George Friedman: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
Nicholas Carr: The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
David Weinberger: Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
Patricia B. Seybold: Outside Innovation: How Your Customers Will Co-Design Your Company's Future
Don Tapscott: Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Yochai Benkler: The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
Henry Jenkins: Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
Seth Godin: Small Is the New Big: and 193 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas
Bob Seidensticker: Future Hype : The Myths of Technology Change
Jim Collins: Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great
ICT Innovations - Integrating Technology Accelerators
LIFE EXPERIENCE:
Raised in Vietnam and Singapore. Attacked by the Viet Cong in Saigon during Tet Offensive (Chinese New Year) in 1968. Traveled around the world 5 times before the age of 15. My father (Doug Cozart) was in ministry for 55 years. He helped start World Vision with Dr. Bob Pierce, served for 25 years with Dr. Haggai (founder of Haggai Institute) as the VP of Third World Relations, recruiting Christian leaders for advanced leadership training in Maui and Singapore. He originally served with Daws Trotman (founder of the Navigators) in Korea. In 2006, I helped my Mom publish a book about my Dad's life through BookSurge.com, an Amazon.com company - available online worldwide through Amazon.com (type in Doug Cozart).
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:
Twenty years experience integrating technology accelerators in business and nonprofit organizations. Extensive experience managing IPO roll-ups, private placements, mergers & acquisitions, and small business start-ups. Brokered a national Internet deal between Crown Financial Ministries (nonprofit) and In2M Corpoaration (for profit). The result is a co-branded relationship and product called “Crown Mvelopes”, a subscription-based, online spending plan tool using electronic envelopes that integrate with banking, debit and credit cards.
Active Advisor for Kachingle, an online, donor-centric, micro-payment processing tool designed to make nonprofits and Web 2.0 companies profitable. Kachingle was designed by Cynthia Typaldos, a serial entrepreneur, social network expert, and founder of GolfWeb and RealCommunities.
EDUCATION:
IQ: 129
Intellectual Type: Visual Mathematician
CQ + PQ > IQ (Thomas L. Friedman)
Flagler College – St. Augustine, FL – 1980–1982 Business Administration
God, Family, Spending time with Deb, Futuring, Reading, Writing, Problem Solving, Philanthropy, Prophecy, Technology's Impact on Society, Surfing, Skateboarding (with my daughters Madison & Mia), Golfing, Networking