Charles Nagel
CEO
Charles has held positions as COO and CEO of multiple technology companies. He has built and sold 3 companies over the last 20 years and spent 5 years as a successful independent turnaround consultant. As COO, he was hired to and successfully completed the turn around of a $35 million software company. The firm was losing over $1 million per month and was taken proftable within 6 months. He also has facilitated a CEO peer group network.
Charles has numerous inventions from agriculture devices to software applications but remains intimately involved in small business management technologies and methodologies. As the CEO of Qvinci Software in San Marcos, TX., Charles provides the strategic direction and focus of the company providing a pragmatic approach to building the company and empowering its people.
His personal interests include raising race horses, tennis and jazz composition. Charles has been married for 26 years with 4 daughters and 3 grandchildren.
Co-Founder
James focuses primarily on strategic-alliance initiatives. He also assists the company on transactional and legal matters, and he takes the lead role in our equity placements.
James was formerly a partner in the finance and real-estate practice group of Baker Botts LLP, one of largest law firms in the United States where he served as the principal attorney for a Fortune 500 company in the acquisition of a high-end resort in Austin, Texas and the assemblage of surrounding land tracts for development of a 4,000-acre master-planned community. He also handled numerous commercial real-estate transactions on behalf of an international real-estate firm headquarted in Houston, and a variety of financing transactions on behalf of a major U.S. bank and other institutional lenders.
James has been a member of the State Bar of Texas since 1981, and a member of the Texas Alliance of Land Brokers since 2001. He has a J.D. degree from The University of Texas School of Law (1981, with high honors) and a B.A. degree from Vanderbilt University (1978, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa). He graduated from The McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1974. He also studied at Queens College in Cambridge, England, where he fondly recalls many a day of punting on the Cam.
In addition to his work for Qvinci, James advises and assists buyers and sellers of large and high-value Texas ranches and land (texaslegacyranches.com).
When he is not consumed by Qvinci or out on a ranch, he strives to find more time to work on his Ghost Eagles action-adventure series for teens (ghosteagles.com). He also enjoys a variety of outdoor activities with his wife and five children, including hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, and caving. Besides writing, his interests include military history, anything from or about Scotland (including haggis), and the natural-resources investment markets.
