Profile: Kathy Malmay Bazemore

Title: CEO and Founder

Company/Organization: Cocoon Resources, Inc.

Address: 2104 West Ferry Way, Huntsville AL 35801

Phone: 256-489-0175

E-mail: kbazemore@cocoonresources.com

Website: www.cocoonresources.com

Favorite Quote: "Never, never, never quit." Winston Churchill

Company/Organization Brief Mission: Our company is to help guide new entrepreneurs, not in an incubator, but as strategic business coaches to help them move their idea into actual value providing supporting resources, introductions to incubators, introductions to strategic partners in a cost effective way for idea stage entrepreneurs.

Job description: Strategic positioning and Identification of companies, ideas, investors, and talent that are good candidates for Cocoon Resources business model.

Length of service: 3 years

Family: Russell Bazemore, spouse, and two adult children, Jeremy Cummings, Knoxville, TN, and Jennifer Cummings, Starkville, MS.

Personal Business Philosophy: Do whatever it takes as long as it’s ethical, honest, and moral.

Advice to women in business: Put your oxygen mask on first before those around you so you can keep making a difference in others lives.

Best advice ever received: Help others get what they want and you will always get what you want.

Secret to surviving in business: There is always a way.

Strongest inspiration: My family and a sense of purpose from God.

Being in business has taught me: Stay alert

What most people don’t realize about me:  I love to bass fish

Favorite place or way to relax: bass fishing

Favorite restaurant: Any Asian or Seafood restaurant