Photo: Nathan Hart (left), COO of SMG, Inc. and President of Vodik Corporation, and Jeremy Bliler (right) CEO of SMG, Inc. are shown in La Jolla, CA the location of SMG's headquarters.
I have always had a burning passion for business and entrepreneurship. In many ways I guess you could say I am addicted to it. I began my career two months after my high school graduation in Southern Colorado. Partnering up with my high school co-manger of a video production company, Nathan Hart, I began to grow an online video firm. I felt that college for me was out of the question, I wanted to immediately be an entrepreneur. I attended the school of hard knocks. After many challenges, I soon learned that I wasn’t invincible and began to study success, communications, and leadership. My passion for people performance and bleeding edge communication strategies became stronger and I shifted my consulting focus to the emerging online technology and people performance tools.
Now, I spend time consulting some of the most exciting leaders in the United States and helping build technology applications for all forms of communication. I moved the company from Denver to San Diego, and found my new favorite city.
While I grew the consulting part of my life, I also fell in love with philanthropy and volunteer work. I describe my pursuits for money and success as a means to an end; the end being a lifetime pursuit for a cure for Childhood Cancer. I volunteered in Denver Children’s Hospital, I worked with Stacy Moriarty (founder of the Miracle Party) to build the largest party for Childhood Cancer patients in the world, and now spend hours volunteering with the awesome kids at Rady Children’s Hospital Oncology. I began working personally with Children with cancer, helping to fund wish trips and quality of life improvements.
I care about the results our clients achieve – and their choice to pursue the leading edge communication and betterment of corporate culture. I enjoy public speaking, brainstorming, workshops, and up close consulting work with organizations. In my personal life, I enjoy vacations, beaches, cruising (an avid Royal Caribbean fan), jet skiing, and volunteering. I can promise you one thing – If you work with me, I guarantee you’ll work with someone who cares about you and your teams success. I believe that when we choose to take on a client, we choose to be a part of their pursuits and provide positive results.
About Nathan Hart
COO
I believe that if your head and heart are in the right place, anyone can accomplish anything. It is with that concept that I manage all Operations for the SMG companies. From a very young age I couldn’t see myself working a regular “9 to 5” job. In high school instead of taking the normal route and working at a pizza joint, I chose to work for a small video production company. Before too long myself and one of my close friends were managing the local production aspect of the business.
College was not for me. My focus was on learning what it took to reach success, rather than my college degree. After one semester I decided that I wasn’t learning what I needed to know, and that it was time to pursue my goal of starting a business. Having the video production and management background made it a simple choice as far as what direction to take. I focused on studying personal development, success, leadership, and different styles and types of communication. The more I learned, the more I knew that others would benefit from the people performance tools and emerging online technology that I was mastering. Through SMG we are helping build technology applications for all forms of communication.
I decided that I had seen and experience enough snow and cold weather so I moved to San Diego, California where the company is now headquartered. Because of the passion I have for what we provide to our clients, the success that we work with them to achieve is very important to me; seeing our client succeed makes it all worth it (and getting paid to do what you love is a nice bonus).
I have a lot of fun, after all what is life without a bit of fun? I love, beach bonfires, camping, cruising (Royal Caribbean should pay me for how much I praise them), jet skiing, off-roading, traveling…and long walks on the beach.
