The Most Sharp Business Leaders Making Their Mark In Industry, 2022

Katarina Maloney

MCNB Holding Corpora�on CEO

How the Pandemic Changed Businesses W

With the inception of the pandemic, the business world is facing an unprecedented challenge. Today businesses are not just restricted to closed meeting rooms. Now business leaders are much more reachable than ever before, which helps them to face problems better, manage various operations and make quick decisions to respond effectively. In situations like these, a leader can deploy a network of teams, which can solve many problems. Another important part of a business leader’s role is promoting psychological safety amongst the employees, which shows their concern. Every leader must acknowledge the various personal and professional challenges in order to stay attentive to employees.

With the invention of various new technologies and platforms, the future of entrepreneurship is bright but very competitive. We as a society have reached a point where young professionals are much more interested in being an entrepreneur or a business leader than working for someone else, making it challenging for new players in the industry. Nowadays, employees have also become much more flexible with their jobs, which helps business owners to a large extent.

A sharp business leader must offer various bold and strategic decisions. However, they have to understand the significance of guidance to keep up with the data-driven competition. Business leaders who only believe in their decision-making with little or no accountability are destined to fail in the current business world. Yes! As business leaders, their primary responsibility is to steer their business in the right direction, but they should always involve others in the decision-making process for better decisions.

Based on the thoughts mentioned above, Tycoon Success Magazine has shortlisted “The 10 Most Sharp Business Leaders, Making Their Mark in Industry 2022,” highlighting the exemplary creative minds that are reshaping the future of business with their innovative ideas and skills.

On Cover, we have Katarina Maloney, the CEO of MCNB Holding Corporation, which works to improve life for individuals interested in overall wellness and those unable to find safe, affordable, and effective alternative treatments.

Katarina Maloney

MCNB Holding Corporation CEO

MCNB Holding Corporation CEO

Solving Complexities of Minds by Using Hemp Based Products

Meet Katarina Maloney, the CEO of MCNB Holding Corporation. Her story began in her youth, during which she had spent growing up in continental Europe. When the time came for Katarina to attend the university, she decided to pursue a degree in Political Science at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra.

At the age of 20, a friend from college asked Katarina to go to the United States, an opportunity she decided not to pass up. Without any knowledge of the English language and only $300 in her pocket, she found her way to Los Angeles, California.

worked her way to becoming the industry frontrunner. As she watched customer after customer find a better quality of life from having greater access to CBD, I worked to continue growing my product's reach.

After a traumatic accident in 2018, Katarina found herself fighting for her life once again. As she recovered, her company and herself have continued to push toward their mission to help those suffering from brain injuries and mental health issues.

From the moment she stepped foot in California, Katarina knew she was right where she was meant to be. She continued working her way up the ladder-climbing from a position as a bartender up to working as the right-hand woman to a successful entrepreneur by the time she was 25.

Shortly after, Katarina worked as the CEO of Livecustomer Inc., a company specializing in SEM Consultancy marketing. While there, she gained valuable insight that would one day help her build a company that aligns with her mission in life- a mission she found after becoming diagnosed with Crohn's disease.

During this challenging journey, Katarina learned about the many benefits CBD offers. The more she learned, the stronger desire she felt to create more access to it for everyone. That is why she invented one of the first CBD retail vape product and

Today, Katarina is a biotech executive who is currently the founder of MCNB Holding Corporation and COO of Labyrinth Sphere Inc. As the CEO, she oversees how the organization works toward the vision, mission, and direction she has dreamt it would follow. She works every day to develop and implement both MCNB Holding Corporation's and Labyrinth Sphere Inc.'s business strategies and act as a guide for these company's executives to run a high-quality, unique business with the best customer service.

Katarina also spends her days working closely with scientists and doctors, running clinical trials to learn more about the effects of CBD, THC, Psilocybin, MDMA, and DMT. As she pushes to learn more about the advantages these substances offer, Katarina has created a team that fights for making progressive treatments that have been found to provide quicker, more effective, and more natural pathways to recovery mainstream.

