Switchpoint is a not for profit company with a focus on educating; training and implementing “best practices “in the societal efforts to end homelessness as we know it. All platform participants will utilize the proprietary and permission based blockchain, (www.OmegaPoint.io). Potential customers include both public and private sector entities along with NFP entities. Our software will include an assessment for individuals measuring the social determinants of health, thereby coordinating resources. The dual opt-in database allows interstate data to be available, which is currently not available.
Switchpoint is led by Carol Hollowell a nationally recognized expert and visionary in the homeless space. Switchpoint will facilitate the change to the new world of collaboration between system participants and by returning the dignity of the underprivileged. The immutable Switchpoint blockchain will increase the transparency of all participants and increase the liquidity and resources available to the people in need. Participants will have access to “sustainable “practices that are also scalable in individual markets.
Switchpoint is the idea of a single impact, a single individual whose story is a prompt for change. Ray was Carol’s Switchpoint. She saw him in a wheelchair, on the side of the road. In a rear-view mirror moment, she turned around and went back to help. Ray was homeless and had been for over five years. After asking questions and finding out his story, she was able to get him ID, move him into permanent housing and connect him to resources in one day. This led to a decade of finetuning a model to serve the homeless populations and fill gaps in communities to enhance the opportunities for the underserved.
We are in communion with one another. We are one. My purpose is to facilitate others success in hopes of making the world more equitable and grateful to one another. Our permission based blockchains create more transparency which creates more liquidity to fund these social needs.
Carol Hollowell
CEO & Co-Founder
Carol Hollowell was inspired to embark on a career serving those experiencing homelessness after finding Ray, wheelchair bound, on the streets in 2013. Ray had been homeless for five years simply because he had lost his wallet. After helping Ray get his ID, and stable housing, she knew she had found her purpose. Switchpoint was born!
Switchpoint’s model combines Carol’s years of business experience with her innovative problem-solving skills. As a serial entrepreneur, Carol developed Switchpoint to lift and empower individuals in their resolve to become self-sufficient.
In 2020, Carol received the Ernst Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Social Impact for creating a new standard and best practices in homeless services. Knowing that temporary shelter was not enough she continues to adapt to meet the changing needs of the most vulnerable. Switchpoint addresses the layers that keep people stuck offering a wide array of services to set them on a new path.
Carol knew that we can’t solve homelessness without having somewhere to move people out of shelter and began to tackle the extreme lack of affordable housing. Carol’s vision is to create 1,000 units of deeply affordable housing in Utah this year!
Dan Liptak
CTO
Dan Liptak got his start early when he first discovered computers at 10 years old. An internship at NASA during high school put him on a 20-year path in Information Technology. He registered his first domain name in 1998 and has been helping companies big and small build their web presence ever since. With his experience in the computer industry along with his passion for entrepreneurism, Dan’s attitude and culture within the OmegaPoint Partners team is well-suited.
Baron Hollowell
Co-Founder
Baron Hollowell, a serial entrepreneur, has started his business ventures based on opportunism. First starting a successful trucking company in the boom of the oil industry, he then ventured out to a healthy meal prep company when he saw the wave of health foods coming to mainstream. With his long interest in Real Estate and single family home investments he next founded Mako Capital based around Multifamily investments.
Mike Cameron
Co-Founder
Mike Cameron is a lifetime entrepreneur. Mr. Cameron, while serving as President and CEO and a major shareholder in Zephyrhills Water, was primarily responsible for developing it from the once small, local company into the largest bottled water company in the Southeastern US. He negotiated the successful sale of Zephyrhills to Perrier/Nestle. Mr. Cameron co-founder of OmegaPoint Partners, LLC, a social impact and blockchain technology firm which exists to “do well by doing good.”
Mr. Cameron is also co-founder of the Association of Angel Investor Clubs (AAIC). AAIC creates high-growth-potential, reduced-risk companies from intellectual property developed by technology partners, universities and government-sponsored research entities. Mr. Cameron is a graduate of Georgetown University and holds an M.B.A. from The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. In addition to his business ventures, Mr. Cameron was a member in the Young Presidents Organization, served on the Board of Overseers for Georgetown University, and was the President of the Wharton School Club of Central and North Florida.