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Mr. Writer is the CEO and Founder of Children’s Educational Network, a father of 5, married for 20 years and lives in Escondido, CA. He has been in the Internet safety business for over 9 years after having his own daughter accidentally stumble across a porn site after typing her name in a search engine.
Additionally, Mr. Writer was responsible for pioneering and creating one of the 1st technologies that protected children online using the "Include List" or "White List" methodology, which is reported to be the safest and most reliable method to keep children safe on the Internet.
Mr. Writer is an executive with over 23 years experience in corporate finance, capital formation, executive level management, mergers, acquisitions, software development and sales/marketing. At the age of 21 he was the youngest owner and operator of a full service brokerage firm in the history of the United States.
He is a nationally known professional speaker and is the CEO of The Writer Group, a marketing and business consulting firm, specializing in business strategy and marketing, capital engineering and corporate finance |
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Mr. Spoon is currently the CEO of Noah’s Internet and a Board member of Children’s Educational Network. He currently works full time on the Business of Noah’s Internet and is one of a few individuals holding ministerial ordinations from three separate denominations: Heritage Free Baptist Organization, 1981; Independent Pentecostal Ministers Association, 1986; and Vineyard Valley Association, 1988. Pastor Dave is also responsible for helping start seven churches throughout the Western United States and has written a variety of worship songs. He was also the Chaplain for the Flagstaff Police Department.
Pastor Dave was the senior pastor of Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Flagstaff. The church started with 3 people and grew to over 300 attendees in less than 4 years.
During the mid 1990’s, he was the official Outreach Pastor of Trinity Heights Methodist Church. In addition, Pastor Dave started and co-hosted 2 different live Christian call-in radio talk shows. Today, he hosts the radio show called "To Know Him" which airs on 88.9 on the F.M. dial at 1:00 p.m., Monday through Friday in Temecula, California.
Since 1999 until 2007, he has been helping protect children on the Internet by developing and distributing Christian safety browsers in connection with Children’s Educational Network. From 2003 to 2007, Pastor Dave moved to Temecula California and started Temecula Online, an Internet business directory for Temecula Valley. In 2005, he started another church, Aletheia Community Church (http://www.wewantjesus.com/). |
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Clifford J. Smith. Mr. Smith comes to CEN with over 20 years' experience in management and business governance and policy. Mr. Smith has successfully planned and set into operation three start-ups companies; developed and implemented corporate management structures; implemented policies and procedures; and developed operational systems and controls. He is an experienced senior-level planner and administrator and accomplished program and product management.
Mr. Smith is best known for his work in obtaining special authorization from each branch of the US Military to utilize the emblems of the Army / Navy / Air Force / Marines / Coast Guard / Army and Air National Guard on products distributed throughout all 50 states, US territories, Possessions and Military Bases worldwide in an effort to help military families and thank them for their brave efforts, while protecting our freedoms.
Mr. Smith handled operational budget creation and capital raising activities and secured strategic partnerships with the US Postal Service, Infinity Broadcastings KYXY 96.5 FM, the Walt Disney Company, and EarthLink, Inc. Mr. Smith took part in taking a former technology company public in 1998. Mr. Smith is also a member of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce and a registered speaker talking with consumer groups about fraud through the BBB Speakers Bureau.
His experience in the hotel and Food and Beverage Management field spanned nearly a decade working for Marriott, Hilton Hotels and world renowned Hotel Del Coronado, among others. One Highlight includes the 1996 Republican National Convention in San Diego. Mr. Smith was heavily involved in the opening of multiple food and beverage outlets for Marriott Hotels in Boston Copley, Long Island NY, Westchester NY, Newark Airport Marriott, LaGuardia Airport Marriott, and the New York City Marriott Marquis.
Mr. Smith holds a Bachelors of Science Degree (BS) with a double major in Food Service Management and Business Administration, from Montclair State College in New Jersey.
