Donna Johnson

Director

Respected Mentor, Author, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Donna Johnson has built one of the world’s largest, dynamic Network Marketing organizations, and is a respected Leader and Trainer in the profession for over 35 years.

Donna Johnson, former swimming coach and single mom, has built one of the largest Network Marketing Organizations in the world. Donna is a down-to-earth “Wisconsin girl with no college degree,” yet through this amazing business model and profession, she now has over 1,000+ leaders who have reached a leadership position to earn them their iconic white Mercedes-Benz, symbolizing their achievement! A pioneer of Network Marketing over 35 years and empowering women and men from all walks of life, Donna is considered one of the top leaders in the profession.

As a keynote speaker on many stages, Donna has shared the stage with the greats. “Making a Living by Making a Difference,” a collection of her published work, was released October 2010. Another book she co-authored was, “MLM CPR: Restart the Heart and Pump Life into your Dreams” ( 2012), and reached the Top 10 Business books at Amazon. Her most recent, much-anticipated book was published in 2023, “My Mentor Walks on Water.” This book has exceeded all expectations, topping the Amazon charts in multiple categories. Donna sets the pace to empower women and men to realize their full potential.

Together, her family leads a number of entrepreneurial and charitable ventures including “Spirit Wings Kids” a charitable foundation that supports orphans around the world. Donna and her family travel to India and Africa each year to generate support for Streams of Mercy orphanages that she and her organization supports.

Johnnie Green

Director

Based in Jamaica and Houston, Texas, Johnnie Green is a network marketing professional who leads organizations of several hundred thousand members on six continents.

He joined the business as a college student, when the possibility of making an extra thousand dollars a month sounded very exciting. Thinking outside the box, Johnnie saw network marketing as a vehicle to create a different life from the tedious jobs he found himself in and got started by offering the opportunity to fellow students. Originally from Beattyville, Kentucky, he also reached out to low-income families he grew up with. Johnnie quickly grew a domestic team, and then his business really took off when one day he was approached by someone in Malaysia looking to join a U.S.-based company. Over time, he built a huge team all over the world.

Johnnie learned so much from his experiences that, at a young age, he became a consultant who now helps companies launch new markets around the world. One key to his success he says is being able to relate to people from all walks of life. He remembers when his team was 100% African American, one of his mentors told him to go out and “recruit five people who don’t look like you.” Johnnie took his advice to heart and focused on creating different success stories, constantly helping his leaders move forward, build them up, break records, and edify. Johnnie is passionate about sharing these stories and giving people hope wherever he goes.

This humble international superstar has built organizations of more than 500,000+ people expanding throughout 6 continents and has created hundreds of six-figure earners and several multiple seven-figure earners. Johnnie’s goal is to devote more of his time in the future to teaching and mentoring young people.

Garrett McGrath

President

Garrett McGrath has served as President of the Association of Network Marketing Professionals since 2012, and on the Board of Directors since 2011. Mr. McGrath has over 30 years of experience as a top network marketing professional and is a highly sought-after keynote speaker, leadership trainer and team-builder.

Mr. McGrath has built organizations in excess of 100,000+ distributors in 21 countries worldwide, together with his wife and business partner, Sylvia, and has served as Master Distributor for four network marketing companies over the past quarter-century.

Over the past 3 years, Garrett has also served in various corporate leadership roles: as Chief Impact Officer, as President, and as CEO of an award-winning, international network marketing company.

The McGraths have worked side-by-side since 1999 and together provide unique leadership training, coaching and personal development to network marketing professionals through an original series of international daily live broadcasts, events, mentorship and training systems. The McGraths have also produced numerous videos, audios, websites, guidebooks and marketing tools for large network marketing organizations and founders of a leadership training and personal development organization.

Garrett is a regular contributor to various industry-wide generic educational conferences, such as Direct Selling University, Rank Makers, the European Direct Selling Congress, and has been featured in a variety of professional publications, such as Direct Selling News, Social Selling News, Networking Times and Business For Home.

Together with the Board of Directors of the Association of Network Marketing Professionals, the McGraths are ambassadors for the Network Marketing profession, working to elevate the entire profession to a new level of public awareness, credibility, partnerships, education, service and global reach.

