About Me

I am an expert funding strategist who has helped entrepreneurs and organizations around the globe to secure millions of dollars in funding to help them grow and prosper. Using a unique methodology that I developed, I work with my clients to develop a step-by-step funding action plan that builds a bridge between their vision and their financial goals. Using this model, I have obtained more than $127 million for my clients, with $7.8 million in funding secured just in October 2012. For more than 15 years, I have helped public- and private-sector clients around the globe to secure the funds they need to achieve their goals. I have worked with individual entrepreneurs, start-ups, small businesses, large businesses, multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations, tribes, and governmental agencies of every type, helping them all to make their visions a reality. My 360-degree model can position any type of business, organization or agency to obtain the funding it needs through grants, traditional loans, crowdfunding, venture capital, angel investors, and even non-traditional funding models. I am the author of Business Grants: Everything You Need to Know to Connect with Local, State and Federal Grants for Business and speak at conferences, workshops and events throughout the year. Most recently, I was a featured speaker at the Tribalnet Conference (technology) in San Diego, New Energy Capital Summit in San Francisco, Pacific West Biomass Conference in San Francisco, and the Entrepreneurial Bootcamp presented by the Cambridge Innovation Center (an innovation incubator) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I write for a number of publications including TribalNet Magazine and the Charity Channel and have been featured in dozens of articles and television news shows across the United States and internationally. Part of my in-depth understanding of the reasons why some projects or companies get funded and others don’t stems from my work as a professional reviewer of funding proposals for a diverse range of programs including: Rural Utilities Service; Department of Education; Department of Health and Human Services; Administration for Native Americans; Florida Department of Education; Community Development Block Grant program and more. I know first-hand what those who hold the purse strings look for when determining which projects get funding and which get tossed aside. Highlights of my accomplishments include: 1) Helped a startup to obtain $9.3 million to commercialize a new technology 2) Secured $1.1 million to fund an innovative biomass demonstration project for a California start-up company 3) Obtained $3 million to fund a tribal economic development project 4) Assisted a state government in obtaining $7.7 million to fund a telecommunications project 5) Two years in a row, I wrote the only Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Community Connect funding proposal awarded to a tribal entity in 2011 and 2012 (each year only 16 about proposals were funded nationally out of more than 600 proposals received), securing individual awards in excess of $1 million each. In the last round of funding, out of more than 600 proposals reviewed, my proposal was the only one that unanimously received a perfect score from every reviewer Besides the United States, I have worked in Colombia, Perú, Switzerland, Spain, United Kingdom and Germany