- Katarina Maloney

CEO | MCNB Holding Corpora�on

Inception Story

Katrina discovered the healing properties of CBD when she was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. As she experienced the symptoms, she found herself quickly losing weight and being unable to digest anything. After giving CBD a try, she found it completely healed her digestive problem and wanted to spread the word to everyone she knew.

That desire to spread the benefits of this natural, very simple, and yet widely unknown substance led Katarina work hard to ensure the benefits of CBD be widely available to customers worldwide using the business knowledge she gained throughout her career.

This only pushed her to continue to build her CBD business as she dreamt of making the medical benefits of CBD accessible to those who genuinely need it. In pursuing this dream, she and her colleagues introduced many oral, topical, and even rectal application products to the market, supplying options that can work for everybody.

In 2018, Katarina faced one of the most difficult challenges in her life, an accident that caused a traumatic brain injury. Just as she was taking some of the biggest steps in her career as an entrepreneur, Katarina found herself on bed rest and unable to move for three months. Understandably, she hit rock bottom.

Through those months, Katarina found traditional Western medicine ineffective in her recovery. As she grew tired of waiting to feel better, she decided to create her own healing plan using innovative healing practices like CBD, neurofeedback, self-care, micro-dosing supplements, etc.

A few years later, she found herself fully recovered and full of motivation to support those who suffer from brain injuries or mental health issues themselves. She now works closely with scientists and doctors to run clinical trials to learn more about CBD, THC, Psilocybin, MDMA, and DMT. As they learn more about the benefits these substances have to offer the world, Katarina and her team continue to fight to allow more people to have access to these progressive treatments.

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- Katarina Maloney

Ask yourself what you would like to accomplish workwise if money was no object. That is what you need to do. Once you find your calling, pursue it with all you might. Becoming a frontrunner in any industry will never be easy. You must be willing to put in the work if that is truly your dream.

Transforming Lives

To Katarina, success currently lies in creating a greater world in which everyone has access to the healing powers of hemp and psychedelics. She wants to witness more transformative stories and see more people experiencing a better-quality life. She knew what her life mission was from the moment she experienced life-changing healing from this natural medicine. And that mission is to help others reap those benefits.

Note to Younger self

When we requested Katarina for some suggestions for upcoming entrepreneurs, she said,

“Setting out to do something impossible, against the odds- not something that society pushed you to do, but something you are doing because the universe has called you to it- is what I consider success. It does not matter whether you ever reach that destination. What makes it a success is the fact that you are choosing to be your own destiny.”

Future Roadmap

Katarina sees herself and her company playing a significant role in creating more accessibility to the medical benefits of CBD, cannabis, and psychedelics. As they continue running clinical trials, she hopes that the world can see just how effective and fast-acting these compounds can be for recovery from many different mental ailments.

The primary mission of MCNB is to improve the quality of life for those who are interested in overall wellness and who have been unable to find safe, affordable, and effective alternative treatments.

MCNB’s vision is to create physician-backed, reliable products, provide completely transparent clinical trials, and educate society further on caring for their mental health and well-being.

Solving People’s Credit Problems

With the intent of helping people to solve their credit problems, Quintel Sumrall founded, My Credit Approve, LLC in 2020. Quintel was a credit repair specialist for more than seven years and has enough experience in how credit score works and how to manage them. To date, Quintel has helped many people to reach their credit goals. He started his firm, My Credit Approve to educate people and help all American to improve their financial stability.

Quintel believes each one of us can get behind our bills or loan installments. Being aware of what impacts the credit score is an added advantage when it comes to planning the expenses accordingly. Repairing and maintaining a good credit score can be done with self-research and studying and My Credit Approve can help its customers get their much easily. Thanks to Quintel and his team, users will not get any surprises like getting unapproved of their mortgage, finance, or insurance. According to the Federal Trade Commission, 1 out of 5 people has at least one issue on their credit report. Having bad credit leads users to get their loans at higher rates and usually they pay more than usual.

