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Current Mentors

Monte Pendleton

Specialty


Mentoring Houston Entrepreneurs on their Missions, Strategy, Plans, Profit and Sales Growth. Specializing in established companies with up to 50 employees.

Experience


Silver Fox Advisors, Inc.


  • Charter Member, Past President and Chairman of the Board
  • Over the past 15 years I have successfully mentored over 100 Houston entrepreneurs, increasing both sales and profits and solving major internal problems.

SunX International, Inc.


  • Founder and CEO for 15 years
  • Franchised over 500 dealers and distributors of DuPont’s SunX Glass Tinting in 69 countries

Brickstone International, Inc.


  • Founder and CEO for 4 years
  • Established over 100 franchised dealers nationwide who sell and install US Gysum’s Brickstone Sculptured Masonry

Lusterock International, Inc.


  • Founder and CEO for 3 years
  • Franchised 100 domestic manufacturers and installers of Lusterock Decorative vanity tops

Education


University of Missouri B.S. Civil Engineering with courses at Harvard, U.C.L.A., U. of Chicago, and U. of Houston

Organizations


Silver Fox Advisors, Past President, Board Chairman, International Franchise Assn., Past President and Director, Young Presidents Organization, Vice Chairman, Director, World Presidents Organization, Forum Facilitator, Dover Club, Vice President, Director, Breakfast Association, 50 years, Director Greater Houston Partnership, Roundtable Facilitator, Steering Committee. Stakeholder and Mentor of U.H. Wolfe Center of Entrepreneurship, Advisory Board of the Prison Entrepreneurship Program

Boards


Served on 5 Corporate, 1 Bank and 11 Organization Boards

Honors


  • Houston Outstanding Young Man of the Year Award
  • President Kennedy’s “:E” Aware for Export Achievement
  • President Johnson’s Small Business Development Commission
  • 1995 Delegate to President Clinton’s White House Conference on Small Business
  • Featured in Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Professional Review, Money Magazine, Houston Business Journal, Chronicle and Post