Jeff Pittman

Kirkland Capital Group is an investment fund manager combining 75+ years of investment management, real estate, and technology to Build and Fortify Your Wealth. Their principal preservation focused income fund generates passive high-yield income, it delivered over 11% returns for 2022. Investors feel happy they capture strong returns, and are doing good, as the Fund’s micro-balance real estate loans are used to rehabilitate middle-income affordable housing and neighborhoods, making a positive social and environmental impact. They also offer the opportunity to invest along with them in the equity side of real estate via multifamily and extended stay hospitality properties, which generate stable passive income, tax advantages, diversification, and capital appreciation.

SureFire Capital, a Family Office that runs a private, invitation-only Investment Club that is a generator of vetted investment opportunities into which its own capital is invested. The Club has aver 1,100 members around the world, all sharing their best and most trusted investment opportunities. Whenever possible, SureFire secures extra allocation enabling others to co-invest alongside with no management fees in a highly aligned structure. Ariel Shlien is a serial entrepreneur who began his business career at the age of 15. As a teenager in his Montreal basement, he founded The Mad Science Group (www.madscience.org) and eventually built it into the world’s largest enrichment service provider with franchised offices in 200+ major North American markets and 28 countries overseas. Over the years, Ariel has established strategic relationships with such organizations as: NASA, MGM Studios, The Kennedy Space Center, Crayola, Scholastic, Blueprint Entertainment and ToyQuest. Ariel has personally lead the creation of multiple businesses in different industries and has executed over 20 M&A transactions. Ariel graduated Faculty Scholar from McGill University with a degree in Business Management. He is a Fellow of the Dobson Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies, a Toastmaster (CTM), a member of the Quebec Chapter of YPO since 2008 and served on its Board for 6 years starting in 2011. Ariel has received numerous industry awards including Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year and the Business Development Bank of Canada’s Entrepreneur of the Year. Ariel is a speaker at McGill University and Tiger 21 and has been featured in such media as CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Success Magazine, The Globe and Mail and USA Today. In June 2020, Ariel was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal by her Excellency the Right Honorable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada for outstanding achievement and service to Canada.