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A Few of the Board Members Already in the Room
ELLIOT WITMER
Elliot brings more than 30 years of federal IT contracting, program leadership, and business ownership experience into the room. He helps entrepreneurs clarify vision, strengthen teams, and build scalable operating systems around people, purpose, performance, and profit.
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SCOTT RAMMAGE
Scott helps founders build dependable teams and reduce founder dependency. His value in the Boardroom is helping entrepreneurs create capacity, hire with more trust, and grow without keeping themselves trapped at the center of the business.
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BRAD FULLKERSON
Brad brings 25 years of military leadership, including 16 years in Special Operations, into conversations around discipline, culture, and execution under pressure. In the Boardroom, he helps founders think clearly, adapt quickly, and lead when the path is uncertain.
CHRISTIE THOMPSON
Christie brings an operator-led acquisition lens to the Boardroom, with experience managing $15M to $150M business units and building acquisition platforms. She adds value through roll-up strategy, integration discipline, and transforming owner-dependent businesses into institutional-grade companies.
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TOM CZYZ
Tom brings the perspective of a former homicide detective, SWAT operator, and founder of a national school safety company operating in all 50 states. His value in the Boardroom is mission-driven leadership, crisis readiness, and building a company around a problem that truly matters.
CHASE GRIFFIN
Chase brings deep operating experience across commercial real estate, chemicals, and the car wash industry. As a third-generation car wash professional and former CEO, he adds insight around profitability, vertical integration, and building with industry-specific advantage.
JEFF NEWLAND
Jeff brings a builder’s perspective to growth, systems, and operational execution. Through Bold Commercial Construction, he helps the Boardroom think through project discipline, repeat-client relationships, strategic partnerships, and building companies that operate beyond the owner.
KATHRYN WILEY
Kathryn brings a creative, design-driven eye to real estate, short-term rentals, and investment strategy. Her value in the Boardroom is seeing opportunity others miss and turning spaces, ideas, and assets into something more meaningful and valuable.
KYLE NEWSOM
Kyle brings an execution-first operator’s perspective shaped by more than two decades in business, leadership, systems, and growth. In the Boardroom, he helps turn strategy into action, sharpen operational clarity, and keep founders focused on what actually moves the business forward.
MONIQUE PASCIAK
Monique brings the mindset of a builder, educator, and owner, with a $100M+ real estate portfolio and a successful healthcare SaaS exit. Through Seller Carryback Accelerator, she adds value around acquisition strategy, seller finance, and using ownership as a path to scale.
PATRICK & MYCHELE BISSON
Patrick and Mychele bring a strong real estate and hospitality lens to the Boardroom through outdoor experience resorts and strategic land acquisitions. Their value is in seeing underutilized assets differently and transforming them into cash-flowing, experience-driven destinations.
Todd Volling
Todd brings more than 35 years of field-tested leadership in electrical and commercial contracting. As the founder of Stray Voltage, he adds value through standards, safety, team culture, and the discipline required to build a respected company across complex job sites and national projects.
Patrick and Mychele Bisson are real estate investors and operators specializing in Outdoor Experience Resorts and strategic land acquisitions across the United States.
With a focus on revitalizing and repositioning RV parks and outdoor hospitality assets, they have built a growing portfolio designed to deliver both strong cash flow and memorable guest experiences. Their work centers on transforming underutilized properties into thriving, community-driven destinations while creating long-term value through thoughtful development and operational excellence.
Monique Pasciak is a serial entrepreneur, builder, and educator driven by one conviction. Ownership changes everything.
She owns and operates a $100M+ real estate portfolio across the Midwest. Before real estate became her main stage, she built and exited a healthcare SaaS company. That early win taught her how to build, scale, and walk away clean. The playbook stuck.
Today she runs the Seller Carryback Accelerator, a program that teaches entrepreneurs how to acquire real estate using seller finance structures most investors never learn to negotiate. She lives by two rules: work hard & bless more. Everything she does is in service of one goal: to touch a billion people before she dies.
When she isn't closing deals or coaching clients, she's hanging out with family, playing games, or traveling somewhere new.
