JENNY Q. TA

Jenny Q. Ta is a veteran Wall Street self-made millionaire and founder of two tech companies VCNetwork.co, a virtual “E-Harmony meets Shark Tank” matching entrepreneurs with VCs and Sqeeqee.com, the first “social networthing” platform.

Ms. Ta is the mastermind behind the first-of-its-kind social networthing® site, Sqeeqee.com. Launched in 2015, the site gives individuals, businesses, celebrities, politicians, and non-profit organizations the ability to monetize their profiles in unprecedented ways. Sqeeqee is the first integrated ecommerce and social media platform offering live streaming capabilities built from within. Sqeeqee’s intent is to provide our global users an unprecedented platform to share compelling stories in real-time, empowering them to broadcast and receive live video footage anytime, anywhere on any device.

Ms. Ta is a seasoned entrepreneur with two successful ventures to her credit. She was the Founder and CEO of Titan Securities, a full service investment firm that was acquired in 2005. Prior to founding Titan Securities she was the driving force behind Vantage Investments, a full-service broker-dealer start-up she founded in 1999 at the age of 27 and grew to a quarter of a billion dollars in assets. Overall, she has more than 20 years of experience as a senior executive in sales, marketing and finance.

Jenny is an author whose book, Wall Street Cinderella (which is currently in production talks to become a movie), will launch in 2015-16 detailing her escape from Vietnam during the war and her path to success from welfare to Wall Street. As a self-made millionaire by the time she was 27, the book will serve as a road map for women looking at a business career.

She earned a Master of Business Administration degree in Financial Management and a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems from California State University, Fresno.

ANGELA MCCLUSKEY

THE STORY, SOFAR

After being hailed by Vanity Fair as a “chortling, cussing, room-dominating

force of nature” trying to describe Angela McCluskey in words is not the

easiest thing to do; if you’ve met her or been lucky enough to see her perform

you—will understand.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Angela first achieved recognition as the singer

of the much-adored LA band Wild Colonials—with whom she released

three albums: Fruit of Life (1993), This Can’t Be Life (1996) and Reel Life

in 2000. In that same year, Angela also released Curio, an album of torch

songs she recorded with husband Paul Cantelon, Lili Haydn, and cellist

Martin Tillman.

In 2004, after touring the U.S. with renowned artists REM, she wrote the #1

best selling GRAMMY nominated song Breathe, with French electronic trio,

Telepopmusik. In between Genetic World and Angel Milk, the two albums she

recorded with them, Angela was signed by Arif Mardin to the celebrated

Blue Note label who released Angela’s critically acclaimed album The

Things We Do— which Paste Magazine described as an album that “will

break your heart and gently put it back together again”.

In 2010, her second solo album You Could Start a Fight in An Empty House,

brought recognition from Alan Magee at The Guardian, who heralded her voice

and style as “an incredible juxtaposition of the greats: Beth Gibbons, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone.”

During the next couple of years Angela collaborated as both co-writer and singer

with Morgan Page and BT on the smash hit #1 dance single ’In the Air’ and was featured heavily on Robbie Robertson’s ‘How to be Clairvoyant’ as well as working with Paul Oakenfold, Parov Stellar, Kendrick Lamar and others—and her re-imagining of George Harrison’s Here Comes The Sun for the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund made us all wonder if we could ever hear the original song again.

In New York City 2014 , Angela wrote and performed Catch a Falling Star,

a one woman play focusing on her Scottish upbringing as well as a brief but

magical encounter with Nina Simone.

In the fall of 2015, Angela was cast for a special guest appearance in The Knick,

directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Clive Owen. She recently worked with Soderbergh again on The Girlfriend Experience

Also, in 2015, renowned photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber screened his

short film Wine and Cupcakes at The Sundance Film Festival. The film features

Angela and her husband composer Paul Cantelon in what could be described as

Weber’s love letter to New York City. This was followed by Angela performing alongside Elvis Costello, Meshell N’Degeocello, as well as Louden, Martha and Rufus Wainwright for 5 nights at TED Talks Live: Six nights of talks on Broadway, broadcast on PBS in New York City. It was a fitting end to a great year.

In 2016, Angela was featured as co-writer and singer on Big Gigantic’s latest single, The Little Things, which exploded to #3 on the Global Spotify chart and was featured in Nike’s new campaign and on Season 2 ofFOX TV’s hit show, Empire.

Okay, so there is a little back story on Angela McCluskey—and now to bring you up to date.

On July 29th 2016, Angela will be releasing her new single You and Me from her upcoming album The Roxy Sessions to be released through Bernadette Records.

The idea for the album was born on a wonderful night at The Roxy Hotel in

New York City. The hotel has a beautiful room downstairs called The Django

that is reminiscent of Paris in the 1960’s…think Brigitte Bardot dancing on

the table or Serge Gainsbourg leaning against the wall with a cigarette

hanging dangling from his lip.

Even before Angela started working with Parov Stellar, her band had been

messing around with Electro Swing— she had just completed a track with

the Vince Giordano Orchestra for HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. Inspired by

the confluence of events, Angela called producer/songwriter Kiran Shahani

(Supreme Beings of Leisure/Bitter:sweet) and asked if he would like to

collaborate on ‘a 1920’s inspired ’60’s album’.

As soon as Kiran signed on, they discussed the concept with The Roxy Hotel

who offered the chance for them to record the album at the hotel as well as

begin a weekly artist residency. From the point on, everything else fell into place.

In many ways, the theme of the album was inspired by the events surrounding it.

It is a record that celebrates coming through it all—the success, the failure, the heartache and despair— and finding yourself being a little less dramatic about love and intent on just enjoying your life and being thankful

for what you’ve got— and that’s something worth celebrating.