Kevin A. Dean

WSI Net Advantage

Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization

Kevin A. Dean is the President of WSI Internet Consulting and Education in Fremont, CA. His company specializes in Internet website solutions, online marketing and e-learning. Kevin's company creates profitable websites for small and medium sized companies in a variety of eCommerce, service, and training industries. In addition, his consulting services have helped his clients appear quickly and efficiently in search engines through extensive research, site modifications - search engine optimization (SEO) - and pay per click (PPC) campaign management.

Kevin is an active member of the Fremont Chamber of Commerce and several Bay Area networking groups.

Phone: (510) 687-9737
Email: kdean@WSInetAdvantage.com
Web: www.WSINetAdvantage.com

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Emmy B. Gengler

Softjourn

Outsourced Software Solutions

Emmy B. Gengler is in her tenth year working in Ukraine and has more than eighteen years of experience in information technology solution development. In 2001, along with a partner, she started Softjourn, an IT services company focused on assisting their clients to obtain optimal cost savings and revenue generation from offshore outsourcing.

Ms. Gengler has published papers on Ukraine and the development of its Software Exports market as well as has spoken at Outsourcing conferences in New York City, Washington DC and London on offshoring. Ms. Gengler was a three-term board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine; including two years as Treasurer. For three years she also served as Chair of the IT committee of the chamber and is currently a director of the Project Management Institute of Ukraine.

Phone: (510) 744-1528
Email: Emmy.Gengler@Softjourn.com
Web: www.Softjourn.com

Kathy Klotz-Guest

Strategic Marketing Effectiveness

Kathy Klotz-Guest helps businesses stand out to succeed. She combines 15 years of “serious” strategic marketing expertise in high-tech with a background in developing humorous, innovative creative and go-to-market strategies. “Get noticed and get results” with marketing that cuts through the noise and resonates with your target audience.

Kathy, founder of Powerfully Funny, has an MA and an MBA in marketing from UC Berkeley. She is a member of the SVAMA and of the National Speakers Association, and frequently speaks on marketing, humor and innovation. Kathy has published in The East Bay Business Times, MarketingProfs, and is co-founder of the New Communications Blogzine and the Society for New Communications Research. She spent 14 years creating, launching, and marketing profitable technology products and services and has a background in sketch comedy writing and performing. She also cartoons for fun.

Phone: (408) 578-8040
Email:kathy@PowerfullyFunny.com
Web: www.PowerfullyFunny.com

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Ron Rehberg

Savings Finders

Expense Reduction Consulting

Ronald Rehberg is the CEO of Savings Finders, Inc. Mr. Rehberg has over 20 years of accounting and finance experience. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1982, he was the youngest person at the time to ever pass the entire CPA exam. He went on to the MBA program at the University of Texas.

He has experience in both public and private accounting, in positions ranging from auditor to CFO. His industry experience ranges from non-profit to profit and includes experience in various industries, including banking, high-tech, distribution, retail, manufacturing, hospitality, and engineering. Mr. Rehberg has been involved in several successful turnarounds, start-ups, acquisitions, and obtaining financing. He has conducted seminars, published numerous articles and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal.

Phone: 1-866-wefindsavings (933-4637)
Email: ronr@savingsfinders.com
Web: www.savingsfinders.com

Business and Corporate Law

Jim Gulseth created and manages JG, P.C., Business and Corporate Law in Pleasanton, CA. Over the past ten years, JGPC lawyers and paralegals have provided cost-effective business transactions and corporate law services to thousands of businesses, business owners, entrepreneurs, investors, managers, lenders and business buyers and sellers. JGPC has been awarded the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory "AV" rating (lawyers.martindale.com/marhub), the highest rating available to lawyers and law firms.

Jim frequently speaks on subjects involving choice and structuring of entities for business formations, start-ups, mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations and asset protection; executive compensation packages, option plans, buy-sell and licensing agreements; intellectual property, trademark and trade secret protection; and other business contracts and documentation.