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Ms. Writer is the Interim Secretary and Treasurer of the Company. As an executive assistant with over fifteen years' experience, she is familiar with accounting, word processing, and customer relationship management systems. Mary Writer is the spouse of Greg Writer. She is also a Board Member of The Writer Group and has served as secretary and treasurer for The Writer Group for the past 4 years. |
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Mr. Bracken has a background in finance, government relations, sales and sales management. Mr. Bracken has a strong knowledge of Internet based business as well as the financial services industry and public services. In the early 1990’s Mr. Bracken was the Associate Vice President for a regional Investment Back. From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Bracken served as the Franchise Commissioner for the city of Escondido, California. From 1995 to 2000 Mr. Bracken was the General Manger of Probook, Inc. This was an internet company that focused on the marketing of business and charities of professional athletes. At that time the company developed the largest database of professional athletes on the Internet. Mr. Bracken managed all aspect of the company’s marketing and product development. Mr. Bracken received his Bachelors’ of Science degree in finance from San Diego Sate University. |
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Mr. Heinzel has a background in sales and marketing. From 2001-2006 he spent his time self employed as a Marketing Consultant in the personal fitness industry and also the management of various training facilities and studios.
He carries 7 years of direct customer contact and management of people. Matthew has participated in many internet startups and has over 5 years experience in online marketing including: web design, database creation and management, affiliate marketing, conversion strategies, joint ventures, ppc, copy writing, opt-in, sales letters, auto responders and split-testing.
Matthew has direct experience with licensing, advertising, brand marketing, promotions, project management and product development through his solid foundation for art direction and creative. |
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Michelle Renee is a single mom, published author, speaker, entreprenuer and is also a 2008 MSN Hometown Hero. She joins the CEN team as Director of Communications.
She is living a purpose focused life after enduring a horrifying violent crime that captured national attention and is the focus of her debut book, Held Hostage:The True Story of a Mother and Daughter's Kidnapping. Michelle shares her journey with passion, honesty and courage from the dark aftermath of violent crime, confronting her past in order to move forward towards positive change, and what it took for her and her daughter to overcome this devastating tragedy with love, gratitude and forgiveness.
Michelle's 13-year financial industry career included AVP/Regional Sales Manager, Relationship Banking and Customer Satisfaction Manager and AVP/Banking Center Manager for one of the nations largest financial institutions. Michelle has been awarded for her success in banking as well as for her leadership in our community and crime victim advocacy. Michelle studied Communications with an emphasis on Public Relations at the University of Alaska. She is the Founder of The Violent Trauma Awareness Project & Rock To Stop Violence and is actively involved in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder awareness and education. She is a member of the Global Peacebuilders Project, National Association of Women Executives, was named Soroptimist International's 2007 Woman of Distinction, and interviewed with Gayle King on Good Morning America.
Michelle resides in Southern California with her daughter, Breea.
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Suzanne's mission is the welfare of children. Her extensive backgroundin Internet Safety Education includes lobbying the United States Congress on internet safety issues, and the illegal trafficking of minor children. She authored proposed federal legislation, "Parents Against Predator's Act" (a.k.a. PAPA) which will be voted on by the United States Congress in 2008. In May, 2008, she will receive the coveted Artemis Award by the Euro American Women's Council, in Greece. In 2003, while an executive with I-Safe America, a federally funded
internet safety education foundation she helped launch, she was selected by Congressman David Vitter as one of "10 American Women of Leadership". In 2002, she received a Congressional Merit Award for "Internet Safety and America's Youth". Suzanne publishes online internet safety information and speaks around the country on
responsible internet use, how to avoid being victimized by online predators; and the worldwide crisis of child pornography and trafficking. Prior to working in the Internet safety education field, Suzanne enjoyed a long and varied career in the network television and feature film industry. as an actress, writer, television critic, producer, and production executive. She remains a member of the Directors Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild, and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
Her community service includes being active in her church, her child's school and supporting The Special Olympics. She is the President of the Founder's Guild for Casa Teresa, a non-profit organization that provides a loving home for single, pregnant women 18 years of age and older and their babies; and is on the Board of Directors for Challenge Day, a non profit organization providing experiential workshops and programs to youth and their communities that demonstrate the possibility of love and connection through the celebration of diversity, truth, and full expression.
