MUZAFER NAJFI

Entrepreneur and Million Dollar Earner

Muzafer Najfi is a professional business networker with more than 25 years of experience in coaching, training, helping individuals with personal development, and building network marketing businesses. He has been an independent distributor as well as a corporate executive. He owns a seminar company and shares his passion, conviction, and unique background to impact lives. Muzafer has built global sales organizations with memberships in the hundreds of thousands in each of his seven different companies and reached over 6 million distributors in his current organization. On the corporate side, he has consulted for several companies and became an executive VP 3 different times. As a coach/mentor he has helped professional athletes all the way to CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.

Although Muzafer has excelled in several categories throughout his professional career, he enjoys coaching and mentoring people. He thrives on seeing people succeed and achieve their personal business goals. He is an outstanding leader and has been recognized for multiple rewards in several companies, including top income earner and several leadership awards.

These successes were achieved by Muzafer over the years while building seven unique companies domestically and abroad. Muzafer has also been featured in numerous publications, including Success from Home and Your
Business at Home.

Muzafer is also an author, and he provides knowledge and experiences that capture his audience and teaches them how to become successful by utilizing the
specialized knowledge he shares. Muzafer is a graduate of the University of Minnesota with 3 degrees.

Muzafer and his wife Fozia are currently happily residing in Arizona, USA with their two beautiful daughters, Naseera & Malaika. Although they are raising their family in the west, their hearts & roots are always a part of east. Muzafer’s family is from Gujrat and Oman and Fozia’s family is from Lahore, Pakistan.

WHO MUZAFER WORKS WITH:
– Executives
– Corporations
– Entrepreneurs
– Start up companies
– University students
– Athletes
– Small Business Owners

WHAT HE TEACHES:
– Mindset
– Leadership Development
– Personal Development
– The Art Of Persuasion
– How To Build Sales Teams
– The Subtle Art Of Communication
– The Power Of Negotiation

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Stuart Johnson

DIRECTOR

Stuart Johnson has served the direct selling industry for 36 years and is the sole Founder and CEO of Direct Selling News. His passion for the channel encompasses a broader commitment to build and connect the direct selling community through exclusive industry events such as Direct Selling University and the DSN Global Celebration.

Stuart is arguably the most connected person in direct selling, building and growing a network of executives, thought leaders, strategists and innovators. His advice and counsel are sought after by leaders throughout the channel.

Nobuhiro Kaneko

DIRECTOR

Mr. Kaneko is one of the top network marketers of all time. He has been involved in the business for over 25 years now, and has been listed as one of the Top 10 Network Marketers in Japan for many years. Mr. Kaneko began his Network Marketing career as an author and publisher. He and his partner published many of the articles and support materials for nearly every major MLM Company in Japan.

In 2003, Mr. Kaneko joined and seriously became a distributor for the first time. Mr. Kaneko and his partners set Network Marketing history records as they built a team that produced over $150 Million Dollars in annual sales in their first two years. In his very first year, he earned over $1 Million Dollars in commissions, and has maintained this income level ever since.

Mr. Kaneko’s fame has spread and he has built large organizations in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia and Thailand.

Jessie Lee Ward

DIRECTOR

Jessie Lee is a heart-driven, culture-driven, influencer-building multiple 7-figure annual earner, as verified by Network Marketing Pros’ Hall of Fame. She is currently the number one female network marketer in the world.

She got her start in direct sales 10 years ago when she needed $300 extra a month to pay rent. In 2015, Jessie Lee found network marketing through Facebook and made the move to better her future and build a lasting legacy with residual income.

Jessie Lee is now, thanks to her network marketing business, a successful investor, and, more importantly, her philanthropy has been expanded as a result of her network marketing income. She joined her company 3.5 years ago. Through focusing on customers, she has built a team of over 800,000 customers with 25,000 worldwide promoters in 28 countries.

She is extremely system driven, with a major focus on everyone understanding that systems duplicate – personalities and people do not!

Jessie Lee’s MLM generic podcast, The People’s Mentor, currently has 3.3 million downloads and counting. Her Instagram followers are at 325k; Facebook at 80k; and Tiktok at 140k.

She is passionate about training, coaching, mentorship, rescuing animals, self-love, and empowering men and women to do anything they want. Jessie Lee builds a large portion of her business online, and is notorious for world-wide tours.

