Cliff K. Locks
CEO | COO | Executive Consultant and Coach | Trusted Independent Board of Director | Governance | NextGen Expert | Author | SaaS | Clean Tech | PropTech | MarTech | AI | Supply Chain | Thoughtful ESG & DEI
Masters Professional Director, American College of Corporate Directors
Bachelor of Business Administration, Rochester Institute of Technology
Started 6 Companies, Successfully Exited 3, Currently Engaged in 3
Angel Investor in 20+ companies, 6 exits, 1 IPO, and no losses.
Managing Director of Investment Capital Growth (Worldwide Executive
Leadership Coaching to Founders, CEOs, and CXOs)
Founder and CEO/President of Millionaire Life Services (Executive
Leadership to Private Family Offices, Private Banking, and the VHNI & UHNI)
Founder and CEO/President of Reverse Logistics Solutions (Supply Chain Expert to the World’s Largest eCommerce Platform and Big Box Retailer and their Vendors)
Former Founder/CEO/President of International Automotive Showcase (Exit to Fortune 500)
Founder/CEO/President of Professional Sports Marketing (Exit)
Former Founder/CEO/President Locks Advertising Agency (Exit)
Held Senior Leadership Positions, the Majority of the Time as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing in American, German, and Japanese Owned Companies
Serve on Business Advisory Boards – Driving Profitability and EBITDA Growth, Creating Strategic Partnerships for Scaling for Hyper Growth, and Fundraising
Expert in Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Developing Executive and Emerging Leaders
Ash Singh
Professor of Entrepreneurship
Western University, Ivey Business School, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship: INSEAD, Wharton, MIT Sloan, Ivey Business School and Tsinghua
Started 4 Companies
CEO, Co-Founder and Professor of Entrepreneurship, Startup Ventures Pte. Ltd.
Founded First Company While Attending University Which Was Acquired at Age 22
Created “Angels Gate” the First Asian “Shark Tank” TV Show for Entrepreneurs with VC Judges
Reaching an Audience of 30 Million Viewers Across Asia
Founded Interactive SG, a Digital Media and New Business Accelerator
Co-Owner of Singapore Slingers Professional Basketball Team
Students from the INSEAD Entrepreneurs Course Launched 500 Companies Across 50 Countries
Recognized by Businessweek Magazine as “One of Asia’s Top Young Entrepreneurs” in 2009
Recognized by the Economic Times of Singapore as “One of Southeast Asia’s Leading Serial Entrepreneurs”
Passionate about teaching, inspiring and mentoring entrepreneurs to drive tech transformation.
Jeff Wellstead
Founder and CEO, Big Bear Partners, Ltd. PEOPLE STRATEGY AND TALENT ACCELERATOR FOR EARLY STAGE TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES (SAAS, AI, MACHINE LEARNING, CLIMATE TECH, BIOTECH)
35 years as a full-stack, global HR leader with Fortune 100 investment banking, professional services, technology and pharma sectors (Accenture, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, EDS/HP, Peoplesoft, and Novartis Pharmaceutical) - and the last 20 years providing end-to-end HR function builds to support hyper-growth technology start-ups and scale-ups to achieve exit or sustainable vision.
Prepared for and led acquisitions for Spinvox to Nuance Communications, Skype to Microsoft, MetaPack to Stamps.com, Oxford Nanoimaging, Summit Therapeutics and Humn.ai. in the UK and globally.
I provide leadership coaching and mentorship to entrepreneurial executives - and help them to navigate the maturation curve turbulence ahead to value realisation and speed, but with forethought and intelligence.
I work with exponential growth organizations to prepare for rapid hyper-growth across people, process and technology - providing superior cultural and employee value proposition stability, increasing attraction, selection, learning, performance and retention.