In 2005, Suzanne launched "The Rolling Suitcase and New Clothing Drive" for Hurricane Katrina and Rita victims for The Red Cross in San Antonio, Texas. This resulted in donations of over 24,000 rolling suitcases and countless articles of clothing. Suzanne holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from UCLA, lives in Newport Beach, California, and is a single mother. She gives credit to God for her accomplishments, and support the work and mission of the Children's Educational Network to provide a child safe web browser and an entertaining online destination for families and their children. |
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Mr. Riehl has over 18 years experience in software development and currently offers 100% of his time to CEN. His roles span product development, quality assurance, and support. His previous experience was in retail point-of-sale, mortgage, insurance and Internet authentication software. He served as a Quality Assurance/Support Manager for 8 years, and has been with Children’s Educational Network since June 2004. Ken is married and has two children. |
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Rich Peluso, recently joined CEN as a part-time sales executive. His 20 years of proven executive and general management leadership in sales, marketing, brand development, product development and licensing bring an exciting skills set to the Company at a critical time.
His experience includes launching a start-up child safety video company with Julie Clark (Founder of The Baby Einstein Company) and John Walsh (Host of America’s Most Wanted), generating over $5MM in sales in its first year, and helping to make the first release, Stranger Safety, the best-selling kids safety video ever. Additionally he managed over $100MM in annual sales as president of EMI CMG Distribution, a division of EMI Music LTD. Achievements include dramatically raising market share, negotiating over 30 distribution contracts, developing new markets and channels, and introducing hundreds of new products and brands each year. See www.rpbizdev.com. |
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Propeller Consulting has been engaged on a part-time basis. The firm is a premier marketing and branding agency specializing in assisting producers and distributors of family entertainment products aimed at the faith-based consumer. Sue Beddingfield our main contact is a strategic marketing executive with more than 20 years experience in launching and building brands. Before joining Propeller, Sue had her own business, Surround Marketing Group, specializing in developing and implementing business, brand and marketing plans, primarily for children’s and family brands. See www.propellerconsulting.net.
Prior to forming Surround, Beddingfield served as Senior Vice President, Marketing, for HIT Entertainment (formerly Lyrick Studios), where she authored innovative marketing programs for many blue-chip children’s entertainment brands. She was a member of the executive management team responsible for developing and maintaining Barney’s classic-character status in the preschool category. Additionally, Beddingfield created and managed launch plans for popular characters Bob the Builder and The Wiggles, building Bob to an award-winning (License of the Year) $100 million launch in the U.S., and generating a media and sales frenzy with The Wiggles. She also designed the brand extension plan for Angelina Ballerina, growing Angelina from a classic book character to a successful television and video series. Sue Beddingfield client work includes: Insight For Kids!, Roger Day, G Studios, Sky Ranch Camps, Seville Pictures, Mighty Machines, SafeBrowse. In addition to Sue, the entire team at Propeller Consulting contributes to the CEN Mission. |
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Since 1997, Avery Mann has been the head publicist and media relations director for the Washington, DC based FOX Television program "America's Most Wanted." Mr. Mann is responsible for overseeing the PR department, working with and responding to all media and public inquiries, and coordinating publicity for both the show -- and the host -- John Walsh.
Mann also serves and has served as a media relations advisor to companies whose mandate includes a crime fighting mission. In 2002, he was hired as a senior advisor for all media relations to the previously syndicated daytime program, THE JOHN WALSH SHOW, which had been cleared in 91% of the United States. That show was headquartered in New York City.
Mann also works closely with other television networks and programs including NBC's TODAY show, ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT, EXTRA, LARRY KING LIVE, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, CNN, Fox NewsChannel and many other programs both network and syndicated.
Earlier in his career Mann worked on various feature film productions and TV projects in "Hollywood North."
A native of Vancouver, Mr. Mann received his Bachelors Degree from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and his Masters Degree from the American University, Washington, D.C. He is also a member of the Entertainment Publicists Professional Society.
