Joseph Ram
CEO, Entrepreneur, Finance Expert
I am a serial entrepreneur with real-life experience. I have founded, taken public and sold several companies and I am set out to use my knowledge to help other entrepreneurs succeed. As a founder and CEO of Sparq Innovations, my mission is to leverage the many years of knowledge and experience of our team, to help companies learn and implement our vast knowledge bases to their advantage. Our method and processes save our customers tremendous amounts of time, resources, capital all while increasing their revenues, improving their business model and efficiencies.
After successfully selling the company that I founded and ran for over 20 years, I invested in many ventures and companies. These investments covered a wide range of industries in the telecom, consumer products, health, wellness and food distribution. Working with the founders of these companies, I realized that although most of them were wildly successful and created lots of cash flow, each of these companies was lacking an element that could have made them even more successful.
The founders with which I have been working are extremely hardworking men and women. Their hard work was based on gut instinct rather than rooted in process and financial discipline. Taking these businesses to the next level required better financial control, strategic thinking, and improvement to the product development process and with the go-to-market strategies.
Following my investments, I continually dedicated an increasing amount of time working on strategic, operational, and financial challenges with my portfolio companies. I quickly realized that there is a genuine need for professional advice based on practical and real-life experiences. Assembling a great team of professionals under the Sparq Innovations umbrella, was priority one. Today, we count with finance executives, seasoned markets, supply chain specialists and manufacturing experts, all with hands-on knowledge and dedication to the tasks at hand.
Sparq has been dispensing advice, implementing innovative solutions, helping companies grow and thrive all while making their operations and costs structure ever more efficient.
Larry Balaban
Head of Creative Management Solutions
Larry has been a creative force in the business entertainment world for over 40 years, starting as the creator and founder of the world-renowned Baby Genius brand. During his career Larry was involved in many licensing and manufacturing deals, many of them with A list celebrities in the entertainment world. Among his notable achievements, Larry has been part of the management team that has taken two companies public.
Larry’s motto is: There are a million great ideas in the world….. The only ones that are worth anything, are the ones that you know how to execute.
Larry has a unique ability to understand and analyze the needs of the companies he works with to put them on a path to ultimate success. Larry founded Sparq innovations with a mission to help companies reach their goals through relationships and revenue generations.
