Six Sales Create Tiger 21

A story about how Michael Sonnenfeldt's experience in a Vistage group led to the creation of Tiger 21.

"I was in a Vistage group which had about 15 members and in a dramatically weird coincidence in 1998, 5 or 6 of us sold our businesses. We were all in that Vistage group because we were business owners trying to be better managers, owners, and CEOs. We loved the group, and after our businesses were sold, we didn't want to leave.

But over about a 6-month period, we were going to meetings trying to figure out how to make your CFO and your sales team and production more efficient, but we didn't have that anymore - we had sold our businesses.

I frankly said, 'I'd like to be spending time with peers, but what I want to be learning is how they're going through this transition of becoming a wealth manager and how they can help each other be more successful managing through that transition.' That was the roots of Tiger 21."