Chris Gross

Vice President

2013 marked his second year serving on the ANMP Board of Directors, and first year elected as Vice President. Chris Gross is the CEO and cofounder of Gabriel Media Group, publishers of Networking Times and founders of Networking University, together with his wife and business partner, Dr. Josephine Gross. Founded in 2001, Networking Times is the leading publication for network marketing in the world. Available on newsstands across North America and the U.K., this educational journal focuses on helping professional networkers build the right skill set and mindset to be successful in their businesses, and providing third-party validation for the entire network marketing profession.

Networking University is an online learning institution centered around weekly live webinars, e-learning modules, a certification program, and live events, and provides generic training and ongoing education to networking professionals by teaching them to build their business with greater skill, integrity, and responsibility.

Chris and Josephine are ambassadors and spokespeople for network marketing and direct sales. Chris is the CEO of Gabriel Media Group, and Josephine is the Editor in Chief of Networking Times and Dean of Faculty for Networking University. Chris has trained numerous professionals on the importance of building belief, both in themselves and in the network marketing profession, and hosts a weekly training broadcast which features many of the top network marketing educators in the world today. This is his second year serving on the ANMP Board of Directors, and first year elected as Vice President.

Keith Halls

Treasurer

Keith Halls, one of seven original founders of a highly respected 25-year-old billion-dollar Network Marketing company, formerly served as CFO and member of the Board of Directors, and played a key role in helping them with their public offering on Wall Street. Mr. Halls is a former CPA, Senior Vice President, and founder of numerous traditional businesses and companies, and has served on numerous boards.

Known as one of the "most successful persons ever in the history of Network Marketing," Keith is the only person to have earned more than $25 million dollars on the corporate side and then, at the height of his career, left corporate to become a Distributor, where he once again earned over $10 million dollars in commissions and built an international downline of over 500,000 distributors within 4 years. His new book, The 9 Rules to Succeed in Network Marketing is fast becoming a Network Marketing classic, and a widely read book in our profession. 2013 marks Keith's second year serving on the ANMP Board of Directors, and first as Treasurer.

Scott Burnett, Esq.

Secretary

Scott Burnett, President/CEO of Burnett & Associates, is considered to be one of the nation's leading legal authorities on asset protection and business education for Corporations and LLCs. Since 2004, his firm has distinguished itself in the business community by teaching and educating business owners how to properly form and use their companies, providing recordkeeping and compliance assistance for all Corporations and LLCs, resident agent service, business credit building assistance, asset protection planning, business and tax education, showing business owners what needs to be done and how to make their business profit from this knowledge.

Mr. Burnett spent much of his early career as a trial attorney who collected millions of dollars in settlements for his clients. Many of his cases involved peeling back the protection of a business owner's Corporation or LLC, and attacking the personal assets of the owners. He now champions the cause to protect business owners from frivolous litigation, and over-regulation. Scott is also the author of "How to Protect Your Assets," and the creator of the Lawsuit, Audit Protection Service that provides compliance protection for Corporations and LLCs. His ability to explain complicated material in an entertaining manner has also made him a highly sought-after trainer and speaker.

Rod Cook & Marcie Cook

IN MEMORIAM & EMERITUS

Rod Cook, a giant of a man in Network Marketing and Direct Selling, passed from this world in January 2021. He fought the good fight. He was mission-driven to protect our profession and stand up for “the little guy.” We all honor his legacy by serving the people of our profession and we will always hold Rod and Marcie close in our hearts.Rod started retailing products in MLM in 1968. By late 1969 he made over $250,000 as a college student as a direct selling distributor. Later years produced more success. In 1972 Rod started calculating new MLM pay plans for other leaders as a trade-out instead of buying into their new companies. Rod started paid MLM Consulting in 1984.

Rod has a broad range of successful business experience as a conventional entrepreneur and consulting. He has owned top rated franchises and sold them at a profit. He has owned import/export businesses that were the tops in their category. He owned a successful machine shop and gun business. He has been an owner and a major stockholder in several MLM companies. He chooses to love MLM because it is the last opportunity in America for the "little" person who is in debt, hungry, and barely making it!

