Chad MacKay is the cofounder and managing partner of Loyal Companies. Prior to joining Loyal Companies, Mr. MacKay was founder and managing partner of Kai Data Companies.

Mr. MacKay has been actively involved as a director with other companies and organizations. Among the boards on which he serves currently and in the past are: Loyal Companies, Revvu, Cumulus, Cumulus Advanced Technologies, Kai Data, Vulcan7, Espresso Agent, Team Leads, Bear River Management Group, Kai Insurance, Synergy Holdings, RAD, Loyal Technologies, Trustee for Chase N' Heaven and Brother's Keeper.

Mr. MacKay has been active in philanthropy supporting children and families that have physical and/or mental challenges. He continues to work individually with those families and individuals to provide resources, tools, equipments, but most importantly support for the specific needs the have.

Grant Hanson is SVP, Revenue and Strategic Partnerships at Loyal Companies where he oversees all sales, strategic partnerships, go to market strategy, revenue generation and marketing. Entrepreneurial in nature, Grant is an accomplished sales leader with proven success in sales coaching, methodologies, go to market strategy and tactics. He's trusted as a mentor, motivator, leader, strategic thinker, and relationship builder. He possesses an unmatched work ethic and competitive ambition while putting customers first. Grant focuses on SaaS, Business Intelligence, Analytics, Digital Marketing Solutions, Software, Media and Technology partnerships for Loyal Companies.

Mr. Hanson has more than 20 years of sales and entrepreneur endeavors including starting and leading his own companies to successful exits. Prior to joining Loyal Companies, Grant spent the last several years managing sales and strategic partnerships for DOMO, a publicly traded company. Among the boards on which he serves currently and in the past are: Loyal Companies, LinkTrust, Cumulus, MINDWISE, Ming Brands, Absolute Title Agency, Redrock Broadcasting and G Spring.

Grant has a zest for learning from the success stories of others and can often be found reading, listening to podcasts and sharing insights from these experts to emulate. Outside of work, Grant can be found either on the golf course, running trails or in the mountains with his family.

Mr. Heuges experience started in industrial manufacturing where he built national sales teams and international supply chains. Successfully negotiating multi-million dollar contracts with companies like Pentair Pool Products, Raytheon, Baxter International and projects with the LA Staples Center he has a unique insight to manufacturing & distribution. Thomas Heuges travels often including Asia, Mexico, Canada and throughout the USA to help negotiate deals between manufacturers, distributors, and fabricators.

Mr. Heuges has more than 20 years of direct investment, syndication, acquisition, recapitalization, growth, turnarounds, and management experience. He has held and successfully focused on marketing companies that are both on and offline that included TV, radio, billboard, print, and data. All supported with technology. Technology supported integration and management of data has allowed marketing the ability to build an omni-channel approach in every aspect of customer acquisitions. With this experience, Thomas continues to help entrepreneurs and their companies in marketing, growth, and strategic partnerships.

Thomas Heuges has honorably served in the United States Marine Corp. He currently enjoys spending time with his family, and the many sports they each play, off-roading, and camping. He volunteers his time with his church and with LinkedIn as a LinkedIn recognized expert; by request he often reviews entrepreneurs' websites, landing pages, marketing content and gives them advice on improvements that will help them grow.

Sam Brand's focus is to grow small businesses, start-ups, and non-profits by helping them with their sales, marketing, and capital needs.

Mr. Brand's expertise in networking and building relationships around the world with organizations both small and large has been a critical ingredient to the success he has had throughout his 18-year career. He has worked in multiple industries such as banking, software development, higher education, lending, and non-profits which has given him a unique understanding of best business strategies and executive leadership practices. With more than $150M in transactions, Sam brings immense operational experience.

Sam loves working with non-profits and his background in philanthropic fundraising for local and national non-profit organizations gives him a solid understanding and passion for helping those in need. He currently sits on the board of the OK Foundation and Mana 7 Charities and he works with One Heart Bulgaria and The Cache Community Food Pantry assisting them with their fundraising efforts.

