Influencer Blueprint Show

Nellie Akalp is a serial entrepreneur, small business advocate, and the Founder and CEO of CorpNet, a leading business formation and compliance service that has helped hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs start and maintain their businesses across all 50 states.
With over two decades of experience in the incorporation industry, Nellie has built multiple successful companies focused on simplifying the startup process for busin...

Sebastian Sanders, widely known as "The Youth Principal," is an author, educator, speaker, and entrepreneur dedicated to advancing economic mobility through youth development and community innovation. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, he is the founder of Sanders Hand, a nonprofit that has impacted over 5,000 youth and college students across the U.S. and Ghana through financial literacy, leadership, and digital education. In 2024...

Bridger Pennington is a fund manager, entrepreneur, and co-founder of multiple investment funds dedicated to making private investing more accessible. In 2019, he co-founded Fund Launch, an incubator helping emerging managers launch and grow investment funds. Today, the platform has more than 141,000 users and has helped launch 390 funds representing over $7.1 billion in reported AUM. In 2026, Bridger co-founded Fund Launch AI, an ...

Raphael Lavin is a seasoned financial executive and entrepreneur with deep expertise in financial and credit analysis, leasing, and enterprise risk management. His experience spans operating a private equipment leasing company where he oversaw credit structuring, pricing, collections, and litigation—giving him a comprehensive understanding of multiple industries.

He began his career in a fourth-generation family-owned metals ...

Frank Tumminello is the founder of FileForms, a company focused on simplifying business compliance and filing requirements for entrepreneurs and companies across the U.S. With a strong background in business operations and regulatory processes, Frank has helped streamline how businesses stay compliant with state and federal requirements. Through FileForms, he provides practical solutions that save business owners time, reduce risk,...

Based at J D Factors' Canadian head office in Mississauga, Ontario, Tina also oversees branch operations in Montreal, Calgary, and Halifax. Throughout her career, she has developed extensive expertise in commercial finance, factoring, portfolio management, and operational leadership.

In addition to her executive responsibilities, Tina has served on the 
Advisory Board of the International Factoring Association, contributin...

Chris Johnsen combines a dual JD/MBA with real-world entrepreneurial experience to deliver a powerful, business-first approach to legal strategy. With a background spanning advertising, retail, and real estate, he brings practical insight that goes beyond traditional legal counsel. 

Chris is known for translating complex legal concepts into clear, actionable guidance while maintaining the negotiation strength and precision cli...

Dan Negroni has coached 30,000+ Gen Z employees directly, and teaches 200+ of them live every semester — so what he bring isn't theory, it's pattern recognition from the ground and the classroom. The research base behind the work spans 400,000+ participants.

Business owners are hiring Gen Z every day and losing them just as fast — not because of pay or perks, but because of a coaching gap most leaders don't see. That ga...

Mark Dusseau is the technical co-founder of StarterStack.ai, a profitable, bootstrapped enterprise AI company based in Atlanta. StarterStack builds the operating system for private capital, deploying on-premise AI agents that automate underwriting and monitor portfolio risk in real time for non-bank lenders scaling from $50M to $500M.

Before StarterStack, Mark was a data scientist and product leader. He started his career at Ernst ...

Duane Youngblood, known as The Success King, is the founder of Bizstart Group Inc. and creator of the CBL Wealth Blueprint. He spent 18 months studying consumer credit law to fix his own credit from scratch, then built a system that has helped over 7,000 entrepreneurs improve their credit, build fundable businesses, and access capital. With 37 years in credit and business funding, Duane teaches entrepreneurs exactly how to go from ...

Rob is the Vice President and Founder of Smarter Finance USA, an equipment financing firm dedicated to helping small and mid-sized businesses secure the capital they need to purchase equipment and grow. With more than 20 years of experience in financial analysis, business valuation, and financial services, Rob founded the company to bring greater transparency and straightforward guidance to the equipment financing industry.

Rob com...

What if the way you've structured your business to save taxes or protect your assets today is actually making it harder to get funded, grow, or build wealth tomorrow? 

As business owners we may find ourselves thinking about about entity structure, taxes, business credit, funding, and asset protection as separate decisions. The reality is that these pieces are deeply connected—and the decisions we make early on can either...

Eric is a business finance professional with Solutions Financial Services, where he helps business owners secure customized funding solutions to support growth, acquisitions, equipment purchases, and working capital needs. Through his work, Eric partners with entrepreneurs across a wide range of industries, helping them navigate the lending landscape and access the capital necessary to achieve their goals.

With extensive experience...

Donald Brown, Founder of Beacon Business Capital, is a strong fit for your guest lineup because his expertise spans nearly the full range of lender categories. Through Beacon Business Capital, he works across SBA loans, working capital, MCA, revenue-based lending, invoice factoring, equipment leasing, commercial real estate financing, bridge loans, startup funding, and franchise financing.

This makes him especially valuable as a gu...

Laura Ries is a globally recognized brand strategist, bestselling author, and leading authority on positioning. As the Chairwoman of RIES, the consulting firm she co-founded with her father, marketing pioneer Al Ries, she has spent over three decades helping companies define their brands, dominate their categories, and achieve long-term growth through strategic positioning.

Laura is the co-author of several influential marketing cl...

Candice Frazer is the revenue efficiency strategist and founder of AlphaRev, a firm that helps established businesses systematically increase revenue across retention, expansion, referrals, win-backs, and lost deals. Frazer works with CEOs, CFOs, and operators in professional services and industrial organizations to help them capture more value from their existing customers, partners, and pipeline.

With more than 20 years of experi...

Peter Ribeiro is a seasoned entrepreneur, business finance expert, and Founder & CEO of Capital Gurus, a fintech platform dedicated to simplifying and accelerating access to business capital. Under his leadership, Capital Gurus has developed innovative lending technology that enables businesses across the United States to receive fast funding decisions and access capital efficiently.

Prior to Capital Gurus, Peter founded and sc...

Henry Magun is the CEO and co-founder of Hansa, a company he launched in 2023 to help businesses grow through innovative technology solutions. Prior to founding Hansa, Henry was a venture capital investor at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), where he focused on early-stage enterprise technology companies and supported founders through investment and board involvement. He also served as the New York Chapter Lead for EVCA and gained e...

John is a highly respected leader in the alternative finance industry, bringing more than 17 years of experience building, scaling, and optimizing high-performing sales and funding organizations. 

Throughout his career, he has successfully launched over seven sales organizations and co-founded two funding companies, including one that achieved a successful exit at five times EBITDA and another that continues to fund more than ...