Meet Pinnacle Global Network 
Our team of highly accomplished CEO mentors and outstanding support staff work together with a unified passion for helping established business owners work to elevate their strategic vision, improve their cash flow, develop strong team managed companies, become world-class leaders, and execute operations efficiently and effectively. Our dedication, experience, and support are evident by our track record of helping 1000’s of companies scale their business successfully.
Allison Maslan, CEO of Pinnacle Global Network
PGN EXECUTIVE TEAM
Mike Rees - Global Strategic Director
Mike Rees, Chief Cultural Officer, brings 30 years of business experience to Pinnacle Global Network. Mike built one of the largest office liquidation companies in the US, supporting companies such as Google and Qualcomm. He brings in-depth strategic and leadership experience to assist our clients in creating growth in Mindset, Sales, Marketing and Leadership. As an avid golfer, Mike’s business wisdom is featured in the book, Golf Course Millionaire. Mike loves giving back and is dedicated to creating transformation in people’s lives.
Josh Canova - Chief Operations Officer
Josh Canova, Chief Operations Officer, brings his entrepreneurial strength to PGN. He is a growth strategist with over 20 years of success helping businesses communicate their value, improve their efficiency and increase sales. He scaled a successful production company that produced creative content for many of the world’s most influential brands with work featured in the Super Bowl and The Academy Awards. He is the best-selling author of Mind Your Own Business and a musician that has licensed his work for film and network television.
Melissa Woods - Director of Mentoring
Melissa has directed our Mentoring Department for the past 7 years. Her career started in the late eighties when she founded JW Tumbles, a children’s gym, which she expanded into a hugely successful franchise with over 40 locations in 5 countries worldwide. She wrote the book on creating a thriving franchise (literally): Secrets of Franchise Success covers everything needed to grow a national or global company franchise. Melissa Woods helps CEOs define the qualities that will turn their ordinary businesses into extraordinary businesses – through marketing, sales, business development, training and customer service.
PGN CEO MENTORS
Louie Ortiz
Louie is a Serial Entrepreneur, Business Mentor, Nationally Featured TV, and Media Personality, Public Speaker, Mentor, and Philanthropist. Louie is CEO of the nationally recognized real estate company that has over $145 million dollars in personal sales and leads a dynamic growing team with offices in San Diego, CA, Newport Beach, CA, and Santa Fe / Albuquerque NM. From 1990 to 2006, Louie Ortiz ran a manufacturing company of high-end custom acrylic aquariums for zoos, public aquariums, and consumer use worldwide.
Tammy Moore
In 1991, Tammy launched her family’s first restaurant, Pat & Oscar’s in Carmel Mountain Ranch with 8 employees and went on to open 18 with their team of 1,400 employees. She sold a majority of their shares to Sizzler International for $30 million dollars. Over the next 2 years, she and her team built an additional 10 restaurants before exiting the business. She just launched a brand new restaurant in Temecula. Tammy brings her savvy for scaling quickly, building rockstar teams, and driving high-profit margins for business owners.
Jim Herrera
Jim has started 6 companies and has raised millions of dollars for his ventures over the past 30 years, and has successfully exited businesses totaling $85 million in returns for his investors and partners. He has also worked with Apple Inc., Creative Technologies, Arbitron/VNU Media, and Global Entertainment Holdings. Jim is passionate about assisting small business owners create and scale their ventures in an ethical and profitable way, and brings a distinctive Silicon Valley way of thinking and business approach to his clients.
Clifford A. Bailey
Clifford A. Bailey has run a Managed Services Provider Company since 1983 specializing in network consulting, infrastructure management and monitoring, IT data architecture, cybersecurity, and IT Staff outsourcing. He is an advocate for small businesses and a driving force in community reconciliation and development. Mr. Bailey is a leader devoted to education, employment, and economic development, and is active with organizations that share these same passions. He is on the National Minority Business Enterprise Input Committee (NMBEIC) Immediate Past Chair for the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC).