James Nelson is the retired Chairman and CEO of Sunworks, Inc., a NASDAQ traded commercial, agriculture, and residential solar integrator which he helped found in October 2010. Mr. Nelson currently serves as a strategic advisor to 3 publicly traded companies.

Jim has spent most of his career working in private equity as a general partner with Peterson Partners and with Millennial Capital Partners. In addition to his investment and financial responsibilities, he served as CEO of two of his firms' portfolio companies.

Prior to his years in private equity, Mr. Nelson served as Vice President of Marketing at Banana Republic, where he managed company-wide marketing, as well as the company's international expansion initiative. He was also general manager for Banana Republic's catalog division. He was Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development at Saga Corporation, a multi-billion-dollar food service company.

Jim began his executive career over 35 years ago at Bain and Company, a business strategy consulting firm, where he managed teams of consultants on four continents.

He is currently serving on the board of directors of CoDiagnostics, Inc. a NASDAQ traded technology development company.

Mr. Nelson received his MBA from Brigham Young University, where he graduated summa cum laude and was named the Outstanding Master of Business Administration Graduate.

Mark F. Hulet, is presently practicing accounting as a Certified Public Accountant in South Jordan Utah. He is the President and founder of Hulet & Associates, PC, CPA's. Mark's career spans 38 years as a licensed CPA in California and Utah. His emphasis is on tax planning for businesses, individuals, estates, international finance, and trusts. He is also a Notary Public in the State of Utah.

Hulet and Associates, PC, CPA's was organized in 1981 and has been serving intermountain west for 34 years. The firm prides itself in providing professional services at a reasonable fee. The firm has had continued growth each year and has a diversified clientele.

Professional Affiliations: Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society, February 27, 1976; Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, May 25, 1977; California State Board of Accountancy (CPA’s), November 13, 1979; American Institute of CPA’s, October 31, 1980; California Society of CPA’s, January 1, 1981; Utah Association of CPA’s, April 22, 1981; State of Utah Department of Registration (CPA’s), February 9, 1976.

Education: Bachelors of Science in Accounting, University of Utah graduated Magna Cum Laude #1 in Class, December 16, 1976; post graduate education at Golden Gate University’s Master of Taxation

Other Interests: Mark is a director and co-founder of Seed Foundation that provides low-cost and no-cost housing for those who cannot afford adequate shelter. The Foundation is focused on third world countries.

John E. Wootton received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Weber State University and his Juris Doctor from Willamette University College of Law. Mr. Wootton was admitted to the Orgeon State Bar and the Utah State Bar in 2001. Mr. Wootton practiced law in Salem, Oregon until relocating to Sandy, Utah in 2004.

Mr. Wootton's practice areas include business creation, general business law, corporate law, and general litigation. Mr. Wootton was named by Utah Business Magazine as one of Utah's legal Elite in 2007 and 2009.

Mr. Wootton takes a common sense approach to the practice of law by helping his clients avoid common pitfalls through proactive planning. Whether through his vast experience in business creation or his unique approach to corporate maintenance, Mr. Wootton has developed systems that help his clients feel secure in their business activities and their personal lives. However, when planning isn't enough Mr. Wootton and his colleagues have plenty of experience protecting his clients through litigation.

Mr. Wootton is a dedicated Francophile, enjoying everything French. He is an avid reader and World War I history buff.

Trenton Romph is currently the head of marketing at a vc-backed SaaS startup called Blue Matador. He is an experienced tech marketer with fast growth companies.

Before Blue Matador Mr. Romph contributed to the fast growth of a Utah unicorn, Instructure. While there Trenton played an important role in bringing Instructure into new international regions and launching new products. He experienced the thrill of a startup going public from the front lines.

Mr. Romph has an MBA with an emphasis in technology commercialization from Westminster College. He graduated magna cum laude and scored in the 94th percentile on the ETS Major Field Exam. Outside of work Trenton is a successful real estate investor, and a blockchain and machine learning hobbyist.