Why Credit Score is Important

The credit score is often the most trusted source of the lender if an individual has the potential to pay back a loan. In other words, the credit report is the trusted source between the lender and the borrower. At the moment when users apply for a loan, credit card, or mortgage, the first thing checked by the credit issuer is the credit score. If

the users’ credit score is lower than expected, then they have to improve it and show their reliability in paying off the loan on time. If a user doesn’t meet the required credit score standards, it may be in result disapproval. Some lenders are ready to provide money for people who have bad credit reports. But they have a lot of conditions and higher interest rates than the regular money lenders. This will make the borrower pay more than the loan's worth and fall into deeper financial issues at the same time.

A good credit score can help you as a user to get the loans without any hassle and with a lower risk. The most important thing is, that users can find lenders who are ready to lend money at a lower interest rate. Therefore, My Credit Approve can save its users from trouble and help them maintain good credit.

Helping People with Credit Score

Quintel explains, that My Credit Approve is cloud-based software, which checks its users’ credit scores. It has a user-friendly interface and can be set up quickly The process has four steps and begins at only $29.99. The process eventually teaches its users, how to obtain the FICO credit score and credit report and monitor it just for $1. There are more than 100 customized dispute letters available in My Credit Approve, and they are created by experienced attorneys in the field.

Users can now monitor, repair, and maintain their credit score with the new approach of My Credit Approve. With the firm, there’s no need of spending hard-earned money or depending on a third party

My Credit Approve helps its users to practice good financial habits and makes them aware even of simple financial matters.

My Credit Approve also educates its users about the financial situations that can negatively affect their credit score and the way to get rid of them.

Path Breaking Service

The firm provides three customized options according to the clients’ requirements. My Credit Approve understands that the financial situation is different from person to person and the software should be appealing to everyone. All the details submitted by users are protected as My Credit Approve respects the privacy of its users. With a few steps, users can check their credit and find out the short comes in it.

My Credit Approve is

approach to leading people to take care of their credit status themselves. It is also affordable software for credit advice and credit management. The affordability and user-friendliness have made the software popular among users.

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The best scenario is when someone takes care of their credit score on their own and tries to educate themselves about repairing and maintaining it

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Transforming Servers into Super Computers

To provide computing power at an affordable cost, so small researchers with limited budgets could have a supercomputer, A3Cube Inc was Co-founded, by its CEO, Antonella Rubicco. It all started as a game for Antonella, an experiment to build a Cray-like supercomputer, using standard hardware. To do this Antonella and her team studied a lot and every single progress was so exciting that soon it became their mission.

At present A3Cube have 3 product families:

• DB-Turbo accelerates data access while reducing TCO and energy costs.

• KIRA Supercomputer large-scale data processor for ML, Analytics, and AI problems.

• GRIFO massively scalable GPU array for large deep neural network training.

Antonella was born in Italy, where she completed her scientific studies. During her University days in 1996, Antonella and Emilio Billi, who is also the CTO of A3Cube, Inc started to work on the possibility to build a supercomputer using standard hardware, it started as an experiment of two students. Antonella says, “We realized the first “personal-supercomputer” SC-12 in 2005 and during these 10 years our knowledge grow a lot, I studied business, management, law in order to complete my education and to be able to manage and drive a company.”

Path Breaking Services

A3Cube was founded back in 2012. Thanks to the unconventional and crazy vision of the firm’s co-founder and CTO Emilio Billi, the company was and is a pioneer in several fields with its technologies and solutions. The firm currently develops and realizes supercomputers for Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence, solutions for data acceleration.

Awards and Accolades

A3Cube is amongst the very few companies that, understood the key role of data in transforming every aspect of modern society, years ago. This vision has led A3Cube to become the game-changing enterprise of today, pioneering the transition from High-Performance Computing systems to High-Performance Data systems.

A3Cube has received several awards over the years, which proves the means the organization is going in the right direction, and it is working well. However, Antonella feels there's still a long way to go. Antonella was honored and happy to be selected as a member of Dell's 50 Founders cohort 2016, it was the first time she felt like a good CEO who was doing a good job. From a personal perspective, the best accomplishment is her family, which is the best place to live.