For years Rod Cook served the Network Marketing industry as the well known co-owner, editor and the investigative arm for The MLM Insider magazine. ABC television's 20/20 has featured the MLM Insider, as has Success, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and many others as the MLM Industry "Watchdog" tracking down illegal and immoral companies. Rod is reputed for blunt, truthful information. Rod's articles have been published in over 30 different publications.

Together, Rod and Marcie Cook founded in 2004 what has become the ANMP (originally known as the DRA, or Distributor Rights Association). We all stand on the shoulders of giants!

Marcie Cook is the CEO of America’s MLM Consultants, which has been in business since 1990. Marcie's specialty at AMC is in making Policies and Procedures and Terms of Agreement unique and legal for each company. As a participant in Network Marketing, Marcie has built several large organizations.

She has led many organizations, including serving as a two-term president of San Antonio's Women in Business, Chair of Athena Committee for the North San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and co-Chair of Chamber's Business Expo. Marcie was on the Board of Directors for the MLMIA from 1999-2006 and had taken an active role on the Legislative Committee. Marcie Cook has served on and continues to serve on many other boards and organizations far too numerous to name.

Together, Marcie and Rod Cook founded in 2004 what has become the ANMP (originally known as the DRA, or Distributor Rights Association). We all stand on the shoulders of giants!

Jordan Adler

Ethics & Professional Standards Committee Chair

Jordan Adler is the #1 distributor and top income earner in his Network Marketing company and earns a strong seven-figure income. He has earned in excess of 17+ million dollars and personally inspired thousands of people to achieve remarkable success through Network Marketing. Today Jordan leads a team of over 60,000+ distributors and counting, with over 10,000 new customers joining his team monthly. He believes that everyone should find a way to create passive residual income, and that Network Marketing is the best way for the most people - no matter what their background - to achieve this.

Jordan also wrote a bestselling book called Beach Money that teaches people how to do just that, and 100% of his book's profits are used to help entrepreneurs start businesses in developing countries through a micro-loans program. He financially supports organizations he believes in, like Big Brothers and Big Sisters, giving away more each year to charity than he used to make at his last corporate job. Jordan splits his time between Las Vegas, Chicago, and Phoenix. He also regularly finds time for the mountains...and the beach, of course! His hobbies include running, world travel, music, real estate investing and - most recently - flying helicopters.

Nobuhiro Kaneko

Director

Mr. Kaneko is one of the top network marketers of all time. He has been involved in the business for over 25 years now, and has been listed as one of the Top 10 Network Marketers in Japan for many years. Mr. Kaneko began his Network Marketing career as an author and publisher. He and his partner published many of the articles and support materials for nearly every major MLM Company in Japan.

In 2003, Mr. Kaneko joined and seriously became a distributor for the first time. Mr. Kaneko and his partners set Network Marketing history records as they built a team that produced over $150 Million Dollars in annual sales in their first two years. In his very first year, he earned over $1 Million Dollars in commissions, and has maintained this income level ever since.

Mr. Kaneko's fame has spread and he has built large organizations in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia and Thailand.

Dr. Josephine Gross

International Committee Chair

Dr. Josephine Gross is cofounder and Editor in Chief of Networking Times and Dean of Faculty for Networking University. Born and raised in Belgium, she came to the U.S. to do her Ph.D. in languages at Stanford University. Together with her husband Chris Gross, she founded Networking Times in 2001 and today it is the leading publication for network marketing in the world. Available on newsstands across North America and the U.K., Networking Times focuses on helping professional networkers build the right skill set and mindset to be successful in their businesses. An advertisement-free educational journal, it provides powerful third-party validation for the networking profession. Networking University is an online learning institution centered around weekly live webinars, e-learning modules, a certification program, and live events. Its mission is to provide generic training and ongoing education to networking professionals by teaching them to build their business with greater skill, integrity, and responsibility.

Josephine's broader purpose includes bringing greater consciousness and integrity to the way we do business; this will build a sustainable economy and a more balanced world. She has trained at conventions both nationally and internationally on such topics as The Rising Economic Power of Women, The Feminine Side of Leadership, Happiness in Business, and Network Marketing: a Global Movement. Josephine interviews network marketing leaders from all over the world, asking them exactly how they built their businesses so readers can instantly benefit from their experience and shorten their learning curve. The perspective she brings to the profession is truly international, and her heart-centered listening approach brings out what it is that makes network marketers extraordinary.

