Mr. Allen Gold

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Allen Gold

Allen Gold provides creative, conscious and innovative advisory services for those times in our life when we need support in knowing how to navigate through stressful risky situations with our integrity intact.Whether seeking a solid foundation for a start-up enterprise or resolution and closure to a challenging situation in business or relationship, Allen can help.Most of his life has been spent as the founder and CEO of several successful businesses.He also trained and practiced for several years as a counselor in Psychosynthesis and Gestalt Therapy.For the past 15 years he was Chairman and CEO of a 35-employee financial services firm specializing in venture capital investments in the Environmental Sciences.He has been a student of the inner mysteries of life for over 30 years.Throughout his active business career he has practiced a range of eastern and western spiritual disciplines combined with a personal exploration using body centered growth therapies.He has just completed a one-year retreat, six months of which was in a Tibetan Buddhist hermitage.His diverse background and experience in the world allows him to quickly penetrate to the core of a clients issue and bring "presence" to bear on the solution that is congruent with their real needs.Having navigated his way through most of the territory that his clients are in, he often wished that he could have found this kind of support during his earlier career, outside of the therapy model.

Rants, raves and other thoughtful musings from Allen Gold

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Lionheart Templar Background and Experience: Allen Gold

Allen Gold is the CEO of the Lionheart Group, a strategic development and investment banking firm. Lionheart assists companies in developing and executing the strategies that will create the valuation and investment criteria for their next level of capital infusion; in many cases it designs and facilitates the fund raising structure and manages the process. Mr. Gold is a successful entrepreneur with over 30 years of business management and development experience. Lionheart specializes in companies in the Healthy Living and Aging, Cleantech and Lifestyle segments. He works with an extensive network of advisors and consultants to provide first class strategic planning, business development and marketing to his clients

In 1985, Mr. Gold founded Venturelease, one of the first equipment lease companies to underwrite transactions for early stage venture capital financed companies in Silicon Valley. This operation became a division of the Ally Group of Companies. Until 1999, Mr. Gold was the Chairman and CEO of the Ally Group. A diversified asset management and venture investment company, the Ally Group originated and underwrote over $1 billion in investment transactions and employed 30 professionals.

In 1991, Mr. Gold founded the Environmental Allies Group of Funds, a division of the Ally Group. The Environmental Allies Funds primarily invested in development stage environmental technology companies and in environmental project finance opportunities. Energy Efficiency Finance Corporation was formed in 1993. Mr. Gold raised three funds with a total of $50 million in equity and made over 100 investments. In 1997, Mr. Gold founded and became the President, CEO and licensee of Critical Capital Corporation, a $30 million venture capital fund licensed by the SBA as a Small Business Investment Company. Mr. Gold was responsible for obtaining the company's license from the SBA. This fund invested in emerging growth companies in retail, food service and manufacturing. It was established in partnership with Sands Brothers & Co, a NYSE investment banking firm. Sands Brothers acquired Mr. Gold's interest in 2000.
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I have had the pleasure of knowing and working with Allen for 25 years.In that time, I have seen him put himself at risk many times as he has explored his capacities for creativity and change.His committment to personal growth and to the continuous gaining of skills with which to better engage with and be an ally to those around him has been outstanding.His new incarnation as coach and mentor brings together into an exciting synthesis this same integrity and committment to excellence plus all of the wisdom, skills and experiences which he has gained in this process.What makes Allen special as an ally and coach, though, is not only his wealth of practical, in-the-world experience but a spirituality and inner attunement, integrity, and love that has grown steadily within him all the time I have known him.With Allen, you get an ally on many levels.
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At the same time, Allen is very good at clarifying boundaries and taking a no nonsense stand.When necessary, Allen can be a formidable adversary and now can coach others from that experience.He has a mastery in identifying the issues, risk/rewards and strategically planning and implementing a course of action that produces results."I am very pleased that Allen is pursuing his idea of several years ago to take his life and business experiences and offer them to others in a service/consulting role.Whether you are launching a new business, getting your life or business unstuck, moving through some troubled times, Allen is a very good pick to have by your side.He is a thoughtful, smart and savvy warrior with a fabulous sense of humor who is most enjoyable to be with."There is never a dull moment with Allen so be prepared to have your pot stirred."
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I have known Allen for nearly 15 years and I marvel at how he has integrated his outer, business life with the inner life of the heart.The two are not separate worlds to Allen!He has a very unique quality of seeing beyond the subjective reality of life, business, and relationships into the deeper worlds where truth, clarity and real love reside.He gently guides the process past the limitations of the mind that our egos create and allows resolution to reveal itself.I would never hesitate to call Allen and involve him in any of my life's situations.
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Allen Gold has been a trusted advisor of mine for the past 10 years.Because of his diverse background, he has insight into both the business and spiritual worlds.He has been of enormous assistance to me in my personal and professional dealings.I recommend him wholeheartedly.
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My first session with Allen was a truly transformative experience in relationship to my career and the direction I was moving in.I made a quantum leap forward and felt a renewed energy and vitality in my work and greater clarity and focus at the forefront of my career.He so thoroughly exposed the areas in which our project needed support, I began to see through new eyes how to conduct my business.I highly recommend Allen Gold to be on your team.

Allen Gold, Senior Managing Director is also the CEO of the Lionheart Group, a strategic development and investment banking firm. Lionheart assists companies in developing and executing the strategies that will create the valuation and investment criteria for their next level of capital infusion; in many cases it designs and facilitates the fund raising structure and manages the process. In 1985, Mr. Gold founded Venturelease, one of the first equipment lease companies to underwrite transactions for early stage venture capital financed companies in Silicon Valley. This operation became a division of the Ally Group of Companies. Until 1999, Mr. Gold was the Chairman and CEO of the Ally Group. A diversified asset management and venture investment company, the Ally Group originated and underwrote over $1 billion in investment transactions and employed 30 professionals. Mr. Gold is an innovative and entrepreneurial financial services executive with strong fund development and management experience

In 1991, Mr. Gold founded the Environmental Allies Group of Funds, a division of the Ally Group. The Environmental Allies Funds primarily invested in development stage environmental technology companies and in environmental project finance opportunities. Energy Efficiency Finance Corporation was formed in 1993. Mr. Gold raised three funds with a total of $50 million in equity and made over 100 investments. In 1997, Mr. Gold founded and became the President, CEO and licensee of Critical Capital Corporation, a $30 million venture capital fund licensed by the SBA as a Small Business Investment Company. Mr. Gold was responsible for obtaining the company's license from the SBA. This fund invested in emerging growth companies in retail, food service and manufacturing. It was established in partnership with Sands Brothers & Co, a NYSE investment banking firm. Sands Brothers acquired Mr. Gold's interest in 2000.