Antonella Rubicco

Inc| Co-founder and CEO

A3Cube,

Picture of the Bright Future

Antonella sees her company as a small jewel, well organized, with a happy, committed and knowledgeable team. A3Cube is the benchmark for innovation and new technological challenges. In the future, Antonella would like to have a good group of collaborators with whom she can discuss market changes, and new business opportunities and delegate some responsibilities so that she has a little more time for family.

Mission and Vision

A3Cube was founded by passion and is driven by the mission to lead the revolution of the new data age. The organization’s goal is to enable the Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, High-Performance Data, and High-Performance Computing revolution. Only through new system architectures can new challenges be overcome. The firm designs the future "elastic" computation by combining its innovative use of AI, new algorithms, and applications to realize the next step in the human revolution.

The organization’s mission is to be the premier provider of supercomputing solutions specifically tailored for machine learning, data analytics, and high-performance computing. A3Cube's products solves the most challenging problems by providing hardware, software, and strong expertise to its customers. The firm strongly believes that the data center of the future is a supercomputer like a data center, and it wants to lead this transformation.

The firm fosters an environment that motivates its employees, empowering them to work as one integrated team where the efficiency of business organization is combined with human dignity, and values such as creativity, harmony, and a sense of beauty.

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Advice for Younger Self

Antonella explains that building a company is not easy and there is a lot of work to do, there are no shortcuts. An entrepreneur must never stop studying, must know the evolution of technologies, the evolution of customers, and the market, to be one step ahead of the competition and be able to execute the best possible strategy. And another important thing is never stop dreaming. Everything is possible, it's not easy, it's hard, but knowledge and determination make the difference. Never stop studying and never stop dreaming.

There are no shortcuts to a stable and strong outcome, determination, knowledge hard work and optimism are key.

Solving Cllient’s Legal Issues

Meet Liliane Mubanga, a result-oriented and passionate lawyer spearheading Thambwe-Mwamba & Associates in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Liliane completed her education in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which makes her a prime example of DRC’s world-class educational system. She holds a law degree from the University of Lubumbashi, majoring in Judicial and Private law.

After obtaining her law degree, Liliane applied for a registration as a lawyer to join the Bar Association of Kinshasa/Gombe as a trainee lawyer in Law firm BOKUMA & KENEM. Once Liliane earned her aptitude certificate for a lawyer, she renewed her registration and obtained the inscription to the Roll. Then, a law firm named John Claude Crespy and Associates recruited her as an associate, which acted as a stepping stone for her to enter the world of real estate law and other real estate contracts. Later, when the partners of the said firm decided to separate, Liliane moved to Thambwe-Mwamba &Musafiri Law firm.

A Law firm with Human Face

In 2005, when the partner Thambwe-Mwamba decided to create his own firm under the name "THAMBWE-MWAMBA & Associates", he asked Liliane to manage the firm, since at the time, he held a ministerial position in the government.

Thambwe-Mwamba & Associates combines the ability to leave a personal mark in its relationship with the client and professionalism when it comes to handling businesses. With the ever-changing complex world of legal matters, the law firm’s members keep increasing their knowledge base in different matters, maintaining a multidisciplinary vocation. The synergy of its skilled members, reinforced by external consultants recognized for their specialties, enables the law firm to master a broad area of law.

Tackling Organizational Challenges

With time Liliane has obtained her certificate of competence in production sharing and oil rent law, a certificate in Insurance and public procurement, and a Master’s Degree in Commercial law from Robert Kennedy College, Zurich, and Salford University, Manchester. She has also taken a course in leadership and personal development. Liliane is currently training in Financial Analysis at ICCF (HEC- Paris online courses) .

As Liliane had no prior experience in managing a company, initially leading a firm like Thambwe-Mwamba proved to be a challenge for her. At first, there were several challenges like choosing competent and intelligent collaborators, creating a portfolio of confident and satisfied clients, and establishing/maintaining the reputation, which was already well established due to the founder’s reputation. Although her task was stressful and exciting, Liliane had confidence in herself from the start, which was further reinforced by the founder’s trust and support.

