About
Alan Blakeborough "Blake" as his friends and colleagues refer to him, is a serial entrepreneur. One of the crazy ones. He has an accounting degree and calls himself a recovering accountant. He is also a military mustang (enlisted converted to officer). He has served as both an infantry officer and a tank officer.
He created the Olympic fencing school model in the USA in 1994, Knights of Siena, after he left the military and has opened over 60 fencing academies over the past 25 years. After winning a gold medal with his teammates at the 1994 Olympic Festival in St. Louis, he began a plan to disrupt the sport of fencing. He launched the first and only attempt at a Professional Fencing League in the world in 1998 in Saratoga Springs, NY, the event was on ABC for four glorious months. Unfortunately, it could generate enough sponsorship funds to continue. Best $500k he ever lost.
He has opened coffee shops and gaming stores through the Carolinas that have served the gaming community and created the gaming café concept in 2000.
He created an online platform for micro-tutoring called Teach Me Morpheus, that never got enough traction. Blake also has help create housing for homeless veterans through the conversion of shipping containers into tiny homes.
Tax Titan's is his latest and last big, very big project. One that he feels will be his legacy. Tax Titans is a veteran owned business that provides a platform for small businesses to receive bids/quotes from qualified and vetted tax professionals. This revolutionary platform will provide the tax professionals the ability to market their services to 32 million small businesses across the USA without a referral fee!
This last project has led Blake on a journey across the USA. He has attended dozen of tax and accounting practices. Set up and talked with hundreds of small businesses and is ready to transform the accounting profession.