Wade Brooks

Mr. Brooks is the CEO of Liv Foods, Inc. Liv Foods was founded in 2012 and develops, manufactures, and sells LivBars®, USDA certified organic, superfood and nutrition bars. Mr. Brooks has 25 years of top management experience running multiple companies. He founded his first company while in college, which became the first Apple Computer VAR in the US. He has a BS and MBA from Willamette University and executive education and management training from Harvard Business School. In addition to his industry experience, Mr. Brooks was an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurial Practice at Willamette University's Graduate School of Management for eight years, receiving the Faculty Member of the Year award in 2016. He started the world's first university angel investment fund, and Inc. Magazine ranked his entrepreneurship class top 10 in the US. Mr. Brooks is on the board of trustees for The Greater Sum Foundation, providing funding and support to scalable non-profit organizations. He is a strategic advisor to Schilling Hard Cider, one of the fastest growing hard cider companies in the US, and recently spent five months in New Zealand as a visiting professor at Victoria University of Wellington's School of Economics and Finance teaching early stage investing.