We're great bull sitters

Over the years we've given hundreds of presentations to thousands of people. Usually we even know what we're talking about.

Kate is an authority on small business management, finance, growth issues, and marketing. Her career experience includes 10 years in commercial lending with 2 of the nation's largest banks, 7 years developing business and financing plans for high and low-technology companies. She has owned and operated 3 successful businesses.

As part of consulting engagements, she's advised companies on management, finance, growth and succession strategies. On behalf of her clients she developed business plans that secured millions of dollars in debt and equity capital from private, government, and institutional sources.

A popular speaker on financing, financial management, and business planning, Kate has conducted hundreds of workshops and seminars including programs for the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Eastman Kodak, Corestates Bank, Unisys, and numerous associations.

Kate has served as an advisor and board member for entrepreneurial groups including the Wharton Small Business Development Center, the Temple University Entrepreneurial Institute, Drexel Entrepreneurial Forum, St. Joseph's University Entrepreneurial Program, and the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce Small Business Council.

Working with 5 banks and 2 government economic development agencies Kate helped create two innovative small business loan programs.

In recognition of her contribution to entrepreneurship she received the SBA's Business Advocate Of The Year Award, and was a finalist in the prestigious Inc. Magazine / Arthur Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award program.

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Tom started teaching in college, and polished his speaking and teaching style at the prestigious Department of Defense Computer Institute in Washington DC. Because many of the students were Admirals, Generals and supergrade civilian government executives, teachers were only allowed into classrooms after rigorous dry-runs and practice lectures. But that made it possible for him to teach, with confidence, every FBI 'Special Agent in Charge' in the U.S. about computer security, conduct a one-on-one course on computer telecommunications for the general in charge of the Army Communication Command, lecture on stuff we can't talk about for senior officials at the CIA and NSA, and teach hundreds of students about systems analysis, telecommunication, security and privacy, and information management for senior executives.

Later, as one of the senior scientists for a computer company, Tom's team of brilliant hardware and software developers conceived and tested the first U.S. home information service that used a TV and telephone to allow folks to download news, check out library books, pay bills, and look up articles in the first electronc encyclopedia. All this, of course, before personal computers and the internet. The project was internationally recognized and he made over 80 formal presentations on the project and its results.

As part of that research Tom became a member of the board of a national program on the use computers in education and delivered testimony on the topic at a congressional hearing, and later spoke at a White House conference.

Recently, Tom was selected as a volunteer for the NASA Solar System Ambassador program—although he preferred to call himself as a Space Evangelist. As part of that role he conceived, prepared and presented a walking tour of the solar system that allowed kids (and adults) to better appreciate the dimensions involved in space.

Both Kate and Tom have been involved in dozens of TV programs and radio shows and are very comfortable "in the spotlight." After all, they're practically legends in their own mind.