Inventor Resource Center – Meeting Schedule
Below you will find a schedule of participants for the INPEX® Inventor Resource Center. Each of these invention professionals and industry experts will be available for one-on-one meetings with INPEX exhibitors. Please be sure to check back often, as Inventor Resource Center participants are updated on a regular basis.
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BJ Dohrmann, Chairman – CEO Space, LLC Mr. Dohrmann is an author, corporate trainer and venture capitalist who works tirelessly to develop grants and donations from corporations, private individuals and institutional sponsors. BJ produces other products and services in CD kits available via LSA Publishing. He has also pioneered youth training for teens, hosted annually by world famous youth trainers and Chicken Soup Authors, Eve Hogan and Lisa Nichols. BJ also lectures at many of the 1000 free CEO Space BIZ Club meetings hosted week to week in cities throughout the world. For more information on B.J. Dohrmann, please visit www.CEOSpace.Net, or www.CEOsuccesschannel.com. |
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Jan Mink, Founder – Key Marketing Mink has owned and operated her own import/export business for 29 years and has traveled abroad in search of products and manufacturing, including 29 buying trips to the Orient. As consultant to US and international manufacturers and marketers, Mink has been featured in Entrepreneur and Venture magazines, as well as "Business News of San Diego" and "The Beacon" in San Diego. She has been named to "Who's Who in American Women in Business." Jan Mink has also been a popular guest lecturer and seminar leader and a featured guest on over 300 radio talk shows both in the United States and internationally. Her consulting clients have included the San Diego Chamber of Commerce, "Dr. Soft-Step", AK International, The International Marketing Group, WIN Institute, Robert Allen Seminars, as well as numerous other businesses. Mink is on the Board of Directors of the Muskegon Inventors Network and is working with the Right Place in marketing new products. With over 36 years of experience in sales, marketing, manufacturing, importing/exporting, distribution and audio/visual production, Key Marketing's accomplishments include a variety of television infomercials, advertorials, radio infomercials and live talk shows. In 2007, Mink found several items at the INPEX Show and at this time one new product is under contract for an infomercial to air this Spring and two others are in the negotiating stages with large infomercial/marketing companies. |
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Brian Smith – Business Development Manager, Twin Image |
Thursday, June 12 | |
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Greg Sarnow, Founder/CEO – Direct Response Academy Sarnow’s unique training programs cover the myriad aspects of successfully launching and managing direct response television campaigns. The DRA offers executive training, project management and consulting services to corporations and individuals who are marketing products through television and the Web. Prior to founding the DRA, Greg spent eight years as president of American Television Time. During his tenure, Sarnow managed long and short form media for Fortune 500 companies including Avon, Rubbermaid, Chase Bank, Toshiba, and Sears. Greg is also the author of “The Infomercial Producer Report,” the first and most successful publication designed to aid marketers in choosing and managing DRTV service providers. Prior to joining American Television Time, Greg founded Karuna AG in Zurich, Switzerland, a Swiss trading company operating in 35 countries with offices in Hong Kong, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Zurich. Its operations included jewelry manufacturing, and importing/exporting fine jewelry and precious stones throughout the world. During this time, he also acquired extensive knowledge of the foreign banking industry. Mr. Sarnow completed his undergraduate studies at Penn State University with a degree in Philosophy and continued studies in Europe. Greg Sarnow can be reached by email at greg@dracademy.org or by phone at 512-301-1616. For more information about the Direct Response Academy, please visit the website at: www.directresponseacademy.com. |
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BJ Dohrmann, Chairman – CEO Space, LLC Mr. Dohrmann is an author, corporate trainer and venture capitalist who works tirelessly to develop grants and donations from corporations, private individuals and institutional sponsors. BJ produces other products and services in CD kits available via LSA Publishing. He has also pioneered youth training for teens, hosted annually by world famous youth trainers and Chicken Soup Authors, Eve Hogan and Lisa Nichols. BJ also lectures at many of the 1000 free CEO Space BIZ Club meetings hosted week to week in cities throughout the world. For more information on B.J. Dohrmann, please visit www.CEOSpace.Net, or www.CEOsuccesschannel.com. |
