Brian D. Ward

We help exceptional business owners secure their legacy by acquiring, managing, and expanding their business in Southern California! Our primary objective is to further enhance upon your achievements and pave the way for a sustainable and prosperous future for your business + employees. We take great pride in our role as reliable stewards, providing a seamless transition for business owners looking to entrust their legacy. Our accomplished team boasts extensive and varied expertise, underpinned by a well-established history of guiding our portfolio companies towards enduring success and prosperity.

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Our mission is to help more people start better startups. ODF is a program we created over four years ago to help those at the exploration stage of starting a company. So far, weve helped over 1000 companies get started and raise over $2 billion. Starting a company is really exciting, but there are so many things you need to figure out in order to actually build one. - "Who might I start my company with?" - “What might we build?” - “Who might our initial customers be?” - “Should we raise funding soon, or should we try to bootstrap in the beginning?" These and many more questions are what we refer to as the "missing pieces"—the things you need to figure out to know if starting a company is right for you and what company you should ultimately build. With ODF, we bring together 80 to 100 people who are at the very same stage as you. Theyre all exceptionally talented, and theyre all trying to figure it out together.

Fisher Investments is an independent, fee-only investment adviser serving clients across three principal business units: US Private Client, Institutional and Private Client International. Together, these groups serve a diverse global client base that includes corporations, public and multi-employer pension funds, foundations and endowments, governments and high net worth families. Fisher Investments was founded in 1979 by Ken Fisher, who served as CEO for 37 years and now serves as Executive Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer. Ken wrote the Forbes “Portfolio Strategy” column from 1984 through 2016, making him the longest continuously running columnist in the magazine’s history. He now writes monthly, native language columns in major media organs around the world, spanning more countries and more languages in more total reach than any other, non-syndicated columnist of any type ever. Ken has written 11 books—including 4 New York Times bestsellers—and has regularly appeared on CNBC, Fox Business, Fox News, CNN International, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg TV, and numerous other financial news outlets. For more information on Fisher Investments, please visit www.fisherinvestments.com. Careers Page: https://www.fisherinvestments.com/en-us/careers Important Disclosures: https://www.fisherinvestments.com/en-us/disclosures Privacy Policy: https://www.fisherinvestments.com/en-us/privacy Community Guidelines: https://www.fisherinvestments.com/en-us/communityguidelines