Our Members and Alumni
Meet our Netcito community, a diverse group of highly successful entrepreneurs from around the United States.
Mazen is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience. Started his current digital agency (WebQuest) in 2014 as a one-man agency based in Dubai, and grew it to a staff of six full-time employees and 2-part-time admin staff with clients across the Middle East, Europe, and the US.
Mazen started his professional career as a technical instructor in 2002 when he taught networking and programming courses at a technical institute.…
My name is Thomas Armstrong, and I just graduated from NC State University in Raleigh. I studied entrepreneurship and at the same time my brother and I built a digital marketing agency, 9miles Media, from 2 to 14 people based in downtown Raleigh. https://9milesmedia.com
I was introduced to Peter Mellen several months ago by a mutual friend, and he’s been an invaluable mentor to me.…
Michelle brings more than 18 years of experience from the communications, digital marketing, e-commerce, and marketing strategy disciplines. Michelle has worked on both the corporate and consulting agency sides focused on corporate growth strategies, acquisitions, and the articulation of Internet growth and marketing strategy to a wide range of constituencies.
Currently, Michelle is CEO and Founder of Make Your Mark Digital with responsibility for the vision, strategy, and growth of Make Your Mark.…
Peter Mellen is an entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience working in online business and commercial real estate. He is Founder and CEO of Netcito, a network of peer advisory groups for entrepreneurs.
Previously, he co-founded Edison|Wright, where he launched one of the first PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) programs in the world to finance clean energy projects in buildings through voluntary property tax assessments.…
Michael Nelson is a Co-Founder of IntimacyIVF. Prior to this full-time role, Michael worked for over 14 years in international development at the Inter-American Development Bank. During this period, Michael worked his way up from Research Assistant in Washington DC to Chief of Operations for the Bahamas office. Among other leadership responsibilities, he led multi-agency assessment and response teams in response to natural disasters, winning several awards from the institution including the President’s Award and 2 Team Awards.…
Jamey Stowell is a professional leadership coach, strategy consultant, and group facilitator. Jamey served in a variety of leadership roles at Georgetown University, African Leadership University, and INSEAD, designing academic and professional development curricula with some of the top strategy and business professors in the world. He is part of an elite group of facilitators who lead the renowned Interpersonal Dynamics course in the Stanford MBA program, and is a certified executive coach in the Six Domains of Leadership model used at Duke Fuqua School of Business.…
My name is Tareq Tahboub and I currently own and operate Trafford Security, a cybersecurity firm focused on offensive security, specifically penetration testing and red team engagements for clients ranging from the federal government to Fortune 500 companies. I’m now at the point where I’m looking to grow my business by hiring quality talent as well as looking to develop a SaaS solution to complement our service offerings.…