Social Security / Alternative Small Business Financing (E1801249)

Ash is the head of Social Security planning at OneTeam Financial. With nearly thirty years of experience, he is one of the nation’s foremost experts on Social Security and oversees the development of Social Security claiming strategies to maximize retirement income benefits. Ash is the former president and founder of National Social Security Partners, LLC (NSSP). He has two certifications in Social Security planning: National Social Security AdvisorSM and Certified in Social Security Claiming Strategies (CSSCS). Ash was recognized with the “National Social Security Advisor of the Year” award in 2016 from the National Social Security Association. He obtained his Chartered Accounting degree (a Canadian CPA.) and Certified Financial PlannerTM designation. He then went on to obtain an MBA from Wharton Business School. Ash has been published in numerous newspapers and magazines.

Michael Banasiak offers more than 25 years experience in the information and financial services business. Currently Banasiak manages and owns Liquid Capital Express, a non-bank commercial financing company that helps small businesses obtain funding domestically and internationally when bank financing is not available. Prior, he founded PredictiveMetrics, Inc., a predictive scoring and decision analytics company that he profitably sold to SunGard, a $5 billion software company. Banasiak is the forefather of commercial credit scoring; successfully built Dun & Bradstreet’s (D&B) first commercial credit scoring and financial stress models currently used by over 10,000 companies.