COMMONWEALTH CAPITAL - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Executive Director, Investment Policy Committee & Vice President Acquisitions

Prior to joining Commonwealth Capital as a Managing Director in 2017, Blake Woods was co-founder of Jackim Woods & Co., a leading middle-market investment banking and M&A firm located in Chicago. Mr. Woods has over 25 years of experience in investment banking, mergers & acquisitions, consultative sales, business operations, and C-Level client representation in B2B environments. Blake was promoted to Vice President of Acquisitions in June 2019.

Job Titles:

• Managing Director

Bob brings over 30 years of experience in the areas of leadership, sales strategy, corporate oversight and deal structure to Commonwealth Capital through a wide variety of different business verticals ...

Job Titles:

• Managing Director

Mr. Wilber is a highly experienced business and finance leader with 42 years of diverse business experience in the consulting, banking, and manufacturing sectors ... Mr. Wilber is a businessman's financial executive. He has broad-based experience providing financial analysis and decision-making tools to corporations, banks, credit unions, federal agencies, law firms, and institutions over a wide range of markets. Mr. Wilber has been engaged directly for consulting projects which include the are not limited to reorganization, asset and business valuation, litigation support, engaged by attorneys, and by State and Federal regulatory agencies. Regulatory engagements include training of state level regulatory staff. Mr. Wilber has assisted with several consulting projects in Illinois, Georgia, Minnesota, Michigan, and Florida. Engagements included, but were not limited to financial analysis for five credit union portfolios located in Illinois, administration of credit compliance for an Illinois Bank under a regulatory Consent Order, credit management of a Georgia based bank; acquired via loss share by a Minnesota based national bank, a Florida based $250 million distressed business, and services for Federal and State regulatory agencies. Mr. Wilber has managed directly operations, credit administration, loan documentation, loan portfolio management, business origination, fee origination, business development, loan review, and operational risk management. Strengths include analysis, negotiation, credit, and written and oral communication skills.

Job Titles:

• Board Director
• Executive Vice President
• Chairs the Board of Directors
• President of Digital Innovation Group Holdings LLC

Mr. Jason Bennick, BBA, CBE, is a Board Director of Commonwealth Capital and currently President of Digital Innovation Group Holdings, LLC, a GA Telesis™ company. Dating back to 1990, he has been building technology solutions ... Mr. Jason Bennick is currently President of Digital Innovation Group Holdings LLC, a GA Telesis™ company. There he leads the overall strategy, planning and implementation of innovative business solutions using emerging technologies. His primary responsibilities include building enterprise grade FinTech and data solutions that leverage decentralized networks and technologies to transform old financial products, insecure transactional methodologies and inefficient systems into intelligent, trustless, and transparent protocols that can operate without the high cost and intervention of conventional intermediaries. Mr. Bennick chairs the Board of Directors for Quube Exchange, a blockchain enabled cryptocurrency marketplace, is Chairman of the Board of Neos Equity Group, a private equity M&A, and is Chairman of World for Human Rights, a non-profit human rights advocacy.

Job Titles:

• Chief Operating Officer
• CFE

Ms. Mai Luu, CPA, CMA, CFE has worked in corporate accounting since 2009 for various privately held companies. She has been primarily responsible for all aspects of the operations of accounting department, preparation of financial statements, internal control, treasury, audit and tax compliance.

Job Titles:

• Founder
• Founder: Director ( Inactive ) Chief Legal Counsel ( Inactive )