Ray Higdon

DIRECTOR

Ray Higdon is a two-time bestselling author, international keynote speaker, and a former #1 income earner in a network marketing company that he joined while he was in foreclosure.

Ray has shared the stage with Tony Robbins, Bob Proctor, Les Brown, Robert Kiyosaki and many more. Ray and his wife Jessica no longer build a network marketing company, so that they can better serve the entire profession as coaches, speakers and trainers. They are also the Founders of the Rank Makers community and The Higdon Group.

Their coaching company was recognized recently on the Inc 5000 as one of America’s fastest growing companies and they LOVE helping network marketers grow large teams and create freedom in their life.

Ray and Jessica are also the creators of the hit reality show, “Play To Win,” where 40+ motivated contestants tackle sales and business challenges to win a life-changing opportunity.

The Higdon Group was founded on the principle that there’s greatness inside every single person, and you have what it takes to become a top earner and lead a life of success and purpose. Through their life-changing events, masterminds, success tools, videos, online communities and philanthropic efforts, the Higdons are servant leaders of this community, helping network marketing professionals to create an abundant and inspiring life, no matter who you are or what your circumstances.

Amber Voight

DIRECTOR

Amber Voight is a young network marketing leader who already has over 40,000+ people on her team. At age twenty-eight, she has been in direct selling for eleven years, during which she also owned some traditional businesses. Network marketing became her vehicle of choice when she discovered her purpose is to help people transform their lives in the simplest, most fun, and most efficient way.

Amber joined her current company in August 2013 and reached the top rank in the compensation plan in just three months. Today her team has many of the company’s top earners, and is generating millions in sales per month, which began as a result of building relationships on Facebook and hosting “parties” online.

Amber is now a respected and sought-after generic trainer, contributing to the profession at large. Being featured in Networking Times, the premier print publication in our profession, was a dream come true and a major milestone on her path to becoming a top speaker and educator in the network marketing space. Amber also hosts her own radio show on the Home Business Radio Network, and her new book: The Seven Cent Decision.

Brian McMullen

DIRECTOR

Brian McMullen is recognized as one of the most influential leaders of the network marketing profession today.

Mr. McMullen has business interests all over the world, both inside and outside of network marketing, financed by the earnings he has generated over his 25-year career in the profession.

Marcie Cook

Emeritus

Marcie Cook is the CEO of America’s MLM Consultants, which has been in business since 1990. Marcie’s specialty at AMC is in making Policies and Procedures and Terms of Agreement unique and legal for each company. As a participant in Network Marketing, Marcie has built several large organizations.

She has led many organizations, including serving as a two-term president of San Antonio’s Women in Business, Chair of Athena Committee for the North San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and co-Chair of Chamber’s Business Expo. Marcie was on the Board of Directors for the MLMIA from 1999-2006 and had taken an active role on the Legislative Committee. Marcie Cook has served on and continues to serve on many other boards and organizations far too numerous to name.

Together, Marcie and Rod Cook founded in 2004 what has become the ANMP (originally known as the DRA, or Distributor Rights Association). We all stand on the shoulders of giants!

Rod Cook & Marcie Cook

EMERITUS – IN MEMORIAM

Rod Cook, a giant of a man in Network Marketing and Direct Selling, passed from this world in January 2021. He fought the good fight. He was mission-driven to protect our profession and stand up for “the little guy.” We all honor his legacy by serving the people of our profession and we will always hold Rod and Marcie close in our hearts.Rod started retailing products in MLM in 1968. By late 1969 he made over $250,000 as a college student as a direct selling distributor. Later years produced more success. In 1972 Rod started calculating new MLM pay plans for other leaders as a trade-out instead of buying into their new companies. Rod started paid MLM Consulting in 1984.

Rod has a broad range of successful business experience as a conventional entrepreneur and consulting. He has owned top rated franchises and sold them at a profit. He has owned import/export businesses that were the tops in their category. He owned a successful machine shop and gun business. He has been an owner and a major stockholder in several MLM companies. He chooses to love MLM because it is the last opportunity in America for the “little” person who is in debt, hungry, and barely making it!

