Laguna Blends, Inc. (CSE: LAG) (FSE: LB6A.F) (OTC: LAGBF), the network marketing company focused on the nutritional health benefits of hemp, has positioned itself strategically to grow within a multitude of markets across the U.S. and Canada. The main markets currently using hemp in their products include health foods, functional foods, natural body care and cosmetics, and veterinary markets. Although Laguna is set to grow within the hemp market, through the commercialization of its current products, the company is also tapping into the coffee and health markets.

Coffee is one of the most consumed beverages across the world. With more than two million cups of coffee being consumed on a daily basis, it is no wonder that LAGBF thought it an appropriate market when it launched its protein coffee: Caffe, made up of whey and hemp protein. Aside from being one of the world’s favored beverages, coffee is also the second most traded commodity worldwide, and the single cup serving market has continued to grow every year. This steady growth enables Laguna’s affiliates to sell a globally popular product, but with the added benefits of hemp.

The wellness-health industry often has blurred lines among its consumers. It’s a market that focuses on the overall physical and mental well-being of a person, not just on curing an illness. This industry encompasses the ongoing maintenance and improvement of one’s health. In order to enter into the health market, Laguna integrated itself into the protein industry with Pro369, an infused-blend functional beverage made of HempOmega®, hemp protein, and ginseng. This formula comes in four flavors and can be mixed with drinks, allowing consumers to boost their omegas 3 and 6 while introducing essential amino acids and ‘good’ fatty acids into their diets.

Laguna’s quest has not stopped there. Most recently, the company announced positive results from its clinical trial data of Cannaceuticals’ CBD facial serum. Laguna has also signed a non-binding letter-of-intent with CannaCeuticals of California (“Canna”) in order for both parties to mutually benefit from the business opportunities involved in the cannabidiol skin care industry. According to MarketResearch.com (http://nnw.fm/D7Lgp), the U.S. skincare industry is expected to reach $10.7 billion by 2018. Not only this, MarketResearch.com also found that one of the main driving forces for this growth will be the demand for natural and organic products. As a result, Laguna will be able to enter yet another industry within the health market: skincare.

In a recent news release, Stuart Grey, CEO and founder of Laguna Blends, Inc., had this to say: “Canna has spent a tremendous amount of time and financial resources to create what we believe is the highest quality CBD skin care line available on the market today. By combining the known benefits of CBD’s into a skin care product, we anticipate that Laguna is poised to become a direct sales leader in the skincare industry. By offering the Cannaceuticals skin care line of products to our affiliates, the Company anticipates an increase in product sales and recruitment of new affiliates.”

For more information, visit www.lagunablends.com

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Earlier today, eXp World Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: EXPI) announced the addition of industry veteran Russ Cofano to its management team. Cofano will serve as EXPI’s chief strategy officer and general counsel moving forward.

“I have been looking for ‘the next great opportunity’ within the industry, and I’m certain that I’ve found that opportunity at eXp,” Cofano stated in this morning’s news release. “Unlike other new entrants, eXp is redefining the brokerage model of the future from within. Glenn Sanford has assembled a fantastic team and I’m excited to join them and use my various industry experiences to help the company chart its course of success.”

In total, Cofano brings more than 25 years of industry experience to the EXPI team. In recent years, he has served as senior vice president of industry relations for MOVE, Inc., operator of a network of real estate websites that attracts more than 30 million monthly visitors, including REALTOR.com®. Cofano’s duties in this role included developing strategy and business relationships with leading organizations within the real estate industry, as well as multiple listing services (MLS) and technology firms. In addition to his work with MOVE, Inc., Cofano has also served as chief executive officer of the Missouri REALTORS®, the largest trade association in the state of Missouri, and as vice president and general counsel for John L. Scott Real Estate, which was consistently ranked among the largest real estate brokerages in the country.

“Russ brings a wealth of experience and industry knowledge to the Company from multiple perspectives,” Glenn Sanford, founder and chief executive officer of EXPI, added in the news release. “We’re fortunate to be able to add Russ to our team and believe he will have an immediate and lasting impact on the Company as we continue to grow.”

