 th birthday reached the personal and financial goals he set for his 30 th year. Wondering what to do next and also left struggling with a debilitating family dilemma, he used his entrepreneurial drive to help turn his family adversity into a multi-million dollar company that today is helping millions of sick children, animals and adults get better by being more compliant with their medicines.
Sherwood Neiss co-founded FLAVORx (www.flavorx.com) the company makes 42 yummy flavors that take the yuck out of medicine. His structured approach helped not only build a business model that threw off millions of dollars in cash but also helped grow the business from one pharmacy to over 80% of the pharmacies in the United States. He raised millions of dollars in capital and saw the culmination of his endeavors with the sale of the company in 2007.
Sherwood is an avid public speaker. He speaks at universities and seminars around the world about what it takes to be an entrepreneur, how to fund your idea and build a winning company. He testified at three Congressional hearings; one on the impediments to capital formation under Sarbanes-Oxley and two regarding access to capital for entrepreneurs and Crowdfund Investing. His SOX testimony was one of the reasons the Small Business Exemption to section 404(b) audit requirements was passed in July 2010.
Most recently Sherwood won the November 2010 & May 2011 Startup Weekend Challenges in Miami to use smartphones for instant polling & for an equity based crowdfunding platform. In 2011/12, he advocated for the SEC to update the securities laws to make it legal for groups of people to pool small dollar amounts of money together to invest in startups aka œCrowdfund Investing.
When not working, Sherwood is an avid traveler. He lived in Japan for a year and post-sale of FLAVORx took his second backpacking trip around the world. In addition to speaking at universities and businesses around the country he invests in real estate in the U.S. and Brazil, is part of a Private Equity group in Los Angeles, is working on a clean tech project in Puerto Rico and is involved with several other start-up ventures.
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- Bloomberg News / First Negative Article - That Just Made Us Stronger
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- Deal Flow Media
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- Int ™L Crowdfunding Platform Expresses Interest in Our Initiative
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- Co Founder and Partner
- VP Business Development
Zak Cassady-Dorion is co founder and partner of Startup Exemption, responsible for the framework of all current Crowdfunding legislation in congress, as well as the Crowdfunding portions of President Obama ™s 2011 jobs act. The 3 co founders of Startup Exemption have bootstrapped their advocacy efforts and have worked closely with Chairman McHenry on hr 2930, including testifying before his committee on Crowdfunding.
Zak is currently the VP business development for a small business in upstate New York and has a passion for entrepreneurship. He has successful entrepreneurial experience in Latin America and South East Asia, in addition to a successful business development career with Wyndham Worldwide. He earned his MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management, ranked as the world ™s top international MBA program and a BS from the University of Vermont. Zak is also fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.