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GBI

Future Sight - Smart Vision Creating Economic Opportunities, Communities and Business

GBI is a CA non-profit corporation established in 1991 in partnership with Loyola Marymount University’s College of Business Administration. GBI is a Strategic Thinkubator (Think and do Tank) Organization and IC2 Global Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. The mission of Global Business Incubation, Inc. (“GBI”) is to promote the development and growth of urban enterprises through business incubation and cooperative strategies. GBI serves as a facilitator of diverse projects. These include teaching factories, business incubators, neighborhood cooperatives, job training programs, youth training and entrepreneurial programs, and technology innovation. Collectively, these provide a synergistic approach to reviving the urban small business community. Global Business Incubation is a nonprofit that researches, develops and implements successful business incubation strategies to grow and develop urban enterprises. GBI Systems is the portal interface for our managed services. Here you will find the tools and the access to our systems for startup, incubation, acceleration, expansion and development. Our library contains our document repository and links to aid in R&D, education, marketing, sales, law and other aspects of business. Our tools include cloud services, IaaS, PaaS, VOIP, Teleconferencing, Telecommute and other systems our managed services include for the consortium’s use.

GBI Team

Tonia McDonald

President
She is Co-Founder of two West Coast Business Incubation Associations and the Southern California Economic Alliance. Tonia is committed to the EMERALD VETERANS Project, a veteran lead innovative virtual and physical business incubator model for Veterans and under-served community businesses. The program has a physical location in Los Angeles.

Paul McDonald

Chief Research Officer and Co-founder
Over a 35 yrs – benchmarked the blueprints of successful entrepreneurs, corporations, business incubators, cooperatives, teaching and testing factories, economic development programs, and community and business wealth creation models and systems used around the world including: Sunkist Corporation, Control Data Corporation, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, , The Ben Franklin Partnership, and The Austin Technology Incubator

Phillip Brown

Executive Director
He became Executive Director after serving for more than 10 years on the Board of Directors. In this capacity, he launched a GBI Youth and Young Adult Event Planning Incubator pilot project in an underserved community in San Diego. This project created a business support system with the participants while providing them with hands-on experience building and successfully running an event-planning company

Dr George Hess

Co-Founder and Executive VP of Management and Education
Dr. George Hess is an ex-veteran and management professor at Loyola Marymount University. He has coordinated with the University on behalf of GBI for decades, and assists GBI in orchestrating partnerships with colleges and universities.

Ret General Arnold Gordon-Bray

GBI Spokesperson & Keynote Director of GBI Emerald Veterans

Reginald “Reggie” Grant

Director of Business Accelerator
Dale Sims is the foremost officer in developing and establishing partnerships for GBI’s manufacturing consortium and technical institutes, whose purpose is to provide training, resources and job placement for Military Veterans and Underserved Communities.

Dr. John Bollinger

Business Architect & Strategic Planning
Dr. John Bollinger is a licensed architect, general contractor, real estate broker in California, professor at Cal State Long Beach and doctor of architecture from the University of Southern California. He administrated over $50 billion in international business and development in real estate, including ports, airports, trade centers, transportation centers, communities, including park, education, housing, government buildings, hospitals, hotels, retail, office, industrial uses.

Anthony Morgan

Finance Cluster
Anthony Morgan manages the finance cluster and Advisory Board member for Global Business Incubation (GBI). As Chief IT Officer, he provides IT, consulting, website and SEO services for businesses under the GBI umbrella that need support.

Jeff Norman

Veteran Advisor and Strategic Alliance Partner
Jeff Norman is highly knowledgeable in Los Angeles-related Veteran organizations, partners and institutions, and utilizes this experience to advise GBI and connect them with appropriate partners. He is highly experienced in event planning and Radio Production and blogs for the Huffington Post.

Jill Lewis

Product Development and Design Specialist
Jill’s credentials include a Masters of Architecture from Cal Poly Pomona, and fine Arts training at the Art Institute of Chicago. She has successfully championed environmental campaigns in Florida, taught inner city youth in Los Angeles, and inspires personal transformation using a variety of techniques from studies in mindfulness, brain neurobiology, ancient teachings, and new paradigm philosophies.

Andrew Williams Jr.

GBI Zero Time Facilitator
President at Five Points Youth Foundation Inc., Director at TRN International News and Facebook Ambassador at Globcal International Cooperative

Terence Winslow

Business Development
Specialties: Professional Coach, Marketing & Management Consultant, Leadership Development, Small Business Consulting, Client Attraction Systems, Partner Programs, Inspirational Speaking, Mergers and Acquisitions, Branding, Government Liaison, Relationship Marketing, Network Marketing, Real Estate Strategist

Dr Paul Ruffin

Exec VP & Chief Technology Officer
36+ year business and IT professional with a background in management, international trade and information sciences specializing in business development, management systems and technology integration.

Lucas Lenhert MBV

Director & Project Manager
Graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) with honors from the Masters of Business for Veterans (MBV) program, from the Marshall School of Business. Lucas has developed & implemented training operations for several different organizations including USANG, the USACE, CPP, and USC. Lucas received his undergraduate degree from Cal Poly Pomona

Tim Burley

Director of Veteran Affairs
Tim Burley (Tanker Tim) is the CEO and founder of Welcome Home Vets. As a veteran he has spent many years at aiding transitioning veterans. His success in community organizing to engage his vision has resulted in a mission and purpose that is going national.

Lisa Akinseye

Director of MN Hub
Ms Akinseye brings 20+ years in business and community development to the team. She has run SBDC’s, organized several community wrap-around networks, and launched many successful marketing campaigns she has also spent 10yrs focused on veterans and transitioning skill-sets.

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