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Shad James is a Board Member at Jaynes Corporation and President/COO at Jaynes Corporation. He has worked as Exec VP:Operations at Jaynes Corporation.

University of Portland alum Dan Watson has accumulated over 20 years of experience in financial management and public accounting for a variety of public and closely held companies. As a resourceful, detail-oriented leader, he focuses on business strategy development and financial operations across multiple divisions. Prior to joining Neil Kelly, Dan was COO/CFO of Irvington Capital, and COO/CFO of Common Sense Investment Management, a $4.5 billion investment fund. Dan’s other interests include serving on the board of the Portland Children’s Museum and St. Mary’s Cathedral. He also enjoys spending time outdoors with his family, trying to convince them that he is, in fact, an Eagle Scout.

Over thirty years of experience buying, selling, financing, building, growing, integrating and re-organizing both for-profit and non-profit operations, both domestically and abroad, for organizations such as Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Prudential Financial. A consultant to small and medium sized businesses in a wide variety of industries on how to improve their operations since 2008. Career experience includes establishing two securitization teams, a structured finance department, a whole loan sale desk, and a foreign commercial mortgage asset management subsidiary; integrating a large US commercial mortgage finance company and an international investment management organization into a Fortune 100 financial services company; reorganizing the US operations of one of the world’s largest real estate investment management companies and serving as COO of the same; founding an international resort development company; founding two consulting firms; and founding and producing one of the largest early stage technology conferences in the state of Florida for six years. Served as the president/executive director of two South Florida non-profits devoted to venture capital and technology, respectively. Participated in over 60 debt and equity transactions comprising approximately $6.5 billion in transactions value that include both residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities, municipal bonds, direct real estate acquisitions and financings, corporate M&A and divestitures, and private equity fundraising activities. Significant operations experience including overseeing budgeting, planning, marketing, advertising, project development, finance, audit/internal control, technology, human resources, facilities, and general administrative activities over a 30+ year career. Recognized in 2019 as one of South Florida’s Power Leaders in Technology by the South Florida Business Journal and received the 2018 Economic Development Leadership Award - Entrepreneurship Council from the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance.