About Simon

“Early hardship produces hidden strength“.

My Formula for Success
hi = β1ti + β2ti2 + . . . + β3ti3 + (β1t2pi – β2t3ni) + Ei
[Limitless Possibilities = Productivity + Determination + Resilience + Risk Tolerance + (Persistence - Procrastination) + Other Factors]

My Wish
To move to a capitalistic country where there’s no politics, thus no politicians.

Quick Facts

• Entrepreneur
• Analyst
• Sound Engineer
• News Junkie
• World Traveler
• BS in Economics, The Ohio State University
• Ph.D (candidate) Economics and Finance

Personal Interests

Entrepreneurship, philanthrocapitalism, political economy and macroeconomics, political and financial analysis, international affairs, experimental economics, econometrics, economic development, market research, business development, marketing, and branding, business modeling, motivational speaking, sound recording and engineering, TV, film and music production, computing, technology and web development, traveling, reading, financial market and investing, current events, news, and politics.

Post College

Since I graduated from The Ohio State University in June 2009, I’ve been trying to catch up on the things that I dearly love doing and “might be” good at, such as; web and projects development and most importantly; sound engineering and production.

Basically, I’m triple specialized, career wise, in Economics, Sound Production and Engineering, and Web Development.

For the Economics, I have a Bachelor of Science degree from the world’s largest and one of the finest universities in the world, The Ohio State University, and for the Sound/Audio Engineering, in which I have over 20 years of professional experience, I was hands-on trained in Denmark, South Africa, the UK, and USA, by some of the best sound engineers in the world, with the help of some really good people, in Denmark, USA, UK, South Africa, and Namibia, and I have a certificate in sound and music production from the world renown school for the recording arts, The Recording Workshop.

For the Web Development, that’s a self-taught speciality, hands-on learned in 1996 from one of the best minds in computer science, engineering, and software development, my best friend, Satya, currently an engineer at AEP.

FOH Sound board

I’ve had a chance to work with the best people in the world, doing live concerts with some of the biggest names, from MC Hammer, Seal, U2, to Paul Simon, live TV news and interviews with the greatest personalities such as Nelson Mandela, Sam Nuyoma, George Bush Sr., and in-studio music production projects.

I’m kind of rusty right now in sound production and engineering, since I haven’t been really doing anything big with sound production in recent years, as I was busy with my study, but it’s like riding a bicycle, and even technology has changed a lot, I’m a geek, and I am catching up easily.

What’s next for me from here? As I’m working on my post graduate study, which comes first, but in terms of music and TV production, I am developing a reality cool TV show. For as long as I am healthy and capable, from here on, expect only the best. I am meticulous and a perfectionist, which I find myself taking up more time working on a project because I only want the best on it, and everything else I am doing.

Check out this video from my church that I sound engineered, Pastor Wicker, is leading the song. It is different doing sound for a church service though, than for a live outdoor concert, but I love doing it. Click here to view and play the video, and another one here, enjoy listening and watching them.

Feel free to listen or watch more praise and worship videos and sounds on our church’s web site at http://www.pottershouse.tv.

Biography

I am the founder and CEO of Kapenda Media Group, Inc. and Sakeus, LLC. At Kapenda Media Group, I am the creator and developer of the social media and data tools such as RentersQ, Laatie, Ticked, Welated, Wrisen, Tipmart, Jetie.org, and Zemuse. I have three U.S. patent pending, with each of these represents significant milestones for my ingenuity.

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I earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio in 2009 and I’m currently studying towards a PhD in Economics and Finance.

I’m also a certified Audio and Multimedia Engineer (Recording Workshop, 1993), with many years of professional experience in sound production, recording, engineering and mastering for in-studio and live concerts, TV, motion pictures and music production.

I have a vivid passion of helping the less fortune and those who crave to achieve their very best.

Background

I was born in Namibia under the South African apartheid system, where the majorities were oppressed and denied equal rights by

Southern African Map

 the minorities, and I worked really hard in primary and secondary school with one goal; to help improve the quality of my family’s life.

Fueled by passion to explore beyond the norm and exploit whatever challenges life has to offer, after high school, I left Namibia and came to the USA to pursue my dream. As it might be known by some, that for someone to come to America from most developing countries; must be one of the four things that someone either has to;

1. be prominently wealthy
2. be academically smart
3. has a family member(s) or friend(s) in the USA with lots of money, or
4. a refugee.

For me, I fell under #2.

Thus, after high school, I went to further my education in the US, but unfortunately, my scholarship got cut off, so I didn’t finish college, but I refused to fail, and with the help of some great people, I went on to do other things; fueled by my passion to excel and succeed, I fortunately fell into the world of TV, music and film production, I became a sound engineer, working on many films, music recordings, and TV production, and ended up with NBC.

I bought my first 3-bedroom/2-bathroom house, and adopted my oldest daughter, Maria, before I turned 21 and my second 6-bedroom/5-bathroom house at 22. I had my daughter, Leticia, before I turned 23, and left NBC at 23, co-built a recording studio in Dayton, Ohio at 23, founded my company, Kapenda Corporation, at 25, and have been doing that ever since, as an entrepreneur.

As a sound engineer, I engineered several TV news interviews including with Elder Pres. Bush (41) (USA), Former Prime Minister Tony Blair (Britain), Former President Sam Nujoma (Namibia), Former President Nelson Mandela (South Africa), and a photo op with Queen Elizabeth, dining at Buckingham Palace dinner hosted by Queen Elizabeth, working on numerous concerts with Seal, MC Hammer, Paul Simon, U2, Lucky Dube, and many more.

Nearly for the past 17 years, I’ve been residing in the U.S. and my autobiographical, titled “For the Love of My Family”, is in the works and is due to be out by 2012.

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Disclaimer

The views expressed on this blog are my personal views and do not necessarily represent or reflect in any way, shape or form those of the companies, groups, and or projects I have developed, founded or which I am employed, serve as director, board member or privately contracted as a consultant.