Speakers You Don't Want to Miss

Than & Paul: The newest members of A&E Flip This House these 2 investors have been a staple in the New England community. Having bought, sold and renovated numerous homes in the New Haven, CT area these two bring forth a diverse multi facet experience to the art of Real Estate Investing.
Lee Bienstock: Season 5 Apprentice Contestant. Lee, graduated from Cornell University with distinction and a 4.0 GPA, where he received a B.S. in Policy Analysis and Management. While attending Cornell University, he won business plan writing and marketing competitions, and served as a teaching assistant for courses in Entrepreneurship and Management.

He has worked for Merrill Lynch, researching emerging markets, creating portfolios and compiling business plans for high net worth clients, including an investment banking deal with an estimated value in excess of $100 million. Previous experiences outside of corporate America include, working at a day treatment program for the mentally ill, volunteering at soup kitchens and teaching fourth grade children in an inner-city school.

Lee draws his inspiration from his grandfather who immigrated to the U.S. penniless and uneducated, yet through hard work and determination was successful through investing in real estate. At age 22, Lee became an analyst for Accenture, one of the largest business/consulting firms in the world. Today, Lee works at Meridian Capital Group, as Director of Business Development, specializing in Commercial Real Estate finance.
James Sun: Season 6 Apprentice Runner Up. James, 29, immigrated from Seoul, Korea to the United States when he was four years old and grew up in Houston, Texas and Seattle, Washington. While earning his degree in business and computer information systems from the University of Washington, James started a technology investment fund at age 18 with just $5000 and turned it into over $2 million at age 23. After graduating cum laude as a multi-millionaire, James joined one of the largest business consulting firms in the world, offering management consulting services to Fortune 500 companies. He currently lives with his wife and two children in Seattle, where he is the CEO and founder of an Internet company that provides a unique approach to professional and online social networking at www.zoodango.com.
Carey Sherrell: Season 6 Apprentice Contestant. Carey, 26, grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, where he continues to reside today. Not satisfied with working in a conventional office environment, he decided to pursue his real passion--marketing.Carey's flair for crafting innovative promotions helped him to launch his own event marketing and promotions firm whose high-profile clients have included Adidas America, Stoli Vodka, Atlanta's High Museum of Art, Turner South, Verizon Wireless through its agency partner Mini Mobile Media, and Cartoon Network through Hothouse Inc. He has served as National Political Director for the College of Democrats of America, one of the youth arms of the Democratic National Committee, and was one of the youngest members of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.
Lucky Carothers: This commercial lending expert is full of energy and full of information from getting your small deal funded to getting your BIG deal funded Lucky can tell you what the banks are looking for and how NOT to be turned down. Lucky will also discuss how to secure private money for your next BIG project.
Dave “The Shef” Sheffield: has touched the lives of nearly 250,000 people. His high energy events connect with any audience. By sharing the Success Recipes and putting them into action, your audience will be transformed right before your eyes! The Shef doesn’t preach theory or intellectual ideas; rather he helps audiences discover tools and techniques for success. Tools that they can put to use right away! The motivation, style, and custom tailoring of his programs will fill to capacity any convention, meeting room, or assembly hall. The Shef makes himself available for complementary marketing consults leading up to your event. Many meeting planners have found an increase of thousands of dollars from registrations as a direct result of using this service. Best of all, this is complementary upon booking The Shef for your event. The Shef started his first business at the age of 19. Since then, he has employed over 3500 people. His passion for changing people’s lives through the power of positive words has made him one of the nation’s top thought leaders on Business, Change, Peak performance, and Motivation. He travels the world empowering audiences to live their lives to the fullest!

During the last 6 years, he has spoken to such groups as Coldwell Banker, Pearson’s, Mel Foster, Clear Channel Communications, Remax, Toastmaster’s International, Sprint, Radio Shack, Gold’s Gym, Electrolux,Monster.com, Mississippi Valley Reality, Saladmaster, and the list goes on. Click here for info on booking The Shef for your next event.

He has co-authored three books, Unleashing the Leader Within You, Unleashing the Vision Within You, and A Massive Dose of Motivation. These books have sold over 40,000 copies world wide. He is also a contributing author for one of the world’s most renowned marketing newsletters, A Captured Mind.
Howard Rothman (The Godfather of Atlanta Hard Money Lending): Is a modern day Real Estate Maverick in today’s Atlanta Real Estate Market not only does he have 30 years of Real Estate experience he also has loaned over $80,000,000 in capital. Howard will be speaking on developing and how to develop in today’s market from where you are and what you need to get started. Howard is also the owner of The Rothman Corporation a lending company located in Atlanta, GA.
Alcon Development: This regional development company has not only renovated over $1,000,000 in Real Estate they have also invested their own capital in their new 7 luxury home sub-division in East Atlanta breaking ground this fall. They will discuss what it takes to be your own contractor or builder and what it takes to hire a good contractor or builder.
Alex Nghiem is a successful entrepreneur who started an IT consulting firm, Global Objects in 1993 and sold it to a leading technology firm in 2000. Global Objects was listed as one of the top 500 fastest growing private technology firms in Deloitte and Touche's Fast500 and served leading firms such as Federal Express, Bank of America, etc.

