Cole Zucker

ZuVi Investments 

Joint family office focused on lower mid market private equity.

Managing Partner

Member - Santa Monica Chapter

Hey Hero Labs

Acquired by Sanctuary Ventures January 2022

Co-Founder

GREEN CREATIVE

Provides LED lighting products to North America.

Co-CEO & Co-Founder

Everbright Engineering

VP of Sales

I'm Cole, an entrepreneur with a running addiction. 

I am a Co-Managing Partner at Zuvi Investments, a joint family office dedicated to helping small businesses transition into established middle-market companies. 

Previously, I was the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of GREEN CREATIVE, a commercial-grade LED lighting company. My partner and I bootstrapped the business to over $60m in annual sales, successfully exiting to a PE fund. Our journey is chronicled in our book, “Flipping The Switch” (available now).

I was also a co-founder of Hey Hero Labs, a platform for personalized video content creation. The company was acquired by Sanctuary Ventures in 2022.

Outside of business, I'm driven by my passion for running. Having recently turned 40, I've achieved personal bests that surpass my times from 20 years ago. I'm always experimenting with new techniques and training methods to optimize performance and longevity.

Joint family office focused on low mid market private equity, angel investing, and real estate.

Daniel Krassenstein

Director, Asia Operations

CSCMP Portugal Roundtable

President

Procon Pacific, LLC

Bulk Bag (FIBC) supplier to chem/agric/mining clients: Dow 3M BASF ADM Cargill Minteq 
•	Vendor Evaluation, Production Cost Management, Bottleneck Elimination, Claims Reduction 
•	Compliance expert for EPA, US Customs C-TPAT & AIB/BRC/Kosher (Food-Grade) certification 
•	Supply Chain shift management from Coastal China to South and South Asia
•	International Logistics

Global Supply Chain Director

UCLA Extension

* Doing Business in China
* Internships in International Trade and Commerce

Associate Professor

Delivering Better Lives

Delivering Better Lives Board Member

Delivering Better Lives holds to a basic belief that everyone on this planet has a right to a roof over their head, food in their stomach, an education and basic healthcare. Our commitment is to work with disadvantaged communities across the globe to ensure that they are given the basics of life.

While all of these basics are important to quality of life, it is EDUCATION that is the enabler, that more than anything else, will allow communities to change themselves. We are committed to delivering educational facilities and therefore opportunities in as many countries as we can.

Board Member and Secretary

Mila Cares

Investor

California State University, Los Angeles

Lecturer

BAS, Inc.

* Full-Service Importer of promotional gifts for Pfizer, GSK, & General Motors
* Revenue 400% to $8 million
* Established cloud-based client-controlled art database and virtual product rendering capability
* Set minimum order quantity requirements to avoid smaller time-consuming and unprofitable orders.
* Relocated sourcing office to Shanghai resulting in enhanced sourcing, improved vendor relations and  hands-on product safety and testing

Partner & China Chief Representative

TMM/Mexican Line

* Largest container steamship, port and logistics operator in Latin America
* Took a money-losing region to break-even and then profitability by negotiating multiple trade lane pricing cartel agreements, vessel-sharing coordination, closure of Asia-US rotation, absorption of Colombian-based FMG Line and effective 12-country operations and sales management.

Asst. Vice-President Marketing and Regional General Manager

Land-Ocean Inchcape

* UK (Inchcape)/PRC (Cosco, Sino-Trans, Shanghai Port) trucking, warehouse and forwarder
* Grew global client base and curtailed corruption and bad debt by establishing transparent pricing tariffs, sales training, and management-level client relationships.  Key accounts established included Volkswagen, H&M and Mercantile Consolidation.

Marketing & Sales Manager

Sea-Land Service, Inc.

* American flag steamship container carrier
* Disrupted competitor’s NYC textile market dominance by establishing autonomous China sales team and captured the home textiles traffic.  I was then sent to Jakarta to bring sales efforts and communications up to world-class standards.

Dan is a multilingual (Mandarin & Spanish) global supply chain executive with 40 years of international manufacturing and logistics experience. Specialties include vendor certification, labor management, global logistics, communication and crisis management.

As Global Supply Chain Director for Procon Pacific (industrial packaging), Dan is responsible for production facilities and logistics throughout India & China.

As President of CSCMP Portugal Roundtable, Dan is committed to the advancement and dissemination of research and knowledge on supply chain management.

Dan’s career base has included USA, Shanghai, Taipei, Jakarta, Panama City, Mexico City, and Lisbon - in industries ranging from contract manufacturing, forwarding and ocean container carrier management.

Dan earned his Master of Science degree in Global Supply Chain Management and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification from USC Marshall.  Dan is also an adjunct professor at UCLA, lecturer at CSULA,  guest lecturer at USC Marshall's Master's program and journalist and author in global supply chain management.

A 10-time marathoner and education philanthropist, Dan believes that a work-life balance is critical.

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