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 cofounder and CEO of SparkRockets.com, a global innovation platform that empowers entrepreneurs to build and launch quickly. Using their AI-powered platform (SparkRockets), they enable entrepreneurs to build an entire business validation roadmap in less than two minutes. Prior to SparkRockets, Scott was the COO of Techstars, where he led the organization’s accelerator footprint expansion to 50+ programs in 30+ cities in 13 countries across four continents. Annually deploying over $50M in investment capital across 500+ early-stage companies, the Techstars portfolio grew from <$10B to over $160B during Scott’s tenure. Scott and his family live in Boulder, Colorado where he also teaches entrepreneurship at CU Boulder.