As the VP of Engineering at the acquiring company, he managed over 80 engineers in 4 offices ($15 million of billable revenues) and landed several million dollar projects. He has published two books, NextStep Programming (Prentice Hall, 1993) and IT Web Services (Prentice Hall, 2002).

He started WealthAutopilot to enrich and energize the lives of customers by offering turnkey systems for building wealth. He is responsible for the operations, product development and marketing at WealthAutopilot.
Sherry Allen Harrison is a nationally known speaker and the author of the book "A Man Is Not A Financial Plan." She is noted for her vast knowledge in areas relating to financial investments from Stocks and Bonds to Real Estate as well as topics about the nature of men and women in the workplace. She is a dynamic speaker who gets her audience involved, excited and motivated. Her wit and humor make the time fly and the information memorable.
Donna Buckner: With a passion for real estate investing and how it can work for you, Donna explains the complex world of real estate and finance in simple terms with real world examples. After working with investors for over 14 years, she uses her experience in the corporate world as a Communications Center speaker and Director and her education(MBA-Finance), to help the audience envision the possibilities open to those who have a plan for investing in real estate and taking control of their future.

She can design the presentation for beginning or experienced investors, help real estate agents add investors as a profitable aspect of their business, or help the young and young at heart add real estate as a business or develop a portfolio to increase the joy s of retirement.

Donna brings over 20 years of corporate an entrepreneurial experience to her presentations along with a dry sense of humor about the good, the bad, and the ugly about real estate investing.
Stefano Grossi: Stefano Grossi is the founder and director of GrossiWeb, an Atlanta based search marketing company that helps U.S. based companies market themselves in emerging and international markets. In 2007, Stefano will generate millions of dollars in online sales for his partners and clients. Stefano will be speaking about how to consistently rank on the 1st page of the major search engines, drive qualified traffic to your site or property listing and squeeze the greatest returns out of your advertising budget.
Marc Kanne: Marc is the firm’s Chief Operating Officer and a partner in the Advisory and Business Services Group. He is experienced in individual, partnership and corporate taxation, specializing in individual and corporate tax planning and retirement planning. He primarily advises business owners on management and tax matters.

Marc earned his BBA degree from the University of Georgia. He participates in many industry and community activities including:

> American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
> Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants
> North Atlanta Tax Council
> Atlanta Jewish Federation
T. Stephen Anderson (The Profit Doctor): has been consulting and providing training to small businesses all over the country for the past 18 years. He trains business managers and owners how to improve the operations of their business. He has been teaching them how to: improve their organization so it is the most efficient it can be, personnel productivity and motivation, understanding and utilizing financial information effectively, improving bottom line profits, owners and personnel productivity, business planning, strategic planning, and Sales & Marketing Planning. He has worked with 100's of clients all over the country in many different industries. He has been in the training industry for over 30 years.

He is also a full time real estate investor specializing in the distressed market (foreclosures, probate and bankruptcies) and has developed a system of getting to this market quickly and is getting between a 7% to 17% return calls by home owners on a first time direct mail letter.
Tony Youngs: an ex- flight-line mechanic at Lockheed Georgia was able to quit his job and become a full time real estate investor after attending a two day seminar in Atlanta Georgia. 20 years experience as a distressed property acquisition specialist has earned him prestigious speaking engagements on the circuit with Donald Trump, Robert Kiyosaki, and Tony Robbins. His extreme knowledge and experience shines through as he will share about the subprime fallout and the future of the high rate of foreclosure in the nation today. You will learn about a “hidden market” and how to capitalize on the opportunity.
MBC Trust: specializes in raising private capital for residential and commercial real estate projects in Metro Atlanta and throughout the South Eastern United States. Our experience means we understand the needs of the modern day investor and create scenarios that provide excellent returns on investment capital.
Mary Ann Pine: Mary Ann Pine is the dynamic co-host of the "Real Estate Investing Hour" Radio Show which airs on Atlanta's LOVE 860 AM every Saturday morning at 10-11:00AM. Mary Ann is the former Managing Editor of "Smart Real Estate Investor Resource Guide" magazine. She began her investing career in the late 90's and currently mentors and educates new investors as they begin their adventure into real estate investing.

Ms. Pine believes that without a prosperity mentality and belief system, achieving success may be much more difficult to achieve. She will explain step by step how to script your life for success.
Plus more speakers including Sherry Harrison, Donna Buckner, Alex Nghiem, LaTonya Brooks!!