Scott Rammage is an entrepreneur, builder, and advisor who has spent the last two decades learning what it really takes to grow a business without losing the people and priorities that matter most.
He has built and sold businesses, lived the pressure of founder-led growth, and learned that strong companies are not built on hustle alone. They are built through trust, clear standards, the right people, and leadership that can hold both growth and responsibility.
As the founder of HireVP, Scott helps business owners hire high-quality Virtual Professionals and build dependable teams rooted in ownership, accountability, and long-term fit. His work sits at the intersection of leadership, team building, and capacity, helping founders create companies that grow with more clarity, more trust, and less dependence on the founder at the center.
Scott speaks on hiring, leadership, founder dependency, and the ongoing tension between building a business and being fully present at home.
On December 14, 2012, the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary changed the course of school safety in America. For Tom Czyz, a father, husband to a schoolteacher, former SWAT operator, homicide detective, and nationally recognized active shooter expert, that moment became a lifelong mission to prevent school violence.
Tom is the founder of Armoured One and ONE Training, companies dedicated to helping schools, law enforcement, businesses, and government leaders prevent, respond to, and survive active shooter attacks. Since founding Armoured One, Tom and his team have investigated over sixty K-12 school attacks and have written detailed debrief reports used by school leaders, politicians, architects, law enforcement agencies, and government entities, including the FBI.
Armoured One has grown to approximately 100 employees and now operates in all 50 states, providing school security assessments, active-shooter training, security glass, window film, and life-saving strategies designed to slow attackers and speed up law enforcement response.
Tom is also a best-selling Amazon author in school safety and security, known for his book Staying One Step Ahead: Ending the Story of Active Shooter in America’s Schools. His work continues to focus on one mission: helping communities stay one step ahead and protecting the lives of children, teachers, and staff across America.
Kyle Newsom is an entrepreneur, founder, and operator with more than two decades of experience building businesses, leading teams, and turning strategy into execution. His career began in his family’s automotive service business, where he developed a deep respect for hard work, accountability, and being brilliant at the basics.
Kyle has founded multiple businesses and held executive-level operational roles focused on systems, leadership development, and sustainable growth. As a founding member of the EPIC Boardroom, he brings a practical, execution-first perspective to a room built for serious entrepreneurs pursuing sharper thinking, stronger relationships, and long-term enterprise value.
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Over the course of a 25-year military career—16 of those years in Special Operations—Brad Fulkerson developed a clear pattern: moving toward challenge rather than away from it. Not out of obligation, but from a belief that real growth rarely happens in familiar territory. Each step forward brought greater complexity, higher expectations, and more uncertainty. Over time, that became the point.
Over the course of a 25-year military career—16 of those years in Special Operations—Brad Fulkerson developed a clear pattern: moving toward challenge rather than away from it. Not out of obligation, but from a belief that real growth rarely happens in familiar territory. Each step forward brought greater complexity, higher expectations, and more uncertainty. Over time, that became the point.
After transitioning from the military in 2023, Brad wasn’t looking to replicate what came before—he was looking for the next challenge. Following a brief period as a government contractor, he stepped into an executive role with Christensen Arms as the Chief Product Officer. The transition proved more natural than expected. Many of the lessons forged over years in Special Operations carried over directly—particularly the importance of disciplined execution, strong culture, and hiring the right people, then trusting them to do their job.
In January 2026, Brad took on a new challenge, founding SOF Legion LLC. Building a company from the ground up meant stepping once again into the unknown—this time in a different arena, but with familiar principles. It reinforced something he had seen throughout his career: environments change, but the fundamentals of leadership and performance do not.
Outside of his professional work, Brad’s life is anchored by his family. He and his wife, Jada, have been married for nearly 22 years and are raising two children, a daughter in college and a son in high school. Now based in Utah, they’ve embraced life as recent transplants, drawn to the landscape, the pace, and the perspective it brings.
That same perspective continues to shape how Brad approaches leadership today, helping others navigate complexity, stay grounded in what matters, and perform when it counts.
