Daniel S. Peña, Sr.

Daniel S. Peña Sr. (born August 10, 1945), also known as Dan Pena, is a Hispanic-American businessman, entrepreneur, mentor, and business coach, born in Jacksonville, Florida. Today, he resides at his historic Guthrie Castle in Scotland^[1] and in Asia-Pacific.

Peña is prominent for his seven-day Castle Seminar on Quantum Leap Advantage (QLA) Methodology. He is the author of a popular book Your First Hundred Million, which has been translated in Romanian.

Biography

After service in the US Army, he received a BS in Business Administration from California State University, Northridge (CSUN) in 1971.

Upon leaving college, he worked in real estate, and then joined Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis and subsequently Bear Stearns. After that, he was President and CEO of Kennedy Industries Inc. and then Chairman of JPK Industries, Inc.

In 1982, he founded Great Western Resources Inc., (GWRI), a Houston-based natural resource company. When he left the company in 1992, the company had a public market capitalization of over £300 million. Peña owned around 10 percent shares of GWRI when he left in 1992. He was ousted by the company's board of directors, which he later sued and won $4.3 million in actual damages for refusing to pay his employment contract.^[2]

In 1997, Great Western Resources Inc. was purchased by Forcenergy, for $48.3 million,^[3] which itself was bought in 2000, by Forest Oil Corporation, for about $615 million in stock^[4] Harmac acquired Great Western Resources from Forest Oil, in July 2005.^[5]

In 2003, after nearly twenty years of work, Peña made Guthrie Castle available for public bookings.^[6] The grounds also contain a golf course which Peña wanted to be very difficult to play.^[7]

Peña is founder and Chairman of The Guthrie Group,^[8] an investment consortium, incorporated on the Channel Islands in 2002 and named after Guthrie Castle in Scotland.

Peña also has business interests in the Philippines, where he is Founder and Chairman of iZone Technologies.^[9]

In 2009, an alleged fraud was charged against one of his companies in India, but the case was dropped and his company was cleared from all charges. Cyber crime police asked the court to treat it as mistake of facts.^[10]

Recognition

Awards

He has been the recipient of many awards including the 1981 Latin Business Association Outstanding Business Owner Award;^[11] Finalist for the 1997 Telly Awards for his talk called "Quantum Leap Advantage";^[12] the 1994 John Regan Award for Excellence by the Center of Entrepreneurial Management; the American International Real Estate Expo and Conference AIREEC 2008,“Man of the Year Award” and the 2008 AIREEC “Inspirational Leadership Award”.^[13]

Media

In 1983, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Al Martinez^[14] portrayed Dan Pena in the Los Angeles Times.^[15] In said article, Al Martinez describes Peña as "already a wealthy oil broker" with over $50 million revenues in just one year, attempting to buy his own oil refinery.^[16] He has also been written about in Investor's Business Daily,^[17] Financial Times,^[18] The Sunday Telegraph,^[19] The National Law Journal,^[20] Houston Chronicle,^[21] Houston Business Journal, Texas Lawyer,^[22] Success Now Magazine,^[23] and Hispanic Business Magazine.^[24]

In April 2014, he was a featured guest on London Real TV.^[25]

Dan Pena also has his own series of podcasts called The Quantum Leap Advantage which features his QLA Seminars and other free content. His podcasts can be found in both Podbean^[26] and on iTunes.^[27]

Works

• Daniel S. Peña, Sr (2004). "Why Litigation Is Nothing More Than A Business Tool - 26 Unbreakable Rules of Litigation!". MediaDefamation.org. Retrieved 2009-05-15. 

In 1997, he self-published the autobiographical book Build Your Own Guthrie through a company controlled by him, Great Wisdom Publishing, which had been a subsidiary of International Media Holdings, Inc. (IMH, formerly Success Development International, SDI), where he was a majority shareholder.^[28]

In 1999, the British mail-order entrepreneur Stuart Goldsmith, through his company Medina Ltd, published a revised edition of that book under the title Your First 100 Million, which they offered for £277.^[29] The Second Edition of Your First Hundred Million has been released in July 2009 selling at $197.00 USD.^[30]

In April 2014, Dan Pena continued to share his knowledge by publishing Dan Pena’s $50 Billion QLA eBook,^[31] a free eBook, wherein he shows how he and his mentees and devotees created $50 Billion in equity and value, since 1993.

He also published a special edition of his book Your First Hundred Million in the Romanian language in dedication to his many loyal followers from Romania. This new version of the book and other free content can be downloaded from his Web site.^[32]

References

External links

• Dan Peña Website
• iZone Technologies
• The Guthrie Group
• Advanced Marketing Consultants
• Godsey, Kristin Dunlap. "Take no prisoners." Success 43, no. 10 (December 1996): 9. Business Source Elite, EBSCOhost (accessed May 12, 2009).