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Mr. Christ is an award winning animation director (The Smart Museum™) who has done work for NBC (Comedy Bytes), Black Entertainment Television (Soundstage at Disney World, Jamz-Zone), Fox Television and Kaleidoscope. His innovative Quiet Toons™ was the subject of an NBC nightly news segment. Through his extensive work with Microsoft Agent technology he has created numerous customized Agents for various clients, including a recent 3D-animated Garfield the Cat for Jim Davis. Tom is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego. |
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President of ONE Productions, Inc. Mr. Crawford and his wife combine the visual power of video with music, animation and special effects to leverage the power of presentation to produce exceptional marketing and communication that inform, inspire and sell. He has worked with hundreds of national and regional clients. His productions have been delivered through tried and true delivery platforms including: videotape, CD, DVD, broadcast, and web streaming. His team of experienced, creative professionals gives visual and persuasive impact. Crawford’s national clients include; IBM, Ford, Nissan, Apple, Kodak, NCR, Ernst& Young, among others. Richard’s awards include four area Emmy Awards, Gold Cindy Awards for multimedia, San Diego Film Festival Prize and the New York Art Director’s Award. Richard served as the director of the Namaji foundation for funding humanitarian programs for social change. He currently serves as Vice President of the Russian American Foundation for taking medical relief to Russian citizens. |
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In the aftermath of the Oct 1, 1993 kidnap and murder of his twelve-year-old daughter Polly, Marc Klaas gave up his lucrative rental car franchise to pursue an aggressive child safety mission. Mr. Klaas co-founded BeyondMissing, Inc., a federally funded California public benefit non-profit corporation to give meaning to Polly’s death and to create a legacy in her name that will protect children for generations to come. BeyondMissing provides America’s law enforcement community with a free and secure Website to easily and swiftly create and distribute missing child flyers via broadcast fax, email, and SMS technology.
Through federal and state legislative efforts Mr. Klaas promotes prevention programs for at-risk youth, stronger sentencing for violent criminals and governmental accountability and responsibility. Often times this advocacy takes the form of legislative testimony.
Besides his duties as volunteer president of the KlaasKids Foundation and president of BeyondMissing, Inc. Mr. Klaas sits on the advisory boards of the Center for the Community Interest; Fight Crime Invest in Kids and the National Children’s Advocacy Center. |
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Mr. Briney is an engineering and business executive with 40 years of experience leading the development of state-of-the-art products for industry-leading companies like IBM, Prodigy, SystemSoft, Electronic Retailing Systems, boxLot, and Path 1 Networks. During his 16 years at IBM he rose through a series of research, development, sales, and management positions. He was one of the original Prodigy executives and was responsible for the design of the network and for the development of both the network and the user application environment, installed on more than 10 million machines. Prodigy was the pioneer for user-friendly, family-oriented online services and the first major ISP to offer Internet access to the mass-market. Since then Mr. Briney has been CTO and VP of Engineering for two turn-around companies and two startup companies. He is currently on the Board of S2M America, a company that is going to provide satellite-to-mobile phone services. Mr. Briney is a graduate of Cal, Berkeley in Engineering. |
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Loral Langemeier, a master coach and financial strategist, built her first business in high school, and by the time she was 34, she’d established a multi-million-dollar portfolio of properties, businesses, gas/oil and notes. Recognized by her peers for her personal commitment to helping people create unimaginable success, and acknowledged by thousands of clients for the substance, insight and applicable value her programs provide, Loral has emerged as one of the most successful business and motivational speakers to hit the lecture platform.
One of Loral's most fulfilling accomplishments has been the founding of Live Out Loud, a coaching, mentoring and seminar company. The coaches, mentors and peer-to-peer wealth builders who make up Live Out Loud’s Team Made Millionaire Community support each other while moving forward, with hope and optimism, and a belief in everyone’s capacity and ability to be successful entrepreneurs and investors.
