RESOURCES
The CLIENT ADVOCATE NETWORK has assembled a broad spectrum of CAPITAL, PEOPLE & KNOWLEDGE solutions for its clients.
Each professional services firm has been screened, qualified, and determined to be competent in their vocation, driven by common values, and client centered. Their standing in C.A.N. is based on their core competencies, the ideal clients they serve, and the value they deliver.
These Preferred Partners are representative of the diverse, multi-disciplinary resources available through C.A.N. They are our first line of solutions we utilize to address our clients' needs.
Below is a listing of the resource categories and the Preferred Partners in each resource category:
Accounting & Tax
Banking & Finance
Consulting (Operational & Organizational)
Human Resources & Human Capital
Insurance & Employee Benefits
Legal
Marketing
Technology
Wealth Management
Core Accounting & Tax services available through CAN:
- Audit, review & compiled financial statements
- Tax prep & planning (individual & corporations)
- Bookkeeping (part-time & outsourced)
- 401K & ERISA plan audits
- Interim CFO & controller services
- Forensic & fraud audits
- Litigation support & expert testimony
- SOX & Internal controls
- Business valuations
PREFERRED PARTNERS
Link, Murrel & Company (www.link-murrel.com)
Full service audit, tax, and accounting firm.
John Link • Gary
Crouch • Craig Murrel
| (949) 261-1120
180 Business Solutions (www.180bs.com)
Outsourced back office accounting and
interim / part-time CFO / Controller services.
Richard Lambright | (949)
900-0290
Summit Payroll (www.summitpayonline.com)
Payroll, time & attendance and human resources record keeping management.
Kirk Oetken | (714) 738-3530
Wright Ford Young
& Co. (www.cpa-wfy.com)
Since 1973 Wright Ford Young & Co. has been providing exceptional hands-on consulting, accounting and tax services to entrepreneurial companies and professional individuals.
Robert Wright • Scott
Young • Debbie Neal |
(949) 910-2727
Capata & Company (www.capatax.com)
Accounting and tax services to individuals and corporations.
Gary Capata | (949) 364-0334
Core Banking & Finance services available through CAN:
- Business loans & lines of credit
- Commercial real estate lending
- SBA, CalCap and other Government guaranteed loans
- Asset based lending (A/R, inventory, purchase order financing)
- Convertible debt
- Lease financing
- Bridge & specialty financing
- Private equity & angel investment
- Cash management services
- Financial restructuring and work outs
PREFERRED PARTNERS
Pacific Enterprise Bank (www.pacificenterprisebank.com)
A full service community bank serving Orange County entrepreneurial companies with lending and cash management products.
Brian Halle •
Tobias Halbmaier
| (949) 623-7600

South County Bank (www.southcountybank.com)
We are known as South County Bank in most regions of Southern California, Surf City Bank in Huntington Beach, and Inland Valley Bank in Redlands and Moreno Valley – we are a full service community bank.
H. Kent Falk | (949) 766-3030
Banking & Treasury Advisory Group (www.BTAGinc.com)
BTAG provides solutions to optimize a company's capital management.
Jason Lee | (949) 208-6178
Core Consulting service available through CAN:
- Vision & mission creation
- Strategic business planning
- Marketing & sales planning
- Project management & training
- Quality control initiatives & improvements
- Succession & family business planning
- Turnaround & troubled company support
- Corporate culture assessment & development
- Corporate team building
- Management team development
- Strategic offsite retreats & facilitation
- Workforce training
- Community and economic development
- Government and community relations
PREFERRED PARTNERS
Ethical Edge / Passkeys Foundation (www.ethicaledge.org
/ www.passkeys.org)
The Ethical Edge delivers innovative ethics and character development programs for organizations and businesses.
Russell Williams | (949) 770-7602
Exit & Retirement Strategies, Inc (www.exit-retire.com)
ERSI is focused on helping Privately Held Business Owners develop 3-10 year SET (Succession, Exit and Transition) plans.
Bill Black | (866) 370-3774

Frumi & Associates (www.frumi.com)
Catalyst for Change and Executive/Team Coach
Frumi Rachel Barr, Phd. MBA | (949) 394-9201

Performance Improvement Consultants (www.picperform.com)
Performance Improvement Consultants partners with its clients to help develop the vision, values and strategies that lead to enhanced performance for corporations and their employees as well as small business owners.
Rita Monte | (949) 632-5752
Vistage fka TEC (www.vistage.com)
Helping top executives and owners of small businesses take their careers and companies to a new level.
Linda Hughes •
Les Whitney | (949) 497-4524
Core HR & Human Capital services available through CAN:
- Compliance audit & risk assessment
- HR support & outsourcing
- Retained & contingent search
- Staffing & contract employment
- PEO & co-employment
- Professional & personal development
- Coaching & mentoring
- Outplacement & career planning
- Compensation & benefits
- Training programs
- Management and supervision
- Violence in the Workplace
- Sexual Harassment
- Recruitment, interviewing, hiring, retention of key employees
- Union avoidance
- Employee relations
- Conflict resolution
- Change management
- Team building
PREFERRED PARTNERS
Coneybeare, Inc. (www.coneybeare.com)
Coneybeare, Inc. is an award-winning staffing and recruiting firm located in Orange County, California. Since 1986, we have offered full service, customized hiring plans, recruitment, and placement of talent for a variety of industries.
Victoria Betancourt | (714) 547-8546
Employing Athletes (www.employingathletes.com)
Prepares student athletes for competition in the business world; Helps companies seeking to recruit and hire student athletics connect with this target audience.
Dennis Wisco | (310) 933-1390
Global Human Resources Outsourcing (www.ghrogroup.com)
GHRO and Total Solutions is a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) that assists small organizations attract better talent, reduce turnover, protect assets, contain costs, leverage resources and improve employee productivity.
Jeff Stinson • Brandon
Carl • Nicole DeGidio
| (949) 797-2035
IMPACT Hiring Solutions (www.impacthiringsolutions.com)
Executive search, in-house workshops, and training seminars, Impact Hiring Solutions helps companies reduce turnover, retain top talent and become talent magnets.
Brad Remillard | (949) 310-5659
INSURANCE & EMPLOYEE BENEFITS RESOURCES
Core Insurance & Employee Benefits services available through CAN:
- General business liability
- Property & casualty
- Worker's compensation
- Risk management
- Credit insurance
- Personal lines (life, home, auto, etc.)
- Employee benefits
- Health & welfare plans
- 401K
PREFERRED PARTNERS

