Tag: Andrew Kindfuller

AMERICAN FORK, Utah—Wendell Jacobson, a Utah real estate magnate who with his son provided the primary startup capital for Platinum Protection, is now facing charges from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that he and his son have been running a $220 million real-estate Ponzi scheme—using their membership in the Mormon church to make connections and win the trust of potential investors. Wendell and Allen Jacobson no longer have any involvement in Platinum Protection, based...

AMERICAN FORK, Utah—The four main founders of Platinum Protection, one of the major Utah-based summer-model companies, now own 100 percent of the company after recently buying out an investor, according to CEO Andrew Kindfuller. The founders' complete control over Platinum, a five-year-old company based here, will ensure its continued growth, Kindfuller said. “It's very positive and they're quite pleased,” he said of the development. Platinum announced July 20 that the Jacobson...

AMERICAN FORK, Utah—Platinum Protection, one of the major Utah-based summer-model companies, will recruit two-thirds of its sales reps from outside the Utah Valley, Platinum CEO Andrew Kindfuller told Security Systems News. “We're breaking the mold,” Kindfuller said, referring to the fact that a majority of sales reps that work for summer-model companies are recruited from Brigham Young University and other Utah universities. “We're really focused on being a national company,...