GENE BLANTON

9

# OF SCHOOLS GENE ATTENDED GROWING UP

4 IN 17 BY 19

IN THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS, GENE RECEIVED 4 MERITORIOUS PROMOTIONS IN 17 MONTHS BY AGE 19

6

# OF MAJOR CITIES FOR WHICH GENE BUILT THE CELLULAR SYSTEMS

2

# OF TRIPS GENE TOOK TO THE IRAQ WARZONE

48 AFTER 30

GENE WENT ON HIS FIRST COMBAT PATROL AT AGE 48, 30 YEARS AFTER BOOTCAMP

2000'

THE HEIGHT OF SOME OF THE BROADCAST TOWERS GENE AND HIS TEAM BUILT

28

GENE'S AGE WHEN HE STARTED HIS FIRST MULTI-MILLION-DOLLAR COMPANY

100

# OF MILES GENE BACKPACKED SOLO THROUGH THE NEGEV DESERT IN ISRAEL

5

# OF TIMES GENE'S NOSE HAS BEEN BROKEN

200+

THE NUMBER OF BUSINESSES GENE HAS ADVISED

ONE

LOVE OF HIS LIFE - SHELIA

4,000+

# OF SBA LOANS ONE OF GENE'S COMPANIES ARRANGED

YOUTH & IGNORANCE

GENE'S FIRST TWO BUSINESS PARTNERS

8

# OF GENE'S GRANDCRITTERS

ZIG ZIGLAR

FOR YEARS, GENE'S SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER

$20,000

THE AMOUNT OF CAPITAL INVESTED IN HIS FIRST STARTUP

"PhD"

EARNED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF HARD KNOCKS

10

THE NUMBER OF FORTUNE 100 COMPANIES THAT HAVE HIRED GENE

3

THE NUMBER OF MONTHS GENE SLEPT UNDER HIS DESK IN THE OFFICE OF ONE OF HIS STARTUPS

ZERO

AMOUNT OF PATIENCE FOR MEDIOCRITY

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LEADER

Gene is a Marine Corps veteran who has received four meritorious promotions for his leadership abilities by the age of 19. Gene is the author of Semper Fidelis Leadership: From The Corps to the Corporation which was the result of embedding with the 2nd Marine Division in Al Anbar Province Iraq in 2005 then again in 2007 representing the Long War Journal, the premier publication on the Global War On Terror.

Gene is the founder of the Semper Fidelis Leadership™ Institute which is devoted to training crisis leaders who are spiritually grounded, mentally tough and physically skilled to be able to decide, communicate and execute in high-speed, high-stress chaotic environments.

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ENTREPRENEUR

At the age of 28, Gene founded his first multi-million-dollar company, a broadcast and telecommunications service firm, building towers up to 2,000 feet in the air. Gene has served in various C - Level roles for companies in which he’s had a stake ranging from a Google Analytics Partner to a geospatial firm, to a third-party logistics company, to a financial services firm which arranged financing for over 4,000 small businesses.

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Gene is the Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of Capital Works. Capital Works empowers business advisors and intermediaries to meet their clients’ growth, capitalization, and exit objectives and efficiently close perfectly-matched transactions with Capital Providers via the only intelligent, end-to-end Capital Transaction Management platform in the marketplace. In 2020, after only 19 months of operations, Capital Works was sold to JP Morgan.

Gene is the Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of Profit Inc, a SaaS-based fintech app that delivers insightful and actionable analysis to clearly reveal the profitability of each customer and offering, enabling management teams to confidently take action to dramatically improve overall profitability and business value.

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ADVISOR

Gene is a highly-respected business advisor who has personally provided strategic growth and leadership advisory services to over two hundred fast growth companies.