Chad Bennett - President and Co-Founder
Chad Bennett is the President of Vested Group. Vested Group is a private investment and management company that mainly focuses on Real Estate acquisitions, sales and education. Vested Group has received multiple accolades including being recognized as one of the Top 25 companies under 5 years old in Utah by the Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum in 2008 and also one of the Top companies to watch in Utah by the Utah Valley BusinessQ Magazine.
As President of Vested Group, Chad has been involved in most aspects relating to real estate and real estate investing. He has considerable experience with acquisitions, property rehabs, wholesaling, rentals, property management, short sales, negotiations and more.
Chad graduated with a degree in Business Management and Spanish from Brigham Young University. While there he was recognized as of of the top student entrepreneurs in the state of Utah. In his free time, Chad enjoys spending quality time with his wife and four kids as well as taking part in various sports and activities. His passion for a challenge has lead him from competitive team sports, to participating in Ironman triathlons throughout the country.
Emeritus Leadership
Alan Brymer, Co-Founder and Past President
Alan Brymer is the creator of The Assistant Who Pays Their Own Salary and This Market Stinks. He is a frequent guest expert for the news media, having made TV appearances on KSL’s Studio 5 Morning Show, iProvo, and Spotlight with Dana Robinson. He has also been published or highlighted in The Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret Morning News, The Daily Herald, Utah Business Magazine, Connect Magazine, The Provo/Orem Chamber Insider, Intermountain Investor, Mortgage Mag Weekly, The Scotsman Magazine, Utah Valley Business Quarterly, and The Salt Lake Enterprise.
In addition to his real estate experience, Alan is an expert at systemizing businesses. He is the creator of The Assistant Who Pays Their Own Salary, the only course for investors on how to find and manage a personal assistant to do 50-80% of your investing-related tasks for you.
Alan has a degree in Organizational Communication for Radford University
Samantha Simon, Past President
Samantha Simon has owned and operated two successful businesses and is what you would call a serial entrepreneur.
Her Samak Smoke House, an award winning operation, grew from $20,000 in annual sales to $200,000 before being sold. She was known for her customer service and was voted for having the best beef jerky in the state.
Samantha and her partner Jolene Aubel have a fast-growing real estate solutions company helping homeowners in trouble with foreclosure. Samantha oversees the rehab division of that company and is passionate about adding value to properties.
In addition to investing and teaching about real estate investing, Samantha enjoys teaching an Entrepreneur Forum every fall at Salt Lake Community College and has done this for the past eight years.
Samantha has a degree in Spanish from the University of Utah
Jolene Aubel, Past President
Jolene Aubel’s public/media relations career spans 17 years in Olympic sports including seven years with the U.S. Ski Team/U.S. Ski Association and includes over 282 national and international events as well as six Olympic Games.
She founded Mountain Marketing and Communications, Inc. in 1992 and oversaw all sales and marketing activities of the company. Mountain Marketing and Communications, Inc. is a full service public relations/marketing company offering its clients fun and creative ways to promote its events and sponsorships. Services included a broad range of activities including communications consulting and sports media relations getting national results such as coverage in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, CNN and Newsweek. Her past clients included O.C. Tanner Company, USA Cycling, International Sports Broadcasting, Lexus, Park City Mountain Resort, Subaru of America and ESPN. Since 2002, she has worked as a full-time real estate investor and specializes in bank short sale negotiations. Jolene has a degree in Marketing from Bowling Green University
