Founders
Chase Barfield
With more than 20 years of entrepreneurial experience under his belt, Chase Barfield is a skilled strategist who recognizes opportunity at a glance and intuitively sees far beyond the curve holding everyone else back. He’s also a master networker who brings specialized teams together to achieve aggressive goals.
He is Chairman and Founding partner of the holding group of The Amani Resorts, Inc. He originally conceived of The Amani concept and put it in motion. He envisioned hotels around the world with Africa as their theme, with a central focus on cutting-edge sustainability from construction through operations, and with tangible and enduring benefits to local communities. Today, the hotel company is launched with a global team focused on the first of The Amani Resorts planned for the Bahamas while Chase directs long term strategy for the investment group as Chairman of the Board of The Amani Hotels & Resorts, LLC.
Since delving into entrepreneurship during his teen years—selling candy bars at school for a little extra cash—Chase has tried everything from door-to-door sales, construction and landscaping, real estate, and several different tech industry endeavors. This includes developing a patent for data protection that was approved in 2009, even though the industry didn’t begin to understand or use that kind of technology until 2022.
For a few years in the early 2000s—long before the podcast phenomenon took root—Chase hosted the weekly morning radio show, TechTalk, which was broadcast live and streamed online. However, he isn’t keen on taking center stage. He prefers to roll up his sleeves and solve problem—big problems, the kind with global impact. Chase is the co-founder of the Business Ethics and Education Commission (BEEC) and serves on the Board of Directors. Bringing ethics, high standards, and purpose to the forefront of enterprise.
A dedicated family man, Chase sold everything in 2014 to take his family on a three-year, cross-country tour of the US. While working from his laptop. He and his wife, his closest friend and confidant, were high school sweethearts. They have been married for almost as long as Chase has been an entrepreneur. They have three sons together and hold family at the center of their world. Two of their three sons work with Chase daily. All three are in training to manage, maintain, and grow Chase’s vision for generational wealth and create a better world.
Dan Vega
Dan Vega is Founding Partner and Board Director of the Holding Company of The Amani Resorts, Inc. Over the last three decades, his entrepreneurial success spans several industries, making notable impact as an advisor, speaker, author, investor, and philanthropist.
He is a true innovator. Blessed with a gifted mathematical mind, his talents were recognized at a young age by some of the world’s leading companies and CEOs. From there, Dan built a successful career helping high-level companies maximize their profits while reducing their costs, risk, and overhead.
Dan started his first business at 19 and has written and spoken in the field of business for over two decades. He has achieved extreme success in several careers including corporate restructuring, management, marketing and sales. He understands the business world from top to bottom and specializes in helping companies to become profitable multi-million-dollar enterprises.
Although always preferring a certain level of anonymity, dan’s natural proficiency and generosity of spirit eventually led him to significant impact as a speaker, impacting millions through seminars and from sharing the stage with some of the most notable speakers nationally and internationally.
Eventually, his journey led him to television, where he hosted a weekly entrepreneurial talk show entitled “Tuesdays with Dan”, which aired on ABC for 6 seasons. Featuring a combination of celebrities and some of the biggest entrepreneurs of the day, it gave his audience insights and access to the minds and inner workings of the elite. His journey eventually led him to work with the British Consulate and many world leaders.
Dan’s unique mathematical approach combined with his experience working with global influencers led him to create Blu University – a school devoted to the modern entrepreneur that teaches cutting edge methods for wealth creation, unparalleled in the industry. He holds ownership in over 100 companies, from his wildly successful publishing company, which boasts more than 50 best-sellers and many celebrity clients, to Golden Gecko Productions, a film company that is currently producing his current feature film, “The Strange”.
Although Dan is recognized as one of the top motivational speakers today, he holds ownership in several successful companies. Industries include film & television, technology, health, environmental, spirits, art, and fashion, and as of late 2022, the luxury resort sector.