Burnham Benefits (www.burnhambenefits.com)
At Burnham Benefits, we help employers to design and use their employee benefit programs more strategically. We support such programs through established resources and services that bring added value to employers and employees.
Patti Kunnel • Dan Exceen | (949) 252-4586

Colony West (www.colony-west.com)
Colony West partners with business owners to provide risk management solutions and insurance services.
"We've got you covered"
Bill Kaley | (714) 542-4870

Insurance Solutions (www.ins-solutions.com)
Workers' compensation, general liability and property needs as well as a division that serves their personal insurance needs like auto, home, recreational, life, health and financial services.
Tony Alessandra • Steve Aylor | (949) 348-2056

New York Life Insurance (www.orangecoast.nyloffices.com)
Being a leader in the insurance and financial services industry for over a century and a half means continually striving for improvement not resting on our laurels.
David Mussehl • Keith Janca | (949) 797-2470
Core Legal services available through CAN:
- General counsel (project basis, interim, permanent)
- Purchase and sale agreements (buy/sell)
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Contracts & collections
- Real estate and equipment leases
- Business litigation
- Employment law
- Workers' compensation
- Trust & tax counsel
- Patents, trademarks, and intellectual property
- Bankruptcy
- Entertainment law
- Pre-paid personal and business legal plans
- Public company compliance & reporting
PREFERRED PARTNERS

Horizon Law Group (www.horizonlawgroup.com)
We are all former Am Law Top 100 Law firm exiles, so have top school and professional expertise, with a much more down to earth and practical approach to providing legal services on a cost effective basis for small to middle market companies.
Michael Connor • David Brewster • Thomas French | (949) 261-2500

Wu & Cheung (www.wclawyers.com)
Full service law firm specializing in business litigation, intellectual property and international trade
& law.
Charles C.H. Wu | (949) 251-0111
Core Marketing services available through CAN:
- Strategic marketing plans
- Marketing & branding
- Direct marketing & mail
- Personal, hands-on sales training & sales management support
- Identifying and maximizing new business and practice development opportunities
- Telemarketing sales
- Client retention, cross selling, and referral opportunities
- Corporate & internal communications
- Public relations
PREFERRED PARTNERS

Rhythm Interactive (www.rinteractive.net)
Rhythm Interactive is a full-service interactive marketing agency.
Peter Bohenek | (949) 783-5000

Cross Media Resources (www.crossmediaresources.com)
CMR helps customers with creative solutions to their printing and marketing challenges.
Ron Hopkins | (949)
552-4756

OSignite (www.OSignite.com)
OSignite, Inc. delivering high powered Website Development and Design Solutions utilizing the latest Open Source technology.
Zach Schapel | (949) 466-8503
ICON Marketing (www.icon-marketing.com)
Full service marketing, advertising and interactive agency.
Steve Rojas | (714) 990-5909
Core Technology services available through CAN:
- Strategic IT planning
- IT network system design
- Accounting & ERP software implementation
- CRM software implementation
- Barcode & RFID Solutions
- Telephony solutions (VOIP)
- Document Management & Paperless systems
- Equipment & software leases
- Website design & development
- Content management systems (CMS)
- Custom software design & development
PREFERRED PARTNERS
NeuLogics (www.NeuLogics.com)
NeuLogics provides business process consulting services to small and medium sized businesses. As a Microsoft Partner, we leverage business management software from Microsofts Dynamics GP™ (Great Plains) and Dynamics CRM™ (Customer Relationship Management) product lines.
Tom Santoro • Chris Zeiler | (949) 305-4343
Convergence Solutions (www.ConvergenceSolutionsInc.com)
Convergence Solutions is the premiere IT systems integration company for global enterprise-level companies in need of design, installation, and support for business communication systems.
Jon Parrish | (866) 463-3579
The Integration Works (www.integrationworks.com)
An Integrated Solution to manage technology can be a challenge because it touches every part of your organization.
Leigh Older • James Cater | (714) 247-1200

DocuSource (www.docusrc.com)
Providing consulting and technology to maximize office productivity and lower document costs.
Les Walker • Bob Galeener | (562) 447-2662
Core Wealth Management services available through CAN:
- Estate & financial planning
- Investment portfolio advisory & management
- Private & personal banking for business owners
- Asset protection
- Life insurance
- Family foundation office
- Structured sales
- Commercial & residential real estate investment
- Succession & family business planning
PREFERRED PARTNERS
Benefit Concepts Inc. (www.benconinc.com)
Benefit Concepts, Inc. (BCI) has been preserving our clients wealth and business assets for over 30 years. The principals and staff at BCI have over 200 years of cumulative experience and knowledge with specialization in the areas of tax law, accounting and plan modeling.
Richard Hartmann • Dick Schwartz | (303) 740-8001
Financial Management Network (www.fmncc.com)
Comprehensive fee based( written) financial planning, serving senior executives and business owners in the Orange County area.
Greg Aitkens, CFP | (949) 455-0300





