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Steve Davis and Paul Trapp share their wisdom gained from event planning and growing a franchise business to bring motivation and concrete advice to new and aspiring entrepreneurs. If you’re feeling like an entrepreneur stuck in an employee body, Steve and Paul can help you realize your own entrepreneurship transformation and success!

Steve Davis

Meet Steve Davis

Steve Davis is a military leader with over 20 years in the United States Army Reserves and currently serves as a Chief Warrant Officer and CID Special Agent in the Army Reserves. Steve also co-founded National Conferencing, Inc. (NCI) and served as their Chief Operations Officer. He successfully grew NCI and other companies for over ten years. Under his leadership, NCI successfully planned and delivered over 10,000 events and was awarded the title “2014 Best Places to Work in the Industry” by Meeting and Convention Magazine. NCI also ranked number two on the 2013 Inc. 500 list of fastest growing privately held companies in the United States an astounding 24,830% growth over the preceding three-year period.

Steve is a co-founder, President, and COO of EventPrep, Inc. He is an accomplished, results-oriented multi-state operations director, with proven abilities in conference development, implementation, management, and conference design. Steve has experience in numerous state-wide conference implementation start-ups (e.g. conferences, workshops, training events, and third-party site selection).

Steve motivates others toward achieving corporate, operational, and strategic goals through example and application of solid management principles. Steve is committed to ensuring superior customer service and public relations while assisting the further growth of the corporation. He provides direction and guidance company-wide, underscoring the need to meet corporate philosophy, company goals, and objectives, both short-term and long-term.

Awards and Recognitions:

  • Best Places to Work in the Meeting Industry – M&C Magazine – Apr 2014
  • Ranked #2 on 2013 Inc500 List of Fastest Growing Companies
  • Ranked #23 on 2012 Inc500 List of Fastest Growing Companies
  • Police Medal of Merit (Saved a Child’s Life) – City of Cocoa, Florida (1996)
Paul Trapp

Meet Paul Trapp

A former senior military leader, Paul Trapp served as Chief of Recruiting for the Army National Guard and successfully managed a national sales force of over 4,500 military recruiting personnel. Paul started his recruiting career as a production recruiter and quickly achieved Master Badge status; he also worked in several recruiting leadership positions before he moved to the National Guard Bureau Headquarters and expanded his sales influence to include a national reach. 

He also served as principal advisor to the Chief, National Guard Bureau on all family and quality of life issues and programs that impact readiness and retention of over 500,000 Army and Air National Guard members and their extended families throughout the 54 States and Territories. 

Paul is co-founder and CEO of emerging franchise brand, EventPrep, a home-based franchise model providing hotel site selection, registration, housing, and event planning services. He brings over 30 years of successful contract management, event planning, organization and evaluation of conferences, seminars, and meetings in both the private and federal sectors. Paul earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Roger Williams University in Rhode Island and currently resides in Central Florida with his wife Kimberly.

Awards and Recognitions:

  • Best Places to Work in the Meeting Industry – M&C Magazine – Apr 2014
  • Ranked #2 on 2013 Inc500 List of Fastest Growing Companies
  • Ranked #23 on 2012 Inc500 List of Fastest Growing Companies
  • Police Officer of the Year – City of Cocoa, Florida (1994)
  • Legion of Merit – U.S. Army (2009)

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