Besides her work within Live Out Loud, Langemeier presents Millionaire-Maker events across the country and is a participating author in the “The Secret.” She is also a weekly guest columnist on Gather.com and for TheStreet.com—an in-depth financial analysis and news website co-founded by CNBC “Mad Money” host, Jim Cramer. She’s been featured in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal and New York Times as well as CNN, Fox News, and ABCNews.com, Forbes.com, BusinessWeek.com and has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show 3 times.
Loral is a three-time best-selling author with The Millionaire Maker: How to Act, Think, and Make Money the Way the Wealthy Do, The Millionaire Maker’s Guide to Wealth Cycle Investing, and recently released The Millionaire Maker’s Guide to Creating a Cash Machine for Life. |
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Mrs. Joyce Bone is a well-rounded combination of mom, wife and entrepreneur. Her success story starts simply as a stay at home mom that was jogging around a track with her eighteen month in tow when she heard over her headphones a question that would change her destiny: “If you had the ideal life what would that life look like?” She found this question intriguing, as she never took the time to really consider it. She wrote down her answers about an ideal life and started taking action to achieve it.
In eighteen months time she went from a stay at home mom to a CEO running a publicly traded company she co-founded with her former boss. EarthCare was traded on NASDAQ under ECCO and catered to the non-hazardous liquid waste industry. She was responsible for the startup formation, acquisitions, operations and initial public offering of her company, which ultimately reached $125 million in annual revenues. She attributes the dramatic change to the decision she made to live her life on purpose.
Mrs. Bone has been featured in MONEY, Kiplingers, and Millionaire Blueprints magazines for her work. She was also featured on the corporate training television show, the Excellent Women Club. Joyce contributed to the book “What No One Tells You About Real Estate Investing” and will be featured in March 2007 in the “100 Year Life Cycle” by Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Anita Sharpe. Mrs. Bone received her Bachelor’s of Science from Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia. In addition to volunteering in her children’s schools, she is on the Board of Directors for CASA Gwinnett, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping guide foster children successfully as they enter the foster care system. |
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Jim Brogan is an author, instructor, leader, and dynamic speaker who has earned national recognition as an inspirational speaker and advisor. He is well- known and highly respected authority on peak performance for teens, CEOs, coaches, and elite athletes from the NFL, MLB, and NBA.
What started as helping a few individuals improve the quality of their academic and athletic performance has grown into a dynamic program for assisting teenagers across the U.S. to become strong, successful, well-rounded people.
In 1988, Jim produced the first video version of the Standards of Excellence program. Then in 1992, the Standards of Excellence went to an audio version. With the success of these programs, a newer version was produced in 1997 called Making a Difference, which was extremely successful in influencing teenagers’ lives. The latest and most up-to-date version of Jim’s program is 10 Steps to Success, now available through his website.
Jim is a former professional basketball player in the NBA. He had the privilege of starting his career with the Golden State Warriors and finished with the San Diego Clippers. He is a graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan College, with degrees in business and psychology. Jim is coauthor of the book titled Inspiring Others to Win. He has delivered over 1,000 presentations to corporations, businesses, and schools teaching effective techniques for gaining life skills. From 1994 to 2000, he was the keynote speaker for the DARE program in San Diego, California. Since 1996, he has been a keynote speaker for the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Conference. He is on the President’s Advisory Council for West Virginia Wesleyan College, the advisory board for Pro Kennex, and is the President of the Pitch It Forward Foundation. |
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Dr. Fellingham is an internationally known speaker, the author of five books, and recipient of the State Outstanding Woman of the Year Award, 2003. Specializing in family relations and parenting, Paula has given presentations at the United Nations, at the International Conference of the Worldwide Organization for Women, and numerous other places. Paula also participated in the World Congress on Families in Geneva, and was honored as Washington State Young Mother of the Year. As a radio personality, Paula hosted a daily two-hour show and achieved the station’s highest ratings for a talk show where she offered listeners parenting advice, interviewed parenting experts, and answered call-in questions. She is the former Director of Women-to-Women Life Success Seminars™, giving individuals and women-owned businesses vision, voice, and clear direction. As a writer and producer, Dr. Fellingham authored the outstanding 55 minute parenting video, Creating A Successful Family: Six Essential Steps. |
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