Meet The ZipHub Team

Michelle Martini

President & Co-Founder.

Ms. Martini earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Southern Illinois University and brings 22 years of financial and managerial accounting experience to the ZipHub team.  She has worked directly with the Chief Financial Officer, Controller, Capital Investor Groups, and Board of Directors within businesses that are publicly traded, listing either on the NYSE or the NASDAQ.  This experience has provided exposure to a variety of sophisticated financial transactions and related accounting treatment methodologies, regulatory compliance efforts, large and small capital raise efforts, multi-purpose financial, accounting and operational reporting, mergers and acquisitions, and oversight management of both large and small accounting departments.  She served as Accounting Manager for Athlon Energy Inc, where she worked closely with auditors during the Company’s IPO and SOX implementation and on its $7.1 billion merger with EnCana Corporation.

Jack Howard

Director & Co-Founder.

Mr. Howard is a graduate of Faith Bible Institute and will be instrumental to our faith-based efforts to engage the evangelical community in the Las Vegas Market. Mr. Howard has performed as General Manager with full profit and loss accountability for numerous global organizations such as, Tyco – SimplexGrinnell, Siemens and Cerberus Pyrotronics. He is currently Area Solutions Sales Manager for Tyco – SimplexGrinnell. In his role as Director, Mr. Howard will ensure that our Senior Management Team acquires strategic direction and leadership in our pursuit of success.

Diane Frank

Business Development, Director & Founder.

Ms. Frank is the current owner and operator of the Diane Frank Team – Keller Williams office in the Inland Empire (Riverside and San Bernardino, Ca.). Before owning the Keller Williams office, she was a top selling agent for Coldwell Banker in the Inland Empire.  Ms. Frank has owned and managed various other businesses in her career.

Leonard Williams

Director and Non-Profit Management & Financial Consultant.

Mr. Williams is a results-oriented finance executive with strong operational skills who is a trusted advisor and leader with a proven record of generating revenue, controlling costs, building high performance teams and guiding non-profit and value driven companies through substantial change.

Mr. Williams is a big-picture thinker adept at managing risk, identifying opportunities, understanding predictability and driving innovation and has proven so in his various positions throughout his career. Mr. Williams has served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and later Chief Operating Officer for Verizon Federal Systems as well as Chief Financial Officer for several major non-profit associations and international development organizations in his career.

His additional professional experiences include his serving as a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and as a financial advisor to the Philadelphia Tribune’s Board of Directors. He is a member of National Black MBA Association, Society of Black Engineers, Association of Finance Professionals and is a regular presenter at industry conferences.

Mr. Williams holds an MBA in Finance and Decision Sciences from the Wharton Graduate Business School, a MSEE in Computer and Information Technology and a BSE in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and he has completed post-graduate studies at MIT and the Darden School’s Graduate Executive Education Program. In 2014 he was named first runner-up as NFP CFO of the Year by the Washington Business Journal and Practitioner of the Year by the industry group InsideNGO.

Clay Jacobsen

Marketing and Media Consultant.

Mr. Jacobsen studied telecommunications at Oral Roberts University and has been involved in television production for over thirty years. His extensive technical directing credits include numerous specials and television shows and he is currently working on “Jeopardy!” and directing the NFL Channel’s Sunday night highlights show, among numerous other projects through CC Jacobsen Productions with his wife, Cindy. In addition to Mr. Jacobsen’s directing success, he has published several books and has served as a worship leader, a musician, a home fellowship leader, a teacher and as a part time associate pastor. He and his wife look at his career in the entertainment industry as a mission field and strive to make a difference behind the scenes in television production as well as being a living ambassador for Jesus to the lives of the people in the industry.