Angel Investors
Our Angels are industry experts who are Entrepreneurs turned Investors. Each are committed to helping our Newpreneurs secure funding, up to $250,000, and receive expert mentoring to help make their Entrepreneurial dreams come true. Meet our Angels:
Solomon Brown is a business and technology entrepreneur specializing in growth strategies, people, and purpose-driven business initiatives. Solomon has a breadth of success consulting startups and fortune 500's with specialties in growth strategies, distribution, logistics, marketing, culture, people, and overall profitability. Mr. Brown founded a distribution conglomerate by name of 1981 that includes multiple marketplaces, 3pl warehousing services, manufacturing, licensing, and marketing solutions. Solomon also serves as the chief strategist and board member for Buying.com and Physicians.com, two tech-savvy online marketplaces with blockchain innovations and cryptocurrency solutions. Mr. Brown currently owns and manages the highest-grossing minority-owned 3PL business in the state of California. His strategies, developed in collaboration with a specialized network of executives, have ushered corporations into the digital age, accelerated processes, saved millions of dollars, generated millions more, and strengthened regulatory compliance.
Solomon was educated at Iona University with accomplished studies in business, economics, and marketing. After College, Mr. Brown started his career on the floor of the NYSE, managing daily trading duties for institutional clients where he spent time with several continuing educational programs in finance. Solomon began managing his own private equity interests which demanded further academic accomplishments from numerous universities. After several years of success and well over 50,000 acres secured in hydrocarbon assets and retail distribution in energy, Solomon exited energy positions and launched his ambition into the distribution of consumer goods where his success has become expansive with mass retail, independents, manufacturing, licensing, and warehousing and shipping added to his core competencies.
Solomon was educated at Iona University with accomplished studies in business, economics, and marketing. After College, Mr. Brown started his career on the floor of the NYSE, managing daily trading duties for institutional clients where he spent time with several continuing educational programs in finance. Solomon began managing his own private equity interests which demanded further academic accomplishments from numerous universities. After several years of success and well over 50,000 acres secured in hydrocarbon assets and retail distribution in energy, Solomon exited energy positions and launched his ambition into the distribution of consumer goods where his success has become expansive with mass retail, independents, manufacturing, licensing, and warehousing and shipping added to his core competencies.
Co-Founder of Women's Leadership LIVE, Founder of ybf (your best friend) beauty & Models Prefer Beauty, 1 of 6 (HSN) Star Entrepreneurs. Stacey has engineered a 28-yr. record of success owning brands in direct sales on 8 LIVE TV Networks in 28 Countries: HSN(USA), QVC | Ideal World(UK), TSC(Canada), TVSN(Australia, New Zealand), HSE24(Italy, Germany, Austria), CitrussTV(Dubai & 7 UAE States), Shopping LIVE(Russia) with over $450M in sales.
Schieffelin began her career as a prominent international FORD model, frequently seen on catwalks & fashion magazine covers. She then quickly grew into a widely recognizable brand | market leader for the $500b beauty industry & an award-winning business curator driving economic development in an ever-changing competitive landscape.
Stacey has channeled her expansive entrepreneurial career toward the empowerment of other businesses, students, individuals & groups at every economic level - inspired by a set of core values that advance Family, Kingdom & Country.
Stacey, a Brand Strategist at SKYLAB, an innovative tech platform that enables rapid acceleration of communities, organizations & influencers, transforming them into thriving, revenue-generating businesses, all facilitated by SKYLAB’s autonomous technological & financial ecosystem. Stacey understands that bringing more transparent options to tech & communication space will advance society & uphold constitutional protections.
Today, Stacey is honored to be a Senior Advisor to the American First Policy Institute. AFPI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan research institute – the fastest growing DO-TANK in history! AFPI exists to advance policies that put the American people first. The guiding principles are liberty, free enterprise, national greatness, American military superiority, foreign-policy engagement in the American interest, and the importance of American workers and innovators, families, and communities.
Stacey's passion is to support the CENTER FOR THE AMERICAN WORKER within AFPI. The spirit of the American worker is the very foundation of our Nation. There is no force more potent — when left to be free, to prosper & to flourish. AFPI is prioritizing our Nation’s most critical asset, the American worker. AFPI will help restore American workers and NEWpreneurs to their proper place, which is at the center of governance & policy alike. The class of Americans who made our Republic the greatest Nation on Earth deserves to be heard, valued — and in charge.
Schieffelin began her career as a prominent international FORD model, frequently seen on catwalks & fashion magazine covers. She then quickly grew into a widely recognizable brand | market leader for the $500b beauty industry & an award-winning business curator driving economic development in an ever-changing competitive landscape.
Stacey has channeled her expansive entrepreneurial career toward the empowerment of other businesses, students, individuals & groups at every economic level - inspired by a set of core values that advance Family, Kingdom & Country.
Stacey, a Brand Strategist at SKYLAB, an innovative tech platform that enables rapid acceleration of communities, organizations & influencers, transforming them into thriving, revenue-generating businesses, all facilitated by SKYLAB’s autonomous technological & financial ecosystem. Stacey understands that bringing more transparent options to tech & communication space will advance society & uphold constitutional protections.
Today, Stacey is honored to be a Senior Advisor to the American First Policy Institute. AFPI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan research institute – the fastest growing DO-TANK in history! AFPI exists to advance policies that put the American people first. The guiding principles are liberty, free enterprise, national greatness, American military superiority, foreign-policy engagement in the American interest, and the importance of American workers and innovators, families, and communities.
Stacey's passion is to support the CENTER FOR THE AMERICAN WORKER within AFPI. The spirit of the American worker is the very foundation of our Nation. There is no force more potent — when left to be free, to prosper & to flourish. AFPI is prioritizing our Nation’s most critical asset, the American worker. AFPI will help restore American workers and NEWpreneurs to their proper place, which is at the center of governance & policy alike. The class of Americans who made our Republic the greatest Nation on Earth deserves to be heard, valued — and in charge.
As a highly respected marketer and entrepreneur, Chad Hetherington has built his career at the intersection of content and commerce, helping redefine industries by challenging the status quo.
Hailing from Australia where he founded Logic Films, in 2007 he moved to the U.S. and has since orchestrated some of the most compelling retail programs and experiences, generating billions of dollars in retail sales.
In 2015, Chad founded The Stable, a powerhouse commerce agency that grows consumer brands of all sizes through omnichannel retail and direct-to-consumer (DTC) commerce. The Stable was named one of Inc. Magazine’s fastest growing private companies in America, and in 2022 was acquired by Accenture.
Chad is a three-time Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist and was named one of the Top 100 business leaders to watch in 2021 by Twin Cities Business.
Chad’s training and education, or lack-thereof, was a bit unconventional but his drive has landed him at the top of his industry and he credits much of his success to his brash, all-or-nothing approach.
Hailing from Australia where he founded Logic Films, in 2007 he moved to the U.S. and has since orchestrated some of the most compelling retail programs and experiences, generating billions of dollars in retail sales.
In 2015, Chad founded The Stable, a powerhouse commerce agency that grows consumer brands of all sizes through omnichannel retail and direct-to-consumer (DTC) commerce. The Stable was named one of Inc. Magazine’s fastest growing private companies in America, and in 2022 was acquired by Accenture.
Chad is a three-time Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist and was named one of the Top 100 business leaders to watch in 2021 by Twin Cities Business.
Chad’s training and education, or lack-thereof, was a bit unconventional but his drive has landed him at the top of his industry and he credits much of his success to his brash, all-or-nothing approach.