The Startup Connection Team

The Startup Connection Team was assembled to help startup business owners and entrepreneurs navigate through the difficult process of running and growing a business.

Alan Barnett

Alan Barnett has over 30 years of experience in retail and wholesale. Mr. Barnett has held senior positions with luxury, apparel & specialty, furniture, and off-price retailers. In addition, for the last 9 years, Alan Barnett has served as an advisor to a large Chinese apparel manufacturing firm.

Walt Garbinski

Walt Garbinski has helped companies in sourcing, quality control and setting up production processes for over thirty years.  He also also integrates efficient processes like efficient production runs to meet planning, inventory, production, shipping and volume requirements.

Attorney Nancy Gould

Attorney Nancy Gould practices in the areas of Business law and Commercial litigation, as well as Real Estate and Commercial Leasing. Throughout her career she has assisted numerous entrepreneurs start new businesses, and represents both individuals and small businesses in a broad range of transactional and litigation matters.

Richard H Jacovitz

Richard H Jacovitz is a marketing and business development consultant with special expertise guiding companies and startup entrepreneurs on the best ways to maximize marketing dollars, specifically, with copywriting and editing.

Lisa Liguori, CPA

Lisa A Liguori offers a full array of tax and accounting services for small businesses and individuals. Starting a new business involves detailed planning and making key financial decisions, which Ms. Liguori help guide your startup business through.

Bert Shlensky

Bert Shlensky started Startup Connection because he believes clients need more hands-on help on the “how” instead of the “what” than is generally available for start ups. In addition, they need specific resources to solve their problems, rather than expert theoretical opinions and pre-designed manuals.

Dale Ulrich

Dale Ulrich is president of Oceanus World Link Service, Inc. (Owls.com) and has been involved in custom programming, graphic arts, web site design, and web marketing for over 20 years.  He is an accomplished graphic designer with numerous business experiences that support great sites to help clients meet their goals.

Brian Weinberg

Brian Weinberg is the principal behind SCALIT, Inc., an information technology company that caters to small businesses and all their technology needs.