CEO, Board of Advisors
Founder and CEO of Board of Advisors, a mastermind with select business owners, real estate investors, technology providers and marketers.
Founder at Twelve Tables
Taylor Precourt, Founder of Twelve Tables, is an entrepreneurial powerhouse. Her magnetic personality, fearless mindset, and out-of-the-box thinking have landed her advisory roles alongside some of the biggest names in design, construction, and healthcare. Taylor is in the business of building businesses, founding an exclusive centrally-sourced agency where independent creators, thinkers, and entrepreneurs unite to support bold strategies from concept to execution.
Aside from her contributions to creating community in the gig economy and advocacy efforts for female leaders, she was named one of the Top Women in Construction Technology, Emerging Leader of the Year, and nominee for 40 under 40.
Serial Entrepreneur
From Fortune 100 companies to startups, Kevin helps companies of all sizes grow and scale their business.
An original “shark” on the hit TV show Shark Tank, the creator of the infomercial, pioneer of the As Seen on TV brand, and co-founding board member of the Entrepreneur’s Organization—Kevin Harrington has pushed past all the questions and excuses to repeatedly enjoy 100X success.
His legendary work behind-the-scenes of business ventures has produced well over $5 billion in global sales, the launch of more than 500 products, and the making dozens of millionaires.
Twenty of his companies have each topped $100 million in revenue.
General Partner at Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health
Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health is a seed-stage healthcare (no bio-pharma) venture capital fund with operations on both coasts, led by Jay Goss and an 8-partner team, with 50 companies in its portfolio over 4+ years of investing. It is differentiated in the venture marketplace in one very special way: Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health has 300 Limited Partners (investors), the vast majority of whom are leading healthcare companies, healthcare executives and clinicians, who are able/willing/motivated to commercially support its portfolio companies. Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health is much more than “just a check” and enjoys backing companies that are putting a dent in the healthcare universe.
Prior to launching Wavemaker 360, Jay Goss made a career of operating and growing early stage companies. He has been a 4X CEO, 2X President, 5X COO, 1X CFO, 2X EVP/SVP, 1X Managing Director, 1X General Partner, 1X Board Chairman, 1X Treasurer. In nearly all of these roles, he was responsible for commercialization, fundraising and product development.
◉ Early-stage company CXO (30+ companies)
◉ Corporate / New Business Development: Disney / ESPN, Reed Elsevier, Summa Group
◉ MBA, USC Marshall School of Business (Concentration in Entrepreneurship & Price Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies Fellow)
◉ BA Economics & Business, UCLA
Passion starts an idea, execution completes it.
Founding Partner at DKFL Capital
Founder & CEO, MergingMinds International LLC | Managing Partner, TransAtlantic Venture Partners | Co-Founder & Partner, Global Blockchain Ventures (GBV) | Co-Founder & Chairman, EduPortle Inc. | Advisor, C5 Capital
Venture Capitalist | Serial Entrepreneur | Board Member | Former C-Level Executive |
Dieter Kondek has over 40 years of experience as an entrepreneur, investor, startup mentor, and senior executive in the technology industry. He co-founded and invested in multiple successful startups and served as CEO and in senior leadership positions at both venture capital-funded and publicly listed companies in the software and infrastructure technologies industries.
He was co-founder, and chief executive officer of DynaPel Systems Inc., a big data and video analytics company, from 2002 to 2006. He raised more than $10.0 million in capital and guided the company from startup to IPO on the Oslo Stock Exchange in 2005. From 2006 to 2008 he was chief executive officer of Agent Video Inc., an AI and video analytics company. He raised more than $5.0 million in capital and build a global team in the US, Israel, Europe & Asia. Previously, he led Pivot3 Inc., a Texas-based Hyperconverged storage company, as its vice president of Sales and Business Development from 2009 to 2013. Pivot3 reach leading market position in hyperconverged and video surveillance storage segment and together with the executive team he raised more than $100 million from venture capital investors like Lightspeed Ventures, Focus Ventures, Samsung Ventures and Interwest Partners.
His career began at IBM Corporation in 1976. Subsequently he co-founded the largest IBM PC reseller in Germany. He was Managing Director at public listed Computer 2000 AG from 1988 to 1994, which was subsequently merged with Tech Data Corporation, Florida largest Company by market cap and the second largest IT Distributor worldwide. He was Co-Founder and President EMEA at Tradex Technologies from 1995 to 1997, a B2B marketplace e-commerce exchange, which was acquired by Ariba, Inc. in a stock deal valued at $1.86 billion and was Florida’s first USD Billion unicorn exit.
He also served in senior executive positions at Dell Computer from 1997 to 1998, MetaCreations from 1998 to 2000 and Linotype-Hell AG from 1994 to 1995. He was formerly Board Member at Agent Video Intelligence, Inc. (USA, Israel) 2006 to 2007, DynaPel Systems, Inc. (USA, Norway) from 2002 to 2006, Linotype-Hell AG (USA, Germany) from 1994 to 1995, and Expander AB (Sweden) from 1991 to 1994.
Dieter is Co-Author of the Book “Blockchain in Healthcare”.
Dieter is a frequent speaker & panel member at several events like Smart City Blockchain Conference | Smart City Expo Atlanta | Synapse Innovation Summit | ETRE | CeBIT | Internet World | EuroChannels | European Technology Forum | ISC West | TechSec Solutions
General Partner at TampaBay.Ventures
Andreas Calabrese began his venture capital career with Capital A Partners (Cap A) in Sweden, where he sourced and analyzed investment opportunities. By the age of 25, he became the second-youngest partner of a venture capital firm in the Nordics. Cap A became one of the most successful early-stage funds in Europe, and had three IPOs and one 45X return from an acquisition by Zynga.
Andreas has a focus on industrial and enterprise technologies, and has reviewed over 12,000 early-stage investment opportunities. He has worked with as a trusted advisor for tech founders from the first check to exit.
Andreas is a former debate champion, voracious reader and a former competitive alpine skier at the Vail Ski and Snowboard Academy.
Andreas lives full-time in Tampa.
Chief Executive Officer at Mawer Capital
Managing Director at LCG Advisors Investment Bank
Ms. Gold brings to LCG over 20 years of corporate advisory experience working with middle-market businesses across multiple sectors. Prior to joining the firm, she spent four years with an M&A-focused boutique investment banking firm, previously held positions with accounting firms Grant Thornton and Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, and started her career at The General Electric Company.
At LCG, Jami’s primary role to cultivate relationships with founder & family-owned companies to facilitate the successful completion of M&A transactions, capital raising, and other corporate finance transactions across all industries.
Ms. Gold has a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing and Economics from Emporia State University in Kansas. She is a board member of Gracepoint, a steering committee member of the University of Tampa Board of Fellows, a board member of GEMS (Girls Empowered Mentally for Success), a member of the University of Tampa’s Financial Advisors Committee, a founding and board member of the Tampa Chapter of the AM&AA, she sits on the grievance committee for the Florida bar and is and a member of ACG throughout the state of Florida and has served on multiple committees.
Managing Partner at Card1Ventures
Sr. VP of Investments at I-Bankers Direct
Christopher Norton serves as an officer of IBD Venture Capital LLC in addition to being the Senior Vice President of Investments at I‑Bankers Direct. Mr. Norton brings over a decade of experience in servicing high net worth investor and institutional investor accounts. He brings experience from investing in unique Pre-IPO opportunities in the secondary markets to I-Bankers Venture Capital LLC. Mr. Norton holds a Series 7, 63, and 65 license.