Chase Griffin is an experienced operator and investor with a background in commercial real estate and the car wash industry. He has over 15 years of hands-on experience and is a third-generation car wash professional. As the former CEO of Sky Blue Chemical, a leading chemical company specializing in the car wash space, he led the company through significant increases in revenue and profitability, opened new divisions, and expanded core business lines. His real estate track record includes land development and multifamily investments.
Today, Chase is exclusively focused on the car wash industry, building a portfolio and brand within the space by leveraging his deep operational knowledge, vertically integrated resources, and multi-generational family legacy. Chase holds an MS in Business Information Systems from the University of Utah, serves as an infantry officer in the Utah Army National Guard, and is a proud father of two.
Christie Thompson built her career where most deal-makers never set foot — inside the operations.
Over 15 years, she managed business units from $15M to $150M in revenue inside Fortune 500 companies, owning the P&L, managing the team, and living through acquisition and integration cycles from the inside out. She didn’t study rollups. She ran them.
Today, Christie is the Founder and Managing Partner of Azul Capital Partners, where she acquires and consolidates MEP — mechanical, electrical, and plumbing — service businesses from retiring baby boomer founders across the United States. She is currently under contract on her anchor acquisition, a Long Island mechanical contractor, with a planned close in late May or early June 2026.
Her model is simple and rare: operator-led acquisition. She embeds 30 to 120 days post-close, preserves technician culture, retains skilled staff, and builds the infrastructure that transforms owner-dependent businesses into institutional-grade enterprises worth multiples of what they sold for.
Christie speaks, builds, and closes — in that order.
With over 30 years in federal IT contracting, Elliot has built a career on solving complexity, driving results, and leading teams through high-stakes, large-scale projects.
Along the way, he earned his Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and became known as an Agile Methodology subject-matter expert. He’s taken on strategic planning challenges, navigated complex problem solving, and overseen program management across diverse technical environments. His success in the public sector laid a foundation of discipline, precision, and adaptability.
Beyond his government work, Elliot spent more than a decade owning and operating his own business. That period sharpened his skills in leadership, operations, financial discipline, and customer-focus. It taught him not just what makes a business work, but how to scale, pivot, and maintain purpose under pressure. It was here that he discovered the deep value of mentorship, coaching, and empowering others—both employees and peers—to achieve their best.
Elliot’s passion for guiding others eventually led him to become a Pinnacle Business Guide. At Pinnacle, Guides are not just coaches, but partners in the climb—helping businesses grow along the five foundational principles: People, Purpose, Playbooks, Performance, and Profit. His decades of experience make him uniquely positioned to help business owners clarify vision, streamline operations, build resilient teams, and scale in ways that are sustainable.
What sets Elliot apart are the philosophies he lives and leads by: “Love the journey”; “It’s never the wrong time to do the right thing”; and “Embrace a lifetime of learning.” These beliefs shape his approach as a guide—reminding leaders that growth is not only about reaching new heights, but about how they climb, who they bring with them, and the wisdom they gain along the way. As a Pinnacle Guide, Elliot is committed to walking alongside entrepreneurs and leaders, sharing lessons learned, facilitating clarity, and helping uncover hidden opportunity.
Jeff Newland is the owner of Bold Commercial Construction, a commercial general contracting firm based in Longview, Texas. He has a background in commercial construction leadership, including building and scaling multi-state car wash construction programs, tenant improvements, retail projects, cannabis facilities, and other private commercial work.
Jeff’s focus is building a company that runs on clear systems, strong communication, and repeat-client relationships instead of simply chasing low-bid work. He is especially interested in strategic partnerships, operational scaling, SOP-driven execution, and using technology to create better visibility for owners and project teams.
He enjoys connecting with other business owners who are focused on growth, accountability, and building companies that can operate beyond the owner.
Kathryn Wiley is a mother of six, a creative force in business and real estate, and a strong believer whose life is shaped by courage, intention, and faith. She brings a grounded, loving presence to her family, encouraging her children and those around her to live with strength, independence, and purpose.
In her work, Kathryn blends design, short-term rentals, and investment strategy with an artist’s eye. She sees beauty in life, in people, and in the details of art and architecture, and she loves transforming properties into spaces that feel warm, meaningful, and alive. Whether shaping a home, a business idea, or a moment with her kids, Kathryn leads with heart, resilience, and an unshakable belief that beauty and opportunity can always be created from wherever you begin.
