Being self employed since college in 2002. I've owned and operated multiple mortgage companies, and have experienced both success and failure. I was instrumental in orchestrating a merger of Family Finance Mortgage with a local real estate professionals to become Chapel Hill Mortgage. I managed a staff of as many as 20 employees, and in 2010 created an acceleration loan to help navigate my company through the financial crisis .

Jesse Bodine managed a team of of 51 sales associates as a regional VP for Arbonne International from 2004 - 2010. She hit nearly $1 Million in sales in consecutive years in 2006 & 2007. In 2011 she started the Scout & Nimble blog and grew the following to nearly 300,000 unique monthly visitors by 2012. Her experience as a designer and blogger is the perfect combination for realizing the needs of these core influencers.

A former communications professor at the University of Missouri, I've been involved with four successful start-ups and eCommerce product launches, where I was responsible for sales, marketing and product/business development. I've been a consultant for the last 8 years specializing in marketing and big data analytics. Most recently, I served as the Chief Data Scientist and National Data Strategy Solution Lead for RBA Consulting.