Infusion Capital is a private organization for serious, sophisticated investors looking for those once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunities that can turn a modest investment into a fortune. Members are presented with a wide variety of investment opportunities from software technology development companies and cutting edge medical devices to manufacturing and real estate deals.
Members gather periodically to hear firsthand the details of at least four to five business ventures. The investment opportunities and business ventures presented to The Group are private placements, not available to the public. Most – but not all – deals necessitate that participants meet the SEC requirements for Accredited Investors. The meetings are strictly limited Infusion Capital Members, advisors and presenters.
Our Advisory Board Members
Carter L. Clews
Carter L. Clews is an international journalist whose work has appeared in such publications as International Living, Caribpro.com, and EscapeArtist.com. He is also a marketing consultant for offshore investors and developers, with a special expertise in international politics and their effect upon property valuations. An award-winning TV and newsletter writer, Clews also has extensive experience in politics, having worked in U.S. presidential campaigns and managed congressional campaigns throughout the nation. In the early 1980s, Clews served as Director of Communications for the U.S. Senate Conference of the Majority, a role in which he worked closely with the Reagan White House.
Dr. Steven Pouls
Dr. Steven Pouls has been certified by the American Board of Family Physicians for nearly twenty years. He has been practicing outside of Chicago for the past fifteen years, and is co-founder and President of a rapidly expanding private practice since 2001. Of necessity, ongoing board certification requires that he complete an additional three hundred hours of medical eduaction over each six year span, thus ensuring that he maintain both the depth and breadth of knowledge required to treat patients with a vast array of medical conditions encompassing many medical specialties. Not to be outdone, Dr. Pouls made his first investment in the stock market as a medical resident, and has since devoted as much time and energy studying and understanding both the public and private markets. Given his diverse medical knowledge base, and keen business sense, and because he remains active in the medical community, practicing in the 'real world', he will assist the Advisory Board in distinguishing the best medical deals, from all the rest.
Dr. Pouls will use his expertise in conjunction with his extensive network of contacts within the medical community to help evaluate the potential of new technologies/services brought to the table for review. If, and only if, these projects have merit will Members be presented with a project worthy of their time, attention and money.
Larry Ward
Larry Ward brings over a decade and a half of marketing and advertising experience to Infusion Capital Group. As its President of Political Media, Inc., Larry used cutting edge new media strategies to help pass nine eminent domain initiatives across the country. He also worked on President Bush’s 2004 campaign with several influential PAC’s, the US Chamber of Commerce and the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation to help turn out the African American Vote. Additionally, he consulted on five victorious Senate campaigns and fourteen top tier congressional races. Currently, he sits on the Board of Directors of five major internet and direct marketing companies, a social security foundation and is a member of the Alliance for Retirement Prosperity founded by Jack Kemp and Dorcas Hardy.
Lief Simon
Lief Simon has lived and worked on 5 continents and travelled to more than 40 countries. His real estate investing started with a multi-unit building in Chicago. After selling that building for an incredible leveraged total return of more than 1,800% in 2 ½ years, Lief turned to international investing. He has personally bought and sold property in 16 countries.
As the founding editor of Global Real Estate Investor, Lief travelled most of the year in search of real estate opportunities around the world. In addition to excellent potential returns and the opportunity to travel, Lief feels that international real estate offers two key benefits to the investor: diversification and asset protection. Lief looks for one of two market situations when identifying opportunities to invest: an abundance of opportunity created by a market distortion (crisis investing) or a chance to follow the path of progress (new infrastructure or trends).
For example, Lief told readers of his Global Real Estate Investor to buy in Argentina immediately after the 2001 financial crisis, a time when CNN was busy showing riots in the streets. Lief saw not crisis but opportunity. Forward-thinking readers who followed his lead have since enjoyed appreciation rates of at least 100% in fewer than three years on buys in Buenos Aires…plus rental income.
In recent years, Lief has also turned readers on to investments in Mexico, Nicaragua, and Romania, buys that have appreciated 160% in 18 months, 120% in 12 months, and 82% in 15 months, respectively.
During his tenure as the Real Estate Director for International Living, Lief managed a multi-million-dollar portfolio of rental properties. In addition, he was the developer’s representative, managing Rancho Santana in Nicaragua for more than a year. In his role with International Living, he was responsible for negotiating and managing marketing agreements with developers all over the world.
He has been quoted in articles on international real estate in The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, USA Today, and Outdoor Magazine.
Robert Compton
Mr. Compton is the CFO of Agora, Inc. a newsletter publishing company with over $250 million in worldwide revenue. Mr. Compton is responsible for the accounting, financial reporting and tax preparation for Agora and its thirty-five, and growing, companies located throughout the world. Prior to working at Agora, Mr. Compton spent eight years in the public accounting arena. As a CPA his main areas of expertise were in the construction, manufacturing, publishing and retail industries. While working with small to medium clients, Mr. Compton was known as an invaluable strategic advisor focusing on budgets and projections.
Sol W. Sanders
A 60-year career in writing and political analysis for a wide variety of media and corporate entities, specializing in Asian subjects.
Born, 1926, Atlanta, GA, educated in North Carolina public schools, the University of North Carolina (admitted under a special examination at 15), the University of Missouri (Bachelor's, journalism, 1946), Columbia University (East Asia Institute), The Sorbonne, Paris; ambulance driver, Italy and India, the American Field Service, British army, World War II. Speaks French, Spanish, and some German and Japanese.
Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (1967-68); part-time consultant for, among others, The Ford Foundation, The William H. Donner Foundation; senior adviser, Info-Plus, Inc., a Tokyo-based Japanese consulting firm; visiting professor, The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University (1988), adjunct professor of journalism, Hofstra University (1991), Consultant, The East-West Center, Honolulu (1998); adjunct professor of journalism,. Florida Atlantic University [2000]; current: contract research associate for Booz Allen Hamilton for the Office of Net Assessment, Department of Defense, The Pentagon.