Michael Gordon

Experience

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  Gordon Salon

  Sept 2014 - now

  Finance and Operations Administration Hair designer at Gordon Salons.

  • Marketing Director

    May 2018 - now

  • Finance and Operations Administration

    Jun 2007 - now

  • Hairstylist

    Sept 2014 - Nov 2017
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  Postmates

  Jan 2015 - Nov 2016

  Courier

  Independent contractor for PostMates, a delivery service application.

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  Kai & Co. Watches

  Sept 2015 - Nov 2017

  Founder

  I founded Kai & Co. Watches in 2015, a low volume custom watch brand, assembled in Chicago. This grew my understanding of international supply chain management, product development, product marketing, digital advertising, website/SEO education and product fulfillment. I sold the company in 2017.

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  Murasaki Sake Lounge

  Mar 2017 - Aug 2017

  Marketing Advisory Board

  Contracted by Murasaki Sake Lounge to help provide insight and knowledge for promoting the organization internally. - Ideated, produced & executed multiple in person and digital promotions that boosted revenue in historically down months- Provided numerous ideas related to focusing on the core strengths of the business and cutting arbitrary expenses as well as promoting new services and products with higher margins, and introduced a strategy to reduce rent as well as other overhead. - Introduced concepts from my experience on how to most effectively promote the inherent strengths of the only Japanese owned Sake bar in Chicago. Show less

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  Chicago Mining Company LLC.

  Feb 2018 - Apr 2020

  CEO & Co-Founder

  A Cryptocurrency mining firm focusing on investment within Cryptocurrency trading and development as well as tech securities & derivatives on the open market. Due to COVID-19 we decided to consolidate operations into purely trading.

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  The Motorsports Exchange LLC.

  Aug 2018 - now

  Founder

  The Motorsports Exchange LLC. is a vehicle rental service operating predominantly in the Peer to Peer and Rideshare economies and offers vehicles that are 'carbon postitive' by each vehicle using carbon credits to offset their own co2 output by 3 times. Our operations are entirely digital and native to the apps that we host our fleet on; Turo, GetAround and Hyrecar.

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  Medical Debt Forgiveness Network

  Jun 2019 - now

  Founder

  A 501(c)(3) non profit that buys and forgives the medical debt of low income Americans at no tax consequences to the debtor.

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  Gordon & Schwarz LLC

  May 2024 - now

  Chief Executive Officer

  Gordon & Schwarz LLC is a nationwide real estate investment firm focused on affordable housing programs & wholesaling.