Pasadena 5.15.17

Rudy Bojorquez

I am an ex- Overture/Yahoo employee. Working there from 2000-2007, handling existing advertiser accounts. Breaking off in 2007 to start my own Marketing Agency taken from what I had learned from Yahoo. In 2012, I opened Scrapbooth.com which is a Photo Booth Rental company servicing all types of events from weddings to birthday parties. Most recent venture started in 2014 which is PartsQuest.net, an online network for users to buy and sell automotive parts between themselves We currently have close to 1000 active users posting nearly 1000 requests daily. Read More>>

Bryon Bettencourt

I have always been a BBQ enthusiast at home as long as I can remember. I was always the guy that people asked to cook. I learned from my mother and a few other family members how to cook a lot of the sides used in the catering menu. A lot of experimenting and trial and error helped me to dial in my meat cooking techniques. Read More>>

Dee Lee

DCFL Events was truly a gift from God. When I had my first daughter Divina, I prayed for a way to provide for my mom as she watched my daughter. I realized that I would have to budget on a teacher’s salary if I wanted to take care of my mom and my daughter’s needs. Life was about to get hectic as the eldest daughter, being a new mom, and working full time as a teacher. I knew I wanted to be a mommypreneur. Read More>>

Gregg Shinedling

I started as a mobile DJ about 20 years ago. I actually went to school to be a radio DJ but once I graduated from school I came to the realization that in order to get into radio I would need to move and start in a small market. My dad (who was a professional musician) had a friend that was a mobile DJ. I got introduced and worked with him for a few years until I started my own company. Read More>>

Carolyn Scott-Hamilton

Award winning healthy, special diet and green living and travel expert, cookbook author, media spokesperson, holistic nutritionist, plant based vegan chef and television personality, Carolyn Scott-Hamilton is a respected figure in the world of healthy lifestyle as well as special diet cooking and nutrition. With a highly-acclaimed cookbook and travel show to her credit, Carolyn has traveled the world for her show, site and brand as well as to offer her services as a health and nutrition expert, recipe developer, writer, speaker, consultant and media spokesperson.  Read More>>

SAMANTHA YOUNG

I love candy and parties!! Ever since I was a little girl I was obsessed with candy. I would and still do go through a bag of candy or gum in less than five minutes. It all started in 2011 when I got engaged to my wonderful husband. Read More>>

Marlina Saakian Hall

I always thought I’d go to art school, but instead I graduated with a Master of Arts in Human Factors and Applied Psychology and worked in user interface design. As much as I enjoyed the work I did, I quickly learned that I craved to do something more creative, preferably not in the corporate environment. I quit my job, spent all of my time designing decorative pieces. With nothing more than a love for creating beautiful things, a strong work ethic and a lot of hope, I worked towards building a business around what I enjoyed doing. Read More>>

Clinton Jones

For as long as I can remember, I was the friend at parties that would find ways to turn all the miscellaneous stuff in friends’ refrigerators and pantries into meals that made everyone full and happy. Eventually, those friends convinced me to enroll in Culinary School and start cooking professionally. Eleven years later, I have been a short order cook, a vegetable prep guy, a graveyard shift fry station guy, a daytime Sous Chef, an exhibition station cook, a Head Chef at a summer camp, a sandwich maker, and now an Owner/Chef of my very own catering company. Read More>>

Victoria Vives Khuong

There are so many different facets to my story that have all played such an important role in helping me get to where I am today. To convey the big picture, I would say that it started with my birth, as a racial outsider in my own country, at the end of Spain’s last dictatorship, but the details of this would be too much for now. I’ll begin my story with my decision to move to the United States…I had visited Los Angeles once before in 2000 as part of a music tour, and I had felt a strong pull to return since then. Read More>>

Vincenzo Colapietro

My wife and I are both artists. With 3 amazing, energetic children to take care of, sometimes the art got lost for us. My wife teaches art at North Hollywood high, but there is a big difference between a unique peaceful space with very small classes, and North Hollywood High classes, sometimes with close to 50 students per class. We wanted to create a space where we could fill as many of the arts as we could in the 1000sq ft. space. Read More>>

Norik Ebrahamian

My father, Mardiros Ebrahamian, began this company from the ground-up in 1987. It was one year after we left our hometown of Ahvaz, Iran, traveling across the globe to Los Angeles, CA, in order to become American citizens. As our company began, my father recruited a few workers, including myself, to help him gain clients and projects to put our name out there. Read More>>