Daniel S. Peña Sr.
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Daniel S. Peña Sr. August, 10, 1945 is a successful American businessman and high performance coach originally from East Los Angeles. He is the founder and Chairman of The Guthrie Group, based in UK. Mr. Pena made $400 million from scratch. As an author, he wrote the book "Your First 100 Million" and was distributed in the UK by a British publisher in the late 1999. The book is a definitive step-by-step guide to building a conducive atmosphere for businesses.
He has been Chairman of over 50 companies in many different industries, one of which Success Development Inc, was on Inc’s. magazine’s list of the 500 fastest growing companies in the US, in 1995 and 1996. He founded Great Western Resources Inc., a natural resources company, with $820 and grew it to $445,000,000 market capitalization in eight years during the worst downturn (1982 - 90) in the energy business in the last half of the 20th century. He now lives in his 15th century castle in Scotland, Guthrie Castle where he play golf on his personal golf course. Rated one of the most difficult courses in Europe.
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[edit] Early Years
Born to Hispanic american parents Manual S. Peña and Amy Peña, Dan Peña was born in Jacksonville, Florida at the end of world war , while his father served in the us navy. He graduated with a BS in business administration, from California State University, Northridge (CSUN) in 1971. He attended graduate school at CSUN, but didn’t complete his masters in finance. He had a scholarship to attend law school, but never pursued it.
[edit] Career
Creator, author and lecturer on creating and managing explosive growth sponsored by various international universities, organizations and corporations. He calls his methodology "Quantum Leap Advantage" a hard-hitting, no-nonsense seminars focused on making big money. In 1992, Mr Pena travelled around the world to conduct seminars and conferences on building business exponentially and personal development. Though he has reduced his speaking he still gives seminars at his home, Guthrie Castle.
[edit] Recognition
Dan Pena, a success coach has been the recipient of many awards including the 1981 Latin Business Association Outstanding Business Owner award and the 1994 John Raegan award for excellence by the Center for Entrepreneurial Management.
[edit] Books
Wrote great book titled "Your First $100 Millions". Can be found here *[1]
