AMERICAN ARMORY OPPORTUNITY FUND - Key Persons


JEFFREY HAYZLETT

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Partner
Primetime TV & Podcast Host, Keynote Speaker, Best-Selling Author and Global Business Celebrity. Jeffrey Hayzlett is a primetime television host of C-Suite with Jeffrey Hayzlett and Executive Perspectives on C-Suite TV, and business podcast host of All Business with Jeffrey Hayzlett on C-Suite Radio. He is a global business celebrity, speaker, best-selling author, and Chairman of C-Suite Network, home of the world's most trusted network of C-Suite leaders. Hayzlett is a well-traveled public speaker, the author of four bestselling business books, The Mirror Test, Running the Gauntlet, Think Big, Act Bigger: The Rewards of Being Relentless. and The Hero Factor: How Great Leaders Transform Organizations and Create Winning Cultures. Hayzlett is one of the most compelling figures in business today and Hall of Fame keynote speaker. Jeffrey is a leading business expert, cited in Forbes, SUCCESS, Mashable, Marketing Week and Chief Executive, among many others. He shares his executive insight and commentary on television networks like Bloomberg, MSNBC, Fox Business, and C-Suite TV. Hayzlett is a former Bloomberg contributing editor and primetime host, and has appeared as a guest celebrity judge on NBC's Celebrity Apprentice with Donald Trump for three seasons. He is a turnaround architect of the highest order, a maverick marketer and C-Suite executive who delivers scalable campaigns, embraces traditional modes of customer engagement, and possesses a remarkable cachet of mentorship, corporate governance, and brand building.

JEREMY LACEY

Job Titles:
  • Fund Manager
  • Managing Partner at West Chop Ventures
Mr. Lacey is an innovator and serial entrepreneur with 20 plus years of business leadership and development. With a broad range of global partners across multiple industry sectors, Jeremy builds unparalleled business relationships at the most distinct levels. Jeremy has extensive government service in multiple theatres, is a former longtime Rugby player/enthusiast, an avid outdoorsman/fisherman, and this is reflected in his personal drive, work ethic and precise focus to details. Jeremy is currently The Managing Partner at West Chop Ventures, LLC and The Managing Member of Lexington Concord Partners. With a B.A. Political Science University of Vermont

PAUL PETERSON

Job Titles:
  • Fund Manager
Mr. Peterson's experience in business development and management includes extensive work in early stage investment, start-up, growth and ongoing management of small to mid-sized companies. From the tumultuous times of the dotcom era through today's energy and biotech industry revolutions, Paul has been directly involved in the roles of director, officer, and investor in the start-up, development, merger, acquisition and turnaround of both private and publicly-traded companies across the spectrum. Paul has extensive hands-on experience in the areas of investment, securities, legal, accounting, HR, sales, engineering, manufacturing, and the tenacity essential to the success of any endeavor. Paul received a full scholarship to the University of Minnesota through the US Air Force ROTC. While earning his undergraduate degree in languages and linguistics, he took a year as an exchange student at Moscow State University, and later earned a master's degree in International Business from St. Thomas College (and in International Business Management from Kansai University of Foreign Studies in Osaka, Japan). He speaks, reads, and writes fluently in Japanese and Russian and is conversant in Mandarin. ​For twenty years, Mr. Peterson has been actively involved as an investor and advisor to startups and development stage companies, and in assisting the turnaround of troubled companies with focus on the development and integration of renewable energy technologies and biotech & biomedical solutions.