EXPI has continued to build on its success in expanding the reach of its Agent-Owned Cloud Brokerage™ in recent weeks. In mid-July, the company launched eXp Realty in New Jersey, bringing its total national presence to 43 states and the District of Columbia. eXp Realty is also operational in Alberta, Canada. Additionally, the company is now listed in more than 105 unique MLS, and its network includes more than 1,400 real estate professionals, an increase of 62 percent from the beginning of 2016.

This nationwide growth is particularly intriguing when studying EXPI’s most recent financial results. In the first quarter of 2016, the company recorded revenues of $7.1 million, an increase of 107 percent from the previous year. This total correlated with a 106 percent year-over-year increase in agent count in its real estate division.

For more information, visit the company’s website at http://investors.exprealty.com

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The deal with 10 million-plus subscriber Poolworks Germany is a perfect fit for an acquisitive and already diversified entertainment and direct response marketing company like Momentous Entertainment Group, Inc. (OTC: MMEG). Momentous has an operational footprint spanning unique content production for documentary, film and reality TV, as well as live music events, adult contemporary and faith-based music, and even covers film finance/distribution, and direct response TV marketing. Laying the groundwork for a vibrant synergy longer-term, the July 25 announcement of a binding agreement with this Berlin-based developer of the widely successful social networking platforms for (mostly college) students across Europe, StudiVZ and MeinVZ, represents a solid revenue engine for MMEG.

One of the big valuation gripes by investors about social networking operators in general has always been the absence of clear revenue generation pipeline solutions in the business model. It has always been network first, content and capital later (build it and they will come). Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) might be the most notorious case, with its massive user base and seemingly unimpeachable status as a new cultural norm, combined with an inability to really harness the revenue generation potential of that user base.

Twitter has continued to go the ad route and has had some success in doing so, but it is becoming increasingly obvious to many sector operators that content is indeed still king, and meaningful impressions are driven by original, high-quality video/image content. In order to carve off an ever larger slice of the social network ad spend pie alone, which is on track to hit nearly $36 billion next year (or 16 percent of total global digital ad spend) according to eMarketer analysts, network proprietors and all businesses that use those social networks to engage their customers will be forced to channel high quality and/or original content at users. Symbiosis is required between networks, advertisers and content providers in order to make the chemical equation balance.

Poolworks is an interesting case, as StudiVZ and MeinVZ are more like a Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) geared toward students, with its core user base in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The platform has seen some bleed in recent years, as have all entrenched social networks, given the continual rise of new entities and other instant messaging environments like Yahoo’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) Flickr, Facebook-acquired Instagram, or sites such as Pinterest and Snapchat. However, Poolworks’ tight rapport with a choice demographic and its core user base being in these highly sought after European markets make it ideal pipeline for a company like Momentous Entertainment Group.

MMEG will funnel Hollywood-quality film and TV via a branded, streaming, end-to-end “internet TV” over-the-top (OTT) content platform, functionally akin to Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) or Amazon Prime (NASDAQ: AMZN) streaming. The numerous shared revenue streams enabled by the deal will help to foster a strong relationship between the two companies, coming from sources ranging from ad sales and transactional VOD (video on demand), to monthly subscription fees via the company’s own SVOD (subscription video on demand) service, which looks like it will function in much the same way as Amazon Prime membership in that it will grant subscribers unfettered access to premium streaming content. The deal is also a rapid development vector for the branded SVOD implementation itself, and MMEG intends to take the service worldwide into the aforementioned $36 billion social network ad spend ecosystem.

For more information, visit www.momentousent.com

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Back in 1982, management gurus Tom Peters and Robert Waterman took the corporate world by storm with their thought-provoking opus, In Search of Excellence. This best-selling manual examined the management practices of America’s best run companies with the aim of uncovering the factors that made them successful. The book detailed the duo’s pilgrimage in search of excellence that took them to Amoco, Avon (NYSE: AVP), The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), Frito-Lay, HP (NYSE: HPQ), IBM (NYSE: IBM), P&G (NYSE: PG) and 36 other companies. Peters and Waterman popularized the term ‘management by wandering around’ (MBWA), where management opens informal lines of communication with staff. It’s been over 30 years since In Search of Excellence hit the charts, but Glenn Sanford, founder and CEO of eXp World Holdings, parent company of cloud-based real estate firm eXp Realty, recently followed its precepts. He hit the trail in a 43-foot, class-A Winnebago RV to practice MBWA.