Giles Fabris
Giles, from London, England, brings 34 years of coaching experience to Pinnacle and has helped hundreds of new and high-level CEOs to significant business growth. A digital marketing expert, he's also an built of a successful Skincare company, has launched 11 Amazon Bestselling products and has helped multiple clients achieve Amazon Bestselling Author status. He has proven experience in creating highly profitable customer experience strategies, e-commerce analysis, email marketing conversion funnels; SEO, operations & project management, sales training, and a track record of helping his clients build strong strategic partnerships.
Gila Kurtz
Gila is a #1 international bestselling author, serial entrepreneur, and the co-founder of the award-winning, highly recognizable lifestyle brand for dog lovers which she and her husband have taken from a startup to a seven-figure company. She has been recognized as one of the top 25 women of influence in the pet industry, Woman of the Year by the Women in the Pet Industry Network, and is featured in Success Magazine, Forbes Magazine, and on the Grow Wire Show.
Stewart Borie
Stewart has mentored hundreds of business owners from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups over the last several decades. He has operating and consulting experience with companies such as Dun & Bradstreet, Merrill Lynch, and National Recycling Corp, to name a few. Armed with an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management from The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business, he has run several of his own successful companies and has decades of experience in marketing, management, leadership, finance, operations, strategic planning, mindset, and more.
Rachel Ramirez
Rachel brings to Pinnacle her high-level of expertise in federal contracting, private sector consulting, and workforce management. Rachel is the founder and CEO of a management consulting firm that she started 20 years ago with a single contract and has grown it to an award-winning, high-performing business with numerous contracts and several million dollars in annual revenue. Her company was recognized twice by the U.S. Department of Energy as the Woman-Owned Small Business of the Year. Rachel was named the 2020 Huntington Beach Business Woman of the Year.
Phil Black
Phil has committed his life to helping high-level business owners overcome their biggest mental blocks and unlock their full potential. Since starting his first company at 18 (which he sold to pursue his college career), Phil has guided business leaders of all kinds to greater performance levels. He has trained more than 4,000 individuals and Fortune 1,000 management teams in leadership and strategic coaching. His client roster includes Intel, Sprint, Qualcomm, AT&T, Dow Jones, Capital One, Wells Fargo, Cushman Realty, and Arbonne International.
Marshall Doyle
Marshall is the CEO of the largest independent provider of calibration services serving the construction materials industry in the U.S. Under his leadership, he has grown this worldwide company by nearly 2,000% since he took control in 1999. Marshall is also an expert at acquiring and merging businesses, having bought 20 other companies and helped to start a few others in the last 15 years. Marshall specializes in helping business owners grow their top-line revenue, increase profit through systemization and develop strong leadership teams in order to operate without the owner involved.
Gina Ruby
Gina has helped hundreds over the last decade transform their businesses, health, wealth, and relationships. Gina started a wellness business in 2005 and grew a million-dollar revenue team from scratch. She rose to the top 5 of 10,000 coaches due to her innovative sales strategy. Gina is motivating, inspiring and offers great insight and strategy to help our PGN clients stand out and succeed in their industry. PGN members love her high-energy and powerful, spot-on direction for their business.
Lily Mockerman
Lily Mockerman is a seasoned business leader and coach that has worked with many well-known brands, including Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Best Western Hotels & Resorts, Hilton Hotels, and Hyatt. While scaling her multi-million dollar hospitality consulting company that helps hotels optimize their revenue and profits, Lily put in place a team-managed company to run the operation, so she has freedom to shift her attention to her passion for helping other CEOs and Founders scale their businesses so they can also achieve the time and life freedom we all dream of as entrepreneurs.
Jim Ballidis
Jim is a serial entrepreneur, attorney, inventor, investor, and venture capitalist who has owned several manufacturing and service companies over the years. The owners of a multimillion-dollar, 10 person law firm in Newport Beach, Jim is also currently on the Board of Directors and actively developing strategies for the growth of 2 companies: a computer technology start-up that has reached $15 million dollars in revenue in 2 years.
Lacey Haegen
Lacey is the Founder and CEO of an all-natural skincare company that brings to Pinnacle 20 years of experience in the luxury product and service marketplace. She has worked extensively with sales and merchandising, product positioning, and building relationships with strategic partners. She understands the complicated journey from Solopreneur to Visionary and is passionate about coaching fellow business leaders to use their imaginations, achieve their greatest heights, build their dream teams, and live their best lives.