Mr. Weigel is currently on a sabbatical from our firm as he serves as Commissioner of the Florida Office of Financial Regulation. Mr. Weigel contributed part of the compliance framework for the Company, and we believe the work he is doing in Florida to create a capital market and promote investor and entrepreneur education in that state are aligned with the Company's educational goals. We look forward to his eventual return to the private sector. Mr. Weigel joined Commonwealth Capital Advisors, our old parent firm, as its Chief Legal Counsel in April of 2014. Mr. Weigel is currently serving as the Commissioner of the Florida Office of Financial Regulation, hence his participation with the firm's operation is on hold. Mr. Weigel is a founding principal of Commonwealth Capital's Executive Board and was a senior management team member of Commonwealth Capital. Prior to becoming Commissioner of the Florida Office of Financial Regulation. Mr. Weigel's responsibilities included general corporate and legal-compliance counseling services. He also served as a Member of the Investment Policy Committee of Commonwealth Capital's Income Funds - I & II. Mr. Weigel resides in greater Miami, FL. Mr. Weigel is the author of Capital for Keeps, a book designed to help entrepreneurs plan a capital raise and minimize litigation risk and is a recurrent lecturer on securities law and ethics topics to the legal profession. He also is an AV-rated[1] securities attorney. An AV® Peer Review Rating Certification Mark is a significant rating accomplishment, which ranks the lawyer at the highest level of professional excellence. A lawyer must be admitted to the bar for 10 years or more to receive this rating. Mr. Weigel graduated from Vanderbilt University with a Bachelor of Arts in economics and from the University of Miami with a juris doctor degree. Mr. Weigel is the former president of Investment Attorneys, a Florida-based law firm that launched in 2005 and sold in February 2020, where he handled both securities transactional and securities litigation matters. His focus included advising public and private company clients on capital raising transactions and mergers, preparing their SEC reports and registration statement filings, regulatory compliance matters for securities-industry participants, and defending clients involved in arbitrations and FINRA, SEC, and state securities enforcement matters. Between 1989 and 1990, Mr. Weigel served the state of Florida as a criminal prosecutor. Between 1990 and 2001, Mr. Weigel worked for the Securities and Exchange Commission as an enforcement attorney. He supervised and conducted numerous investigations and litigated many civil injunctive and administrative proceedings nationwide. Most of his cases involved allegations of fraud, sales of unregistered non-exempt securities, or regulatory compliance violations. Mr. Weigel also supervised investigations and litigated cases involving securities issuers' Ponzi schemes and false financial reporting. The targets of Mr. Weigel's cases typically were stock promoters, public companies, broker-dealers, investment advisers, and stock transfer agents. Mr. Weigel will be welcomed back to the Company when his appointment to the Florida Office of Financial Regulation terminates.

Job Titles:

• CEO
• Chairman
• Founder
• Principal
• Founding Principal

Mr. Hogan is the Author of the Book: "The Secrets of Wall Street: Raising Capital for Start-Up and Early Stage Companies," founding principal of Commonwealth Capital Advisors and the creator of the Financial Architect System™. Mr. Hogan brings his investment policy formation, securities & investment banking experience, corporate organization, and marketing skills to the Company. His responsibilities include formulating, implementing and enforcing the Company's sales, marketing, operational and administrative policies. Mr. Hogan has been in the Investment Banking and Securities Industry, since May 5th 1985. He's held seven (7) NASD/FINRA securities licenses and registrations primarily of "Principal" status. Mr. Hogan is a former Director of Compliance and Senior Trading Principal for North American Financial Group, Inc. a SEC Registered Investment Bank and Securities Broker. Chairman of the Investment Policy Committee for North American Capital Advisors, Inc. a SEC Registered Investment Advisory firm.

Job Titles:

• Board Director
• Chief Technology Officer
• Cofounder and Head of Technology at Product

Wes Reid is the Cofounder and Head of Technology at Product Lab LLC, virtually located in Miami, Florida, a digital agency created to partner with enterprise businesses, entrepreneurs, and startup founders to accelerate their strategies and visions into reality. Over the last 20 years, Mr. Reid has designed and built some of the most recognized and utilized platforms across a diverse array of experiences in media and finance. Wes spent the first years of his career building custom business intelligence applications for trading floor use in the commodities trading industries in Houston, Texas. In the mid-2000s, he relocated to New York City and joined a boutique digital agency, i33 to build out the tech practice for the company. This led to an acquisition in 2008 by 360i/Dentsu. After the acquisition, he moved on to create a "next gen" front end experience for the Comcast XFinityTV platform. Mr. Reid then served as the Director of Technology for Publicis' Razorfish in New York City. During his tenure at Razorfish, he served as the Chief Architect on many engagements, including Spotify's first "Year In Music" review in 2014 and the global launch of Motorola's MotoX phone. After Razorfish, he led two initiatives in the financial industry. The first at NYSE™ to upgrade the ILM (Issuer Lifecycle Management) platform, replacing a suite of systems supporting NYSE Corporate Actions and Issuer Oversight. After his work at NYSE, Wes joined American Express™ as a global technology leader to architect and lead a global re-platform of the online customer acquisition process spanning 21 credit card products for consumers and the OPEN for Small Business sectors. Wesley "Wes" Reid is a Board Director of Commonwealth Capital and both co-founder and Head of Technology at Product Lab LLC, a digital product agency virtually based in Miami, FL. Early in his career since 2001, he built custom business intelligence applications ...