About Us

 Our Core Team

Stephen Saker has enjoyed a diverse career in sales and general management with a variety of US and UK firms. He has worked in Europe, Latin America and the US, and speaks fluent Spanish. As Executive Vice President of International Assets for almost 20 years, he played an important early role in helping this Orlando-based financial services firm grow from a start-up of 5 employees to the multi-million dollar global enterprise that it is today. Previously, as President & CEO of American International Services (Miami), he led an organization which partnered with the Andry Montgomery Organization (London) in the production and staging of industrial trade shows focused on Latin America. As VP of Sales (Latin America) for Wolseley, a large UK enterprise manufacturing agricultural & industrial equipment, he pioneered the opening of Latin American markets for the firm. Of late, (2006 – 2009) Stephen has focused his interests on the world of entrepreneurs. He has participated as an investor in a diverse collection of young companies and, in a number of cases, has lent his managerial and sales talent to the growth of these businesses. He has been an active participant and board member of Winter Park Angels, a group of private investors in the Central Florida area.

Dan Stout is an experienced executive with a focus on general management and senior sales management. Dan’s career started in a small family distribution business where his hands-on approach to business management was founded. After successfully selling the family business, Dan moved on to sales management at the national level. He recruited, trained and directed both company employed and independent sales forces for some of the nation’s top building product brands such as MasterBrand Cabinets, a division of Fortune Brands, and the Kohler Company’s cabinetry division, based in Toronto, Canada. For the last decade Dan has been at the CEO level, from small ESOP companies to more well-known businesses such as Viking Cabinetry Group, a division of Viking Range. With each executive assignment the focus was on driving efficient daily operations and building aggressive growth strategies for both the top and bottom lines. Dan’s solid history across a variety of businesses brings a strong background in the daily operations of growth-oriented businesses. Dan understands the intricacies of balancing real-life cash flow challenges with the desire for rapid growth.

Rick Parks is a technology entrepreneur with a proven history of building and selling software companies. His early career included senior technical positions with companies like Chrysler Corporation and Abbott Laboratories. Rick’s first start-up, Intec Systems Corporation, was a break-through concept for sales automation, capturing marquee customers including American Home Products, Kimberly Clark, Bristol-Myers and Digital Equipment Corporation. Intec was acquired by Symantec in 1994 to integrate features into its best-selling ACT! software. In 1995 Rick founded Endeavor Software, Inc., to develop a sales process management system incorporating Solution Selling® and endorsed by Solution Selling® author, Michael T. Bosworth. In just two years, Endeavor was acquired by a publicly traded consulting firm as the platform for its sales process reengineering practice. Soon after, Rick started his third company, SalesWare Corporation, which was acquired in 2000 by Front Range Solutions (Goldmine). In following years, he created and exited two additional companies; Elemental Surfaces, LLC and Neulio, Inc. Most recently, Rick was interim CEO of NurseTogether, LLC, an on-line community for nurses. Rick also works with the University of Central Florida as an Entrepreneur Coach at the UCF Venture Lab, and as an Entrepreneur in Residence at the UCF Incubator, where he mentors young companies on their way to success.