The real estate Inman site gives an account (http://nnw.fm/fu5E3) of Sanford’s MBWA trip around the country. In September 2015, he undertook his adventure to ‘touch base’ with eXp Realty’s 1,000+ agents and brokers spread over 31 states in the U.S. eXp Realty now has representation in 40 states. Sanford’s excursion has given him unparalleled insight into the current state of the residential real estate industry, which, coupled with his experience (he has been a broker himself), endows him with a unique ability to mentor and coach. On the road, he shared his observations in a presentation titled ‘How to generate online leads without using Trulia, Zillow or realtor.com’, which was so well received that it led to a ‘lunch and learn’ series open to all industry professionals. Sanford said at the time:

“We have adopted that concept (MBWA) into our cloud office environment, only we call it ‘management by avataring around.’ And now that I am on the road, we’ve added ‘management by motor coaching’.”

Sanford’s safari took him to 10 states, and he covered a distance of over 6,000 miles.

The objectives of MBWA are to listen, to respond to problems and ideas, and to take effective action. Action is intrinsic to the MBWA approach. Indeed, one of the eight characteristics that excellent companies were found to possess was ‘a bias for action’. The best companies were not afraid to sometimes ‘ready, fire, aim’. Excellent companies also stay ‘close to the customer’, taking a genuine interest in finding out what they want. The best companies foster autonomy and entrepreneurship. They allow employees scope for professional development and encourage them to think like businesspersons. These are all principles you will find at work at eXp World Holdings.

The Agent-Owned Cloud Brokerage offered by its wholly-owned subsidiary, eXp Realty, is a full service national real estate brokerage platform. Since it is cloud-based, eXp Realty avoids the costs associated with a brick-and-mortar establishment and so allows real estate agents and brokers to operate at significantly lower costs than traditional brokerages would. The online environment offered by eXp Realty operates in a 3-D mode that will be familiar to those who play online games. The platform actually employs a gaming software engine. On eXp Realty’s cloud campus, agents can not only transact business but also educate themselves and communicate with their mentors. The platform is as much a support system for agents and brokers as it is transactional. In addition, agents have ‘skin in the game’ since they are owners, which, no doubt, plays a key role in eXp World Holdings’ continuing success.

For more information, visit the company’s website at http://investors.exprealty.com

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Before the opening bell, International Stem Cell Corp. (OTCQB: ISCO) announced that the first patient in its ongoing phase I clinical trial of human parthenogenetic neural stem cells (ISC-hpNSC) for the treatment of moderate to severe Parkinson’s disease has undergone a successful intracranial transplant of ISC-hpNSC at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia. This milestone marks a major step toward the completion of the dose escalation safety and preliminary efficacy study, which will evaluate three different dose regimens of ISC-hpNSC in a total of 12 participants over the coming months.

“This is a major step forward in our search for a cure for Parkinson’s Disease,” Russell Kern, PhD, executive vice president and chief scientific officer of ISCO, stated in this morning’s news release. “We are thrilled to initiate this clinical trial and prove that neural stem cells can be a part of the solution. We are hopeful that ISC-hpNSC will prove to be a valuable therapy.”

In recent months, ISCO has remained focused on the start of this clinical trial. The company initially commenced enrollment in March of this year before securing $6.3 million through a private placement in order to adequately fund the study. In June, ISCO officially concluded the preclinical stage of its Parkinson’s disease program when it announced the publication of the results of a 12-month preclinical, non-human primate study demonstrating the safety and efficacy of its ISC-hpNSC for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease.

“We believe that stem cells are part of the solution to finding a cure for Parkinson’s Disease,” Andrey Semechkin, PhD, co-chairman and CEO of ISCO, stated in the news release. “There is real potential for millions of people who currently suffer from Parkinson’s Disease to truly benefit from using ISC-hpNSC.”

Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that affects an estimated seven to 10 million people worldwide, according to the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, making it the second most common neurodegenerative disease in the world. While no cure exists, currently-available treatments for this debilitating disease, including L-DOPA and dopamine agonists, are moderately effective toward improving the early symptoms of Parkinson’s. However, as dopaminergic neurons are lost to the progression of the disorder, these drugs become ineffective and often produce a complication marked by involuntary writhing movements.

