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Connected Ownership Inc., COI, is a well focused Ownership Capital Connection/Ownership Development Company. 

We selectively partner with owners of accelerating growth companies in order to optimize their business, financial, and ownership performance. At the core of what we do is connecting our owner clients to their Right-Fit, needed capital funding, or Ownership Capital Connections.

With and through the owner, COI facilitates the effective connection of the Right-Fit ownership combination of People, Strategy, and Resources. 

We help optimize the personal performance, and the greater strengths development of the primary owner. We consistently have found that the rate of growth of the owner’s business depends upon optimizing the connected performance of the primary owner, and his or her key team members.

Many high growth, successful entrepreneurial owners struggle to find needed capital. They are often frustrated and exhausted from trying to do it all, including connecting with and closing the Right-Fit Investors.

Unifying-Purpose/Mission

Facilitating Ownership Capital Connections, including trusted, competent Connected Ownership Comprehensive-Support, is COI’s compelling, focused purpose. This is done to enable client Owners and their leaders to achieve accelerated business, financial, and personal growth.


Founding COI Partner Personal Essence DNA’s

COI’s innovative Personal Essence Determined Natural Actions, PE DNA, is a summary profile connecting four of the best complementary professional assessments.

A PE DNA describes the comparative strengths of how we individually naturally and consistently Act, Feel, and Think, integrated with our Top Talents.

This professional assessment summary, or greater strengths profile, reflects the innate hard wiring of our personal essence and our determined natural actions, i.e., who we truly are inside.

These COI connected, complementary assessments become a strong, caring basis for determining our right strength-based role fits, and serves as the foundation for our individual, optimal development, and for our Right-Fit ownership connections.

The Personal Essence DNA of the Founding COI partners, Ron Smith and Allan L. Vandall are now shown to help reveal the greater strenths nature of this COI people connection tool.

COI Partners

Ron Smith is our expert in business strategy, finance, and effective capital, including bank funding. Ron invested 34 years of successful leadership at Citibank in a wide variety of senior management positions across the US, Asia and Europe. His domestic and international expertise in business and risk management spanned the corporate, consumer, and private banking sectors. Ron holds a BA in Math, a BA in Psychology, and an MBA from Columbia in Finance and International Business.

Ron is very strategic, organized, and analytical. He is most precise with the in depth analysis of financials, including facilitating the needed additional financial scenarios to achieve the most effective combination of capital and bank funding. He is enterprising, and highly influential at connecting like spirited owners, and the owner’s team motivationally.

Allan L. Vandall is our expert at facilitating the creation of energized, strengths-based organizations, and in connecting Right-Fit People, Strategy, and Resources. He is an innovative deal maker, intuitive people connector, and a visionary strategy connector/developer. Allan’s diverse background includes senior leadership positions in component manufacturing companies, and 14 years as the majority owner and CEO of US Graphite, a 200+ employee Engineered Materials Company. 

Allan is highly driven to see/meet client challenges for needed ownership funding, and facilitating COI’s Connected Ownership Process. He decisively helps owners to activate the Right-Fit strategic course of action. He connects, and maximizes the utilization of the strengths of the needed diverse talents around the owner to comprehensively support passionate, innovative/profitable ownership adventures.

Allan has studied and innovated the ownership process over the last eleven years as an Ownership Consultant, coaching and comprehensively supporting a multitude of entrepreneurs to business success. He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Penn State, and has an MBA in Finance. 

The highly complementary COI Partners connect owners to Right-Fit resources: talent, strategy, and capital funding. They also connect like spirited, like minded owners in North America to each other to connect valuable ownership experience, information, and financial support. 

With our unique, trusted Connected Ownership and Comprehensive-Support process, owners identify and remove obstacles to their success, develop powerful, high Return on Ongoing Relationships, or ROR; and they capitalize on Right-Fit strategic connections, including Capital Funding. This is while COI also facilitates the client’s company’s profitable growth; accelerating the time to positive cash flow with also the most lucrative exit potential. 

After serving three decades in Corporate America, enjoying the role of a proactive CEO, and buying and turning around companies profitably; Allan has consistently proven himself to be very innovative, introducing new concepts to better transform companies & their resources for Great Ownership breakthrough performances.

For the last 3 years through Allan's Professional Association with Kolbe Corp., Profiles International, and Gallup's Strength Finder, he was able to clearly see that most organizations were not fully utilizing their main asset; their human resources. It was during this period when Allan further refined, integrated, and utilized these tools to become more fully aware of HIS Greatest Strengths.