Our Guests for the September 2nd/3rd edition of PlayMakers Talk Show:

Kurt Carlton, Founder, New Western Acquisitions

Bruce Ballengee, CEO & Co-Founder, Pariveda Solutions, Inc.

Join us Friday afternoon at 3:00 and Saturday afternoon at 2:00 for an Encore Presentation on 770 KAAM (KAAMRadio.com)

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Kurt Carlton, Founder, New Western Acquisitions

Kurt Carlton founded New Western Acquisitions in 2008 and has since purchased and resold more than 8,000 distressed homes and is currently the 6^th fastest growing middle-market company in Texas according to the Dallas Business Journal.

New Western Acquisitions is a national wholesale investment brokerage company in 13 metro markets.  Every year New Western Acquisitions acquires thousands of homes in distressed condition providing a vital role in restoring communities across the nation by facilitating the rehabilitation of these homes and returning them to the market in top condition so they can be purchased, lived in and enjoyed.

In addition to real estate acquisitions Kurt has helped thousands of other real estate investors with their careers by extending property financing. HousingWire Magazine named Kurt the “Giant of Investor Lending.”

NewWestern.com

Phone: (972) 573-1224

Bruce Ballengee, CEO & Co-Founder, Pariveda Solutions, Inc.

Bruce Ballengee founded Pariveda Solutions, Inc. in October 2003 during the worst IT recession in history. An idea drove Bruce that in any professional practice, talent represents the best sustainable hope for long-term success. He created a company based on the idea that talent can be differentiating.

Bruce financed Pariveda with his assets, crafting a unique but sustainable business model based on talent development and is now a leading management consulting firm specializing in improving their clients’ performance having grown to over 450 people based in 9 offices in major U.S. cities with 2015 revenue of $83 million.

Pariveda Solutions solves the complex problems of clients ranging from Fortune 100 to Global 2000 to startup companies and spanning multiple industries.

ParivedaSolutions.com

Phone: (214) 777-4600

Kurt Carlton, Host, Steve A Klein, Bruce Ballengee

Our Guests for the August 26th/27th edition of PlayMakers Talk Show:

Andy Mitchell, Founder, CEO and Managing Partner, Lantern Asset Management

Ashleigh Wilkes, Executive Director, A World For Children

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Andy Mitchell, Founder, CEO and Managing Partner, Lantern Asset Management

Andy Mitchell is Founder, CEO and Managing Partner of Lantern Capital Partners and Lantern Asset Management. Lantern Capital Partners is a middle market private equity firm targeting investments where meaningful value can be created through improved operational and capital support.

Lantern Asset Management is a full-service asset management firm building value through origination, underwriting, acquisition and improving the performance of investments.

Andy has 18 years of investment management, financial advisory, M&A and restructuring experience with world-class investment and advisory firms including: Centerbridge Partners, Cerberus Capital Management, Houlihan Lokey’s Restructuring and Special Situations Finance Group and PricewaterhouseCoopers Business Recovery and Turnaround Management Group.

LanternAM.com

Phone: (469) 554-7900

Host, Steve A Klein & Guest, Andy Mitchell

Ashleigh Wilkes, Executive Director, A World For Children

Ashleigh Wilkes is Executive Director of A World For Children, a child-placing agency for abused and neglected children that are taken into state custody by Child Protective Services.

Paul and Sharon Willis and Rebecca Allen founded a World For Children in April of 1997 to make a better world for special children. AWFC has been entrusted with almost 12,000 children and currently are serving over 850 abused children in about 350 foster homes across the State of Texas.

Ashleigh has a law degree and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, which lead her to begin a legal career in family law.  This background gave her a unique perspective on how the business, legal, and social work worlds can intersect to build a place where children can find refuge.  She is dedicated to the belief that traumatized children deserve all that we can give them.

AWFC.org

Phone: (972) 616-0095

Host, Steve A Klein & Guest, Ashleigh Wilkes