Career in: Sales and Marketing for over 10 years. Started Senior Work Solutions in 2008 as co-founder and President.

Best attributes in business:  The BLT… Believable, Likeable and Trustworthy.

How do you measure the company’s success? Since we started SWS I think we have already been successful…in the people we have met, the customers we have helped, and with everyone who truly believes in what we are doing. However, I will know that we have been truly successful when I am able to give a college scholarship to a high school graduate who has had kidney failure or kidney related disease. This is in memory of Rick Jenkins.(see behind the butterfly)

Education and your biggest influence: School of hard knocks, and my mom.

Advice to the next generation: “Find something that you love and are passionate about and just do it. My mom always says ‘leap and the net will appear.’ It can be scary out there but if you have drive, passion, and peace about whatever it is you are doing, you will not fail.”

Career in: Twenty years in enterprise sales and management selling technology solutions including client-server and web-based software, hardware, and services. Successful track record in start-up environments and taking new products into new markets with profitable results. Founder of Dream Jobs Inc. in 2006.

Best attributes in business: Visionary, planning, communicating, motivating, executing and getting the job done with resourcefulness and creativity.

How do you measure the company’s success? When we are delivering superior products at fair prices, growing revenue and profits, keeping happy customers, and giving back to the community…all while having a lot of fun.

Education and your biggest influence: BA in Psychology with honors: University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), coursework in Ph.D. program: Organizations and Strategy – School of Management, UTD. My mom and two former bosses have had the greatest impact on me.

Advice to the next generation: “Have a great attitude while doing your best work with integrity; what you produce today is only preparation for the next best thing.”