Our Guests for the September 9th/10th edition of PlayMakers Talk Show:

Tom Leverton, CEO, CEC Entertainment

Renee Ramsey, CEO & Co-Founder, Mustang Creek Estates

Join us Friday afternoon at 3:00 and Saturday afternoon at 2:00 for an Encore Presentation on 770 KAAM (KAAMRadio.com)

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Tom Leverton, CEO, CEC Entertainment

Tom Leverton has been CEO of CEC Entertainment since July 2014. For nearly 40 years, CEC Entertainment has served as the nationally recognized leader in family dining and entertainment and the place Where A Kid Can Be A Kid^®.

Committed to providing a fun, safe environment, Chuck E. Cheese’s helps protect families through industry-leading programs such as Kid Check^®. As a strong advocate for its local communities and childhood education, Chuck E. Cheese’s has donated more than $14 million to schools through its fundraising programs.

CEC Entertainment and its franchisees operate a system of 598 Chuck E. Cheese’s and 141 Peter Piper Pizza stores, with locations in 47 states and 11 foreign countries and territories. Tom previously was CEO at TopGolf and prior to that, CEO at Omniflight.

ChuckECheese.com                                          PeterPiperPizza.com

Renee Ramsey, CEO & Co-Founder, Mustang Creek Estates

Renee Ramsey is the co-founder and CEO of Mustang Creek Estates, which provides affordable residential assisted living and memory care communities in the DFW Metroplex.

With 22 years in the senior living industry, Renee founded a unique model that consists of neighborhoods with homes that accommodate up to 16 residents, each living in spacious private bedrooms.

Being a small, local company, Renee makes decisions based on what’s best for the residents and their families, instead of solely based on the bottom line. Mustang Creek Estates currently has communities open in Frisco, Allen and Keller, with Burleson set to open later next month and Sachse to follow later this fall.

MustangCreekEstates.com

Phone: (214) 396-5828

Host, Steve A Klein, Renee Ramsey, Tom Leverton

Our Guests for the September 2nd/3rd edition of PlayMakers Talk Show:

Kurt Carlton, Founder, New Western Acquisitions

Bruce Ballengee, CEO & Co-Founder, Pariveda Solutions, Inc.

Join us Friday afternoon at 3:00 and Saturday afternoon at 2:00 for an Encore Presentation on 770 KAAM (KAAMRadio.com)

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Kurt Carlton, Founder, New Western Acquisitions

Kurt Carlton founded New Western Acquisitions in 2008 and has since purchased and resold more than 8,000 distressed homes and is currently the 6^th fastest growing middle-market company in Texas according to the Dallas Business Journal.

New Western Acquisitions is a national wholesale investment brokerage company in 13 metro markets.  Every year New Western Acquisitions acquires thousands of homes in distressed condition providing a vital role in restoring communities across the nation by facilitating the rehabilitation of these homes and returning them to the market in top condition so they can be purchased, lived in and enjoyed.

In addition to real estate acquisitions Kurt has helped thousands of other real estate investors with their careers by extending property financing. HousingWire Magazine named Kurt the “Giant of Investor Lending.”

NewWestern.com

Phone: (972) 573-1224

Bruce Ballengee, CEO & Co-Founder, Pariveda Solutions, Inc.

Bruce Ballengee founded Pariveda Solutions, Inc. in October 2003 during the worst IT recession in history. An idea drove Bruce that in any professional practice, talent represents the best sustainable hope for long-term success. He created a company based on the idea that talent can be differentiating.

Bruce financed Pariveda with his assets, crafting a unique but sustainable business model based on talent development and is now a leading management consulting firm specializing in improving their clients’ performance having grown to over 450 people based in 9 offices in major U.S. cities with 2015 revenue of $83 million.

Pariveda Solutions solves the complex problems of clients ranging from Fortune 100 to Global 2000 to startup companies and spanning multiple industries.

ParivedaSolutions.com

Phone: (214) 777-4600

Kurt Carlton, Host, Steve A Klein, Bruce Ballengee