Spectrum Business Ventures offers unparalleled value to unusual and intricate business opportunities and transactions. Funds for partnership opportunities are pooled only after an attractive business opportunity is identified, significant due diligence has been performed, and the transaction has been structured to minimize risk and maximize partner return. Additionally, Spectrum Business Ventures does not charge traditional fee rates for securing transactions, and the principals are individually invested in all partnerships with their own assets. In fact, no salaries are paid to principals; instead, the partners’ vested interest is their only respective upside from an equity position.

The commitment to integrity, transparency, and trust are the basis of this ongoing business concern. With these characteristics in mind, Spectrum Business Ventures’ financial and strategic planning teams create detailed plans that capture the spirit of the endeavor, identify suitable markets, and facilitate fund raising, with the objective of minimizing risk and maximizing return.

Mr. Raizada is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Spectrum Business Ventures. As CEO, Mr. Raizada is active on a full-time basis in mergers and acquisitions, financing of various business and real estate ventures, as well as management and retail operations. Mr. Raizada maintains close personal relationships with company partners and leaders, fostering an environment of trust and respectful openness as well as a commitment to mutual success.

Mr. Raizada pioneered wireless retail operations for Nextel Corporation in Grand Rapids Michigan in 1997. He grew the operation to 17 retail locations over an 18-month period and Nextel purchased the business and used this model as its basis for a national retail distribution rollout.

Leveraging his success with Nextel Corporation, Mr. Raizada moved to Kansas City in 1999 where he secured an opportunity to open Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems (now AT&T) stores throughout the Kansas City metropolitan area.

Based on his previous success, Mr. Raizada was asked in 2002 to open the entire Southern California market for a new wireless company called T-Mobile. Mr. Raizada partnered with Los Angeles Lakers player Rick Fox and celebrity Vanessa Williams and opened 32 stores in two years. In 2004, T-Mobile purchased the stores and used them as their basis for a corporately run retail operation. During this time, Mr. Raizada also repeated the same development model for T-Mobile in Colorado and subsequently sold those stores to T-Mobile as corporately operated units.

In 2002, Mr. Raizada started Spectrum Business Ventures. He partnered with Chuck Rouse and quickly engaged in using their collective expertise to execute diverse and sophisticated business transactions. Here, Mr. Raizada built a solid foundation of transaction and management expertise in private equity markets, executing everything from financial advising to corporate finance and strategic planning.

Amit Raizada was born in New Delhi, India. He moved to the United States when he was two years old. He is a graduate of Michigan State University and received a Bachelor’s of Art in Economics with a minor in Marketing, graduating with honors.

Mr. Rouse served as law clerk for a United States District Judge for the Western District of Missouri, a Circuit Judge with the United States Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals and Special Master to the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Rouse joined and later became partner at Baker Sterchi & Cowden, LLC. In 1995, he co-founded and became a member of Douthit Frets Rouse Gentile & Rhodes, LLC, which provides legal counsel to Spectrum Business Ventures.

Mr. Rouse currently focuses his practice on entrepreneurial business activities, including work in the financial services and payment systems sector and regulatory compliance matters for stored value card products.

He currently serves as Chairman of the Board for two portfolio companies, Store Financial Services, LLC and Card Compliant, LLC.

Mr. Rouse was born in Tilden, Nebraska and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Nebraska at Kearney (Magna Cum Laude). He received his law degree from the University of Missouri (Cum Laude; Law Review).

Mr. Rouse lives in the Kansas City area and is married with three young children.

Mr. Gortenburg began his career in real estate more than two decades ago. He has expansive experience in all areas of real estate. His specialty is identifying and procuring value-added investments and purchasing and reviving under-achieving assets with strong growth potential.

During his prolonged profession in the real estate industry, Mr. Gortenburg has dedicated himself to combining an entrepreneurial spin with a pragmatic weighing of risk to achieve relative safety with high rates of return in his investments. In the mid-1980s, he began purchasing various real estate holdings and has since built a portfolio of apartments, office buildings, industrial complexes, retail centers, hotels and residential development.

Michael Gortenburg is a life long resident of the Kansas City area. He attended Coe College, the University of Kansas and Boston University.

Mr. Gortenburg is married with two children.

Mr. Asner engaged in the general practice of law until 1994. In 1994, he began to spend the majority of his time engaged in investment activities with a heavy emphasis on real estate investments. Focusing on commercial and retail projects, coupled with a mix of multi-family developments, Mr. Asner has a unique diversity of expertise in the real estate and financing industries.

Mr. Asner serves on the Board of Directors for Hillcrest Bank as well as the Executive Loan and Audit Committees. For over twelve years, he has been on the board of Kaw Valley Behavioral Health Care Center, the largest provider of care for at-risk children, and has also served as the Chair in the past.

Mr. Asner also serves on the advisory board of Challenger Sports, which is the largest soccer camp provider in the United States.

Scott Asner is a life long resident of the Kansas City area. He graduated from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania in 1972 with a Bachelor’s of Science in Economics and received his Jurist Doctorate degree from Stanford School of Law in 1975.

Mr. Asner lives in Florida and has part time residency in Kansas City. He is married with two daughters and a grandson.