Who are the BookWise founders?

BookWise & Company was founded by a dynamic group of book lovers with outstanding credentials.

Richard Paul Evans CEO, Founder:
Richard is more than an award-winning #1 bestselling author (with a string of ten New York Times bestsellers and 13 million plus copies of his books in print worldwide). He is also a savvy businessman and entrepreneur. At the age of 31, Richard was awarded the coveted Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award. Richard is also the founder of The Christmas Box International, an organization that helps abused and neglected children. BookWise combines three loves of his life: books, business and charity.

Robert G. Allen Founder, co-owner:
Robert G. Allen is one of North America's most famous and most influential financial advisors. After graduating with an MBA from Brigham Young University in 1974, he began his real estate investment career and turned his successful experiences into the #1 bestselling book, Nothing Down, with 46 weeks on the New York Times national bestseller list. He followed that success with four other major New York Times bestsellers with sales in the millions. He has appeared on hundreds of programs including Good Morning America, Larry King and Your World with Neil Cavuto. He has also been featured in such national publications as The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Barron's, Money Magazine, Redbook, and Reader's Digest.

Dennis Webb Founder:
Dennis Webb's name holds cachet among the world's business elite. As one of the cofounders of the internationally successful Franklin Quest he was responsible for 250 million dollars of product development and distribution. In addition, Dennis trained clients from numerous Fortune 500 companies, including PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Dow Chemical, Merrill Lynch, and Citibank. Dennis is a much sought after speaker on a wide range of topics, ranging from leadership to time management to financial planning to team building.

Andy Compas Chief Operating Officer:
Andy Compas, a.k.a. "Ironman Andy" and "Andy the Kid," brings almost 15 years of leadership and network marketing experience to the BookWise team. Andy has worked in nearly every realm of the direct sales industry including sales and marketing, call center organization, IT, executive management and order fulfillment. Most recently he has worked as US general manager for one of the largest MLM organizations in the world. Andy has also managed successful global sales teams.

Mark W. Hurst Chief Marketing Officer:
Within a week of learning about BookWise, Mark sold his interest in Salt Lake City's most award-winning advertising agency—where he served as the President and Chief Creative Officer—to join the BookWise Executive Team. In Mark's 30-year career in advertising he has won hundreds of awards for his work and is considered a world-class leader in strategic and creative marketing. Mark spent five years in San Francisco working as Director of Brand Planning for DDB—the largest ad agency organization in the world. Mark has assisted many well-known businesses including Microsoft, Novell, Deloitte Consulting, Jiffy Lube, Evans & Sutherland, and Megahertz (now 3Com). He has been a featured speaker around the country on business-to-business branding and has authored a book on that subject.

Blair Williams Chief Technology Officer:
BookWise is a complex, online business model because we are buying and selling thousands of books each month through associates all over the country. It requires the skills of a highly trained expert in software and Internet management to make it all run smoothly. Blair Williams is the perfect fit. He is a skilled technology guru with experience as a software developer and web manager. He manages people and code equally well. He comes to BookWise from FranklinCovey where he worked as Chief Systems Architect. He has managed a successful enterprise web hosting company called Caseproof and has led software development projects for major US technology corporations including DuPont, EDS and McAfee.

(This information taken from http://www.bookwise.com/main/faq)