ACG San Diego: Knowledge Assets: How They Affect the Value & Transferability of Your Business

David Noosinow has significant experience in wealth transfer, investment planning, mergers and acquisitions, and exit strategies, having worked closely with successful entrepreneurs and families with privately-owned companies. His unique perspective helps business owners mitigate potential issues and find the best course of action.  Before joining AdvicePeriod, David was a Senior Director at BNY Mellon Wealth Management and Vice President at Bernstein Global Wealth Management, where he was able to establish himself as a trusted advisor in the previously untapped markets of Atlanta, Georgia and, Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky. He also enjoyed a successful career trading stocks and junk bonds with Bear Stearns and was a General Partner and Founder of Spartan Capital Management.  He lives in San Diego with his family and enjoys yoga, cycling, skiing, and learning how to ride his SUP on a wave.

Darren Cecil is president and owner of Enrich Sales, Inc., where he helps CEOs, sales managers, and sales people take control of the sales process. He focuses on shortening sales cycle times, eliminating the frustrations and disappointments of an erratic sales process, and implementing a selling system that produces predictable and consistent results, while protecting all parties involved.  Darren has worked with many major corporations, such as Qualcomm, Mercer, General Electric, IBM, Texas Instruments, Barney and Barney, Global Foundry Toyota, Genoptix and the National Football League.  He has also worked with several San Diego-based companies, entrepreneurs, and professionals responsible for bringing in business, yet do not perceive themselves as sales people.  He is known for his effective and appropriate use of humor, and for specializing in “entertrainment.”

Susie Japs is a successful Talent Strategist based in San Diego, California. She leads Wejungo, a boutique management consulting firm that teaches businesses how to better attract, interview, hire, retain and increase the value of employees by creating customized strategic workforce processes. To date, Susie has trained thousands of business leaders and is best known for advising them on how to leverage their top talent to achieve long-term business objectives. Her areas of specialty include: talent strategy, recruiting and hiring solutions, strategic workforce planning, and succession planning for small and mid-sized businesses.  When she is not helping companies succeed, you will find Susie traveling around the world, camping, fishing, and spending time with her husband and two boys.

James E. Tenuto (Jim) brings over thirty years of leadership and management experience to Renaissance Executive Forums, and has held a number of sales, management, and senior management positions in the financial services industry. Previously, Jim graduated from the United States Naval Academy and served onboard USS Wichita (AOR-1) as a shipboard officer, and then as an instructor at the Surface Warfare Officers School. After the Navy, he joined Merrill Lynch. Jim has been named the Executive Forums business partner of the year, has twice won the member retention award, and has been honored three times as the Spirit of Excellence winner. Jim lives in Rancho Bernardo with his wife and has two grown children. He is an avid fly fisherman and enjoys upland bird hunting, cigars, and reading.