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Steve Adams, Senior Partner

Since 2001 Steve has structured debt transactions for Newport Finance Group, Inc., a multi-faceted finance broker providing loans for life insurance premium finance, real estate construction finance, and general business debt restructuring.

Prior to 2001 Mr. Adams built and sold several businesses in the manufacturing and construction industries.  He has more than a decade of commercial banking experience.  Mr. Adams is also a licensed broker with the CA DRE and CA DI.

Sam Brown, Senior Partner

Sam Brown earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California in 1974, and began his professional sales career with IBM Corporation. Subsequent sales leadership roles in several startup business endeavors instilled a deep entrepreneurial desire to build his own business, ROI Inc., which he co-founded in 1981.

Sam led the company by identifying new product opportunities and building sales programs to optimize market penetration, revenue and profit. The commitment over an 18-year period resulted in a successful exit strategy through acquisition by a public company and a new position as Vice President of Sales.

Sam’s background as a former successful start-up business owner, combined with a wide range of personal investment experience gives him an informed perspective of both sides of the business development and capital funding arena. Sam’s passion is to help entrepreneurs successfully face the challenges of finding success in their own business visions. He is a licensed insurance professional and together with his wife Patty of 25 years, has raised three sons, now 21, 23, and 25.

James R. (Jim) Nash, Managing Partner

Mr. Nash has been an innovator and entrepreneur for 30 years, founding and operating a number of businesses in the health, wellness and recreational industries…he is the founder of The WellCare Company, Inc. and Club Company International, Inc. Previously, Mr. Nash was COO for an international entrepreneur network and Investment Life Services, a financial services company which developed and distributed insurance and asset management products through over 150 New York Stock Exchange member firms, banks, and insurance companies as well as thousands of producers.  He was responsible for management of internal operations, client relations, project compliance and due diligence both domestic and international.  Mr. Nash was Chief Executive Officer for Medi-Share, Chief Operating Officer for HealthPark Florida FC and Vice President of Operations for Healthcare Technologies, Inc.  He has been a consultant for new business development, acquisitions, operational turn-around and decision support services, both in the U.S. and Internationally (China, Taiwan, Russia, Egypt, Jamaica).

Mr. Nash founded Venture Funding Advisors, an International consulting company which guides entrepreneurs through the process of validation of vision, due diligence & decision support, venture packaging, investment banking advisory services, capital acquisition and various business development services.  He developed the firms patent pending Wall St. Solutions for Main St. Companies™ finance products including Self-Funded Capitalization System™, PrincipalProtector™ Trust, Adjustable Private Placement Offering™, Wall St. Capital Club™ and Ask theentrepreneur.  He was also a prior Managing Director for Commonwealth Capital Advisors and is a Master-Broker with a Wall Street Law firm and Investment Banking organization.

The firm associates with other select professionals (domestic & international) in the Investment Banking Industry, as well as securities counsel and CPA's to provide clients with the best results possible.  References are available for Clients.

Note:  Both present and past clients of the firm may need or want to preserve confidentiality, regarding both the client company involvement in a particular project, as well as the fact that outside financing was used.  Accordingly, we follow a strict policy of confidentiality.  While clients sometimes choose to disclose or even document our firm’s work of their financial procurement projects, our policy is to leave that choice to each client’s independent discretion.

In accordance with these practices and policies, our firm can disclose objective and factual descriptions of the professional work done or in process, but not contact information of the key principal, or other access to the company.  We believe that the nature of these accomplishments and the volume of our engagements demonstrate that VFA has the credibility, background, capabilities and experience to reliably handle high profile and large scale clients.