Ed Cotney Professional Speaker
Author of "Tax Secrets Made Simple"
Ed is the founder and principal at Olympus Tax, Business and Insurance Solutions, Inc., Tax Smart IRA, co-software developer at FIN CW, Professional Speaker, and author of Tax Secrets Made Simple. He hails from Alabama (Roll Tide), earned degrees in Physiology and Aviation Management and served active duty in the US Air Force for twenty years before retiring in 1998 in Northern California.
His introduction to Family Wealth Counseling, Ed explains, came as a close friend was struggling with the preparation and future sale of his very successful multi-million-dollar business. He was anticipating a tax liability of nearly half of the proceeds. Ed designed a tax smart exit plan to minimize his tax, increase his wealth, and begin a family legacy.
Ed graduated from the prestigious Professional Mentoring Program in Franklin, Indiana, where he became a Family Wealth Counselor in 2000. Working as a strategy and tax designer over the past since then, he applied this practical knowledge to helping families implement simple to advanced strategies to significantly reduce taxes, increase income and make a difference in the world.
Lauded for making the complex simple to understand, Ed is well known for providing continuing education courses to professional advisors from basic to sophisticated estate planning techniques, business formations, mergers, private placement, research and development tax credits, domestic asset protection trusts, domestic international sales corporations, business succession planning and multi-generational business planning.
Ed has provided input to several senate and congressional committees on legislation to benefit philanthropic tax law for non-profit operations. Ed is a popular motivational speaker and participates in radio programs on the topic of Maximum Wealth Control.
Ed and his wife Laura reside in Northern California. Laura is an elementary school principal and they have two grown children. Ed and Laura enjoy water and snow skiing, camping, flying, parachuting and losing golf balls.