For years Rod Cook served the Network Marketing industry as the well known co-owner, editor and the investigative arm for The MLM Insider magazine. ABC television’s 20/20 has featured the MLM Insider, as has Success, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and many others as the MLM Industry “Watchdog” tracking down illegal and immoral companies. Rod is reputed for blunt, truthful information. Rod’s articles have been published in over 30 different publications.

John Melton

DIRECTOR

After spending 10 years building their business using traditional methods, John and Nadya realized that the cost they had to pay was too high and it was taking a toll on their family. This led them to explore and develop various online marketing strategies, until they found the formula that worked for them and their team.Over the past few years, their organization has brought in over $150 million in sales and over 400,000 new customers. All without home parties, meeting presentations, and three-way calls! John and Nadya have learned from and coached some of the most important names in the industry.Today, they travel the world, spend valuable time with their family and teach entrepreneurs of all types how to build a profitable business on Social Media, and their thousands of students are a testament to the level of success you can achieve when you use simple and duplicatable online strategies.

Lisa Grossmann

Special Liaison, Director

Lisa Grossmann is a multi-million-dollar earner, and sought-after consultant, trainer and speaker in Network Marketing. She is a 25+ year veteran of our great profession.

In late 2000, Lisa was asked to consult for a new Network Marketing venture, based out of Dallas, Texas. Through the hard work of the executive team and with Lisa’s assistance as the Field VP of Sales, the company did over USD $24 million in revenue in its first year and went on to do over $660 million in its first six years. Lisa became the first US $1-million-dollar earning distributor in the company, doing so in the first 10 months of operation.

Today, Lisa is a top-ranked Black Diamond with an organization of over 150,000+ people in 15 countries around the world and their business center regularly earns a six-figure monthly income.

Tom Chenault

DIRECTOR

Tom Chenault has been a passionate supporter and vocal advocate for the network marketing profession for decades, and has served on the ANMP Board multiple years. With a varied and colorful past, from restaurateur to airplane salesman to stock broker, Tom is now a multimillion dollar earner and a top field leader. Tom has also been the voice of Home Based Business Radio since 1999, interviewing the Who’s Who of Network Marketing, Personal Development and Small Business. His guests have included Mark Victor Hansen, Les Brown, Robert Kiyosaki and virtually every successful network marketer and trainer in the profession.

Tom, together with wife and partner Denice, have been featured on numerous stages, including Eric & Marina Worre’s GoPro Events, and in numerous article and books, including The Four Year Career.

Curtis Broome

DIRECTOR

Since 1991, Curtis Broome has led more than 350,000 people from the stage, in groups as small as 20 to as large as 8,000, through educational, training, sales or promotional presentations designed to inform, inspire and move them to action. Curtis has done so in 46 of the 50 states in the US and in 22 countries around the world while being translated into 15 different languages at various times.With specialties in network marketing, system implementation, and community development, Curtis and business partner Lisa are among the top trainers and consultants in the industry. Their expertise has been gained through years in traditional business, as corporate executives, as million-dollar earners in network marketing, and as elite team leaders of hundreds of thousands. As industry visionaries and thought leaders, their innovative thinking and message aptitude has propelled Curtis and Lisa to the highest regard as consultants, public speakers, and elite team trainers.

Sylvia McGrath

Assistant Secretary

Sylvia McGrath has over 25 years of marketing experience, including having served as corporate Vice President of Marketing for a network marketing company and Vice President of Sales & Marketing for a design firm with Fortune 500 clientele. Together with her husband and business partner Garrett, as a husband-and-wife team, they have built organizations in excess of 100,000+ distributors in 21 countries worldwide.

Over the past three years, Sylvia has also served in top executive corporate leadership roles, including Chief Experience Officer of an award-winning, international network marketing company.

Sylvia has spoken on the stage of the European Direct Selling Congress, and together with Garrett has been a guest speaker and featured in a variety of professional publications, such as Direct Selling News, Networking Times and Business For Home.

The McGraths have worked side-by-side since 1999 and together provide unique leadership training, coaching and personal development to network marketing professionals through an original series of international daily live broadcasts, events, mentorship and training systems. The McGraths have also produced numerous videos, audios, websites, guidebooks and marketing tools for large network marketing organizations and founders of a leadership training and personal development organization.

Scott Burnett, Esq.

