DARREN SUGIYAMA, M.Ed

Founder
Lionsmark Capital

Darren Sugiyama was born and raised in Long Beach, California and received a Bachelor’s Degree from Loyola Marymount University where he was also the team captain and 2nd Team All-Conference baseball player. He continued his education and earned a Master’s Degree in Multicultural Education from the University Of Hawaii at Manoa.
After starting his career as a counselor in a gang prevention program in his
home town of Long Beach, California, worked as a teacher in the public school
system in Honolulu, Hawaii, and as a counselor in Halawa Prison and the
Honolulu Detention Home

Darren Sugiyama decided to follow his entrepreneurial dreams and started his own employee benefits firm in 2003 called Apex. During his first year in the insurance business, his personal income for the year was only $277 (he proudly displays his personal tax return on the wall of his office). But just seven years later, Apex was producing over $37 million in annual sales and was the #1 producing firm in the country for three different insurance carriers concurrently.

Since then, Darren expanded his insurance business portfolio, building a life insurance agency called DaVinci, which was responsible for 25% of all the life insurance policies sold for Pacific Life in Orange County, California in 2017. In
2018, DaVinci was responsible for 29% of the all the life insurance policies sold for Penn Mutual in Orange County, and in 2019, over 38%. In addition, Darren founded Lionsmark Capital in 2016 which is now one of the most dominant premium financing intermediary firms in the life insurance industry, and has built a reputation of being the most mathematically transparent firm in the business with proprietary backtesting software that analyzes 121 different 40-year historical periods of S&P 500 performance.

Darren is also an internationally acclaimed 9-time author with published works being distributed in Australia, Brasil, Canada, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, India, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, the mUnited Kingdom, and the United States of America. As a nationally acclaimed motivational speaker, business coach, and mentor,
Darren does both live and virtual motivational speaking events, as well as mprivate coaching sessions, teaching others how he built his businesses using mextremely unorthodox methods. For more information about Darren Sugiyama, visit his personal website at http://www.DarrenSugiyama.com. For more information about Lionsmark Capital, visit http://www.LionsmarkCapital.com.

Contact: Dsugiyama@endowmentenhancement.com