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Brad Sugars | Send Email Brad Sugars is the Founder and Chairman and President of ActionCOACH, the world's number one business coaching firm with more than 1,000 offices in 32 countries. Not only did he guide the company to new levels of growth over the past several years, he also set direction in terms of vision and strategy for ActionCOACH worldwide. He is also responsible for the company's culture - enrolling and inspiring the entire ActionCOACH team to live and abide by our 14 Points of Culture, guidelines that help set ActionCOACH apart as a company and that truly make it the world's leading business coaching firm. |
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Jodie Shaw | Send Email Jodie Shaw currently serves as ActionCOACH CEO of U.S. & Canada. Prior to being named CEO of U.S. and Canada, she served as the company's Director of Franchise Sales and Marketing, and served two years as Director of Marketing. Since joining the company in 2006, she has overseen and directed the re-brand of the company, the expansion of the franchise into the Caribbean, Venezuela and China and has increased coach revenue in North America. A native Australian, Jodie previously served as an Account Director at De Pasquale Advertising and as a journalist with Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. |
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Vic Ciuffetelli | Send Email Vic oversees growth and expansion in the Asia Pacific region for ActionCOACH, and brings more than 21 years of experience within every aspect of the franchising and licensing industry. Vic's wide range of experience and innate knowledge of franchising has allowed him to grow franchises to massive worldwide success on every continent in the world. Vic's will continue to work closely with ActionCOACH Master Licensees to implement effective systems and develop full potential. The growth of the network within the region will further increase the power of the brand and the ultimate success of everyone associated with it. |
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CEO, Joint Venture Partner, Mexico / Latin America Alejandro De Gyves | Send Email Alejandro is an experience business builder and Business Coach, with a range of corporate experience in the areas of process engineering, plant operation and technology commercialization. After a 25 year career in Grupo Alfa, and after managing projects in countries including India, Brazil, Malaysia, Indonesia, Germany and Venezuela, Alejandro teamed up with ActionCOACH in 2000, and won the Master Franchise award in 2002 and again in 2006. In addition, helped develop a coaching networking Mexico's major cities, comprised of more than 60 franchisees. In 2008, he decided to expand ActionCOACH to the whole of Latin America, and in just a few months, made a presence in Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Venezuela and Costa Rica. Alejandro's mission as a businessman is to make every business (both his and his clients') a constant wealth generator and that supports its community's vision supported by the ActionCOACH model and its practices. |
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Karie Millspaugh | Send Email Karie Millspaugh is Brad Sugars' Publicist and Franchise Recruitment Officer for ActionCOACH America. Karie's primary role involves recruiting new franchisees in multiple states throughout North America. Karie also coordinates speaking arrangements for Brad Sugars. Karie comes to ActionCOACH with over 15 years of Executive Sales Management and Marketing/Communications. She also has more than 5 years of Public Speaking as a Wellness Coach and Event Management experience, and has been in leadership and management roles since the age of 21. Karie's creative outlets are motorcycle riding, snowboarding, kayaking, skydiving, mountain biking, anything adventurous. She is the proud mom of a brilliant and beautiful daughter. |
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David Van Vranken | Send Email David joined ActionCOACH in September 2010 as the IT "go to" guy. He comes to us after working as an IT manager for a local mortgage company and call center, then as an independent contractor for Dell, HP, Lexmark, AT&T and several other manufacturers. He worked for 13 years for the Department of Energy in the Emergency Communications department providing instant support on a moment's notice for our country's Emergency Response network. This is where he developed the ability to quickly learn new systems and fix small problems before they became big problems. When he's not solving problems for ActionCOACH members, he incorporates his personal interests in magic, music and dance into "behind the scenes" support with websites and audio/video production. |
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Michael Horvath | Send Email Michael Horvath has more than a decade of brand marketing experience on the corporate, public relations and advertising agency sides of the industry. He has led and helped build successful campaigns for hundreds of companies in a variety of categories, including Harrah's, Gold's Gym, Sprint PCS, Volkswagen and Chevrolet. He has also helped dozens of small businesses leverage modest budgets for great results based on the "big agency" strategies he implemented for them. |
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Geetika Sahni | Send Email As the Brand Manager for Executive Coaching, Geetika pilots these programs for ActionCOACH, and helps with online content development. She is also responsible for constantly producing news-worthy press releases and also works on some of the creative conceptualizing and copywriting aspects in the marketing department, including postcards, ecards and direct mail campaigns. Prior to joining ActionCOACH, she was past PR and Content Manager for a Luxury condo-conversion company in Las Vegas, and also led the marketing and PR efforts for Gaylord India Restaurant. She started her career in the publishing industry with a fashion magazine as Senior Features Writer, and harbors a love for the written word. She has successfully completed the coveted Honors program in Advertising and Sales Promotion from HR College of Commerce and Economics and holds a Masters Degree in Commerce from the University of Bombay. |
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Senior Executive Assistant to CEO, USA and Canada Yvonne Hillier | Send Email Yvonne Hillier serves as Senior Executive Assistant to the CEO, USA & Canada. She also assists in supporting Events and Training Teams. Yvonne comes to ActionCOACH with many years of experience in the hospitality industry. Most recently, she held positions at the Riviera Hotel & Casino where she was involved in advertising, special events, and property communications, along with supervision of all filming and still photography projects on the property. When away from the office, she spends time with her family and enjoys trap shooting. |
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Stephen Herzog | Send Email Stephen Herzog is a content writer for ActionCOACH. His duties include creating content for ActionCOACH's websites, writing press releases, blogs and search engine optimization articles as well as editing various pieces of content. Prior to joining ActionCOACH, Stephen worked in a number of fields. Recently, he was a writer and web editor for a leading sports information company. He also has extensive experience in both the sales and service industries. Stephen is a graduate of UNLV, holding a Bachelors Degree in History with a minor in English. In his spare time he is a big sports fan who loves to travel and turn heads singing karaoke. |
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Prageeth Babarandage | Send Email Prageeth is the Software Developer for ActionCOACH and he maintains ActionMEMBERS, ActionCOACH and other web/software solutions. He is from Sri Lanka and has over 6 years of extensive background in software engineering. Prageeth earned his Applied Science in Software Application Programming degree at ITT Technical Institute - Las Vegas and holds membership of the National Technical Honor Society - USA (NTHS). In his spare time he enjoys travelling and landscape photography. |
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