Founder and managing partner Hashim Malik-Bey has always had an interest in entrepreneurship. Starting his first enterprise as a teenager. He made t-shirts with social-political images and slogans by creating silkscreens from his original drawings. He was a first mover providing merchandise for rap artists during the first generation of touring acts. This enterprise developed into a full-scale operation seeing its first brick and mortar business on Venice Beach, California.

After college he was recruited by Bell Labs as a system engineer responsible for (real-time) troubleshooting and equipment integration for national accounts. This experience opened an opportunity work with an exploding start-up responsible creating for VOIP (voice over internet protocol), what is now commonly known as internet telephone, as a switch engineer and circuit designer Hashim learned the power of process design, process improvement, and risk analysis.

At the implosion of the “dot.com” era his firm held weekly ‘pink-slip’ Fridays curtailing company headcount from nearly four thousand to just under 350 before being acquired by Level 3. “Late one Friday afternoon, the department VP called my office line and offered me a position, as a financial analyst, in lieu of a pink-slip, he allowed me ten minutes to decide!” says, Hashim laughing about how this changed his life purpose!

For the next two and half years he worked as a senior line-cost analyst providing oversight concerning monthly cost expenditures with a focus on uncovering waste and curtailing scheduled infrastructure payments. Managing expenditures during an active company bankruptcy provided him the needed perspective on budget, cost controls, process and procedural improvements necessary when strapped for credit and cash.

Hashim joined Fannie Mae’s credit and risk management team to continue work as a credit and risk analyst with a specific focus on contract enforcement. His team managed $4 billion in mortgage backed or invested assets, monthly. When appropriate he would direct general counsel to sue, curtail, or enforce specific performance from the largest institutional mortgage lenders including a $8 billion cash settlement from Bank of America, the largest in US history.

Hashim specializes in business model development for both start-ups and existing enterprises. He trains staff and leadership to seek and find additional revenue streams while building processes to streamline cost. He identifies the key activities, relationships, resources, and sales channels to support operations.