Jami Stout is the co-founder of the Financial Marketing Summit, FinPub Business Accelerator, PendryCannon, Finance Influencers event series, RevenueTree, and DigifyAI.

Jami’s expertise is in tapping, bridging, and ultimately creating business-to-business ecosystems, most notably within the investor world. These B2B ecosystems can be used to generate corporate clients, strategic partnerships, partnership programs, and to open new markets for scalable distribution.

She has supported and provided funding for a number of non-profits, including Surround Sound Love, which supports abandoned and orphaned children in Tijuana, Mexico. She’s also actively involved in aiding the Kunda Village Kids Ministry which supports the education and development of children in Kunda Village, Rwanda.

Dom Shipley is currently a key Software Engineer at a SaaS start-up call Experlogix. He is an experienced Developer and Architect in highly growing companies.
Before Experlogix, Mr. Shipley has worked ten years as a Software Engineer and System Administrator. After a successful career assisting in the fast growth and Infrastructure design of other start-up companies, he has proven himself to work through the quick world of changing technology.

Mr. Shipley has received an Associates in Computer Science and is always studying the newest technologies, found through reading, instructional videos, and seminars, as well as classes by other professionals in the field.

Outside of work, Dom enjoys working on cars or designing and building technology-driven projects.

Omar Melo has over 20 years of investment banking, finance and operational experience, primarily in the tech, TMT, renewable energy, real estate, and financial services industries. Omar’s banking experience includes executing M&A, equity and debt capital raises, structured finance, tax equity, mortgage loan origination, workouts and restructuring.

Omar started his career on the buy-side as an equity research analyst with George Soros in Hong Kong and then the sell-side for Merrill Lynch in New York and Banc of America Securities in San Francisco. From there he transitioned to a series of start-ups and middle market firms holding various positions including co-Founder, EquityLock Financial and CFO & Treasurer, Hybridyne Power Systems.

Omar is currently Senior Vice President at Crewe Capital, a boutique middle-market focused investment bank with offices in New York City, Salt Lake City and Denver.

Omar received his Juris Doctorate and a B.S. in Accounting degree, both from Brigham Young University and is a native Spanish speaker.

David Antley is a 20+ year digital performance marketing and business development veteran. He began his career at the start of the digital boom by assisting in the launch of HoustonChronicle.com, the first online newspaper for the Hurst Corporation. David has made a career of being a digital pioneer playing influential roles at Yahoo, Broadcast.com, and Overture, the first pay-per-click search.

While with Broadcast.com, David worked with Mark Cuban to develop strategic partnerships with Yahoo and Intuit, leading to Yahoo Finance's creation. The relationship culminated with the sale of Broadcast.com to Yahoo.

David has founded and sold an affiliate marketing agency, managed multimillion-dollar media budgets, and developed relationships with large multinational brands. He grew Progrexion from $10M to over $100M in less than four years. His experience led him to develop a closed-loop platform for Revana winning a Stevie awarded for sales and marketing platform of the year.

Justin Heaton is a partner of Loyal Companies medical division. Prior to joining Loyal Companies, Mr. Heaton was a partner in Topco/Dentive a private equity medically focused DSO. While there, he helped grow the pharmaceutical and pediatric arms of the company contributing to a highly profitable and valuable business. His team led growth, retention, and branding that provided positive growth and margin increases year after year. During and prior to this, Mr. Heaton managed a pediatric dental and orthodontic practice.

Mr. Heaton earned a Bachelor's degree of Science before attending dental school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio where he earned his Doctorate of Dental Medicine degree. He received additional pediatrics training at a two-year residency at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. Between his time in Cleveland and his pediatric residency program in Kansas City, he served as a Captain in the United States Air Force for three years while stationed at Kadena Air Force Base in Okinawa, Japan. He is grateful to have served and deeply appreciates and values the privilege of being referred to as a military veteran.

Outside of work, Justin enjoys music, pickleball, reading, traveling, running and hiking throughout the Pacific Northwest with his wife and five boys.

