Our Team

Ken Tam, Co-Founder, President & CEO

Born in Hong Kong, Ken moved to California at the age of eight, and immediately began his entrepreneurial career with his own paper route. In his mid-twenties, Ken spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ken has twenty years of operating and financial background, building and managing fast-growth companies and startups. He held the positions of C.O.O. and C.F.O. at New Life Bakery, and was a member of the management team at Fresh Express, helping transform a commodities vegetable company into the leader of fresh cut salads. Ken started the German subsidiary of Orchid Technology, creating a distribution system that tripled German sales. A father of two children, Ken speaks five languages. He received his B.S. from University of California, Davis and his M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Alan Larson, Co-Founder & CFO

Alan grew up on a dairy farm in northern Iowa at a time when the Milky Way still blazed in the midnight sky. He began his work career at the age of four carrying mash to the hen house. Since then, he has garnered over fifteen years of senior management experience beginning at the age of twenty-six when he took over the corporate controller duties of Hubbard Milling Company, a $225 million diversified agricultural company. Alan has held the top financial and operational management positions in two very successful startups, Citrix Systems, Inc. and HBS International. He has done volunteer work and served on local boards for organizations such as the Salvation Army, the United Way, the Nature Conservancy, and the United Methodist Church. He is a Bush Leadership Fellow, holds a B.S. from Minnesota State University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Margueritte Kibel, Business Development

Marguerite is a native-California-based sales, marketing, business development, pr professional with a very diverse and extensive background. She has passionately always enjoyed being a great connector by cultivating meaningful relationships and seeing things come to fruition for companies, people and causes she believes in since she can remember. Early on, she proudly joined the team at Baja Fresh Mexican Grill and was a communication link for all strategic alliances, vendor relations and legal affairs and was appointed as Asst. Secretary of the Corporation for a decade. She was than appointed as National Director of Entertainment Marketing & was directly responsible for sales, business development, P.R. community relations/social responsibility programs, implementing the entertainment marketing division, and jump-starting markets & sales rapidly nationwide. She than parlayed her success at contributing to the fastest growing quick casual restaurant in America into Buzz Entertainment, LLC utilizing her skills and talents and consulting on business development, pr, entertainment marketing sales counsel for a myriad of organizations.

She has continuously leveraged her personal and strategic relationships and experience across several industries that have a call to action throughout her business career; bringing her strategic planning and project management experience in the corporate and private arena, while focusing on the QSR, Health & Wellness, Entertainment, Private Aviation, Financial planning, philanthropy, hospitality and renewable energy industry. Further, Kibel's experience has specifically been activated for innovative concepts in the US in both the public and private sectors with the following companies (amongst many others); Baja Fresh, Four Seasons, Wellpoint Inc., Grammy’s-MusiCares, Academy Country Music Awards, Society of Singers, Salvation Army, American Red Cross and currently works with City National Bank as Assistant Vice President, West Coast.

Depending on what day you catch her--in her time away from the office she enjoys special time with family and friends, is an "avid angler", sports enthusiast, gardener, writer, & very much enjoys experiencing and supporting philanthropic causes close to her heart!

Ever since he can remember, Dan has been around computers, building his first ones from parts. It only took one semester of college for Dan to realize he had already learned more than they could teach him and so he launched into what has already been a highly successful career. Dan has extensive development experience including serving as the Chief Technical Officer of Secure Resolutions, where he was responsible for the development and integration of Resolution AntiVirus, a Web-based security program. Prior to that, Dan held high-level development positions at McAfee and Contour Software. He is an expert in multiple programming languages and systems. Dan holds seven U.S. patents for products he developed and has filed for nearly twenty additional patents.

Being smuggled into a Greenwich Village house party by his older brother where he sat next to Simon & Garfunkel, Janis Joplin, and Bob Dylan as they jammed was a foreshadowing of what was to come. Marty would later be shoulder-to-shoulder with some of the biggest rock stars in the world while his company provided personal protection services for them. Marty has more than thirty-three years experience in the personal security field, and is an expert in cutting-edge security systems. A former member of the Jersey City Police Department, he spent twenty-five years at United Parcel Service, where he was responsible for all levels of security, including positions as lead director of Workplace Threat Response Team, and Loss Prevention area manager. For the past five years, Marty has been C.E.O. of The International Protection & Investigation Agency, Inc., where he provides security services for a variety of corporate and celebrity clients. Marty is a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, a certified bodyguard, licensed private detective, certified fraud examiner, and is certified in Homeland Security-Level III. He holds a B.S. from Nyack College and an M.B.A. and doctorate in management from the University of Phoenix.