Gary O. Shelton’s late maternal grandfather, Lexington E. Sanders, died when Gary was only four years old and inspired him to become an entrepreneur. Lexington and his brother, Eugene R. Sanders, were landowners in the Jim Crow South, built and operated a funeral home, grocery store, and motel in Monticello Georgia. They also built the community center which has done much commendable work with the youth in Jasper County, resulting in the street Sanders HTS being named in his honor.

Gary is passionate about coaching small business owners and real estate entrepreneurs to help them get their businesses to the next level. Gary acquired his first business when he was a senior in college. After selling it and seeing the benefits in buying a business over starting one, he caught the business buying bug. Since then, Gary has completed several acquisitions, a merger, several startups, and helped entrepreneurs all over the USA grow their businesses.

Also, Gary has completed over 450 buy, fix, and flip real estate transactions, with his business partner, Herb Strather,  over $2B in income property transactions, coached over 2,000 developers, and created 69 millionaires.

Currently, Gary is leading the following businesses:

Chief Executive Officer (CEO), EZ Financial Group, LLC: Helps real estate entrepreneurs and small business owners get their business set up the right way to meet lender and credit issuer approval requirements and provides access to working capital

Co-Chairman, Strather Academy: Real estate developers teaching the next generation of urban developers

CEO, With Ownership Wealth, Inc: A movement to reduce the racial wealth gap

UNIQUE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Raised over $5 million with crowdfunding for the first Obama/Biden Campaign

Acquired Source One Communications, a long-distance reseller, merged with Lightcom International, the only Black-American owned facilities-based telephone company in America, and grew revenue to over $70 million, providing telephone service to the Department of Defense, the White House, and Camp David

Co-Founder, Mortgage America: Sold it to Ocwen Financial

Acquired E3 Engineering, and became a Tier 1 supplier to General Motors, Ford, And Chrysler. Increased annual revenue from $8 million to $20 million in one year

Developed Evergreen Estates Apartments (Renamed Renaissance Village Apartments) 350 units, Detroit Michigan

Provided investment advice and strategic planning consulting to The Lewis Company for the $1 billion acquisition of the Beatrice Companies

Provided strategic planning consulting to Don Barden the first Black-American to own a Las Vegas casino and the first to own a major cable TV franchise

Co-Founder, Teeze: Won contract to provide design, marketing, and fulfillment services to the Michigan State Lottery. Negotiated licensing
agreements with Lamborghini and General Motors to design custom logo tshirts, caps, leather jackets, polo shirts, sweatshirts, and pants. Then sold apparel to car dealership service stores, Kmart, and Macy’s

While still in his twenties: investment advisor to pension funds and credit unions

At age 21 acquired Global Health, a health food store and restaurant located in Tucson Arizona and sold to European investors for $1.5 million

Member of the Harvest Institute and Strategic Advisor to Claud Anderson Ph.D., author of Black Labor White Wealth, and Powernomics

You can also read more about Gary at Digital Journal Press Release and Formidable Men Magazine.