Jessie Lee Ward

DIRECTOR

Jessie Lee is a heart-driven, culture-driven, influencer-building multiple 7-figure annual earner, as verified by Network Marketing Pros’ Hall of Fame. She is currently the number one female network marketer in the world.

She got her start in direct sales 10 years ago when she needed $300 extra a month to pay rent. In 2015, Jessie Lee found network marketing through Facebook and made the move to better her future and build a lasting legacy with residual income.

Jessie Lee is now, thanks to her network marketing business, a successful investor, and, more importantly, her philanthropy has been expanded as a result of her network marketing income. She joined her company 3.5 years ago. Through focusing on customers, she has built a team of over 800,000 customers with 25,000 worldwide promoters in 28 countries.

She is extremely system driven, with a major focus on everyone understanding that systems duplicate - personalities and people do not!

Jessie Lee’s MLM generic podcast, The People’s Mentor, currently has 3.3 million downloads and counting. Her Instagram followers are at 325k; Facebook at 80k; and Tiktok at 140k.

She is passionate about training, coaching, mentorship, rescuing animals, self-love, and empowering men and women to do anything they want. Jessie Lee builds a large portion of her business online, and is notorious for world-wide tours.

Stuart Johnson

DIRECTOR

Stuart Johnson has served the direct selling industry for 36 years and is the sole Founder and CEO of Direct Selling News. His passion for the channel encompasses a broader commitment to build and connect the direct selling community through exclusive industry events such as Direct Selling University and the DSN Global Celebration.

Stuart is arguably the most connected person in direct selling, building and growing a network of executives, thought leaders, strategists and innovators. His advice and counsel are sought after by leaders throughout the channel.

John Melton

DIRECTOR

John Melton, together with his wife Nadya, are one of the most well-known couples in network marketing. John and Nadya are home business and lifestyle experts, personal branding and online marketing strategists, top 100 income earners, and renowned for their popular Social Media trainings.

After spending 10 years building their business using traditional methods, John and Nadya realized that the cost they had to pay was too high and it was taking a toll on their family. This led them to explore and develop various online marketing strategies, until they found the formula that worked for them and their team.Over the past few years, their organization has brought in over $150 million in sales and over 400,000 new customers. All without home parties, meeting presentations, and three-way calls! John and Nadya have learned from and coached some of the most important names in the industry.Today, they travel the world, spend valuable time with their family and teach entrepreneurs of all types how to build a profitable business on Social Media, and their thousands of students are a testament to the level of success you can achieve when you use simple and duplicatable online strategies.

Lisa Grossmann

Special Liaison, Director

Lisa Grossmann is a multi-million-dollar earner, and sought-after consultant, trainer and speaker in Network Marketing. She is a 25+ year veteran of our great profession.

In late 2000, Lisa was asked to consult for a new Network Marketing venture, based out of Dallas, Texas. Through the hard work of the executive team and with Lisa’s assistance as the Field VP of Sales, the company did over USD $24 million in revenue in its first year and went on to do over $660 million in its first six years. Lisa became the first US $1-million-dollar earning distributor in the company, doing so in the first 10 months of operation.

Today, Lisa is a top-ranked Black Diamond with an organization of over 150,000+ people in 15 countries around the world and their business center regularly earns a six-figure monthly income.

Sylvia McGrath

Assistant Secretary

Sylvia McGrath has over 25 years of marketing experience, including having served as corporate Vice President of Marketing for a network marketing company and Vice President of Sales & Marketing for a design firm with Fortune 500 clientele. Together with her husband and business partner Garrett, as a husband-and-wife team, they have built organizations in excess of 100,000+ distributors in 21 countries worldwide.

Over the past three years, Sylvia has also served in top executive corporate leadership roles, including Chief Experience Officer of an award-winning, international network marketing company.

Sylvia has spoken on the stage of the European Direct Selling Congress, and together with Garrett has been a guest speaker and featured in a variety of professional publications, such as Direct Selling News, Networking Times and Business For Home.