Secretary

Scott Burnett, President/CEO of Burnett & Associates, is considered to be one of the nation’s leading legal authorities on asset protection and business education for Corporations and LLCs. Since 2004, his firm has distinguished itself in the business community by teaching and educating business owners how to properly form and use their companies, providing recordkeeping and compliance assistance for all Corporations and LLCs, resident agent service, business credit building assistance, asset protection planning, business and tax education, showing business owners what needs to be done and how to make their business profit from this knowledge.

Mr. Burnett spent much of his early career as a trial attorney who collected millions of dollars in settlements for his clients. Many of his cases involved peeling back the protection of a business owner’s Corporation or LLC, and attacking the personal assets of the owners. He now champions the cause to protect business owners from frivolous litigation, and over-regulation. Scott is also the author of “How to Protect Your Assets,” and the creator of the Lawsuit, Audit Protection Service that provides compliance protection for Corporations and LLCs. His ability to explain complicated material in an entertaining manner has also made him a highly sought-after trainer and speaker.

Garrett McGrath

President

Garrett McGrath has served as President of the Association of Network Marketing Professionals since 2012, and on the Board of Directors since 2011. Mr. McGrath has over 30 years of experience as a top network marketing professional and is a highly sought-after keynote speaker, leadership trainer and team-builder.

Mr. McGrath has built organizations in excess of 100,000+ distributors in 21 countries worldwide, together with his wife and business partner, Sylvia, and has served as Master Distributor for four network marketing companies over the past quarter-century.

Over the past 3 years, Garrett has also served in various corporate leadership roles: as Chief Impact Officer, as President, and as CEO of an award-winning, international network marketing company.

Garrett is a regular contributor to various industry-wide generic educational conferences, such as Direct Selling University, Rank Makers, the European Direct Selling Congress, and has been featured in a variety of professional publications, such as Direct Selling News, Social Selling News, Networking Times and Business For Home.

Together with the Board of Directors of the Association of Network Marketing Professionals, the McGraths are ambassadors for the Network Marketing profession, working to elevate the entire profession to a new level of public awareness, credibility, partnerships, education, service and global reach.

Keith Halls

Treasurer

Keith Halls, one of seven original founders of a highly respected 25-year-old billion-dollar Network Marketing company, formerly served as CFO and member of the Board of Directors, and played a key role in helping them with their public offering on Wall Street. Mr. Halls is a former CPA, Senior Vice President, and founder of numerous traditional businesses and companies, and has served on numerous boards.

Networking University is an online learning institution centered around weekly live webinars, e-learning
modules, a certification program, and live events, and provides generic training and ongoing education to
networking professionals by teaching them to build their business with greater skill, integrity, and
responsibility.

Known as one of the “most successful persons ever in the history of Network Marketing,” Keith is the only person to have earned more than $25 million dollars on the corporate side and then, at the height of his career, left corporate to become a Distributor, where he once again earned over $10 million dollars in commissions and built an international downline of over 500,000 distributors within 4 years. His new book, The 9 Rules to Succeed in Network Marketing is fast becoming a Network Marketing classic, and a widely read book in our profession. 2013 marks Keith’s second year serving on the ANMP Board of Directors, and first as Treasurer.

Garrett McGrath

President

Over the past 3 years, Garrett has also served in various corporate leadership roles: as Chief Impact Officer, as President, and as CEO of an award-winning, international network marketing company.

Chris Gross

Vice President

2013 marked his second year serving on the ANMP Board of Directors, and first year elected as Vice President.
Chris Gross is the CEO and cofounder of Gabriel Media Group, publishers of Networking Times and founders of
Networking University, together with his wife and business partner, Dr. Josephine Gross. Founded in 2001,
Networking Times is the leading publication for network marketing in the world. Available on newsstands across
North America and the U.K., this educational journal focuses on helping professional networkers build the
right skill set and mindset to be successful in their businesses, and providing third-party validation for the
entire network marketing profession.

Chris and Josephine are ambassadors and spokespeople for network marketing and direct sales. Chris is the CEO
of Gabriel Media Group, and Josephine is the Editor in Chief of Networking Times and Dean of Faculty for
Networking University. Chris has trained numerous professionals on the importance of building belief, both in
themselves and in the network marketing profession, and hosts a weekly training broadcast which features many
of the top network marketing educators in the world today. This is his second year serving on the ANMP Board
of Directors, and first year elected as Vice President.