Wais Asefi
Wais Asefi has served as our President, CEO and Director since November 17,
2013. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Textmunication,
Inc., our subsidiary, since March of 2009 to the present. From August 2008 to
March 2009, he was not employed. From January 2002 until July 2008, he was the
founder and CEO of Metro General Insurance, an insurance agency focusing on
personal lines, life and commercial insurance products.
Mr. Asefi’s background and experience in the mobile marketing business
support his service as a director of our company.
Mr. Asefi does not hold and has not held over the past five years any other
directorships in any company with a class of securities registered pursuant
to Section 12 of the Exchange Act or subject to the requirements of Section
15(d) of the Exchange Act or any company registered as an investment company
under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
David Thielen
David Thielen was named as COO of our company on January 1, 2017, and may be
considered significant in that he is also the CEO of Apsire, a company that
we have a minority interest in. His contributions to the success of Aspire is
directly tied to our financial success as a shareholder of Aspire.
Mr. Thielen brings more than twenty-five years of executive leadership, strategic
management and progressive sales experience in IT Services and Healthcare.
Mr. Thielen worked for global Healthcare surgical manufacture, DeRoyal, for
more than twenty years in sales leadership positions as Regional Manager and
Area Vice President. Following his career with DeRoyal, he started a successful
IT Services company. While in the Washington, D.C. market, he worked in Human
Capital Management with Randstad Technologies and Alltech - and with IT System
Integrator, ICS Nett.
Mr. Thielen formed Aspire with his business partner in late 2014. Aspire is
a Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) providing cutting-edge
project-based solutions for both commercial and federal clients.
He will continue operating as CEO of Aspire while managing the partner relationships,
sales channel and daily operations for our company. In his dual role, Mr. Thielen
will continue to leverage his vast network of clients increasing partnership
opportunities in Technology and Healthcare services. Mr. Thielen is a graduate
of Iowa State University.
Mr. Thielen does not hold and has not held over the past five years any other
directorships in any company with a class of securities registered pursuant
to Section 12 of the Exchange Act or subject to the requirements of Section
15(d) of the Exchange Act or any company registered as an investment company
under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
Nick Miniello
Mr. Miniello has been with our company in sales, but was named VP of Sales
on January 1, 2017. His sales leadership began in 2000 within the mobile wireless
industry as a Regional Manager for AT&T. As Regional Manager, Mr. Miniello
earned “Top Regional Manager” for two consecutive years.
After six years with AT&T, he shifted to the fitness industry managing
‘24 Hour Fitness’ clubs for three years taking over a struggling
location. His turnaround efforts earned him the “most improved”
location award in the San Francisco market.
Following nine years in the mobile and fitness space, he co-founded our company
in 2009 with the goal of becoming the leading SMS provider in the health and
fitness industry. Mr. Miniello’s background consists of 17 years of sales
and leadership experience. He has his AA degree from Los Medanos College in
the San Francisco Bay area.
Mr. Miniello does not hold and has not held over the past five years any other
directorships in any company with a class of securities registered pursuant
to Section 12 of the Exchange Act or subject to the requirements of Section
15(d) of the Exchange Act or any company registered as an investment company
under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
