Brent Kleinheksel, Owner, QuoteBeep.com

For the past several years Brent has oversaw the partnership activities at Kleinheksel Kapital, LLC.   Recent responsibilities have included the management, growth and oversight of Rosewood Pointe, a waterfront resort in Holland, Michigan.  He also owns and operates several Internet entities including GreatHomesUSA, Lodgix.com, LiquidMoonSports.com and QuoteBeep.com.

Today Brent and his wife Jennifer live in State Road, North Carolina. Together they are building a small vineyard and winery. Their journey into viticulture and winemaking is chronicled at their blog, greatncwines.com.

Brent is also the founder and former Chief Executive Officer of PlanetPortal, Inc. a Durham, North Carolina based Internet startup.  Prior to the burst of the Internet bubble, PlanetPortal was a leading provider of infrastructure and technologies that connected physical, real world objects to Internet content.  During his 16-month tenure as CEO, Mr. Kleinheksel grew the organization from “one man and a business plan” to over forty-five employees and raised nearly $9 million in venture funding from angel and institutional investors. 

Prior to PlanetPortal, Brent served as a Senior Marketing Manager within the IBM ThinkPad organization. While at IBM, Brent was a member of a project development team responsible for launching and marketing the ThinkPad iSeries®, a line of notebook computers designed specifically for consumers and small business owners. 

He received his Bachelor of Business Administration from Western Michigan University in 1994 and earned his Master in Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame in 1998.