In preclinical studies in rodents and non-human primates, ISCO’s ISC-hpNSC have been effective in improving Parkinson’s symptoms and increasing brain dopamine levels while offering neurotrophic support and cell replacement to the dying dopaminergic neurons of the recipient’s brain. Moving forward, ISCO will continue to oversee the ISC-hpNSC clinical study through subsidiary Cyto Therapeutics Pty Ltd. In a prior news release, the company set a tentative date of Q4 2016 for the release of preliminary clinical data.

For more information, visit www.internationalstemcell.com

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Kris Finstad, CEO of Content Checked Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: CNCK), recently penned an article for Home Business® ONLINE, the web-based counterpart of the largest magazine targeting the home-based business sector with an audience of roughly 54,000 unique monthly visitors. In the piece, titled ‘How to Turn a Passion Project into a Viable Business’, Finstad details how Content Checked was created from an ambitious idea to help those living with potentially fatal food allergies to the development of a suite of dietary apps boasting more than two million registered users, over 60% of whom use the apps on a regular basis. Today, Content Checked offers users access to a product database containing up-to-date information on over 70 percent of conventional U.S. food products, and impending international expansion in Canada, the U.K. and Australia has Finstad predicting that Content Checked will see a “breakthrough year” in 2016.

In his Home Business® ONLINE piece, Finstad provides prospective shareholders some additional insight into the keys to Content Checked’s continued growth in the $13 billion food allergy and intolerances market. To start, he suggests that the formulation of a well-defined business strategy that addresses a sizable market demand is imperative.

“As a real estate investor, I knew very little about the food allergy and dietary world, but I spent nearly a year immersed in this market, getting to know what competitors already existed, my target audience, and my own strengths and weaknesses as a businessman,” Finstad stated in the article. “There was a need for a tool to aid this particular audience and current products on the market were unreliable and inaccurate. After conducting enough research and evaluation of a particular industry, an understanding of what is lacking on the market or what can be improved will become clear.”

To view the full Home Business® ONLINE article, visit http://dtn.fm/hwy1T

After identifying a consistent market need in a particular industry, Finstad notes that building a knowledgeable and dedicated team is vital to the success of any young business. Because every businessperson has a collection of strengths and weaknesses, assembling a management team and staff made up of members possessing unique skills is a great way to accomplish daily goals without the need to micromanage, allowing me to focus more on the big picture.

“You can’t run a business alone,” continued Finstad. “Hiring talent who bring in skills that you don’t possess is also extremely important – this allows companies to think outside the box and bring in multiple perspectives that are different from your own.”

In addition to offering helpful tips to would-be entrepreneurs, Finstad’s article provides great exposure to Content Checked and its suite of dietary apps.

To view the company’s full financials, visit the following link: http://dtn.fm/sIJ7M

For more information, visit www.contentchecked.com

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Although cash burn for International Stem Cell Corp. (OTCQB: ISCO) currently stands at over $0.5 million per month, a number likely to increase with the progression of its clinical trials for Parkinson’s disease (PD), risks have been mitigated thanks to the company’s commercial operations. ISCO is an early stage biotechnical company developing biomedical, therapeutic, and cosmeceutical applications for its proprietary form of pluripotent stem cells known as human parthenogenetic stem cells (hpSCs). Although ISCO is carrying out intensive research to develop a stem cell therapy treatment for PD, the company reduces any financial risks with the more commercially-oriented side of its operations.

ISCO’s commercial operations are made up of Lifeline Skin Care (LSC) and Lifeline Cell Technology (LCT). LCT develops, manufactures, and commercializes over 130 human cell culture products. These cells are sold through International Stem Cell Corp.’s website. On the other hand, LSC develops, manufactures, and markets luxury skincare products through a variety of channels, including a branded website, dermatologists, plastic surgeons, and spas, as well as through Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and DermStore. Since 2012, ISCO’s biomedical business has grown by 19%, a rate nearly three times the industry’s rate. This branch of the company grew by 15% between 2014 and 2015, and the operating margins rose to 31% from 21.7% in 2014 and 12.4% in 2013. LSC, however, is still a small player in the global skincare market. That said, the skin care brand still saw revenue grow at a CAGR of 17% in recent years and reported total revenue of $3.5 million in 2015.

