Executive Bios

Wellness Capital Management principals Monte Zwang and Mark Machlis are passionate about helping people reach their full potential. Each is an entrepreneur with more than 25 years of business development, capital management and financial consulting expertise in the wellness, hospitality, natural foods and food services industries, as well as manufacturing and construction. Mark and Monte also hold real estate broker licenses and have significant experience in transaction and contract negotiations for commercial real estate sales, acquisitions and leases.

Monte and Mark founded Wellness Capital Management to enable business owners to achieve the delicate balance between providing their clients exceptional customer service while being true to their goal of business profitability.

MARK MACHLIS
Mark@wellnesscapital.com

Mark Machlis has spent 30 years in the hospitality, real estate, natural foods and wellness industries. He is the creator of Meat of Wheat and Tofurkey brand meat alternatives, distributed and sold nationwide since the early 90's. He is a food development and financial consultant in the natural foods industry and works with international food manufacturers, developing and distributing vegetarian products to the United States. Mark founded and directed three vegetarian restaurants in Salt Lake City, Utah named Park Ivy Garden Café. Mark is passionate about living a healthy lifestyle and is true to the vegetarian diet, alternative health practices and the integration of the spiritual dimension in everyday life, and business. Mark is a graduate of The Evergreen State College.

MONTE ZWANG
Monte@wellnesscapital.com

Monte Zwang has been a business, operational and financial consultant for more than 25 years, teaching entrepreneurs and company leaders in real estate, food and beverage, resorts and hotels, and retail industries the strategies of cash flow management. He has significant experience working with proprietors of day spas, salons and medical practices. As a founding partner of the consulting firm Steele Development, Monte has sourced and placed tens of millions of dollars in financing for clients needing operating lines of credit, long term debt, business start-up capital and real estate acquisitions. Monte is driven to the wellness industry because of a personal passion for healthy lifestyle choices, and a professional passion to work with wellness entrepreneurs as they achieve their business goals by helping people live a healthy lifestyle. Monte is a graduate of the University of Denver and has been named a 2009 and 2010 Five Star Best in Client Satisfaction Wealth Manager. Click here for a complete bio.

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