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Jan Mink, Founder – Key Marketing Mink has owned and operated her own import/export business for 29 years and has traveled abroad in search of products and manufacturing, including 29 buying trips to the Orient. As consultant to US and international manufacturers and marketers, Mink has been featured in Entrepreneur and Venture magazines, as well as "Business News of San Diego" and "The Beacon" in San Diego. She has been named to "Who's Who in American Women in Business." Jan Mink has also been a popular guest lecturer and seminar leader and a featured guest on over 300 radio talk shows both in the United States and internationally. Her consulting clients have included the San Diego Chamber of Commerce, "Dr. Soft-Step", AK International, The International Marketing Group, WIN Institute, Robert Allen Seminars, as well as numerous other businesses. Mink is on the Board of Directors of the Muskegon Inventors Network and is working with the Right Place in marketing new products. With over 36 years of experience in sales, marketing, manufacturing, importing/exporting, distribution and audio/visual production, Key Marketing's accomplishments include a variety of television infomercials, advertorials, radio infomercials and live talk shows. In 2007, Mink found several items at the INPEX Show and at this time one new product is under contract for an infomercial to air this Spring and two others are in the negotiating stages with large infomercial/marketing companies. |
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Brian SmithBusiness – Business Development Manager, Twin Image |
Friday, June 13 | |
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Edith Tolchin, Owner – EGT Global Trading Ms. Tolchin currently writes a twice-weekly column, “Striking a Simple Balance” on work-life issues for the Times Herald-Record in New York. EGT Global Trading specializes in offshore manufacturing services for inventions of textiles and sewn-items, bags, baby and fashion accessories, unique arts & crafts items, and household inventions. Edie Tolchin regularly provides presentations for inventors’ organizations and trade shows throughout the USA on topics such as “Importing Basics for Inventors™,” and “Offshore Manufacturing for Inventors™.” For more information, please visit www.egtglobaltrading.com. |
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Jill Lublin, International Speaker & Best Selling Author Jill is founder of GoodNews Media, Inc., a company specializing in positive news. She is currently the host of the nationally syndicated radio show, Do The Dream, where she interviews celebrities who have achieved their dreams. Jill has been featured in the New York Times, Woman’s Day, and Entrepreneur Magazine, as well as on ABC, NBC, CBS radio and national TV affiliates and is creator and host of a new TV show called The Connecting Minute. Jill’s third book, Get Noticed, will be out in May of 2008 with McGraw-Hill. |
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Howard Lim, Brand Specialist – HOW Studios Although having a healthy portfolio with fortune 100 companies, his greatest passion is with Start-Ups, and companies that need to rebrand for greater market share. Howard says, “working with a blank canvas and the ability to move them at an amplified speed to market is exciting to him.” Howard, also shares the same passion as inventors. Being an inventor himself, he understands the hurdles they face in taking just an idea and making it supreme. He understands the challenges and sequencing they face in bringing their product or service to the market, and staying there. He consistently leads industries by providing a number of valuable innovative brand solutions not previously existing in the market. Some of the firsts included: creating a new category known as motion graphics for ABC networks which has changed television viewing forever, brand standards for the first DVD interfaces for MGM, award winning first all digital brand advertising for Fujitsu drives, the first brand category for Philips Interactive Media to launch DVD movies which took over the use of VHS and Beta tapes, the brand category for Access Debit program for UCSB, now a standard for most colleges. And this is just the start. Over the years, through his brand strategy to brand execution, he has assisted companies in wealth building of well over a billion dollars in sales, as well as, consistently creating tremendous brand value, broader mindshare and higher brand equity for his clients. It has been a long road for Howard to earn the badge of being a brand strategist. Today, Howard leads a team of professionals who powerfully communicate and brand the visions of America's leading emerging and Fortune 100 companies. |
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Don Debelak, President – DSD Marketing Debelak has established himself as a leader in emerging business with columns in Entrepreneur magazine and published books and has been interviewed on national radio shows, Internet shows and has been featured in leading newspapers including the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Debelak’s web site www.dondebelak.com offers assistance to inventors, new businesses and people with ideas through a variety of services from coaching to business plans to evaluations of a company’s business model. He also runs a catalog marketing program that sells products through a wide variety of catalogs. Debelak’s books include:
