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Kugarand Holdings LLC, Companies
 

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Board of Advisors

 

As advisors to the Kugarand Holdings, LLC’s companies, Launch Funding Network and NBA&I, our Board of Advisors bring decades of experience in helping small businesses grow and execute on their business models, contributing to the investors’ return on investment.  They are committed to working with LAUNCHfn and NBA&I to achieve our goals and fulfill our mission. 

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Don Jacobs
Donald attended Morehouse College with a major in Political Science. He has over thirty years of diverse business experience. Donald's experience at executive levels in start-up and early stage companies include many different positions and executive responsibilities for companies focused in the technology, medical products, banking/financial and services sectors. Donald was an integral part of incubator-type organizations like Accseus Centers in Atlanta, Central Florida Innovation Corporation in Orlando, and most recently as the founder and Executive Vice President of Consortium Innovation Centers, a Southern California organization working with start-up and early stage companies. Donald's financing experience was gained through a banking career, which included management of commercial bank branches and President and CEO of a small independent bank. He was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of Active Capital Network (formerly ACE-Net).
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Tony Irwin

Tony is the owner and President of SkyRocket Financial Solutions. SkyRocket Financial brings knowledgeable business finance consulting to customers to help them find financial solutions to SkyRocket their business through access to capital and equipment leasing. He graduated with honors and has a Bachelor’s degree in business finance from the University of Phoenix. Tony is active in Angel investing in the Atlanta area and serves as the Chairman of the Membership Committee of the Network of Business Angels and Investors Atlanta chapter. He has personally invested as an Angel Investor in 3 technology based companies and is an active member of stock and options trading groups in Atlanta. He has over 8 years experience working for a Silicon Valley based company (Foundry Networks) in advanced technology sales and consulting. He sits on the Gwinnett Technology Council for the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce and is on the sub-committee for the Advanced Technology Development Center’s expansion into the north-metro area. He is a member of the National Funding Association and is pursuing the designation as a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

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Michael Horten
Michael Horten brings decades of experience as a corporate partner with King & Spalding to the boutique law firm he founded after retirement.  Horten CC employs a non-traditional practice model that is based on two key philosophical underpinnings:  First, the firm delivers big firm experience without the “marble and mahogany” clad environment typically associated with a superior legal firm.  Horten CC has no central offices, no paper files and it uses the latest technology to create efficiencies.  As a result, the firm’s fees are considerably lower than those charged by firms of comparable ability and quality.  Second, the firm bills its clients for the value delivered and not for the time spent by the attorney.  Unlike scores of lawyers, the firm does not maintain time sheets that track time in 6-minute increments.  Instead, the firm provides its services on a fixed-fee basis. 

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Allen Johnson 

Provides comprehensive wealth management for affluent individuals including Asset Management Consulting, Estate Planning, Retirement Planning, Education Planning, and Insurance Analysis.

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Joyce Bone 

Joyce has been an active entrepreneur for over a decade.  In addition to building a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: ECCO) with annual revenues reaching $125 million, she has acquired, managed and or sold millions of dollars in real estate.  Her latest venture, www.MillionaireMom.com is focused on teaching mom entrepreneurs the art of raising a business and a family at the same time. Joyce has found flexibility to be the key ingredient required for running successful businesses while sustaining her primary role- the care and feeding of her husband and three boys ages 13, 9 and 5 years old.  Joyce resides in the Peachtree Corners area of Norcross, Georgia.  She has been featured in MONEY, Kiplinger’s, and $1,000,000 Blueprints magazines, interviewed on CNBC’s Squawk Box and was a contributor to the book, What No One Ever Tells You About Real Estate Investing.  Joyce can be reached at joycebone@gmail.com or 770-310-6455.

 

 

Jerry Martin

 

As the founder of NBAI, Jerry brings 12 years of experience in watching investor trends come and go.   He continues to recommend investors and companies to participate in the community he created.