Sandra Lovett-Tillman

Managing Director/ Co-Owner, aVeriFact, LLC

Biography:

Sandra Lovett-Tillman is a managing director/co-owner at aVeriFact, LLC.  Her primary area of expertise is client development associated with the implementation of aVeriFact’s financial and background investigation services to improve due diligence results for its clients.  Sandra’s efforts have been directed towards expanding financial investigation options for asset-based lending, pre-lending/vendor-supplier prequalification, BSA/AML risk investigations, recovery/workout/litigation, asset and liability and employee background due diligence. Her experience, knowledge and insight have resulted in an impressive growth in services for our clients; and she enjoys working to develop search options to address their unique challenges.

She is now making quality search services available to small businesses! By addressing search needs (before, during and after) entering a business relationship with an individual/company, she is committed to identifying potential risk(s) to enable Small Business Owners to mitigate risk before it adversely impacts their investment in their companies.  Sandra is a 1984 graduate of Louisiana State University, with a BS-business/management and a Licensed LA Private Investigator since 2007. She recently graduated from the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program, Cohort 22, through Delgado Community College.

Tell us more about your involvement with St. Baldrick’s Foundation, and the “Leave Nothing to Chance” campaign. 

The “Leave Nothing to Chance” campaign was started in 2018, after my son, Devon, passed away due to Ewing’s Sarcoma (a pediatric bone cancer) on September 15, 2017. He was an LSU sophomore and 20 years old.  Devon was diagnosed on October 6, 2016 and fought for 11 months to survive, including undergoing chemotherapy treatments that were designed for adult cancers 20-30 years ago.  He left nothing to chance; however, due to lack of awareness and funding for research, his chance of survival at diagnosis was a mere 10-20% at best.  We partnered with the St. Baldrick’s Foundation for this initial campaign in Devon’s honor and raised over $4,600 to fund cancer research and take childhood back from cancer.

Your bio mentioned that this year aVeriFact is expanding services to meet small business owners’ search needs to identify risk and, in doing so, have committed to donating a percentage of aVeriFact’s profits from this new market to fund even more children’s cancer treatment research. Please share more on these efforts.

I recently participated in the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program, Cohort 22, through Delgado Community College.  The program is designed to educate small business owners in how to grow their businesses and requires that each scholar prepare a five-year growth plan. In speaking with small business owners, it became apparent that most small business owners do not have access or knowledge of public record search beyond database, Google or gut instinct, which can expose them to risk that could easily be identified through a direct search of public records.  Having knowledge of potential risk: before, during and after, they enter a business relationship that enables them to mitigate that risk and/or increase their recovery on delinquencies.  This became the basis for our five-year growth plan.

 Our inspiration for opening our services to SBOs is Devon and his fight against cancer.  No one ever thinks it will happen to them…until, it does.  Then you are faced with your lack of knowledge, and resources that you were previously unaware of, that now literally impact your quality of life, and your life. The same holds true for small business owners, just as it does for our corporate clients. What you don’t know can hurt you and ignorance will not spare you. 

Our goal is to help SBOs reduce risk, increase recovery and further eliminate adverse impacts on their business through direct public record search AND donate a portion of our profits from this new market to St. Baldrick’s in order to increase research funding leading to more effective treatments, increased survival and potentially cures for those who will, are, or have fought, childhood cancer. 

What advice would you give to someone who is looking to give back and volunteer on selecting which organizations they should dedicate their time to? How can they narrow down to find the right charity or organization for them?

I would recommend that you look for a cause and organization that you can be passionate about.  That can drive the change you would like to see in this world.  In doing so, you will find that you benefit even more from the experience as you become part of something bigger than yourself.  Don’t do it just to put it on your resume.  Do it because you believe in it!

Tell us something about yourself that may surprise people.

I am an introvert!  Let’s hear it for those that step out of their comfort zone, day in and day out, eh?