24 Feb February 24, 2026 – Land Sales Brent Bowers, Storm Chaser Josh Morgerman and IBM Salima Lin
Brent Bowers – Land Coach at The Land Sharks
There’s this special thing about American land
that people just want to own it.
Brent Bowers
Brent Bowers is a real estate investor, entrepreneur, and educator who serves as the CEO of Zech Buys Houses LLC and a Land Coach at The Land Sharks, where he helps investors build passive income through buying and selling vacant land. A former U.S. Army officer with more than eight years of service, Brent began investing in real estate in 2007 with the goal of creating financial stability and spending more time with his family. Over time, he shifted his focus from traditional residential investing to land investing, recognizing its simplicity, scalability, and ability to generate recurring income without the challenges of tenants or property maintenance. As the president of Zech Buys Houses LLC, he has built a portfolio of land and real estate investments and developed systems that generate consistent monthly income. Through The Land Sharks, Brent now mentors and trains investors on his proven strategies for finding, acquiring, and reselling vacant land, helping others create reliable cash flow and long term wealth through land investing.
Josh Morgerman – Founder of iCyclone
People ask me this all the time. They’re like, what’s wrong with you?
And all I can say is, listen, honestly, I was born this way.
Josh Morgerman
Founded by storm chaser and adrenaline junkie Josh Morgerman, iCyclone is the brand name under which he chases hurricanes and collaborates with others on weather-related projects. The iCyclone team is a loosely-affiliated, cross-functional club of chasers, researchers, and meteorologists unified by their shared passion for Earth’s mightiest spectacle: the hurricane. The iCyclone mission has always been to penetrate, experience, and document the inner cores of hurricanes as they thrust ashore—via video, data collection, and blogging. iCyclone’s original chase turf was exclusively the USA. That changed in 2007, when Josh Morgerman singlehandedly hunted ferocious Category-5 Hurricane Dean on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula—the only chaser to do so. This splashy debut launched a string of solo, daredevil Mexican chases that have established Morgerman as the most prolific chaser of Mexican hurricanes and a specialist in this region. Since 2007, he’s logged a whopping eight successful hurricane chases in Mexico, on both the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts and in doing so has captured rare video footage and useful data for the USA’s National Hurricane Center. In 2013, when the Atlantic failed to produce any chaseable hurricanes, Morgerman and the iCyclone team expanded their focus to East Asia, chasing and penetrating the inner cores of an incredible four typhoons in just over a month, including Category-5 Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) in the Philippines. Recent high-profile chases include devastating Hurricane Odile in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in 2014; Typhoon Goni in Ishigaki-jima, Japan, in 2015; Typhoon Dujuan in Su’ao, Taiwan, in 2015; and the incredible Category-5 Hurricane Patricia in Jalisco, Mexico, in 2015.
Salima Lin – Managing Partner, Strategy, M&A, Transformation, and Thought Leadership at IBM Consulting
Humans as humans, those who have
AI will replace those who don’t use it.
Salima Lin
Salima Lin has more than 25 years of management consulting and leadership experience in developing and executing business and operating strategies, driving transformation, developing new business models and operationalizing process improvement. During her career, she has advised numerous Fortune 500 companies, primarily in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, diagnostics, medical devices, managed care, and healthcare delivery. Her experience spans strategy development in the Americas, with strategy and transformation across industries and domains for IBM’s consulting business globally. She has a master’s degree in health policy and administration from Harvard, and a bachelor’s degree in business administration and biology from Simon Fraser University.