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Cort W. Christie is the Founder and President of Nevada Corporate Headquarters, Inc. Mr. Christie is a skilled entrepreneur, executive, author, and speaker who has garnered widespread recognition for his expertise in small business start-ups and finance. A national expert on entrepreneurship, he has an extensive background in business formation, small business tax strategies and fundraising for start-ups. Mr. Christie has been called "The Entrepreneur's Entrepreneur".

Cort regularly appears at small business workshops and seminars across the country to speak on a variety of subjects related to entrepreneurship, business management, and asset protection. He has distinguished himself as a highly accomplished and nationally recognized speaker and has appeared as a featured guest on some of the largest radio shows across the country. Mr. Christie has also hosted his own business radio programs in Las Vegas and San Diego and made television appearances on MSNBC and CNBC.

Adept at translating his extensive experience and skill into informative publications for aspiring entrepreneurs, Cort is the author of Incorporating in Nevada – The Do-it-Yourself Kit, The Nevada Edge, Fast Money, 77 Ways to Raise Start-up Money and many other publications. These books have been distributed to hundreds of thousands of business owners across the country.

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Derek Rowley is an entrepreneur and business author who has spent over 20 years promoting the use of Nevada business entities. He is the co-founder of Nevada Corporate Headquarters, Inc., based in Las Vegas; and Corporate Service Center, Inc., based in Reno. His companies have helped over 90,000 business owners and investors take advantage of Nevada's unique asset protection and tax laws.

From 2003 to 2010, Derek served as the president of the Nevada Registered Agent Association (NRAA) – the largest business organization in Nevada – where he represented over 200,000 Nevada-based businesses before the Nevada Legislature. In his capacity as president of the NRAA, Derek was instrumental in the introduction and passage of many of the statutory benefits of Nevada's business entity laws, and is the father of charging-order protection for closely-held corporations. He also directed the efforts resulting in the existing Best Practice Standards for the Nevada incorporation and registered agent industry and has served as one of five members of Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller's Commercial Recordings Task Force.

Derek is the author of several business books, including The Nevada Corporation Handbook, which has sold more than 25,000 copies in nine editions. It has been widely considered the foremost treatise on Nevada business entities and is sold by and used as a training manual for many incorporation companies in Nevada. Derek has also written Seven Stupid Things Entrepreneurs Do to Ruin a Perfectly Good Business; The Nevada Business Entity Handbook and other business articles.

In addition to his work in the Nevada incorporation and registered agent industry, Derek provides ongoing specialty consulting in the areas of government relations, business development, management and operations. He has designed and executed strategies for the start-up and turn-around of a variety of businesses, including organic and natural food companies, hotels, restaurants, technology companies, and commercial and residential development.

Derek has been married for over 25 years, and he and his wife and family currently reside in St. George, Utah, where he is currently involved in the development of SunRiver St. George, Utah's only master-planned active adult golf course community.

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Trevor Rowley currently serves as Executive Vice President of Nevada Corporate Headquarters, Inc. and Corporate Service Center, Inc.

During his 20+ years with the organizations, Mr. Rowley has built a career assisting new businesses to expand and grow. He has consulted with thousands of business owners and helped them develop strategies that build their businesses, protect their assets and minimize their taxes. Many of our clients know Trevor personally and can attest to his commitment to service, as well as his extensive knowledge and experience working with Nevada corporations and LLCs.

A highly sought speaker, Mr. Rowley also instructs entrepreneurs and investors on subjects such as Asset Protection, Business Credit and Funding and Nevada Incorporation Advantages at events held at major properties around the West.

Trevor is a magna cum laude graduate of Southern Utah University, where he was also a finalist for the prestigious Wall Street Journal Award for Business Excellence.

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Kurt Harris, Esq. founded Harris Law Office on the fundamental principles of fair and honest representation. Mr. Harris has held positions as a litigator with several firms before founding Harris Law Office. Mr. Harris has additionally performed some consulting in the telecommunications industry, wireless division; Mr. Harris has worked and participated in over 300 trials, mediations and arbitration;

Mr. Harris was recently been appointed to be a mediator for the State of Nevada Foreclosure Mediation Program, mediating more than 50 cases. He is a pro tem judge for the Las Vegas Justice Court. Additionally, Kurt Harris has been acting as a Clark County Court appointed Arbitrator for several years managing more than 200 cases.

Mr. Harris is an experienced litigator with substantial jury and bench trial experience; Served as an interpreter in Churchill County, Nevada for the Municipal Court; Mr. Harris clerked for the Honorable Judge Mario G. Recanzone, Third Judicial District of the State of Nevada; Mr. Harris clerked for the Honorable Judge David A. Huff, Third Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada; Mr. Harris served a clerkship for the Honorable Judge Don L. Harding, Sixth Judicial District Court of the State of Idaho; Mr. Harris has the opportunity to serve for Judge Wallace Transtrum of the Sixth Judicial District Court of the State of Idaho;

Mr. Harris has lived and/or worked in California, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Washington and Washington D.C. He has substantial litigation experience and has created substantial transaction and estate planning documents, currently focusing his practice on estate planning. Mr. Harris is fluent in Spanish.