NetWorth Radio’s Powerful Leadership Series: Spencer McGowan Interviews Navy Seal Veteran Ryan “Birdman” Parrott, Founder, President & CEO of Sons of the Flag!
Ryan “Birdman” Parrott, Author, Public Speaker, and Founder of two non-profits benefiting Veterans and First-Responders is originally from Detroit, Michigan. Ryan enlisted in the Navy after watching the Twin Towers fall on 9/11, and Parrott served eight years as a U.S. Navy SEAL attached to Team SEVEN, completing three combat tours to Iraq before being assigned to Advanced Training Command as an Instructor.
In 2005, while serving in Iraq, Ryan was riding atop a Humvee manning the gun turret in enemy territory, when his vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device (IED), causing a flash fire and throwing him from the Humvee. Ryan regained composure with his face and arms burned, and witnessed his fellow team members suffer devastating burn and blast injuries. While Ryan’s burns were only first and second degree, his teammates suffered lifelong injuries.
After completing his service, Ryan moved to Dallas, and in April of 2011, Ryan had the privilege of meeting a retired Army Ranger officer who suffered significant burn injuries, and Ryan was inspired and humbled by his display of strength and courage, despite his debilitating scarring. Ryan was discouraged that this Ranger, and others like him, were not benefiting from progressive treatment of burns in the same way that amputees benefit from incredible advancements in prosthetics.
In 2012, Ryan established Sons of the Flagto help burn survivors and their families find the help and medical attention that they deserve.
NetWorth Radio’s Powerful Global Business Leadership Series: Spencer McGowan Interviews Saket Kumar, Co-CIO and Portfolio Manager at Cushing Asset Management!
Saket Kumar has worked in Investment Management and Investment Banking focused on the Energy and Industrials sector since 2007. Before joining Cushing Asset Managment in his current role, he was an analyst at Citadel Investment Group in their long-short market neutral hedge fund strategy, an Investment Banker at Bear Stearns and a Marine Engineer at Anglo Eastern Ship Management.
Mr. Kumar earned his MBA in Finance and Accounting from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University and a Bachelors in Engineering from Marine Engineering and Research Institute in India. He joined Cushing in 2012.
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Ryan “Birdman” Parrott, Author, Public Speaker, and Founder of two non-profits benefiting Veterans and First-Responders is originally from Detroit, Michigan. Ryan enlisted in the Navy after watching the Twin Towers fall on 9/11, and Parrott served eight years as a U.S. Navy SEAL attached to Team SEVEN, completing three combat tours to Iraq before being assigned to Advanced Training Command as an Instructor.
Saket Kumar has worked in Investment Management and Investment Banking focused on the Energy and Industrials sector since 2007. Before joining Cushing Asset Managment in his current role, he was an analyst at Citadel Investment Group in their long-short market neutral hedge fund strategy, an Investment Banker at Bear Stearns and a Marine Engineer at Anglo Eastern Ship Management. 
