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 Chief Executive Officer of Spectrum Business Ventures. As CEO, Mr. Raizada leads SBV’s M&A efforts including deal sourcing, structuring and financing for both operating companies and real estate ventures. Mr. Raizada is also an active participant in designing and building SBV’s portfolio companies’ business plans and growth strategies.

Mr. Raizada began his career by pioneering wireless retail operations for Nextel Corporation, a model he repeated with T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon in a number of markets across the United States.

In 2002, Mr. Raizada started Spectrum Business Ventures as a family office to manage his private investment portfolio. Over the last decade, Mr. Raizada has grown SBV to a multi-family office with over 100 active investments with total enterprise value in excess of $1B.

Amit Raizada was born in New Delhi, India and 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 is the former board chair of the Kaw Valley Behavioral Health Care Center, the largest provider of care for at-risk children. He currently serves on the board where he continues his 15-year active support of the organization. Just recently, Mr. Asner was nominated to become part of the board for the Menorah Hospital Legacy Foundation. 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.