Articles and Seminars:

Advanced Limited Liability Issues in California

LLC Information

Phone: (925) 463-9600
Email: jgulseth@jgpc.com
Web: www.jgpc.com

Sheila Dominguez

Dominguez and Associates

Alan Ramos

Finance, Business Management & Leadership, Elder Law

Alan E. Ramos is an attorney whose practice is focused on the out-of-court resolution of business disputes; difficult, hard-to-solve financial problems; and elder financial abuse. Alan has made presentations to audiences throughout the country on a wide-range of subjects, including finance; bankruptcy; business management and leadership; and elder law issues. He is an excellent panel moderator who has the ability to take virtually any subject and present it as a dynamic, inter-active panel presentation.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Alan was the President and CEO of the Board of Trade of San Francisco, the Executive Vice-President of CMAC, and the Executive Vice-President of On-Site Associates, LLC. His corporate business operations experience includes the manufacturing, wholesale distribution, retail and service sectors.

Phone: 925-468-0566
Email: aramos@aerlaw.com
Web: www.aerlaw.com

Richard Korb

JGPC Law

Business and Civil Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution

RICHARD E. KORB is a seasoned, down-to-earth, attorney with extensive commercial and technology experience representing start-ups and major companies alike. Richard graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, Phi Beta Kappa with highest honors in Political Science and Public Policy in 1977 and received his Juris Doctorate from the University of California Hastings College of the Law in 1980, where he was a contributing editor to the Hastings International and Comparative Law Review and a finalist in international moot court competition.

Richard leverages his experience as a former partner in a 100-person law firm and chief counsel for a public software company to assist companies from start-ups to multi-nationals with a broad spectrum of legal matters. Over his legal career, Richard has drafted and negotiated over 175 contracts and licenses for Fortune 500 software/hardware and telecom companies and has also managed and litigated over 250 court cases including several high profile class actions in the fields of commercial law, intellectual property and general civil law.

Phone: 925-463-9600
Email: rkorb@jgpc.com
Web: www.jgpc.com

Steven "Shags" Shagrin

Personal Financial Planning

Steven "Shags" Shagrin helps individuals assess and improve their money relationships. As a Money Coach, he brings over 25 years of experience in financial services with a caring and introspective touch. His workshops on Money Coaching, Financial Wellness, Life Planning, and Retirement Life-Design Education provide lifelong learning for adults of any age and at any life stage.

Shags, founder and president of Planning For Life, has a BBA in accounting (minor in finance) from the University of Miami (FL) and a Juris Doctor (emphasis in taxation and estate planning) from Case Western Reserve University. His professional credentials include CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ certificant, Certified Retirement Counselor®, Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor(SM), Certified Enhanced Lifestyle Planner, and Certified Money Coach. An Accomplished Toastmaster, his entertaining presentation style helps to make what most people consider confusing or boring topics into clear, interesting, and beneficial personal growth opportunities.

Phone: (925) 949-3938 / (888) 456-4777
Email:Shags@PlanningForLife.info
Web: www.PlanningForLife.info

Jeffrey Artz

Life and Retirement Coach

Jeffrey Artz of Transition Authority, LLC is a certified life and retirement coach with a passion for developing one’s personal foundation as the precursor to becoming more effective both professionally and personally. He refers to his talks as “edutainment” as he inspires his audiences to greater self-awareness with a light and sometimes humorous style.

Jeffrey spent three years developing his personal foundation while preparing for his coaching certification and has worked with many clients to develop their foundation. He spent ten years as an engineer and technical marketer and 15 years in sales and business development prior to his transition to coaching. Jeffrey holds a BS in Organizational Behavior, an MBA and is now a professionally certified and credentialed life and retirement coach.

Phone: 408-720-1137
Email: Coach@TransitionAuthority.com
Web: www.TransitionAuthority.com