Bruce Berman: Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors
Mr. Berman was nominated by Sprint® for the Ernst & Young "Entrepreneur of the Year Award" for a technology incubator he founded in 1999 and took public in 2000. Mr. Berman has numerous successful entrepreneurial ventures throughout his 30 year career. At the age of 23, he started his first venture which was financing business startups. In the mid 1980’s before he was 30, he had a vision of bringing wind energy to California. Not only was he a co-founder of the San Gorgonio Wind Energy Association, he also co-founded or purchased several companies within the industry including a NASD licensed broker dealer, a licensed construction company and a manufacturing facility which in a few short years employed over 100 staff.
Mr. Berman has beneficially owned 50% or more of two NASD licensed broker dealers. In that capacity as well as a corporate officer and as a consultant Mr. Berman has been involved in the capital raising for several companies and their ultimate public status.
Recently, Mr. Berman is the author of the Aggressive Wealth® Financial Empowerment Program. With over 3,000,000 CD’s in circulation, he is also the author of the book, “I Got Here. You Can Too!”®, which is a book on how to start, fund and run companies with over 500,000 copies in print. Mr. Berman continues to demonstrate his skills at direct marketing and building businesses.

Robert Christiansen: Chief Operating Officer and Director
Mr. Christiansen is a 25-year veteran of the technology industry. Prior to joining Bank Freedom, Mr. Christiansen operated several successful Internet retail operations (as both owner and consultant) from 2002 – 2006. In 1998, Mr. Christiansen launched the Southern California operations of All Bases Covered, Inc, a professional consulting company focused on small business technology services. Mr. Christiansen grew the western region of All Bases Covered from 10 to 400+ employees in 10 western states. From 1986 to 1998 Mr. Christiansen held various positions including VP of Consulting Services for Artios Corporation, a technology provider for then international paper industry.

John Weber, Jr.: Head of Prepaid Card Holdings, Inc. Accounting Advisory Board
From 2002 until 2008 Mr. Weber served as a Corporate Auditor / Investigator for Boeing. At Boeing, Mr. Weber focused his efforts on financial reporting compliance, working with various segments of the company and both the Law and the Ethics divisions to provide assessments of risk, financial controls, and the effectiveness of the corporate governance of the company. In particular, he has spent much of his time at Boeing working specifically with compliance with the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley, including creating and monitoring Boeing’s internal controls over financial reporting, and verifying the truth and accuracy of financial statement assertions. He also has extensive experience in the preparation of public company financial statements, including forecasts.
Mr. Weber received a Masters of Business Administration in Finance from Pepperdine University, and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Gonzaga University. He is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of California.
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