The McGraths have worked side-by-side since 1999 and together provide unique leadership training, coaching and personal development to network marketing professionals through an original series of international daily live broadcasts, events, mentorship and training systems. The McGraths have also produced numerous videos, audios, websites, guidebooks and marketing tools for large network marketing organizations and founders of a leadership training and personal development organization.

Sarah Robbins

Director

Sarah Robbins went from being the "least highest earner" to the #1 income earner in her company by age 27. A former elementary school teacher, Sarah started her business part-time, with no previous business experience. To her surprise, she surpassed her teacher's salary by the end of that first school year, and was able to retire from teaching. By the age of 29, she was earning a six-figure monthly income and retired her husband Phil from his construction business (35 years early) to work together, coaching others to live the life of their dreams, and fulfilling their lifelong passion of helping others.

Sarah and Phil have built a multimillion-dollar monthly direct sales organization that is breaking industry records and hitting top sales goals. Sarah has been featured in the book, The Greatest Networkers in the World and published in Networking Times.

Tom Chenault

Director

Tom Chenault has been a passionate supporter and vocal advocate for the network marketing profession for decades, and has served on the ANMP Board multiple years. With a varied and colorful past, from restaurateur to airplane salesman to stock broker, Tom is now a multimillion dollar earner and a top field leader. Tom has also been the voice of Home Based Business Radio since 1999, interviewing the Who's Who of Network Marketing, Personal Development and Small Business. His guests have included Mark Victor Hansen, Les Brown, Robert Kiyosaki and virtually every successful network marketer and trainer in the profession.

Tom, together with wife and partner Denice, have been featured on numerous stages, including Eric & Marina Worre’s GoPro Events, and in numerous article and books, including The Four Year Career.

Robert Oblon

Director

Robert Oblon has been serving the network marketing profession for 20 years as an owner and founder of two highly successful companies over the last 13 years. He’s one of the most versatile owners in the industry, well-known for his marketing abilities from video production to his extensive knowledge of his chosen field, travel. As the Chairman of a publicly traded diversified holdings company, with the emphasis on network marketing, Mr. Oblon continues to elevate the most relevant profession in the world.

Brian McMullen

DIRECTOR

Brian McMullen is recognized as one of the most influential leaders of the network marketing profession today.

Mr. McMullen has business interests all over the world, both inside and outside of network marketing, financed by the earnings he has generated over his 25-year career in the profession.

Ray Higdon

DIRECTOR

Ray Higdon is a two-time bestselling author, international keynote speaker, and a former #1 income earner in a network marketing company that he joined while he was in foreclosure.

Ray has shared the stage with Tony Robbins, Bob Proctor, Les Brown, Robert Kiyosaki and many more. Ray and his wife Jessica no longer build a network marketing company, so that they can better serve the entire profession as coaches, speakers and trainers. They are also the Founders of the Rank Makers community and The Higdon Group.

Their coaching company was recognized recently on the Inc 5000 as one of America’s fastest growing companies and they LOVE helping network marketers grow large teams and create freedom in their life.

Ray and Jessica are also the creators of the hit reality show, “Play To Win,” where 40+ motivated contestants tackle sales and business challenges to win a life-changing opportunity.

The Higdon Group was founded on the principle that there’s greatness inside every single person, and you have what it takes to become a top earner and lead a life of success and purpose. Through their life-changing events, masterminds, success tools, videos, online communities and philanthropic efforts, the Higdons are servant leaders of this community, helping network marketing professionals to create an abundant and inspiring life, no matter who you are or what your circumstances.

Curtis Broome

DIRECTOR

Since 1991, Curtis Broome has led more than 350,000 people from the stage, in groups as small as 20 to as large as 8,000, through educational, training, sales or promotional presentations designed to inform, inspire and move them to action. Curtis has done so in 46 of the 50 states in the US and in 22 countries around the world while being translated into 15 different languages at various times.With specialties in network marketing, system implementation, and community development, Curtis and business partner Lisa are among the top trainers and consultants in the industry. Their expertise has been gained through years in traditional business, as corporate executives, as million-dollar earners in network marketing, and as elite team leaders of hundreds of thousands. As industry visionaries and thought leaders, their innovative thinking and message aptitude has propelled Curtis and Lisa to the highest regard as consultants, public speakers, and elite team trainers.