Todd Volling is the owner of Stray Voltage LLC, an electrical and commercial contracting company specializing in wireless telecommunications and cell tower construction, headquartered in Genoa City, Wisconsin.
A licensed master electrician and electrical contractor in 25 states, Todd built Stray Voltage from a side hustle in 1991 into a full-time operation by 1995 — growing it into a respected field-forward company with projects spanning across the US. Known for a hands-on leadership style and a strong commitment to safety, quality, and team culture, he has spent over
35 years earning a reputation for getting the job done and building the people around him.
Outside the business, Todd is a devoted husband of 33 years and a man of serious passions. A lifelong resident of the Kenosha, Wisconsin area, he is an avid collector of exotic and high-performance automobiles and takes those machines where they belong — on the track and at the drag strip. He is also a dedicated watch enthusiast with a carefully curated watch collection decades in the making.
Todd brings the same precision and standards he demands on a job site to every pursuit — whether that’s running a crew, building a company, or chasing tenths of a second.
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ELLIOT WITMER
Elliot brings more than 30 years of federal IT contracting, program leadership, and business ownership experience into the room. He helps entrepreneurs clarify vision, strengthen teams, and build scalable operating systems around people, purpose, performance, and profit.
SCOTT RAMMAGE
Scott helps founders build dependable teams and reduce founder dependency. His value in the Boardroom is helping entrepreneurs create capacity, hire with more trust, and grow without keeping themselves trapped at the center of the business.
BRAD FULLKERSON
Brad brings 25 years of military leadership, including 16 years in Special Operations, into conversations around discipline, culture, and execution under pressure. In the Boardroom, he helps founders think clearly, adapt quickly, and lead when the path is uncertain.
CHRISTIE THOMPSON
Christie brings an operator-led acquisition lens to the Boardroom, with experience managing $15M to $150M business units and building acquisition platforms. She adds value through roll-up strategy, integration discipline, and transforming owner-dependent businesses into institutional-grade companies.
TOM CZYZ
Tom brings the perspective of a former homicide detective, SWAT operator, and founder of a national school safety company operating in all 50 states. His value in the Boardroom is mission-driven leadership, crisis readiness, and building a company around a problem that truly matters.
CHASE GRIFFIN
Chase brings deep operating experience across commercial real estate, chemicals, and the car wash industry. As a third-generation car wash professional and former CEO, he adds insight around profitability, vertical integration, and building with industry-specific advantage.
JEFF NEWLAND
Jeff brings a builder’s perspective to growth, systems, and operational execution. Through Bold Commercial Construction, he helps the Boardroom think through project discipline, repeat-client relationships, strategic partnerships, and building companies that operate beyond the owner.
KATHRYN WILEY
Kathryn brings a creative, design-driven eye to real estate, short-term rentals, and investment strategy. Her value in the Boardroom is seeing opportunity others miss and turning spaces, ideas, and assets into something more meaningful and valuable.
KYLE NEWSOM
Kyle brings an execution-first operator’s perspective shaped by more than two decades in business, leadership, systems, and growth. In the Boardroom, he helps turn strategy into action, sharpen operational clarity, and keep founders focused on what actually moves the business forward.
MONIQUE PASCIAK
Monique brings the mindset of a builder, educator, and owner, with a $100M+ real estate portfolio and a successful healthcare SaaS exit. Through Seller Carryback Accelerator, she adds value around acquisition strategy, seller finance, and using ownership as a path to scale.
PATRICK & MYCHELE BISSON
Patrick and Mychele bring a strong real estate and hospitality lens to the Boardroom through outdoor experience resorts and strategic land acquisitions. Their value is in seeing underutilized assets differently and transforming them into cash-flowing, experience-driven destinations.
Todd Volling
Todd brings more than 35 years of field-tested leadership in electrical and commercial contracting. As the founder of Stray Voltage, he adds value through standards, safety, team culture, and the discipline required to build a respected company across complex job sites and national projects.
