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Company Profile
Economic Business Development, Inc. (EBD) is a
California
corporation specializing in economic development. EBD began helping small
businesses in 1998 by providing entrepreneurial training and technical
assistance to underserved communities in
Orange
County
.
Our mission is to revive
economically depressed areas by helping diverse small businesses prosper
and reach their greatest potential through capacity building, workforce
development, and mainstream resource accessing.
EBD
Business
Center
's
goal is to help small businesses build capacity by providing them with a
solid business and management support structure to ensure their success
and to help them grow. Teamwork building, business skills training, and
resource accessing will be at the core of EBD’s operations.
EBD Seasoned
Management Team
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 1)
Lynn Dangtu
Member
of Board of Directors
Ms.
Dangtu has extensive experience in business restructuring and
strategic planning in both large corporations and small
businesses. She started helping small businesses when she left the
corporate world and founded EBD in 1997. Gaining a solid
understanding of the hardships and challenges that minority small
businesses face, Ms. Dangtu was determined to realize the
EBD
Enterprise
Center
and began recruiting
strong partners to realize her project. She made history for
successfully convincing the U.S. Department of Commerce to
commit the largest investment in the country to her
project, a multi-million-dollar investment.
Her community work has
been featured in many local Vietnamese/Korean newspapers, the
Orange County Register, and the Los Angeles Times.
In 2003, the National Association of Women Business Owners
(NAWBO
Orange
County) honored her with
the Remarkable Woman of the Year Award, following with Wells Fargo
declaring her as one of the Bank’s Community Partners.
Her volunteer work includes: president of the Asian
Business Association of Orange County (ABAOC) and founder of the
Orange County President Council with president members of 20 local
minority Business Associations and Chambers of Commerce.
Prior
to her service within the community, Ms. Dangtu had obtained
valuable experience and training from multinational
corporations. While
working at Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A.,
she acquired a solid background in the Lean Production System
philosophy that helps corporations increase efficiency and cost
savings. During this
period, she was promoted to various positions and rotations in
Distribution, Logistics, Export, Market Research, and Strategic
Planning departments. In
the Strategic Planning Department, she was responsible for the
advertising, products, and market research of more than 14
Toyota
and Lexus Models. She
contributed to the success of product development and marketing
launches of many new
Toyota
and Lexus car models. Prior
to joining the Strategic Planning Department,
Ms. Dangtu contributed to the successful launch of the
multi-billion-dollar Toyota North-America Export project, where
she managed the export operations, and developed standardized
export procedures, quality, control, and accounting systems for
more than 20 foreign destinations.
During her assignment at
Toyota Logistics/Distribution department, she was responsible for
managing, monitoring, and evaluating the logistics system of more
than one million cars per year.
She made many improvements that resulted in millions of
dollars in cost savings. In 1996, Automotive News published
her article titled An Automobile Blue Print for
Southeast Asia
. Dangtu received a
B.S. in Finance and an M.B.A. in Business Entrepreneurship from
University
of
Southern California
(U.S.C.). She is fluent in Vietnamese, French, and English and lived in
France
,
Germany
,
South Korea
, and
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 2)
Dick Orfalea
Member
of Board of Directors
Mr.
Orfalea is a key member of the Board of Directors of Economic
Business Development, Inc (EBD).
Mr. Orfalea’s mission is to
help EBD be successful in implementing the EBD Enterprise Center
concept through his business connection and entrepreneurship
expertise. Mr.
Orfalea is the former Executive Vice President and Director of
International Business for the Kinko’s Corporation and the
brother of Kinko's founder Paul Orfalea. During the 1990’s he
was responsible for Kinko’s international expansion into key
growth markets such as
Asia
,
Europe
, and
Australia
. He was instrumental
in guiding Kinko’s through its company partnership
roll-up/restructuring, which generated in excess of $400 million
investment capital. In
2004 Mr. Orfalea sold his privately owned company to Federal
Express for $2.4 billion in cash.
Kinko’s currently has 1,200
stores worldwide serving small- and medium-sized business
market as well as household consumers. Kinko's has been branching
out from its humble beginnings as a copy center to Wi-Fi Internet
hot spots and videoconferencing. In 2003, Kinko's reported $2
billion in revenues. Mr. Orfalea currently sits on the board of
several companies including Pacific Crest Capital Corporation and
Global Net Commerce, Inc. Prior
to founding Kinko’s, Mr. Orfalea held senior officer positions
at Citibank and CalFed Bank in their commercial and merchant
banking divisions. Mr. Orfalea graduated from
Gonzaga
University
in
Spokane
Washington
with a B.A. degree and received a Bachelor of Foreign Trade degree
from
Thunderbird
American
University
.
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 3)
Glenn H. Yee
Member
of Board of Directors
Mr.
Yee brings more than 20 years of banking and financial management
expertise to EBD. As
former Executive Vice President and Chief of Staff of Far East
National Bank, he was responsible for the bank’s strategic
planning and its business units, including small business lending
and the diversified non-investment grade business development
activities. He was
instrumental to manage the bank’s growth from $30 million to
$1.8 billion in asset and a single location in 1979 to fifteen
branch offices in both Northern and
Southern California
today.
