Jordan Walsh

Jordan Walsh is an Associate at Holland & Hart LLC, and advises management clients in Labor and Employment matters. She has appeared before the Supreme Court of Nevada, the Employee-Management Relations Board, and Nevada Equal Rights Commission/Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Douglas Edmondo

Douglas Edmondo is the current Chapter Chair for The Northern Nevada Chapter of SCORE.

Doug retired to Reno in 2018 with his wife Yvonne and joined SCORE shortly thereafter. Doug's career spanned 35 years in the defense and semiconductor industries with Westinghouse, Applied Materials and Northrop Grumman. Doug has experience in Engineering, Program Management, operations and Quality Assurance. Doug also owned a small aircraft leaseback business for a number of years. Doug has a degree in Marine Engineering from California Maritime Academy and a Masters in Business Administration; Technology Management from University of Phoenix.

Ira Gostin

Ira is an entrepreneur, marketer and communications strategist who specializes in

guiding business enterprises to achieve sustainable growth. He is the founder and chief strategist at the award-winning G8 Strategies, providing counsel to global industrial companies, helping them maximize their business growth opportunities.  

Ira has worked on over $1 billion in equity raises during his career and has worked with both private and public companies. He specializes in strategic communications in the form of investor relations and integrated marketing.   

His storytelling career started early, working as a photojournalist for the Associated Press before moving into a successful career in marketing. 

A former “Most Influential Marketing Executive” award winner, Ira has a bachelor’s degree from California State University, Long Beach, an MBA with an emphasis in marketing from the University of Phoenix, Reno, and is a graduate of the Executive Leadership Program at Columbia University. He has also attended executive education at New York University and the Colorado School of Mines. He is a mentor at Cal State Long Beach, the Long Beach Accelerator, UC Davis Entrepreneurship Academy and the University of Nevada, Reno.

Brian Wheeler

Brian Wheeler has been a small business owner for 24 years, initially in Construction where he and his Father built custom homes and operated a door shop that provided doors, millwork and hardware products to local homebuilders. After the Great Recession Brian transitioned into financial services as a Financial Advisor where he met his business partner & mentor who helped influence the direction of Brian’s new career.  As such, Brian has been working with small business owners in the areas of business continuation and succession planning for more than 12 years now.

He earned his CEPA credential (Certified Exit Planning Advisor) in March of 2021 and has been a SCORE mentor & subject matter expert for about 5 years. Committed to helping business owners and entrepreneurs in all areas of business…from start up through exit.