Presenter

Todd Kaplan

CEO and Founder, Vertical Companies

Todd Kaplan began his entrepreneurial career at the age of twelve in his mother’s Long Island kitchen where he expanded his one-man candle production operation to employ eight. This would mark the beginning of what would prove to be a lasting and successful career by virtue of his own tenacious work ethic and commitment to high standards. For over four decades, Todd has constructed multiple successful businesses employing thousands of people in the United States and Europe. While attending the CW Post, now Long Island University, Todd began developing his program of Psychological Market-ing and Applied Creativity. He has been sought after to create marketing programs and sales presentations for industry leaders of Fortune 50 and 500 companies such as American Express, Nordstrom, and IBM, showing their employees how to better market their businesses and provide customer delight instead of customer satisfaction. His consulting services on “how to grow businesses” have helped double, and in some cases even triple, top line revenue of both private and public companies in a collection of indus-tries including high yield mortgages, transportation, healthcare, technology, telemarketing, and fine art.One of Todd’s inaugural waves of successful business ownership began with founding Teleplus, Inc. and establishing 128 stations of telemarketers before launching SpectraMed, a provider of oxygen therapy to patients. Todd grew SpectraMed to over $60 million in revenue, sold the company and went on to build SDI (Sleep Diagnostics Inc)/Future Health.  As CEO, Todd founded and grew SDI to over 77 sleep centers and $190 million revenue, becoming the industry leader. While he exited SDI after an extensive battle with the US government.  This propelled him into his next venture, Advantage Health Surgical Centers.  After growing this significant surgical business to 12 centers, he successfully sold Advantage Health.      He continued his success in the medical industry by establishing preeminent companies such as All State Medical Inc (2004, partial sale), Mediscore (2008) and Sleep Services (2012), serving as President & CEO. Sleep Services provides home sleep testing services to patients, as well as sleep apnea education and management services to medical and dental providers around the country.At a YPO function in 2013, Todd learned about the cannabis industry. This was the spark that inspired Todd to build yet another company from the ground up. In 2014, he launched MIH/Vertical Companies, which was one of the first, and now largest, vertically integrated companies in the legal cannabis industry. Vertical’s “Everything Pertaining to Green” initiative provides com-plete seed-to-sale platform in this explosive industry.  Todd leads an executive team of entrepreneurs and business leaders from the alcohol, agriculture, CPG, distribution, entertainment, food, healthcare, and medical industries. As an active member of Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) at the local and international levels, Todd was asked to teach classes at the 2008 YPO Global Leadership Conference (GLC) in Sydney, Australia.  His classes were so successful that he has been invited back to speak at every YPO GLC since. Todd has also contributed time and effort to his community by serving on the board of directors for the Ventura County Council of The Boy Scouts of America, the Tri-County Chapter of The Make-A-Wish Foundation, The Big Brothers of Ventura County and the Sherman Oaks Hospital Richard A. Grossman Burn Center.

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