The Clubhouse @ Blvd Mrkt
With great pleasure, we are excited to announce our panelists for The Clubhouse @ Blvd Mrkt.
Meet Alexia Valenica
Alexia Valencia is a strategy consultant and advisor, with a concentration in fundraising, philanthropy, business development and marketing. She has a skillset for raising capital and creating pipeline opportunities through relationship building, out of the box thinking, and brand matchmaking, blending business and creativity. She has worked with Grammy award-winning artists over multiple genres and has helped launch the careers of established and respected artists. Through her extensive knowledge in various industries and roles, Alexia has aggregated a respected network of clients from different industries and developed an acumen for pitch flow and how best to introduce new concepts. Alexia's international purview into different fields have led her as a strategic advisor to entertainment executives, business leaders, elected officials and philanthropic organizations. Alexia also lends her skills to numerous non-profit organizations helping to advance their visions and missions.
Past & current clients include:
A Fighting Chance
Acelera Financial
Alder Law
Alliance for Children's Rights
Angela Aguilar
Anthony and Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation
Blowfish
Cesar Chavez Foundation
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Farmer's Wife Cannabis LLC
FreeLife Entertainment
Foster Care Counts
Heir Atelier
KIPP SoCal Public Schools
LA84 Foundation
La Plaza De Cultura y Artes
Leonardo Aguilar
Locker Room Agency
Omar Arreola
Paisley Park Records
Paul Quinn College
Play Equity Fund
Pepe Aguilar
Prince
Resume Wall
Servant Leadership Solutions
Shield4Kids
Siren Studios
The Hutt Group
The Cameron Boyce Foundation
West Coast Jewelry
Zapanta Alder Law
Meet Sacha Van der most Van spijk
Sacha is a professional soccer development coach and academy director turned entrepreneur. He grew up in the Netherlands, where playing soccer quickly became a passion that dominated his life. His playing and coaching career took him from The Netherlands to Belize in Central America and California, where he settled down and started a family. In his current role as Founder and Director of Development at Home Field Advantage, his focus is to develop homegrown leadership and activate communities. The inspiration for this project is Sacha's hometown club, Quick – The Hague, where he started coaching at age fifteen. In the years leading up to the founding of HFA, Sacha studied Kinesiology with a focus on coaching and sports psychology at Cal State Long Beach and received coaching licenses from the KNVB (Royal Dutch Football Federation), USSF (A-License), and FFF / MLS (French Football Federation - Elite Formation License). He worked with Chivas USA and LA Galaxy of Major League Soccer during his professional coaching career and served both the US Soccer and Mexican de Football Federation. As an entrepreneur, he founded the international business development platform HUP (Humans Unlocking Potential) and Home Field Advantage and currently has a management and active recruitment role at New World Mortgage.
Meet Barney Santos
Barney Santos has spent the past 19 years building and managing new business ventures in the for-profit, non-profit, academic and corporate sectors. Currently, Barney is the C.E.O. of Gentefy Inc, an economic development company that focuses on investing in people, places and programs that empower creative entrepreneurs to answer the demand of multicultural communities. Prior to becoming the CEO of Gentefy, Barney was the Director at the Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at California State University, Los Angeles as well as the Head of Exploratory New Business Models for Unilever Food Solutions and the North American lead for their innovative technology collaboration program, Unilever Foundry. Barney obtained his Masters Degree in Entrepreneurship & Innovation from Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from California State University, Los Angeles.