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Speakers & Partners
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The Springboard "Big 3" - Thach, Marc & Stephanie - Deliver Practical, High-Value Tools & Strategies You can Start using right away
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Live Q & A sessions to get answers that matter to you most
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Special VIP guests and speakers (Stay Tuned For The Big Reveal!)
Thach Nguyen
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Co-Founder Thach Real Estate Group
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Real Estate Broker, Investor & Developer
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Principal Spring Board To Wealth
Thach Nguyen is the CEO & Founder of Thach Real Estate Group, a Seattle-based real estate company. He is not only a seasoned realtor, investor and developer, but also a proud ambassador of the American Dream. During his 30 years in the real estate industry, he has built over 300 homes, townhomes and multifamily units and completed over 100 flips. He currently holds 120 rental units with the goal of owning 1000 investment properties. Thach and his team have assisted over 1,500 families to create their own American Dream of home ownership, ranking him in the Top 1% of all real estate professionals nationwide.
Thach constructed 7 new homes for homeless families at Seattle’s First Place School to help them secure permanent housing. His rags to riches story and unique brand of contribution-based success, captured the attention of The Seattle Times, NW Asian Weekly, Puget Sound Business Journal, The International Examiner and The Early Show on CBS.
Thach finds balance traveling to his family’s favorite vacation spots in Maui, Southern California and Asia. When not working on real estate deals together, He and his wife Camie enjoying attending their sons Russell and Hudson’s baseball and soccer games.
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​Off Market Acquisitions & Sales Expert
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Co-founder APEX - Allied Property Experts
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Principal Spring Board To Wealth
Marc Erickson
A Seattle native, Marc Erickson grew up surrounded by a family of real estate investors and entrepreneurs. He developed a taste for the game from an early age when he realized he liked the idea of flipping houses when he was just 7 years old.
Marc started studying how to buy and finance Real Estate creatively in the mid 90's, and bought his 1st property in 98 with $500.00 cash and a creative structure. He never looked back. After honing his sales skills across several industries, Marc became a top residential and portfolio lender. After the crash in 2008, he became an off-market acquisition specialist for one of the largest investor groups in the state.
Since then, Marc found Green Canopy Homes, where he sourced, structured, and ran their first projects. He eventually helped them transition from being known as experts in the remodeling space, to becoming a leader in in-city infill development and new construction in Seattle and Portland. Marc has also applied his considerable skill sets to a wide range of real estate specializations, including off market acquisition, flips, major rehabs and new construction.
Marc’s expertise in real estate is surpassed only by his sincere commitment to integrity and contributing to others. When he’s not doing real estate deals, Marc is most likely coaching one of his two son’s sports teams.
Stephanie Owens
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Mindset & Communication Expert​
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Therapist Turned Entrepreneur
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Principal Spring Board To Wealth
Therapist turned entrepreneur, Stephanie Owens delivers a unique perspective to business by sharing key communication secrets that quickly build trust and long-lasting relationships to help her clients grow their businesses quickly and easily, without feeling pushy.
Stephanie Owens specializes in teaching overachievers and high performance professionals turnkey communication tools and mindset strategies to achieve more and stress less. She successfully built three thriving referral-based businesses from scratch without paid advertising or cold calling using short cuts she learned by applying her therapy bag of tricks to the business world.
Now, she teaches others these trade secrets so they can attract more business in record time just by knowing how to talk with people in a way that not only authentic, but also a perfect fit for how the human brain was designed.
Stephanie is the author of a book entitled No Is The New YES!: The Overachievers Guide To Achieve More & Stress Less.
Stephanie shares a peaceful, happy life with her supportive husband and their two amazing college-aged kids near Tacoma, WA.
SPEAKERS AND PRESENTERS
Ashley Fosberg
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Vice President of Philanthropy for Seattle Sounders FC & Executive Director of RAVE Foundation
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Ashley Fosberg joined Sounders FC as Executive Director of RAVE Foundation in November of 2016. She leads the strategic planning, programs and administration of RAVE – Sounders FC’s charitable arm – and its mission-driven investments throughout the Puget Sound region. RAVE builds small fields for free play and invests programs that use soccer as a vehicle to inspire youth.
RAVE focuses its resources and partnerships in communities of need in our region. Under the leadership of Fosberg and in partnership with Seattle Housing Authority, RAVE opened its first turf playfield, built solely for free play, at Yesler Terrace Park in Seattle. In 2018, she was named one of Seattle’s Rising Brand Stars by Adweek, recognizing RAVE’s philanthropic work and its impact in the community.
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Fosberg has extensive non-profit experience, having most previously served as Executive Director of Highline Schools Foundation where she fundraised and gathered resources for 20,000 public school students in the culturally rich and economically diverse cities of Burien, Des Moines, SeaTac and unincorporated White Center. Prior career experience includes serving as Seattle Art Museum’s Director of Marketing, Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Director of Communications and as the PR officer for the Seattle chapter of the American Heart Association. She started her career in broadcasting at KOMO in television and radio promotions. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and raised in Seattle, Fosberg grew up attending Sounders games in the Kingdome. She is a graduate of Washington State University and lives in Burien with her three children.
Eric Ching
Eric always had a passion for music before he even considered DJing. He enjoyed searching and downloading new music on a regular basis to keep his music playlist up to date.
He was the one you would want to pass the AUX to in the car. Little did he know, this would set him up in the future. In college, he attended his first music festival and was really intrigued by the DJ's effort of how they kept the crowd engaged.
