Paul Sorkin
Chief Executive Officer and Co-General Counsel

Mr. Sorkin is the CEO and Co-General Counsel for the Alliance Creative Group. Prior to that, he was the COO and General Counsel for the Alliance Creative Group/Invicta Group from 2009 until 2019. From 2005 to 2008, Mr. Sorkin served as CEO and General Counsel at Image Worldwide/Nationwide. Furthermore, he was a publisher at Image Magazine from 2004 to 2011.

Mr. Sorkin served as CEO and General Counsel at S & B Collectibles from 1996 to 2004. At S & B he helped the company grow from about 5 employees to over 250 employees and from about $1,000,000 in gross revenue to over $100,000,000 in gross revenue. In addition, he was involved with getting new products on televised network shopping channels, in retail distribution and online. Mr. Sorkin holds a B.A. degree from the University of Illinois and a J.D. degree from Chicago Kent College of Law.

Mr. Sorkin is an attorney licensed by the State Bar of Illinois and has been a serial entrepreneur involved in many other projects and investments including www.PerfectBalanceInvestments.com

Kyle Badgley
Co-General Counsel

Kyle Badgley is an experienced attorney, real estate broker, investor, advisor and business professional with strong analytical and communication skills. Kyle exercises sound judgment in order to enhance swift business processes, drive efficiency, and develop well thought-out strategies to maximize profitability and mitigate risk.

As a licensed Illinois Real Estate Broker and a member of the Illinois Bar Association, Kyle works on commercial and residential projects. He can examine opportunities efficiently as a lawyer and as a real estate broker utilizing both skills simultaneously. He began his real estate career as a lawyer in 2010, providing legal services to clients experiencing hardship caused by the real estate collapse. As Kyle built his practice he became an expert in drafting, negotiating, and reviewing complex real estate documents and transactions in and out of court.

In 2013 Kyle started a hospitality group located in Illinois which he sold to the venture capital group Sterling Bay in 2016 at a significant profit. After the sale Kyle became a vested managing partner and Co-General Counsel at Atly’s Group, a private equity group out of Chicago. Atly’s Group became very successful in the disaster relief space and Kyle exited the group in 2020 at a high multiple. In 2019 Kyle became a founding partner of Perfect Balance Investments. The group focuses on consulting and investing in start-up companies. The strategy is to find companies who have found a problem that needs to be solved and have a proven path to solve that problem better than others. Kyle prefers to take an active role to help introduce companies to strategic resources to improve the business, grow revenue, and prepare the company to acquire new companies, sell, or merge.

Kyle believes that the best opportunities present themselves in a down economy. He understands that interest rates will continue to rise and the true opportunities will be presented to cash buyers who can move without entanglements and with swift decisive action.

Sara Panski
Controller

Sara is a skilled accountant with a decade of financial experience. During that time Sara has become highly knowledgeable, working with a variety of companies in many different industries.

Currently, Sara is the key financial advisor to the senior leadership team of an investment company that focuses on nursing homes around the country. She advises on strategic and operational planning, new business opportunities, and protecting and enhancing the company’s financial performance. She develops and implements strategies for cost containment, cost effectiveness, and operational efficiency.

Further, Sara provides oversight to the analysis of the financial implications of the organization’s strategic plans, proposed capital expenditures and impact of new payment models. She plans, formulates and recommends policies and procedures for the business administration of the company.

Sara knows that organization and accurate up to date accounting is paramount to the success of a company. She understands that managing cash flow and a clean balance sheet dictates if a company will grow or collapse.

David Arquilla
Real Estate Expert

David Arquilla is a real estate expert with more than 30 years of experience. His principal focus has been investing in commercial real estate. He has extensive experience in acquiring value-add properties, managing the reconstruction, leasing the property and ongoing management. He has owned and operated over 100k SF of commercial strip centers and currently manages over 100 multi-family units in the Chicago Metro market.

Additionally, David has been a managing real estate broker in Illinois and Florida for over 25 years. As a managing broker he has been Involved in excess of 100M of commercial acquisitions and dispositions. He has a substantial pipeline of on market and off-market residential multi-family properties in the Chicago market. Further, he has personal relationships within the majority of subsidized housing programs in the Chicago market.

Michele Jarrel
Real Estate Expert

Michele was formerly a Commercial Real Estate Lender at LaSalle Bank and an Illinois Licensed Managing Broker. Michele has worked exclusively as a Property Manager for HUD subsidized and unsubsidized multi-family residential buildings in the Greater Chicagoland area since 2006. In 2010, Michele started providing Court appointed receivership and fee-based property management to her portfolio for area banks and finance companies. Her primary responsibilities are centered on acquisition opportunities, marketing and occupancy.

Patrick Forkin
Real Estate Expert

Mr. Forkin brings 16 years of commercial real estate experience working alongside developers, syndicators, institutions, private investors, and high-net-worth individuals. Throughout his career, Forkin has handled or advised on aggregated sales north of $1.6 billion, encompassing more than 300 transactions across 17 states.

Mike Vesole
Real Estate Expert

Mike has a long history in Real Estate investing and sales. Since 2001 Mike has procured and sold over 2000 properties in Illinois. His focus has been mainly single family homes but has experience in multi-family and condominiums. Now as a resident of Miami Beach, FL he has taken his talents south and is actively vetting deals in the Florida market.

Matt Carlson
Healthcare Expert

Matt Carlson presents with 28 years of Long-Term Care Facility (LTCF) experience. He has been involved with LTCF’s in multiple states and in various positions including CE0, Senior Vice President of Operations, Regional Director of Operations, Senior Consultant, and Nursing Home Administrator. Matt has successfully operated multi- site Skilled Nursing Facilities in the states of Illinois, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Texas, Indiana, and Florida. His responsibilities included overall portfolio operations including marketing, reimbursement, physician recruitment and retention, cost control, strategic financial planning, professional staff development and recruitment, and project management. Matt has also consulted with various organizations regarding operational management and Covid mitigation.

Dr. Marlyn Hirsch
Healthcare Expert

Dr. Marlyn D. Hirsch has been in the healthcare industry for over 30 years. For the past 20 years she has been a Doctoral Prepared Nurse Practitioner and has experience in Long-term Care (LTC), Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) Primary care, Academia, and Telemedicine. Marlyn has worked in multiple states as the Clinical Interventionist for LTC, SNF and Specialty programs. Her experience is vast in decreasing patient return to hospital strategies, Ventilator Education/Management, Critical Care, Infection control, Wound Care, Covid-19, and Hands-on Nursing procedures training.