Liliane Mubanga

Thambwe-Mwamba & Associates Senior Execu�ve (Manager)

Solving Legal Issues and Staying Competitive

Thambwe-Mwamba & Associates offers the traditional lawyer services in criminal, commercial, and civil matters, with good expertise in: Labor and Social security law, Mining and hydrocarbons law, Business and Corporate law, Tax law, Real-estate law, Insurance law, criminal law, Family law, special procedures, legal audit, etc.

As a senior executive of her law firm, Liliane’s main objective is to look after the firm’s growth and gain a competitive advantage over its competitors with great expertise in several areas of law.

With a small but competent team of seven attorneys, the law firm offer integrated services. This team of attorneys brings the needed experience from various verticals. Thanks to their knowledge and expertise, the law firm is now standing tall, with a solid reputation, and is well quoted on Kinshasa’s market.

Liliane sees this as the result of years of sacrifice, sharing, and complementarity between the members. So, the client is entirely entrusted to the lawyer who is best equipped to give the necessary advice and appropriate opinions a case requires.

She feels that the area of consulting is very competitive, so it is extremely important to be armed with courage and patience to build yourself and your business in the long term.

Advice for Young Entrepreneurs

As per Liliane, one must have a love for him/herself, for others, and for what they do to achieve it. Liliane makes her own what Saint Augustine said: “Have in your heart the root of love, from this root nothing bad can come out.”

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There are many changes to face, and for each area of life for each change, the law is present, and the need for a professional will also be present.

Olga Mroz

Open World and Art Business Program in Al-Khalifa Business School

Professor and Director

Professor, Honorary Doctor of Art, Olga Mroz, Dame of Honour is Professor and Director at Open World and Art Business Program in Al-Khalifa Business School (UK), the Editor and Chief of AKBS Journal. Professor Olga Mroz is Board Member delegate of Art and Culture of the Private Council of H.H. Prince Mahmoud Salah Al Din Assaf. She is a VIP member of the Ritossa Global Family Office Investment Summits. She is a Gold Ambassador of Books for Peace and Global Ambassador CEC –Commonwealth Entrepreneurs Club, UK. She lives in Germany, is a speaker, author, collector, and artist. Her paintings are in private collections around the world.

Based on the recommendation of the board of trustees and the governing council of the Asian African Chamber of Commerce & Industry (AACCI) she is an honorary member in the Board Advisors of the Asian African Chamber of Commerce & Industry (AACCI).

Professor Olga Mroz is co-author in the international project – Book “Tough Roads Create Tough People” under the leadership of Anita Duckworth-Bradshaw, UK. She is officially the #1 international Best-Selling Co-Author "of Cracking the Rich Code”. Main authors of this unique project - World`s Top 20 success strategist Jim Britt, Star of the HIT TV Show Shark Tank Kevin Harrington, endorsed by Tony Robbins, USA.

She used to be a representative of many artists in Europe for many years, and she is dedicated to developing and managing various art projects now.

She has been part of many charitable activities and has greatly contributed to helping those in need. She wrote many articles about the expression of art as freedom, experiment and surprise. She pays a lot of attention to topics that are exciting to her this includes “Education” and “Women empowerment.” She has been awarded by the IME

Leaders today and tomorrow

in the Women's Empowerment category - for her helping women entrepreneurs have a social impact around the world.

Professor Olga Mroz has been awarded for outstanding vision, dedication, and success along with extraordinary leadership and advisory skills, excellent cooperation, and support to Global Family and the Royal office. She is certified for activities and participation in Covid-19-Program by Harvard Medical School. Professor Olga Mroz is recognized among 50 outstanding women from around the world in “Powerhouse Global Stars 2021” and the CIO TIMES Magazine recognized her as “THE MOST SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS WOMEN TO WATCH 2021.

