With an entrepreneurial background spanning Arizona and Texas, Shawn Whitson has a quarter century of experience in the technology business start-up sector. He guides the Scottsdale, Arizona based Trinity Proximity, Inc., which provides custom app-building solutions in the local communities across the United States and Canada. Shawn Whitson envisions cityKONNEKT as a world leading technology for connecting local residents in small to medium sized towns with the locally owned businesses. His platform uses fully white-labeled community mobile app platforms the integrates a town together using data driven resources. Easy to promote and monetize, Mr. Whitson’s platform employs interactive brand awareness and e-commerce features that rely on many unique technologies including a leading edge Bluetooth Beacon technology. It builds on his past technology experience directing Robotic Returns, Inc., which offered the public a fully robotic stock market technology platform using robotic algorithms. Managing all aspects of operations in his company, he successfully boosted software sales across the third-party platform and efficiently deployed more than 400 independent contractors. Mr. Whitson is also the owner of Autolube Inc., an operation based in Sulphur Springs, Texas, with Quick Lube locations spanning the East Texas region. Early in his career in this expanding sector, Shawn Whitson received the Automotive Oil Change Association’s “AOCA Top 20 Fastest Growing Quick Lube Locations in the United States” award along with honorable mentions in publications of "Youngest Automotive Quick Lube Owner" in the early 1990's.