Name Daniel Pena, Books Your First 100 Million | Role Author | |
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Occupation Founder of Quantum Leap Advantage (QLA) MethodologyFounder and Chairman of The Guthrie GroupCEO, Chairman, & Founder of iZone TechnologiesFounder, CEO, Chairman of the Board of Great Western Resources Inc.Co-Founder, CEO, Chairman of the Board of J.P.K. Industries, Bear Stearns & Co. Website QLAseminar.comAskThe50BillionDollarMan.comDanpena.comThe Guthrie GroupiZone Technologies Education California State University, Northridge | ||
Daniel S. Peña Sr. (born August 10, 1945), also known as Dan Pena, is an American businessman and high-performance business coach, born in Jacksonville, Florida. Today, he resides at Guthrie Castle in Scotland. Peña is prominent for his seven-day Castle Seminar on his "Quantum Leap Advantage" (QLA) methodology, and claims to have produced $50 billion in equity and value. He is the author of several books, including Your First Hundred Million.
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Career
After service in the US Army in which he left as an officer in 1969, he received a BS degree in Business Administration from California State University, Northridge (CSUN) in 1971.
Upon leaving college, he worked in real estate, and then joined Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis and subsequently Bear Stearns. After that, he was President and CEO of Kennedy Industries Inc. and then Chairman of JPK Industries, Inc.
In 1982, he founded Great Western Resources Inc. (GWRI) with $820, a Houston-based natural resource company. When he left the company in 1992, the company had a public market capitalization of over 450 million US dollars. Peña owned around 10 percent shares of GWRI when he left in 1992 and subsequently had 4.5% in 1994. He was ousted by the company's board of directors, which he later sued and won $3.3 million in actual damages for refusing to pay his employment contract.
In 2003 Peña made Guthrie Castle available for public bookings after nearly twenty years of work. The grounds also contain a golf course which Peña wanted to be very difficult to play.
Peña is founder and Chairman of The Guthrie Group, an investment consortium, incorporated on the Channel Islands in 2002 and named after Guthrie Castle in Scotland. He also has business interests in the Philippines, where he is founder and chairman of iZone Technologies.
In 2009, an alleged fraud was charged against one of his companies in India, but the case was dropped, and his company was cleared of all charges. Cyber crime police asked the court to treat it as mistake of facts.
In 2016, Peña publicly endorsed Donald Trump for president. On May 2, 2016, the Opportunity Charter School in Harlem, New York rescinded its offer for Peña to speak in the school due to his endorsement of Donald Trump. Peña later said that he had spoken at Oxford University after the incident with no issues.
From October 2012 to January 2015, Peña ran a series of podcasts on Podbean and iTunes, "The Quantum Leap Advantage", which featured his QLA Seminars and other free content.
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Books
In 1997, Peña self-published the autobiographical book Build Your Own Guthrie through his company Great Wisdom Publishing, a former subsidiary of International Media Holdings, Inc. (IMH, formerly Success Development International, SDI), where he was a majority shareholder. In 1999, the British mail-order entrepreneur Stuart Goldsmith, through his company Medina Ltd, published a revised edition of that book under the title Your First 100 Million, which they offered for £277. The second edition was released in July 2009 selling at $197.00 USD. He also published a special free edition in the Romanian language on his website. In November 2016, Peña also released a free Russian version of the book.
On September 11, 2016, the Sunday Business Post published an article entitled: "Coughlan joins Trump backer Pena's nursing home group" wherein it highlighted a recent video recorded by London Real Academy last March. The video, which Dan Pena advised viewers about success habits, also highlighted his support and backing for Donald Trump wherein he predicted that if Donald Trump is elected president - he is going to "rock the planet." In 2004 he published Why Litigation Is Nothing More Than A Business Tool - 26 Unbreakable Rules of Litigation.
In April 2014, he published Dan Pena's $50 Billion QLA eBook, a free eBook, wherein he shows how he through his associates created $50 billion in equity and value, since 1993.