Team

Management

The expertise of Ignite Practice is grounded in reality: the founders have been down every journey to business success. The company offers not mere theory, but authentic - and proven - planning and executables. From bootstrapping start-ups to refocusing billion-dollar companies, we have demonstrated that success does not depend on luck or accident, but on forging and leveraging the most essential building blocks: knowledge, relationships, and investment.

Cary Pollack, Managing Partner
Cary Pollack has earned an excellent reputation over his 36-year career in finance for integrity, honesty, empathy, and results. Most notably, his relationship-building skills have been successfully applied in mentoring and coaching senior executives, raising capital, deal negotiation, sales, and asset gathering. He also excels at strategy development for early stage and mature companies. Pollack worked in the past at Bear Stearns, Credit Suisse First Boston, and Lehman Brothers. For the past twelve years, he has been a private investor. He has also served on the boards of both public and private companies. Pollack has a BA from Lehman College of New York (formerly Hunter College) and a Masters of International Affairs/Diplomacy from Columbia University.

Landon Pollack, Managing Partner
Landon Pollack is a veteran entrepreneur of 17 years, whose foundation for hard work was set after several years of training to play professional baseball. Pollack has been a founder or founding investor in eleven companies, and secured capital for numerous others. He started four businesses before turning 20, and earned his first million dollars by the age of 13, selling sports memorabilia by mail order. An unabashed entrepreneur, Pollack started a retail memorabilia and apparel store at 14, a personal training consultancy at 16, and an exotic animal store & mail order company at 18. In the subsequent years, his ventures have included health clubs, a beverage company, multi-media systems for health and wellness centers, robotically-controlled exercise equipment, consumer Internet businesses, and yoga studios.

Leveraging his diverse entrepreneurial experience, Pollack has served as a strategic entrepreneur, coach, and consultant to a variety of organizations, across all industries. All of Ignite's Projects' ventures were the product of Pollack's experience and creative vision.

Pollack is writing a book, Click, due to be published by the end of 2008. This book shows how, with networking, individuals will be able to accomplish their life goals.

Advisors

Ignite Practice advisors are well-known and respected authorities in Telecom, Mining, Start-ups, Medical, Legal, Marketing, Food Service, Biotech, and General Business. Through our advisors, we maintain access to world-class information on a real-time basis. The advisory team serves as a sounding board for all of Ignite Practice ventures.

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