After further research, he bought his own DJ mixer and started to mix in his apartment for fun. He got his name out by DJing and throwing parties at his apartment. After graduation, he flew out to California to pursue music. He was selected as a one of the contestants in YourShot USA with Tiesto. T
here he got to re-learn and develop his DJing skills and techniques, as well as getting the chance to perform on a main stage in front of hundreds of people, Tiesto, and his team. Afterwards he stayed in California to finish music production school at Garnish Music Production.
His love for music still continues!
Brad Evans
Sounders FC Brand Ambassador
As Brand Ambassador, Brad Evans works across Sounders FC to represent the Club and RAVE Foundation in a number of ways, including public appearances, youth advocacy, media and broadcast work, community outreach and a variety of other duties.
Evans was an integral part of the team during his years on the field and his passion for the Seattle community was only rivaled by how greatly the community embraced him in return. Serving in the capacity of Brand Ambassador provides him the opportunity to continue affecting change in our region while once again representing the Rave Green.
Evans was selected by Seattle from Columbus in the 2008 MLS Expansion Draft, joining Sounders FC as a member of its inaugural-season roster. A key contributor for his nine seasons with the club, Evans recorded time at every field position and ranks second in all-time appearances for Sounders FC with 200 (not including postseason). Evans helped the Rave Green to four Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup trophies, the 2014 Supporters’ Shield and 2016 MLS Cup, with memorable moments ranging from scoring the club’s second goal in team history to successfully converting the opening penalty kick in the 2016 MLS Cup Final at Toronto. Last season during the club’s celebration of 10 years in MLS, Evans was voted by fans, media and high-level club stakeholders as part of the club’s MLS Best XI squad.
Off the field, Evans has always been equally dedicated. He has been a vocal advocate for LGBTQ rights, speaking out for inclusion, serving alongside Chad Marshall as the club’s Athlete Ally representatives and making league history as one of the first MLS captains to don a rainbow armband in support of Pride activities. He is a vocal advocate of play equity and using soccer as a vehicle to inspire kids and communities. Evans is also passionate about the environment and is a longtime supporter of Seattle Humane.
Cody Touchette
Cody began his career in Mortgage Lending over 20 years ago; his experience and expertise
make him an invaluable resource to our clients helping them determine the perfect loan for
their long-term goals. With expertise in foreclosure, short sales, REO, bank owned, competitive
analysis, financing, debt consolidation, purchase, refinance, real estate investing, and
foreclosure auctions; Cody’s mission is to put you on a successful path to homeownership.
Outside of the office Cody enjoys spending his down times with his dog Bear. He is also an
Explorer enjoying world travels as well as local trips around the beautiful Pacific Northwest.
And of course, to know Cody you must know he’s a die-hard Seattle Sports Fan, Sounders and
Seahawks season ticket holder, and a True to the Blue Seattle Mariners Fan!
Charles McKinney
Charles McKinney has a 22-year career as an entrepreneur, real estate investor, and corporate executive in financial services.
Charles has a multistate real estate portfolio in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Phoenix, Orlando, Raleigh-Durham, and Seattle markets. He is responsible for investment sourcing, value add strategies, property operations, and vendor management. Opportunistically, Charles invests passively in fix-and-flip and new construction projects.
As an entrepreneur, Charles is the CEO and cofounder of Vontive, a fast-growing Fintech startup backed by Zigg Capital, Founders Fund, 8VC, and leading venture investors. He leads growth, business development, operations, and investor relations, as well as provides strategic direction to the company. Charles is an active startup investor and adviser, including notable companies like Blend and Opendoor.
Charles had a 20-year corporate career. From 2014 to 2016, Charles was senior vice president and head of analytics at Ten-X | Auction.com. From 2009 to 2014, Charles was one of the executives responsible for managing credit losses at Freddie Mac. He built an organization and led strategies that covered performance management for Freddie Mac’s 1,500 servicers, real estate liquidation strategies and pricing, nonperforming loan sales, and analytics for the $1.5 trillion single-family portfolio. From 2006 to 2008, Charles managed strategies for Freddie Mac to comply with its affordable housing goals. Prior to joining Freddie Mac, Charles worked in consulting, including five years in risk advisory services at KPMG.
Charles has an MBA from the University of Maryland and an MA in Anthropology from SUNY Albany.
Dan Piantanida
Dan has financed commercial real estate for over 15 years, and has closed over $2.2 billion of commercial real estate. He has achieved this success by building long standing relationships with experienced commercial real estate investors and developers. Dan’s has financed properties throughout the country and travels regularly to meet with clients and see the properties they are acquiring or developing. Prior to joining GP Realty Finance, Dan worked in corporate finance for a Fortune 500 high tech firm in Silicon Valley and Horsham, England. He earned a finance degree with honors from Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business.
Dan is also the co-principal of S&P MHP Capital LLC, a real estate investment firm which acquires, renovates, and operates manufactured housing communities in both Washington and Idaho. In his role as a principal, he oversees acquisitions, asset management, as well as lender and investor relations.
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Dan lives in Kirkland, WA with his wife and 2 sons. He enjoys cooking, weightlifting, martial arts, and pursuing the numerous outdoor activities the Pacific Northwest has to offer including surfing, skiing, hiking, and mountain biking. However, his primary hobby these days is coaching his kids in soccer and baseball.
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