Richard Paul Evans ~ CEO, Founder

Richard Paul Evans, the BookWise founder is an award-winning #1 Bestselling author.  In fact, he has a string of ten New York Times bestsellers and 13 million plus copies of his books in print worldwide.  He is also a savvy businessman and entrepreneur. At the age of 31, he was awarded the coveted Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year lifetime achievement award. He is also the founder of The Christmas Box International, an organization that helps abused and neglected children. BookWise combines three loves of his life:  Books, Business and Charity.

Robert G. Allen ~ Founder, Co-owner

Robert G. Allen, another BookWise founder is one of North America's most famous and most influential financial advisors. After graduating with an MBA from Brigham Young University in 1974, he began his real estate investment career and turned his successful experiences into the #1 bestselling book, Nothing Down, with forty-six weeks on the New York Times national bestseller list. He followed that success with four other major New York Times bestsellers with sales in the millions: Creating Wealth, Multiple Streams of Income, The One Minute Millionaire and Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth. He has appeared on hundreds of programs including Good Morning America, Larry King and Your World with Neil Cavuto. He has also been featured in such national publications as The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Barron's, Money Magazine, Redbook, and Reader's Digest.

Dennis  is among the world’s business elite. As one of the co-founders of the internationally successful Franklin Quest  he was responsible for 250 million dollars of product development and distribution. In addition, he trained clients from numerous Fortune 500 companies, including PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Dow Chemical, Merrill Lynch, and Citibank. Dennis is a much sought-after speaker on a wide range of topics, ranging from leadership to time management to financial planning to team building.

Andy Compas ~ Chief Operating Officer

The chief operating officer brings more than a decade of leadership and network marketing experience to the BookWise team. He has worked in nearly every realm of the direct sales industry: sales and marketing, call center organization, IT, executive management and order  fulfillment. Most recently he has worked as United States General Manager for one of the largest MLM organizations in the world. Andy has also managed successful global sales teams and in one stretch revitalized an entire sales force by running 100 meetings in 100 days.

Mark W. Hurst ~ Chief Marketing Officer

 Within a week of learning about BookWise, the chief marketing officer  sold his interest in Salt Lake City’s most award-winning advertising agency—where he served as the President and Chief Creative Officer to join the BookWise Executive Team. In his 30-year career in advertising he has won hundreds of awards for his work and is considered a world-class leader in strategic and creative marketing. Mark spent 5 years in San Francisco working as Director of Brand Planning for DDB—the largest ad agency organization in the world. Mark has assisted many well-known businesses including Microsoft, Novell, Deloitte Consulting, Jiffy Lube, Evans & Sutherland, and Megahertz (now 3Com). He has been a featured speaker around the country on business-to-business branding and has authored a book on that subject.