Meet The Founders
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Gary Kasik
Originally from the Midwest, Gary spent over 40 years in the financial services technology sector in various leadership roles. Gary and his wife are now retired and enjoy calling Laguna Beach their forever home.
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Steve McIntosh
Steve is a 43 year resident of Laguna, with a creative, musical and acting side, balanced by over 35 years of business operations, engineering, design, sales and marketing on the other. Steve created a European machinery import company, with distribution throughout North America, serving the woodworking industry. He’s held various regional Engineering Sales / Marketing management positions for CNC machinery, robotics, automation, and finishing systems, for the manufacturing of cabinetry, furniture, architecture, and fixtures. He then moved into a National Director of Sales / Marketing position in the plastic injection molding sector, serving the medical device, defense, aerospace, and mission-critical electrical connector industries. Now “retired” with a wife and daughter, and the mind still firing on all cylinders, Steve is never at a loss for things to do!
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Steve Brown
Steve spent over 38 years in various leadership positions in the banking, capital markets and financial technology sectors. He was a bank President & CEO, co-founder of a financial technology company, Managing Director of one of the largest capital markets firms in the world, and did a variety of other speaking and investment related activities throughout his career. Steve enjoys retired life with his wife in Laguna Beach.