About Us

• Andrew Nester, CEO/President - Business Management
• John Moorehead - Marketing Strategist
• Steven J. Roth, Coach - Business Management, Funding Strategies
• Benjamin C. Steele, CPA - Financial
• Jonathan Steele, CPA - Financial
• Andrea Wilson – Web Design, SEO, Internet Marketing

Andrew Nester, CEO/President Biz Strategies, Inc.
Coach – Business Management
andrew@bizstrategeis.biz

EXPERIENCE:

As an independent consultant, Andrew has helped several companies develop, improve and turn around various aspects of their businesses including operations, financial management, business planning, marketing and sales programs, restructuring and facilitated strategic alliances including acquisitions and funding.

Andrew has served as President/CEO of a Wireless Broadband Solutions Provider. He set up and operated one of the first commercial wireless, broadband, solutions provider operations in the country. He has been a consultant to an additional eleven companies establishing wireless broadband operations throughout the United States. In addition, he was president of two software companies. One provided office automation software, systems, and support to the medical practice management and legal practice management markets, the other served the Funded Health Care Market.

Andrew has also held key executive positions in marketing and sales for a variety of high technology firms offering systems software, semiconductor test equipment, disk and magnetic tape controllers, Winchester disk drives, printers and word processing systems.

EDUCATION:

Andrew has a Bachelors Degree in Electronic Engineering. Additionally, he received the acclaimed Xerox sales training and has completed various marketing and management courses at university extensions.

MILITARY:

Andrew served in the U.S. Navy aboard the Battleships Wisconsin and Iowa. He has an honorable discharge as Radarman 2nd Class.

PERSONAL:

Andrew has two daughters and four granddaughters. His hobbies are fishing, hiking and taking his granddaughters on unique, special trips. He has written a book, Introduction to Life Xtensions. He has written and had articles on Reseller Channel Marketing, Strategic Alliances and Stress and Aging published. He has conducted seminars on Forming Strategic Alliances, has been a speaker at local and national business and marketing conferences. He was a start-up founder of Softech an organization for high technology companies north of San Francisco, CA. He established and facilitated The CEO Coaches Huddle, a business forum for Presidents/CEO’s of high technology companies.

John Moorhead, Owner Acorn Internet Marketing
Marketing Strategist

John Moorhead founded the first marketing firm to specialize in High Tech, Moorhead Marketing, Inc. in Palo Alto, CA in 1969 after launching two start ups, one in Chicago, Il and the other in Palo Alto, CA. Moorhead moved to Palo Alto to focus on emerging technology firms springing up in the then called Santa Clara Valley. Over the past 40 years, his firm evolved from one focused on high tech start ups to a broad based marketing strategy and Internet communications firm servicing clients in many different industries nationally. Moorhead shifted in 1994 from clients primarily in the San Francisco bay area to a national present with offices in Ft Lauderdale, FL and Dallas, TX.

Moorhead and his firm worked with a number of entrepreneurial start-ups during their formation years, grooming them for recognition in their respective fields, creating the correct positioning for their brand. Moorhead helped launch some of the most important technological innovations of the last forty years including the first 3.5” disk drive, drug testing assays, telecommunications equipment, semiconductors, personal computers and software.

Moorhead in 1994 pioneered in the development of the Internet by building some of the first dynamically driven web sites for several fortune 100 companies. Since then his firm has built web sites for a large number of clients in many differing industries. Some of them include financial institutions, publishing, dealers, distributors, home builders, Insurance companies, telecomm and marine parts suppliers.

Acorn Internet Marketing is primarily a business development firm focused on using the Internet as the main media communication vehicle helping small to medium sized companies compete on a level playing field against their competitors in the vast Internet world.

Steven J. Roth
Coach - Business Management, Funding Strategies
sroth@consultroth.com

Steve has over 35 years experience as:

• Corporate Executive
• Venture Capitalist
• Private Equity Investor
• Merger and Acquisition Specialist
• Entrepreneur
• Business Management Consultant
• Director of both for and non-profit organizations.

Education:

MBA with distinction, Harvard Graduate School of Business

BA degree in Mathematics, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Benjamin (Ben) Steele received his degree from the University of Nevada – Reno in December 1972 with a major in Business and was licensed in the State of Nevada in April, 1979. Ben is a Council Member for the Nevada Society of Certified Public Accountants and has been both a Trustee and Chairman for the Nevada CPA Foundation and received an award from the Nevada Society of CPAs for Outstanding Chairman - Professional Ethics Committee 1981-1982. Ben has also served on several Blue Ribbon Commissions for the Nevada State Board. Ben has been a member of the Nevada Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants since 1976 & 1979 respectively.

Jonathan S. Steele, CPA
Coach - Financial
jon@steelecpas.com

Jonathan (Jon) Steele received his degree from California State University - Fresno in August, 1997 with a Major in Business Administration and was licensed in the State of Nevada in April, 2000.

Jon went to High School in Carson City, Nevada and was Four-Time State Champion in Track & Cross Country. Jon also competed for Fresno State's Track & Cross Country teams for his five-year college career. Jon currently enjoys his new set of twin boys, skeet shooting, sailing, and landscaping his new home in South Reno.

Andrea Wilson, BA
Coach – Web Site Design, Search Engine Optimization , Internet Marketing
andrea@ablewebs.com

In 1980, Andrea Wilson began a love affair with computers. Later she spent seventeen years in customer service in the software sector, supporting complex software applications and exercising her well-developed people skills. In 2000, Andrea discovered Web design and Internet marketing... and fell in love all over again! She left corporate life in 2004 to pursue Web design and Internet marketing full time and now happily works from home. Every day she assists clients with decisions related to designing their Web site, optimizing their site for the search engines and marketing their products or services online. Andrea designs Web sites in Dreamweaver® and in a nifty program called XSite Pro®, which acts as both a Web design application and a Customer Management System -- it's a perfect tool for small businesses and entrepreneurs.

Andrea has a BA in English from the University of Victoria (Victoria, BC), a teaching certificate from the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta) and a Web publishing certificate from Langara College (Vancouver, BC).

Andrea has two sons (both geeks!), two grandsons (geeks in training!) and two cats (often found snoozing under Andrea's desk lamp). She loves spending time with family and friends, reading, writing, studying, researching, browsing the Internet, shopping, watching makeover shows on TV and playing Role Playing Games on the computer (at 58, she may be the oldest World of Warcraft player in the world!).