Although there are still sensitivities relating to therapeutics products developed by ISCO, these are not insurmountable. In the International Stem Cell report by Edison (http://nnw.fm/T8LoT), sensitivities were addressed accordingly. Valuations done by Edison found that ISCO’s skin care business is estimated to grow to sales of $4.8 million by 2025, while its biomedical business is expected to reach $10.5 million in sales in the same amount of time. Although both businesses still hold a number of risks due to the nature of their markets and the fact that they are still relatively small and growing companies, these risks have been highly mitigated to minimize loss and maximize long-term profits.

For more information, visit www.internationalstemcell.com

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Social media analysis has become key to online success for organizations of all sizes. Without the use of social media analytics, companies are unable to establish where they stand in the virtual world. Aside from this, companies are able to use such analytics to engage and communicate with customers more efficiently. Social media analysis allows organizations to have a deeper understanding of how their audiences are interacting with their brands. With this, they can tailor their social media platforms to customer requirements, allowing them to attract a broader audience, receive more impressions, and generate higher conversion rates.

Social media monitoring and analytics enable organizations to diagnose, prioritize, and evaluate their strategies. Today, it is not enough to simply monitor the number of likes and shares you get on Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Twitter (NYSE: TWTR), or other social platforms. Now, companies are able to measure virtually anything they want. The most important and popular metrics to analyze include: conversions, reach, engagement, impressions, audience growth rate, visits vs. organic visits, referral traffic, influence scores and bounce rates. Many marketers use dozens of analytical tools at one time.

Each social media platform today offers some form of analytical tool. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), Google+ (NASDAQ: GOOGL), and Pinterest have dashboards entitled “analytics” or “insights” on their pages. Each platform works slightly differently, but nearly all allow admins to see stats for posts, reach, likes, mentions, impressions, shares (or retweets), and so on. Analytics for each page has been made easier by third parties such as Google Analytics, Buffer, Social Analytics, and many others. However, how do you decide which analytics tools are right for your company’s social media campaigns? It is hard to determine what numbers are most important when everything is scattered across all your platforms.

FRAME social media management software by Agora Holdings, Inc. (OTC: AGHI), has been optimized for the use of businesses, public relations firms, and investor relations agencies worldwide. This unique platform gives companies ease-of-use thanks to a single dashboard that publishes all messages relevant to an organization’s corporate social media accounts. Aside from this unique opportunity to gather information through one page, FRAME offers features to enhance customer care and engagement. With FRAME, businesses not only measure the direct success of their social media campaigns, they also gain insight into relevant social media mentions, content that is shared, and conversion rates.

For more information, visit www.agoraholdingsinc.com

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Moxian, Inc. (OTCQB: MOXC) is gearing up for a NASDAQ listing. In an interview (http://nnw.fm/8DzdP) with Asia Fund Space, Mr. James Tan, CEO of Moxian, spoke passionately about the impending upgrade, likening his company to Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), which in its early years had promising earnings potential but minimal revenues. Tan believes a NASDAQ listing will make the company known to an investor community that is better informed about tech companies like Moxian. Moxian has been trading on the OTCQB Venture Marketplace since early 2014. Now, two recent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission show Tan is following up on his earlier pronouncement.

In June 2016, Moxian filed a Securities Registration Statement (Form S-1), which is the initial registration form for new securities. Form S-1 is required under the Securities Act of 1933 so that potential investors might receive financial and other significant information concerning securities being offered for public sale; and so to lessen the likelihood of deceit, misrepresentations, and other fraud in the sale of those securities. For this reason, the Act has earned the sobriquet, the ‘truth in securities’ law. The Registration Statement requires a company to provide an overview of its business and plans for the future, a description of the securities to be offered for sale, information on its management, financial statements certified by independent accountants, and say how it intends to use the funds raised by the securities offering. The S-1 can be viewed at http://nnw.fm/XvD2O.

In addition, earlier this month, Moxian announced that its board of directors had approved a reverse stock split of the company’s issued and outstanding shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share, at a ratio of 1-for-2. The reverse stock split will reduce Moxian’s authorized common stock from 500 million shares to 250 million shares. The stock split, which has been approved by FINRA, will make it easier for Moxian’s stock price to approach the listing requirement. It has meant that from July 12, 2016, for 20 business days, the trading symbol of the stock will be MOXCD, before reverting to MOXC. The 8-K filing for the reverse stock split is available at http://nnw.fm/p7Tv0.

