Getting Deals Done with Patrick A. Howell

It is said that excellence is a habit rather than a destination.  Also, that you are what you do consistently.   If that is true, then Ruth Carter who just won her second academy award for Best Costume Design for the film "Wakanda, Forever", is the epitome of excellence.  She won the first award in 2018 with Wakanda's predecessor, "Black Panther".  She was also nominated for Spike Lee's Malcolm X in 19...

Bob Unnold has led several startups, including two in Stamford: Axxun, which created a platform for software developers to compress the amount of time needed to delivery applications; and I3 Mobile, which created a subscription-based service delivering news to mobile phones. I3 Mobile held an $82 million initial public offering of stock in 2000.

His newest endeavor is Atendit which sells wireless tags that, when linked to ...

Dennis Ngyen is the CEO of Society Pass - an e-commerce company, traded on the NASDAQ, headquartered in Orange County and offices in 7 cities including Singapore, Ho Chi Mihn, Bangkok, Hanoi and Jakarta.  Society Pass is building the next generation of loyalty and data-focused marketing.   It is an ecosystem of technology-enabled companies working together to change how consumer and merchants interact with one another.  Think of it...

"Social Responsibility" is all but a catch phrase in American corporate lingo.  In this Part II episode, PepsiCo's Derek Lewis, President of Multicultural Business and Equity Development for PepsiCo Beverages North America, provides insight into a first-rate business IQ, and spells out how profit-driven corporations will not propel transformational change with money alone.  He uniquely understands that it will take n...

The first African American PepsiCo employees were hired in the 1940s.  Maryann Bond and Allen McKellar, Jr. were hired by PepsiCo's CEO Walter S. Mack to market Pepsi Cola to African American communities.  In 2021, Derek Lewis was promoted from within the ranks of PepsiCo to President of Multicultural Business and Equity Development for PepsiCo Beverages North America.  A Pepsi tradition of corporate social responsibility resu...

Solomon Tedla is an impact investor, entrepreneur and pioneer working to help end energy poverty in Africa.  Africa is the new emerging market of the world. Over a decade ago, it was BRIC - Brazil, Russia, India and China.  With many of those powers more mature, they are now global leaders in business and leadership and Africa has become the land of exponential opportunity.  Africa will provide the astute investor with more bang fo...

Darrell K. Williams is a retired three-star general who is now the President of his alma mater Hampton University.  He is also a former Vice President and Managing Director of Leidos, a Fortune 250 technology company where he provided global logistical support to U.K. military forces. Williams is a tried-and-true leader whose greatest assignment as a leader, commander and director may very well be in front of him with the Hampton, ...

Aaron Chang is a visionary photographer and fine artist. His photography and fine art has generated tens of millions in revenues working with premiere national brands as Apple, Google, Mercedes Benz, ViaSat Satellites and any number of hospitals. As a true visionary, Aaron is able to see into the higher realms of human potential and possibility. As a business man, he walks the fine and often challenging line between the inspired wo...

A "deal" is so much more than just a business transaction. In his new column for The Coast News, local business leader Patrick Howell explores what it means to really "get deals done" and why those deals are especially significant in the North County San Diego region. In this interview, Patrick Howell shares his motivations behind the Getting Deals Done initiative, which includes his column in The Coast News as ...

How does a passion for comics, James Bond films and music become a career for a senior executive in Hollywood?  In this episode, we learn the fine art form of Getting Deals done under the mega wattage of tinsel town's bright lights.

Michael Stradford is a senior Warner Brothers executive who is a producer and executive director on projects as Matt Reeve's Batman and the Dwayne Johnson's Black Adam.  he has p...

Who’s behind films like “Schindler’s List” and “Scent of a Woman” or “American Gangster” and “Inside Man?” How about “Erin Brockovich” and “Yentl?” Even “Do The Right Thing” and “Rocky III and IV” or “Ray?” 

The trailblazer and film publicist … Roz Stevenson. 

April is Black Women's History Month and for every Maya Angelou, Angela Bassett, and Ava DuVernay, there are millions of women who have done the work f...

Millennials and Generation Z will alter the very nature of reality with enterprises in industries as varied as crypto currency, cannabis, space travel, the metaverse, artificial intelligence and investors who are increasingly applying nonfinancial metrics of Environmental, Social and Governance considerations in how they deploy their capital.

The nature of capitalism itself is evolving from a ruthless 0 sum game to one wh...

Delilah Panio's expertise is helping entrepreneurs access capital to dreams builders, entrepreneurs and business impresarios. As VP of Capital Formation for the Toronto Stock Exchange, she works with US companies considering listing financing in the Canadian capital markets (TSX). By the end of 2021, the total market capitalization of those companies listed on the TSX and TSXV (TSX Venture Exchange) reached CDN $4.0 trillion t...

This is the debut of the Getting Deals Done Mastermind Forum where we look at a larger cosmic picture and identify  opportunities based upon information gleaned from past episodes.  In this case, we note trends by Fortune 500 companies as Viasat Satellite Communications and Newport Beach's Alhambra Technologies with manufacturing in Bahir, Ethiopia. 

The Africa insurance market reached a value of US $70 Billion in 202...

This Black History Month and on Super Bowl LVII, we celebrate a champion and pioneer in the truest sense of the words.

Since 1974, Tim Reid has both starred and guest starred as a venerable who's who of the small screen. From The Richard Pryor Show to WKRP in Cincinnati to Simon and Simon and Snoops or That 70s Show, he has acted, produced, directed, and created himself into a cult classic iconoclast over several of t...

The best storytelling the world has ever known requires several tentpoles:  Authenticity, Outcome, Consistency, a Clear Agenda, a Flair or Perspective and Involving the Audience in the world of the Story. This coming year, Master storyteller Tim Reid will demonstrate a certain mastery of not only the artform but the business of storytelling with his new Legacy of a People platform (LGCYTV) set to debut globally. In this episode of ...

Mobolaji Olambiwonnu, an auteur, has helmed “Ferguson Rises” is a documentary film about the inspiring story of the residents of Ferguson, Missouri, a small town that has suffered the loss of “gentle giant” Mike Brown.  The film won the Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award, debuted to a worldwide audience on PBS, and Mobolaji has been traveling the nation and world to talk about the film which has been mentioned in an extremely com...

Viasat’s satellite systems is a global communications company with a market cap of $4.12B based in Carlsbad, California. In our interview, CEO Richard Baldridge views his role more as a chief enabling  officer versus chief visionary  officer. 

Viasat’s prized commodity is not its multi-billion dollar satellite communications assets and ground infrastructure but the priceless quality of the lives of more than 6,000 employe...

Bruce Craven is a novelist, screenwriter and maverick who lives in the Palm Springs Desert.  His last book, “Win or Die: Leadership Secrets from Game of Thrones”, Bruce Craven brilliantly analyzes the journeys of the best and worst leaders in Westeros, so that leaders can create their own narratives of success.  His newest idea is “outlaw leadership” as an essential component of American leadership and business success.  He analyze...