Tracey Royal
Tracey Royal is a marketing maestro with an intuitive understanding of creative strategy and expert execution. She’s transformed a homemade cake recipe into an “O List” holiday dessert in the O, The Oprah Magazine. Tracey is the CEO and Founder of a marketing communications firm that has helped multiple businesses expand their companies by telling their unique stories. In addition to working at several Fortune 500 and top media companies, she has an MS in Integrated Marketing Strategy from Northwestern University and completed the Executive Program at the Graduate School of Sales and Marketing Management at Syracuse University.
Karen Gwartzman
Karen has been building businesses in just about every industry you can imagine—from private label, to health care to BIG Dog Fashion —for more than 25 years. An educator at heart, Karen has mentored countless clients through the process of career transition and product development— guiding them as they step out of their comfort zone and into their entrepreneurial dreams. Karen’s superpower is in creating private label products to help maximize revenue streams beyond those that exist in a business. She is the author of Private Label Secrets and Retail Ready Secrets and an advocate for entrepreneurs who are looking to play in the big leagues and make an impact in the world.
Laura Leszcynski
Laura is a marketing and branding expert who uses research-backed, neuromarketing best practices and principles to help businesses define their brand and integrate it within every customer touchpoint and experience. Laura founded and has directed a full-service marketing firm working with a variety of clients and industries both business to business and business to consumer. She leverages her skills and experiences to create smart, proven strategies to help companies define who they are, what makes them unique, and what makes people want to be engaged with their product/service/brand.
Becky Anderson
Becky is an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year winner and is a serial entrepreneur that has founded and built several 7 and 8-figure businesses. The first company was started in her kitchen and was built from scratch to an international company with over $25 million in annual sales with no outside funding. Her company manufactured all the products and set up an Asia supply chain for key materials. She is an expert in building brands and creating organizations and systems for CEOs to manage their companies as they scale. She also has deep knowledge of digital marketing and e-commerce and an understanding of how to expand product lines in national big-box accounts. As such, she understands the challenges of cash flow, supply chain management, and manufacturing.
Patrick Nunally
Patrick Nunally has over thirty years of experience in producing highly profitable, innovative businesses especially within technology driven products and service marketplaces. Dr. Nunally’s exceptional record of success in building and leading top performing businesses, directing teams through significant growth and turning around underperforming businesses has earned him international recognition as a business and technical leader. Dr. Nunally has built nine (9) successful $100M+ companies, taken two (2) of those companies from startup to IPO, and has been recognized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Eta Kappa Nu as the outstanding engineer of the year as well as recognition by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with an Emmy Award for his rating systems technologies (the product of his second start-up).
Greg Provance
Greg Provance runs a full-service restaurant and hospitality consulting firm and is the author of BUTTS in SEATS: how to create raving fans who come back again and again. In addition to being a consulting partner for Everbowl, Southern California’s fastest growing fast casual chain, Greg owns several restaurants in the San Diego area and serves as a principal consultant and advisor for restaurants across the country. His career has taken him from short order cook to hosting parties and events for celebrities like Janet Jackson, Madonna, Tom Cruise, Eve, Stevie Wonder and DL Hughley, to name a select few.
Corinne Jedwood Rechter
Corinne Jedwood Rechter has a multi-cultural and international background, having lived and worked in five countries. She has founded and led seven companies worldwide in different industries. She co-founded the No 1 real-estate portal in Hong Kong in English and Chinese, and sold it to a billion-dollar listed company. Armed with two master's degrees, she worked for IBM Consulting Group, specializing in strategy, leadership, and marketing and mentoring business leaders from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.
Jennifer DeWitt
Operations Manager
Madeline Travers
Mentor Organizational Manager
Luz Sellers
Member Concierge
Amber Allgyer
Public Relations Coordinator
Jared Salas
Artistic Director
Ryan Washburn
Video Producer
Tiffanie Fitzpatrick
Member Services Administrator
Haline Del Bem
Executive Assistant