Moxian is in good hands as it prepares for the listing upgrade. James Mengdong Tan, its CFO, president and CEO, is an experienced manager who has held senior executive positions in both private and public companies. He is also currently a director and CEO of 8i Capital, which provides advice on corporate floatation on major exchanges. Tan was the Chairman and CEO of Vashion Group, a company listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX), from 2003 to 2006. From 2006 until 2009, he was the Executive Director and CEO of Vantage Corporation Limited, which is also listed on the SGX. In addition, he served on the board of Pacific Internet Ltd, a NASDAQ-listed company, until it was taken private.

Moxian is in the online-to-offline (O2O) business. The company provides small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) featuring an established brick-and-mortar presence with an online platform, Moxian+, which allows them to conduct business, interact with existing customers and obtain new customers. Moxian+ has five components. Its social media engine not only facilitates discourse between merchant clients and consumers but also allows consumers to connect with each other and act as brand promoters. With Moxian+, ecommerce is easy. Merchant clients can publish information on products, offer coupons, advertise events and sales and keep consumers educated with blogs. And, consumers can order products at the online shops for express delivery.

Moxian+ also includes incentives to encourage shopping and has its own currency. Shoppers can obtain MO-Points when they shop online, which allow them to play games on the Moxian+ platform or engage in other activities sponsored by merchant clients. The MO-Points can either be redeemed at online shops or exchanged for MO-Coins: virtual currency that can be used at any merchant client’s physical store location. There are a variety of games on the Moxian+ platform that shoppers can play to win MO-Points and MO-Coins. Finally, Moxian+ offers data crunching capability that provides insights on consumer behavior. Now, merchant clients can better tailor their promotions to suit their target markets.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.Moxian.com

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Earlier today, eXp World Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: EXPI) announced the addition of Rick Miller and Randall Miles to its Board of Directors. Glenn Sanford, chief executive officer of EXPI, described the move as a “significant point for the Company and for its shareholders.” In addition to bringing years of experience at the highest levels of leadership and deep and diverse expertise spanning a variety of industries, Miller and Miles offer “greater independence to [the Board’s] composition as the Company progresses, both within the public financial markets and as a rapidly-growing organization,” according to Sanford.

Rick Miller brings more than 25 years of senior leadership experience to the EXPI Board, including time with both Fortune 500 companies and young startups. After beginning his career at Sperry/Unisys, he was recruited by AT&T (NYSE: T), where he served as president of its $13 billion Global Services division. Miller later served as president, COO and a Board member at internet startup OPUS360, where he was tasked with overseeing the firm’s IPO. In later years, Miller was recruited by Lucent Technologies to lead its $21 billion worldwide sales efforts. He was also named president, Lucent Government Solutions. Currently, Miller serves as CEO at Being Chief, LLC, where he offers advisory services to a broad range of executives across a diverse collection of industries.

Randall Miles also brings over 25 years of experience in senior leadership positions to the EXPI board, with positions spanning global financial services, financial technology and investment banking. Miles has an extensive investment banking background at bulge bracket, regional and boutique firms, where he has served as an advisor, guiding companies’ strategic and financial needs across many disciplines. This experience is complemented by his work in leadership positions with both public and private equity backed financial technology, specialty finance and software companies. Notably, Miles served as chairman and CEO of LION MTS, CEO of Syngence Corporation, COO of AtlasBanc Holdings Corp., and CEO of Advantage Funding/NAFCO Holdings. Currently, he is a managing partner at SCM Capital Group, a global strategic and financial advisory firm, and Senior Managing Director at Tigress Financial Partners, a full-service institutional broker dealer.

“Rick and Randall are tremendous additions to our Board,” Sanford stated in this morning’s news release.

Through rapidly-growing subsidiary eXp Realty, EXPI is currently operational in 43 states, as well as Alberta, Canada, and the District of Columbia. The Agent-Owned Cloud Brokerage™ offers 24/7 access to collaborative tools, training and socialization features through an innovative cloud-based office environment that effectively eliminates the high costs associated with maintaining a traditional brick and mortar office. eXp Realty’s network of real estate professionals currently includes more than 1,400 members, an increase of more than 60 percent from the beginning of this year.

For more information, visit the company’s website at http://investors.exprealty.com

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