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Saturday, June 14 | |
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Edith Tolchin, Owner – EGT Global Trading Ms. Tolchin currently writes a twice-weekly column, “Striking a Simple Balance” on work-life issues for the Times Herald-Record in New York. EGT Global Trading specializes in offshore manufacturing services for inventions of textiles and sewn-items, bags, baby and fashion accessories, unique arts & crafts items, and household inventions. Edie Tolchin regularly provides presentations for inventors’ organizations and trade shows throughout the USA on topics such as “Importing Basics for Inventors™,” and “Offshore Manufacturing for Inventors™.” For more information, please visit www.egtglobaltrading.com. |
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Jan Mink, Founder – Key Marketing Mink has owned and operated her own import/export business for 29 years and has traveled abroad in search of products and manufacturing, including 29 buying trips to the Orient. As consultant to US and international manufacturers and marketers, Mink has been featured in Entrepreneur and Venture magazines, as well as "Business News of San Diego" and "The Beacon" in San Diego. She has been named to "Who's Who in American Women in Business." Jan Mink has also been a popular guest lecturer and seminar leader and a featured guest on over 300 radio talk shows both in the United States and internationally. Her consulting clients have included the San Diego Chamber of Commerce, "Dr. Soft-Step", AK International, The International Marketing Group, WIN Institute, Robert Allen Seminars, as well as numerous other businesses. Mink is on the Board of Directors of the Muskegon Inventors Network and is working with the Right Place in marketing new products. With over 36 years of experience in sales, marketing, manufacturing, importing/exporting, distribution and audio/visual production, Key Marketing's accomplishments include a variety of television infomercials, advertorials, radio infomercials and live talk shows. In 2007, Mink found several items at the INPEX Show and at this time one new product is under contract for an infomercial to air this Spring and two others are in the negotiating stages with large infomercial/marketing companies. |
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Howard Lim, Brand Specialist – HOW Studios Although having a healthy portfolio with fortune 100 companies, his greatest passion is with Start-Ups, and companies that need to rebrand for greater market share. Howard says, “working with a blank canvas and the ability to move them at an amplified speed to market is exciting to him.” Howard, also shares the same passion as inventors. Being an inventor himself, he understands the hurdles they face in taking just an idea and making it supreme. He understands the challenges and sequencing they face in bringing their product or service to the market, and staying there. He consistently leads industries by providing a number of valuable innovative brand solutions not previously existing in the market. Some of the firsts included: creating a new category known as motion graphics for ABC networks which has changed television viewing forever, brand standards for the first DVD interfaces for MGM, award winning first all digital brand advertising for Fujitsu drives, the first brand category for Philips Interactive Media to launch DVD movies which took over the use of VHS and Beta tapes, the brand category for Access Debit program for UCSB, now a standard for most colleges. And this is just the start. Over the years, through his brand strategy to brand execution, he has assisted companies in wealth building of well over a billion dollars in sales, as well as, consistently creating tremendous brand value, broader mindshare and higher brand equity for his clients. It has been a long road for Howard to earn the badge of being a brand strategist. Today, Howard leads a team of professionals who powerfully communicate and brand the visions of America's leading emerging and Fortune 100 companies. His studio also developed the first brand campaign for Philips Interactive Media movies on a 5 inch disc – we now know that as a DVD movie. The clients he is most passionate about working with are emerging companies and also companies that need to be rebranded for greater market share. |
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Don Debelak, President – DSD Marketing Debelak has established himself as a leader in emerging business with columns in Entrepreneur magazine and published books and has been interviewed on national radio shows, Internet shows and has been featured in leading newspapers including the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Debelak’s web site www.dondebelak.com offers assistance to inventors, new businesses and people with ideas through a variety of services from coaching to business plans to evaluations of a company’s business model. He also runs a catalog marketing program that sells products through a wide variety of catalogs. Debelak’s books include:
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