Professor Olga Mroz received the Award “GLOBAL IMPACT LEADER of the Year 2022” and recognisedby Powerhouse Global as a difference maker in the world.Professor Olga Mroz received the Award “GLOBAL IMPACT LEADER of the Year 2022” and recognised by Powerhouse Global as a difference maker in the world.

Al-Khalifa Business School, where Professor Olga Mroz works, is focused on digital learning with a new approach, with Innovation in business learning in different areas of Business.

Professor Olga Mroz was glad to share her experience with Tycoon Success Magazine.

It has always been important for me to do what I like, to reveal my talent, to feel my potential. My moto in life is „If you love what you do, you will be successful”. I clearly know that I want to contribute to improve people's lives, make the

H.E. Prof. Sir Manuel Freire-Garabal y Nunez

world more open, bring art, knowledge and culture to the younger generation.

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During the acute situation of the Pandemic, we have developed together a new project

emotions - key success" aimed at improving the work of the team and

A new method that we have proposed for companies is Art Therapy in the Workplace. It made it possible to solve important topics creatively - to bring employees together, improve the climatic atmosphere, remove internal conflicts, awaken concentration and imagination. All these factors have helped to raise the productivity level and efficiency of firms. However, a radical change was required in the management of firms and, above all, the leaders themselves.

Now the economy is growing again and organizations are looking for new market leaders that meet modern requirements. The Leader of the future must rely on teamwork and the positive consequences that flow from it, be highl motivated and possess emotional intelligence. Now the economy is growing again and organizations are looking for new market leaders that meet modern requirements. The Leader of the future must rely on teamwork and the positive consequences that flow from it, be highly motivated and possess emotional intelligence.

a director of Open World Program in Al-Khalifa Business School, I work under the supervision of AKBS Chairman and Founder H.E. Professor Sir Manuel Freire-Garabal y Nunez. H.E. Professor Sir Manuel is a lawyer and journalist with an MBA and more than 300 courses and specialisations in different areas from IVY league and Elite Business Schools.

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the working atmosphere in companies.

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Prof. Olga Mroz

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We need to know that the new generation of leaders will be different. Who are they, leaders of the future? These are young people - talented, successful, with a high potential for professionalism. In close conversations with students and young employees of various companies, I made the following conclusions. A successful leader of the future quickly adapts to changes and learns new things, has the resources to overcome uncertainty and forms a vision for the future. He has the skills to remotely manage teams and knows how to choose a competitive strategy in uncomfortable discussions. The leader of the future is tolerance, flexibility, and trust.

I would like to note that if we want to make changes in the world, we must change ourselves. It is crucially important for the people to make changes in their vision and style of life continuously. We must adapt to the progressive evolution of global informational technologies. This will contribute to a strong and successful economy around the globe. Thus, first, the middle and old generations should be in line with the modern world. Changes in us will positively affect our youth which is our future.I would like to note that if we want to make changes in the world, we must change ourselves. It is crucially important for the people to make changes in their vision and style of life continuously. We must adapt to the progressive evolution of global informational technologies. This will contribute to a strong and successful economy around the globe. Thus, first, the middle and old generations should be in line with the modern world. Changes in us will positively affect our youth which is our future.

As for me, I am open to all innovations of the world. I am inquisitive, I want to learn a lot of new things. I strive to learn and do not hesitate to ask students for help. I'm working on myself all the time.

I am very keen and exuberant towards imparting education to the younger generation. Learning is a fundamental success factor and plays a crucial role in life of every person. The challenges of our modern world require more and more young professionals. I take this opportunity to call our young generation to stay eager for knowledge. I want to emphasize again and to tell myself and the younger generation that it is very important not to stand still but to constantly move forward and strive to learn.

I am calling all young people:

Please define your goals, values, and desires, and stay in harmony with yourself. Don't be afraid of mistakes, failures, and defeats on the road to success. Each of you has the ability to influence the future of our planet. You are the pillars of the globe. You are the Leaders of the future.

Prince Abdulaziz bin Faisal bin Abdulmajeed Al Saud