Team

Omar Nagy

Location: Las Vegas

Career Experience: Legal, Contract Law, Business Law, M&A

Experience And Industry Summary:

Prior to attending law school, Omar was a commercial real estate banker for approximately seventeen years. Omar assisted in financing projects in Nevada, California, Utah, Arizona, and Washington by analysing projects and reviewing trust agreements, leases, syndication documents and other loan- related documents. During the great recession, Omar had an opportunity to work as a special asset officer in the commercial real estate department of a regional bank. As a special assets officer, apart from analyzing the financial side of the project, Omar got more involved in the risk assessment side of banking during which time he was in constant communication with clients and attorneys to minimize losses.

While Omar was successful in his previous career, he felt that his calling was more toward the legal side of banking and finance rather than sales and attended the William S. Boyd School of Law. Following graduation from law school, Omar left the banking sector to pursue a career as a transactional attorney.

Following graduation from law school, Omar left the banking sector to pursue a career as a transactional attorney. Since that time, he has worked for national and regional firms, where he represented clients in contract, banking, real estate, and acquisition matters.

In his time away from the office, Omar enjoys spending time with his family, traveling, and playing golf.

Areas of Practice
Business Law
Banking and Finance Law
Real Estate Law
Contract Law
Mergers & Acquisitions
Corporate Law

Kasia Hein-Peters

Location: Las Vegas

Career Experience: 

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Jeffrey Garon

Jeffrey Garon

Location: Las Vegas

Career Experience: Results-driven entrepreneurial executive with diverse experience in management, managerial finance, analysis, forecasting, strategic planning, financial reporting, cost accounting, GAAP/IFRS, budgeting and operations.

Experience and Industry Summary: Investor Relations, Manufacturing, Finance

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Lorraine Yarde

Location: Reno

Experience And Industry Summary:

Lorraine is an accomplished C-level visionary with a 20+ year track of delivering operational excellence and successful execution for start-up/developing businesses, both public and privately held ventures.  Her well-rounded experience includes complete P&L responsibility, overseeing the full product development life cycle from concept to commercialization, manufacturing, distribution, sales and marketing, business development and using smart business savvy and creative deal terms to establish valuable business partnerships.  Her accomplishments including:

  • Raising over $50mil in early stage capital
  • Taking two companies public onto the OTC-QB marketplace
  • Spearheading and structuring SPAC up-list transactions with NASDAQ entities
  • Generated single product sales in excess of $40Mil
  • Overseeing global cross-functional teams of 1000+
  • Established multiple partnerships with Fortune 500/100 companies

As a rainmaker and thought-leader wrapped into one, Lorraine has the ability to roll up her sleeves and execute any task when required, as well as having proven success in building and managing productive, cross-functional team.  Lorraine has a particular flair for establishing and growing new ground floor opportunities into blossoming and successful businesses with revenue and positive EBITDA.   As a visionary and innovator of new technology, Lorraine was co-founder, COO and Director of Biometrx,  the first company to introduce the benefits of fingerprint technology to consumers, launching a variety of fingerprint-enabled products through national retail channels in the US and beating the likes of Apple and Samsung to the punch.    Today, Lorraine feeds her passion for growing new ventures as a consultant to start-up companies, helping them leverage technology, human capital and best practices to achieve their business goals.

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Neil Wu Becker

Location: Las Vegas

Career Experience: Marketing

Experience And Industry Summary: An award-winning, high-energy global Marketing leader with a penchant for establishing major-league marketing teams and devising strategic, creative integrated marketing plans to accelerate demand/pipeline for fast-growing tech companies. Proven management background in B2B enterprise marketing for pre-IPO, unicorn, SaaS, and public companies seeking to grow at scale. Forbes Councils member. Adviser and board member for fast-growing startups, helping them establish their brands and go-to-market strategies for exponential growth and maximum valuation.

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Derek Sidebottom

Location: Las Vegas

Career Experience: Business Model, Management, Operations

Experience And Industry Summary: Derek is a multi-industry 20+ year high growth HR executive with extensive scale-up, operating, consulting and HR Tech product advisory experience. His personal future of work passions include the use of AI/Machine learning in the workplace and accelerating manager productivity and performance when leading agile distributed teams.
With a degree in Psychology from L’Université d’Ottawa and an MBA from Canada’s Athabasca University, Derek splits his time between Las Vegas, Bay Area and Austin.

Mentor Jennifer Farris software consultancy company 1

Jennifer Farris

Location: Las Vegas

Career Experience: Business Model, Management, Operations

Experience And Industry Summary: Jennifer is a seasoned People Executive and Consultant. She has been a part of the technology start-up scene for almost 20 years and has worked with some of the Bay Area’s most notable organizations including Google, Kabam, Practice Fusion, Udemy and Flexport. She was the co-founder of Squadley, a team acceleration platform and Farside HR Solutions, a HR Consulting firm. She is currently the Chief People Officer of Terminal, a Talent Marketplace product that connects global engineers to opportunities in North America & Europe. She has her Masters from University of Edinburgh, Scotland and her BA/BS from Santa Clara University. A Bay Area native, Jennifer recently moved from Austin to Summerlin with her husband and 8-year old daughter.

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Tasha Robinson White

Location: Las Vegas

Career Experience: Business Model, Sales, Marketing

Experience And Industry Summary: I am a certified behavioral practitioner in DISC. I love helping people discover their superpowers. My background is in business coaching, event production and brand awareness & development.

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Bob Kelley

Location: Las Vegas

Career Experience: Business Model, Management

Experience And Industry Summary:

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Ron Ortiz

Location: Las Vegas

Career Experience: Finance, Accounting

Experience And Industry Summary: I am a business advisor specializing in helping small-business entrepreneurs develop and implement business, accounting, and tax strategies and goals to improve business growth and success. With a diverse background in accounting, management, business structures, taxation, and technology, I am well-suited to help business owners stay focused and on track. I know what it takes to build a business from the ground up because I’ve personally done it. Having built and managed a successful managed services company (MSP) for 15 years, I know what it takes to break thru to the next level.

In addition to my experience as a business owner, I have over 20 years experience in executive management roles in hospitality/gaming, entertainment, and technology. I hold a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and a B.S. in Business Administration. I am a licensed Enrolled Agent and CPA candidate specializing in proactive tax planning, tax compliance, and IRS representation for entrepreneurs. I am happily married for over 25 years to my incredible wife Kelly and we share a son and daughter. I enjoy watching professional baseball, working with kids, and traveling.