Christopher Bird, EA, CFP, GRI

Chris has been in the financial business for over 30 years. He started his career with a degree in Accounting and a minor in Business Administration. He also holds the Certified Financial Planner designation (CFP) and Enrolled Agent status with the IRS.

Chris became an IRS agent in 1970 and continued until 1986. He began conducting courses after leaving the IRS and started his own company, Chris Bird Seminars. Chris went on to conduct over 125 seminars a year on accounting, financial planning, wealth building, residential rental property ownership, and tax strategies for the real estate and financial industries nationwide. He has presented his widely acclaimed courses multiple times at NAR conventions and most recently presented at Howard Brinton’s StarPower™ Conference in San Antonio, TX.

Chris is an adjunct instructor at the University of Illinois in tax law. He is a Senior CRS Instructor, a GRI Senior Faculty Instructor in Illinois, currently holds his real estate license in St. Cloud, Minnesota.

Paul Miller

Through the power of triumph, dedication, and will to succeed, Paul Miller has created a business coaching and accounting firm that is unlike any other. He has been consulting entrepreneurs with their businesses for over 12 years.

He obtained his Finance degree from St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. After working a short time in corporate America, he realized it wasn’t for him. He began researching and educating himself on how to properly structure his business and soon realized that there was a need for this type of guidance. Soon he learned that this was his calling, “To develop long-term client relationships which help entrepreneurs develop, implement, and maintain the tools necessary for long term business success. ” Soon, Paul started helping real estate professionals and other entrepreneurs take advantage of small business tax laws. Since then, he has created an accounting and business-coaching firm with a client base of over 700. Of those 700 clients 65% of them work with real estate in some capacity. The majority of his clients sell, invest or develop real estate in the Twin Cities area. He specializes in helping entrepreneurs do what they do best, while he saves them time and money.