About Our Team
We have a diverse organization of passionate, tax planning, professionals on our faculty and staff with decades of experience in each of their individual fields. These professionals span the country and have come together to fill a segment of the market that has been underserved or priced out of the support that a Big Four Accounting Firm provides. Instead of measuring Excel Empire’s success with our own annual revenue, we measure our success by the amount of tax savings we provide our clients on an annual basis.
Our Faculty consists of CPA’s, Estate Planners, Attorneys, Business Coaches and Exit Strategy Professionals who share the same philosophy, which is to serve our country’s business owners, investors and real estate professionals in helping them by providing the professionals they need to help them legally, ethically, and morally reduce their taxes.
The tax code rewards these people, but it is constantly changing and needs a wholistic team to serve them. Our strategies are legal, ethical and moral and get you to paying the least amount of taxes today, tomorrow and when you distribute your wealth to future generations. Our team of sophisticated, wholistic advisors allow the clients we serve to do what they do best, giving them the peace of mind that they are properly positioned and protected from unintentional over taxation.
Founders
Hubert McIntosh - CPA, CTBA, Tax Master and Co-Founder
Jacqueline Gibbons-McIntosh - CPA, CGMA, MBA and Co-Founder
Wendy Pearson - Professional Investor and Co-Founder
FACULTY
Edward Lyon - Chief Tax Planner and Tax Attorney
Edward A. Lyon, JD is Excel Empire’s Chief Tax Planner. He’s the founder of Tax Master Network, where he created the Tax Architect® software and helped train over 3,000 tax professionals in the art and science of tax planning. Ed is a best-selling author of eight books on taxes and tax planning. Ed has appeared on hundreds of television and radio broadcasts, including CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and CNBC. If you’re paying too much tax, you want him on your side!
Uche Okoraha - Tax Attorney
Uche has spent most of his career focusing on complex legal issues affecting the design industry.
Gregory Pearson - CTBA, SCL and Professional Investor
As collegiate athlete, Gregory maintained a perfect 4.0 GPA and graduated with highest honors and became a successful Pattern Day Trader. Gregory went on to become one of the youngest CFO’s in the country of a national manufacturing company providing service to Tesla, Tucci and many more. Gregory returned to Excel Empire after becoming the Principle at one the fastest growing NMO’s in the country.
Chris Sioco - Research and Developement Engineer
Chris is one of the Co-Founders of Tax Robot, America’s leading R and D software platform. Tax Robot is used by some of the largest firm’s in the country to help business owner’s conduct R and D studies.
Ruth Benjamin - Capital Gains Tax Strategist
The “Guardian Angel” of 1031 Exchanges, Ruth has been in the 1031 Exchange business for 30 years and doing capital gains tax strategy for almost a decade.
Kirk Stafford - Investment and Tax Strategist
Kirk is and innovator and amazing mind of new strategies across multiple industries. Kirk was successful and retired in his early thirties but sought to come out of retirement to utilize his gifts and help businesses and individuals.
John Carter- Investment Strategist and EDGE creator
John has built one of the most successful investment teams in the nation and leads Desert Rose Capital team to new effective investment strategies.
Matt Nye - Chief Marketing Officer
Matt Nye serves as the Chief Marketing Officer for Excel Empire. Matt has more than 30 years of experience in the technology and finance sectors, and has spent the last three years focused on digital marketing.
Matt is married and resides in West Melbourne, FL.
Barry Bruce - Asset Protection Specialist
For more than 40 years Barry has been helping businesses protect assets, mitigate taxes and maximize their net return on their sale.
