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.
Rick Galasieski : Senior Vice President and Board Member
Mr. Galasieski is an experienced executive and has successfully launched numerous technology and Internet companies. Prior to joining Bank Freedom, Mr. Galasieski founded Epic Results, Inc., a digital media marketing firm specializing in driving keyword targeted traffic to web properties.
Previously, Mr. Galasieski co-founded EdgeFocus, Inc., which was acquired by Wireless Logix Group, a leading supplier of Wi-Fi services to multi-dwelling units (MDUs) across the Southwestern United States. He served as their Vice President of Operations and Strategic Development and played an instrumental role in the vision and development of the company and its day-to-day operations.
Prior to EdgeFocus, Inc., Mr. Galasieski co-founded Broadband Digital Group, Inc. He was instrumental in growing this company from its inception to over 200 employees, which was acquired by Winfire, Inc., and grew to the number six broadband company in the United States at the time. The company had over 50,000 active DSL subscribers and over 500,000 desktop software clients when the subscriber base was sold off to the regional bell operating companies. He received his BS in Marketing from Arizona State University.
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