In
1983, he served on the Treasury Secretary Reagan’s Blue Ribbon
Panel to review the study of credit management in the Federal
Government. The purpose of the study was to recommend reforms of
credit management practices in the government’s portfolio of
direct and guaranteed loans, which totaled over $400 billions. He
has served on the Boards of various charitable organizations,
including the Los Angeles American Red Cross,
United Way
, chambers of commerce, Rotary International, Volunteer of
America, YMCA, Optimist International, and Boy Scouts of America.
He is also a Board Member of Standard Bank and Trustee and
Elder of First Evangelical Church-Arcadia.
Mr. Yee was
born in
Canton
,
China
, and migrated to
Sacramento
,
California
in 1958. After graduation from Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo in 1971
with a BS degree in Physics, he moved to
Los Angeles
.
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J. Nicholson ( Nick) Thomas
Member of Board of Directors
A
partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP's
Los Angeles
office, J. Nicholson Thomas joined the firm's Tax Department in
1982. Mr. Thomas' tax experience is broad based, and includes
extensive activity in the areas of corporate, real estate,
partnership, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and
international tax matters.
Mr.
Thomas graduated with honors from the
University
of
Arizona
in 1974, where he majored in accounting and finance and from the
University of Arizona College of Law in 1977. Prior to joining
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Mr. Thomas was a Certified Public
Accountant with KPMG Peat Marwick from 1978 to 1981.
A
member of the American,
California
and Los Angeles County Bar Associations, Mr. Thomas has written on
a wide range of topics and has been a frequent lecturer before
various bar association, continuing education and special interest
groups, including the Practicing Law Institute, U.S.C. Tax
Institute and the NYU Tax Institute.
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Dr. Fred Zandpour
Member
of Board of Directors
Dr.
Zandpour is Associate Dean of the
College
of
Communications
at California State University Fullerton. He holds a Ph.D. in
Communication from
University
of
Washington
in
Seattle
and has taught marketing communication courses at
Penn
State
University
and Cal State Fullerton where he has been a professor since 1988.
He has authored more than 30 convention papers and his work has
appeared in top research journals in the
United States
and the
United Kingdom
, including Journal of Advertising Research, International Journal
of Advertising and Mass Comm Review. His research in international
advertising has been widely cited in the
United States
and abroad, and was recognized as Top-Ranked by International
Communication Association in 1994 in Sydney Australia.
Prior to his current position, he served as the head of the
advertising program, the second largest in the nation, and the
coordinator of the graduate program in the Department of
Communications. Dr. Zandpour was recognized by the University for
his "Outstanding Scholarly and Creative Activity' and
"Outstanding Service" in 1997 and 1998 respectively.
During his tenure as the associated Dean, Dr. Zandpour was
instrumental in establishing the Entertainment Study and the Hong
Kong Master of Arts degree programs in the College. He planned and
supervised the development of the College technology
infrastructure, and facilitated the creation of Titan
Communications, a digital media center which houses cutting-edge
production, post production and video streaming facilities. The
center is home to the campus Internet Radio and Cable TV station
which serve the College, the University and the community.
Dr Zandpour has worked closely with the National Women
Business Owners and a number of public and private sector partners
in
Orange
County
to create and co-chair the annual
Orange
County
e-Business Conference during the past six years.
Before joining the academic ranks, Dr. Zandpour was the
managing partner of a BBDO international advertising agency with a
client list that included Colgate, Bristol Myers, and Exxon.
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Bill Crookston
Member
of Board of Directors
Mr.
Crookston helps EBD design entrepreneurship programs for the
EBD Enterprise Center. His career spans 40 years of sales and
marketing, business ownership and teaching. He started his
business life in Brand Management at Procter & Gamble; this
was followed by sales and sales management assignments at UMC
Industries. He then purchased Western Badge & Trophy Company
in Los Angeles, grew it for 21 years and sold it to follow his
interests in teaching and consulting. He is the former
Director of the Marshall School Family Business Program and is a
Professor of Clinical Entrepreneurship and undergraduate
coordinator at the
Lloyd
Greif
Center
for
Entrepreneurial Studies at the Marshall School of Business at the
University of Southern California (U.S.C.)
He has also taught at Cal State Universities at Northridge
and
Long Beach
,
Pepperdine, UCR and UCLA. His
overseas teaching assignments have included
Japan
,
China
,
Morocco
,
Fiji
,
Mexico
,
Chile
,
Argentina
and
Austria
.
Mr.
Crookston earned a B.A., Economics, from Stanford, an M.B.A.,
Marketing, and M.S., Business Administration, from U.S.C. and his
doctorate in Executive Management from the
Claremont
University
. He has
an active emerging and high growth business consulting practice
and calls himself a “CEO Coach.” His community service
interests are varied and wide:
He is a 24 year member and former President (2002-03)
of the Rotary Club of Santa Monica and led the club to becoming
Club of Distinction in 2003.
He was President of the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce in
1996-97 and currently serves on their Board of Directors.
He has chaired various Santa Monica Personnel Commissions.
He was President of the Santa Monica Jaycees. He is
currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Santa Monica
Visitors and Convention Bureau and a member of the board of the
Los Angeles Venture Association.
He received the Community Service Award from the NCCJ in
2003. He is a past
president of the Los Angeles Sales and Marketing Executives
Association.
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Economic
Business Development, Inc. 
