Financial Planning

Darren Sugiyama is an entrepreneur, nationally recognized motivational speaker and an internationally acclaimed author. His published works include "Living Outside The Cubicle - The Ultimate Success Guide For The Aspiring Entrepreneur," “How I Built A $37 Million Insurance Agency In Less Than 7 Years” and "The Icon Effect" to name a few. He has built several successful companies in multiple industries and has delivered keynote speeches to multi-billion dollar companies like Aflac, Colonial Life, and UNUM. Darren’s bluntness, non-nonsense style and candid approach makes his work that much more engaging and inspiring to entrepreneurs all over the world.

Jon Swire is one of the nation’s leading real estate professionals and author of “There’s No Free Lunch in Real Estate”, which details simple tools and strategies to create life-changing wealth. Jon also teaches Real Estate Investment Analysis at UCLA Extension, as well as offering speaking and mentoring services to help real estate investors secure their financial futures. Since 2002, Jon has helped clients buy and sell over 500 apartment buildings in excess of $1BB in value throughout the United States. Jon has bought and sold over 40 properties for his own portfolio and overseen the rehab of 1,000+ units in the past 5 years. He holds an M.B.A. from the Anderson School at UCLA and a B.S. in engineering from Northwestern.

Joe Coyne is a Venture Capitalist focused on helping entrepreneurs scale their businesses from day one to exit. Joe’s experience spans Venture Capital, Private Equity and Investment Banking, having started his career on Wall Street and transitioned to finding his passion for investing at Bain Capital Ventures, Samsung Electronics, and now as Managing Partner of Studio VC. Additionally, Joe studied Finance at the University of Wisconsin and earned an MBA at Harvard Business School. Joe is passionate about helping startups founders and mentoring young professionals looking to break into venture capital as a career.

Scott Ford is a Partner at Zigzag Ventures, empowers early-stage entrepreneurs to unlock their full potential through funding, AI, and a network of experts. With the AI-driven platform gozigzag.com, he enables entrepreneurs to create complete business validation roadmaps in under two minutes. Formerly the COO of Techstars, Scott expanded the accelerator to 50+ annual programs in 30+ cities across 13 countries, growing the portfolio from <$10B to over $160B. He presently teaches entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and has served as a company mentor and advisor for over a decade.