Wand

Andrew is a Co-founder and Owner of Wand and has an extensive background in business operations and development. Andrew has built and sold several ecommerce retail stores, and owned and operated an exclusive consulting firm local to Denver. (Wand is now the only company in which Andrew has ownership.) Some of Andrew’s specialties include; Operations, Strategy/Mission execution, Branding and vision Development, Product Innovation and Digital Marketing.

Ben is a Co-Founder and Owner of Wand USA Inc. Started his first business at 17 and exited after 9 months prior to moving to Denver to pursue professional training in UI/UX, web development, business strategy, and operational management. In 2017, managed marketing efforts for WRIO Internet OS as CMO to grow and manage over 70,000 followers before bridging full time to Wand. Now relocated to St. Louis, Ben is also a Member of the Park Place Non-Profit Board of Directors where he has further expanded his officer level skill set. Along with an additional 5+ years of freelance experience, Ben is contributing his expertise in Marketing, Design, Software Development, Campaign Management, SEO and Customer Acquisition to Wand.

A serial entrepreneur, Gerald was the founder of ClearAccess Corp, the first graphical business intelligence tool, sold to sterling software in 1994 for $5M. Gerald followed this exit by co-founding Artinsoft in 1997-now Mobilize.NET- which licensed its technology to Microsoft in 1999 for $21M. Gerald brings to Wand this past experience and additional expertise in development, software architecture, acquisition strategy, data security, corporate structure as well as numerous industry connections in the tech sphere to leverage moving forward, helping to maximize Wand’s potential for growth.

Alexandru is a professional mobile first developer and has been working in the field for about 1.5 years. He has grown his skill set through formal training and freelance work and learns to adapt and grow with any project which means his skill set is constantly growing to better serve with every new opportunity. He is devoted to the tasks he takes on and has a passion for bringing new platforms to life through the medium of technology and will be doing so next in the case of Wand. He is not afraid of learning new technologies and his enthusiasm makes this easier for him to do so. Transparency and modesty make him the right guy for any work delegated to him.

Colten has an acute eye for structuring processes and will be lending his talents in this area as well as digital marketing and business development research to the Wand team. Colten has a passion for personal growth and learning that drives him to bring the most value possible in any given relationship and an ability to adapt, learn and succeed under any circumstances. With Wand's rapid plans for growth, he is helping to strategize new market opportunity and plans for entry in addition to managing Wand's digital presence.

Marvin’s motto is to develop for modularity, scalability and performance. Marvin has been developing applications for over 8 years since entering the world of programming through Launch Code and applications that he built 8 years ago still work across multiple platforms and technology time gaps. Marvin is a full-stack, programming polyglot and is offering this wide array of expertise to Wand. He is also a curriculum coordinator for Code Academy and will be putting his knowledge in teaching to use by improving the practices and execution of the Wand platform’s development as a whole.

Brent has a keen eye for what makes sense in any situation. His 30 years of business experience has benefited greatly from his thoughtful nature and his ability to make quick, smart decisions. He is a smart investor in both business and real estate and prides himself on successfully managing others to reach their potential.