Ted Coiné

Ted Coiné is CEO of Benevolent Capital Group, an investment and consulting firm that specializes in scaling the highly profitable practical companies that are the engines of our economy. Benevolent has been lauded as the Y Combinator for Main Street businesses and as the world’s smallest Berkshire Hathaway.

Ted brought his first company, Coiné Language School, from his living room to a $10M valuation in four years through a relentless focus on customer service. This led to the launch of Ted’s speaking career and the publication of his first book, Five-Star Customer Service, a how-to guide to help leaders bring organization-wide commitment to ethics and customer experience as a lasting competitive advantage.

In 2006 the Coiné family moved from Boston to Naples, Florida, where Ted continued to give keynotes and help run Coiné Training while serving on multiple nonprofit boards and running their family foundation for two years. He has served as CEO four times and CMO of a tech startup once.

The entire time he and his staff were building the first Coiné companies, Ted sought guidance for Main Street businesses like his – the kind of help investors and experts line up to give Silicon Valley startups. After searching for some version of Benevolent Capital Group for twenty-five years, Ted and his partners finally founded it themselves.

Ted is professor of entrepreneurship, law, and accounting at Lorenzo Walker Technical College. To date, his students and other members of the Lorenzo Walker community have launched over 60 revenue-generating companies. They compete in (and often win) Shark Tank-style pitch competitions.

While currently on hiatus from social media, Ted was one of the original Forbes “Power Influencers.” Across platforms, roughly half a million people follow and/or subscribe to his leadership wisdom.

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