Kevin A. Damoa is a servant leader, mechanical engineer, operations executive, inventor, master logistician, and veteran of the US military. He has developed technologies that have enabled the space exploration of mankind in our quest to be an interplanetary species, in addition to supporting the deployment of clean mobility solutions ranging from hydrogen powered airplanes to battery electric self-shifting bicycles. His career began in the US Army at age 17, where he served in South Korea for 2 years, before being forward deployed to Iraq with 3rd Armored Calvary Regiment. After departing the US Army after his 2nd tour in Iraq he joined the Air Force where he would serve as a Logistics Officer and firefighter supporting California’s MAFFS (Mobile Air Fire Fighting Systems) unit for 12 years before retiring in 2018.

From April 2012 to November 2015, Mr. Damoa served as the Flight Module Logistics Manager at SpaceX, developing their logistics systems, programs, and designing and deploying the shipping apparatus used to transport the Rocket from production to launch site. After a brief 1 year term at Northrop Grumman where he served as an Integration Program Manager on the F35 fighter jet platform, he would then go on to work as an executive and early founding employee at start-ups; Romeo Power (Vice President, Industrialization), XOS Trucks (Vice President, Supply Chain & Operations), Canoo (In Charge of Logistics, Sustainment, Safety), and Serial 1 Cycle/Harley Davidson (Vice President, Operations) where he led product development and design, manufacturing deployment, and product launches.

His most recent entrepreneurial venture is as co-Founder & CEO of Glīd Technologies. Glīd is developing a clean energy road to rail vehicle utilizing autonomous technologies. He also serves as the Chairman and CEO of Genesis Electronics Group, Inc. which is focused on autonomous technology solutions and their global deployment.

Mr. Damoa holds an MBA in Project Management from Keller Graduate and a MS in Mechanical Engineering from Embry Riddle Aeronautical. He enjoys mentoring youth and veterans, reading, drawing/painting, playing the guitar and singing, dancing, designing and building custom race cars and airplanes, supporting disruptive deep tech, residential construction, and spending quality time with family and loved ones.

Erik Jensen is a seasoned technology entrepreneur with a passion for building and scaling innovative platforms and technology-based businesses. He brings a deep background in software engineering and architecture, with extensive hands-on experience leading large-scale deployments in both hyperscale cloud environments and traditional data centers. Since founding his first startup in 2002, Erik has launched and led multiple companies, consistently driving product vision, technical execution, and long-term platform strategy.

Erik is the current acting CEO of NR1E, Inc. and Global CEO of TrueMark Technologies, Inc., an AWS Advanced Tier Partner. At NR1E, he leads the development of enterprise-grade platforms focused on solving foundational infrastructure challenges across authentication, communication, AI, and payments—each engineered to meet the performance, security, and compliance demands of modern businesses. At TrueMark, he oversees globally distributed engineering teams across the U.S., South Africa, Germany, and India, delivering secure and scalable cloud solutions for enterprise clients. Across both companies, Erik’s leadership is grounded in engineering excellence, deep architectural ownership, and a commitment to building durable, high-leverage platforms.

In addition to technical leadership, Erik brings strategic experience in building effective sales channels and go-to-market strategies tailored to complex technical products. He has worked closely with internal sales teams, independent sales organizations (ISOs), and strategic partners to position new technologies in the market, drive adoption, and generate sustained growth. His unique combination of deep technical expertise and market-oriented execution allows him to bridge the gap between product development and commercial success.

Chase Kelly is the cofounder and COO of Wind IQ. Prior to the creation of Wind IQ, Mr. Kelly cofounded Converge Capital Partners LLC.

Mr. Kelly has seen other leadership successes throughout his business career in operations and as a Sales Executive. Winning multiple awards throughout his career.

Mr. Kelly actively volunteers in his community by being a youth sports coach as well as a district president in the nation's largest privately held football conference. Additionally, he is an eagle scout and has achieved the highest honors presented by the Boy Scouts of America.