Team

Meet Cindy Fields, co-founder of the digital ecosystem for entrepreneurs called Achieve Beyond! and the founder and owner of the financial solutions and entrepreneurship firm Loyalty Alliance Inc.

Loyalty Alliance offers diversified services and product solutions to entrepreneurial organizations and their executives and other high-achieving businesses and individuals.

Loyalty Alliance’s essential solutions are provided in Business and Personal Insurance, Business Profit Recovery, Lending, and Clarity Coaching.

As the co-owner/ manager of Achieve Beyond!, Loyalty Alliance promotes an inclusive and secure B2B ecosystem for entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and other achievers in which participants can share opinions and content, tell stories,  learn from each other, and access a curated listing of products and services essential to building and sustaining success.

Included as one of the many services unique to the site is something we call the “Business Fairy Godmother”.  That’s Cindy!

In her role as “Business Fairy Godmother,” Cindy grants wishes. While the wishes run the gambit from personal to business, most often, Cindy connects entrepreneurs and other achievers with business and/or charitable organizations and resources that enable them to achieve what is important to them. What wish can Cindy grant for you today?

Prior to founding Loyalty Alliance in 2003, Cindy held key positions in merchant banking, merger arbitrage, venture capital, investment banking, and wealth advisory services at numerous prestigious financial institutions.

Cindy holds the following professional designations and advanced academic credentials: Certified Wealth Preservation Planner; Certified Financial Planner™; Trusts and estates Practitioner; Chartered Financial Consultant; Registered Employee Benefits Consultant; Chartered Life Underwriter; Certified in Long Term Care; Registered Health Underwriter; BA in History and MA in Social Studies from the University at Albany; and MBA-Finance from the NYU Stern School of Business.  She also holds insurance licenses that enable her to address multiple risk management needs utilizing domestic and international resources.

A native New Yorker, Cindy is a proud member of the National Arts Club and Penn Club and serves on the Executive Committee of the Foreign Press Association and the Board of Governors of the Foreign Press Foundation. She is a former competitive ballroom dancer and holds the appointment of Special Advocate to the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association (MLBPAA).

Cindy invites you to explore Achieve Beyond! and participate in all it offers.  Contact Cindy if you want to be a guest blogger, list your business as an Essential Solution, need insurance, lending, or coaching assistance, or if you have a wish the magical powers of a Business Fairy Godmother can grant.

You can reach Cindy at

E: [email protected] O: 212-570-1212

Meet Mark Cohen, Managing Editor of the Achieve Beyond! website. Mark is a veteran of Madison Avenue with over thirty years of experience in digital and traditional marketing working with financial services, food and beverage, and a variety of other b2b and b2b verticals. He co-founded one of the first digital agencies in Manhattan and is considered an industry pioneer.

Mark joined Loyalty Alliance to add his extensive knowledge of digital media and websites to Cindy Fields’ vision for being a “pebble in the pond” of positive change, and create the Achieve Beyond! platform. Starting with a blog, Achieve Beyond! will become a highly interactive and engaging collaborative comprised of communities of interest for entrepreneurs and other successful individuals. Site visitors and collaborators will be able to avail themselves of “essential services” for entrepreneurs to compliment and/or supplement their skills and expertise. Mark shares Cindy’s passion to change the face of media by creating a respectful, positive, and inclusive community for public discourse.

Mark is a Senior Vice President of Marketing at Mesirow, and has worked at numerous business services, financial services, and ad agencies over the years. Mark has a BS-Marketing from the State University of New York, Buffalo School of Business.

A native New Yorker now living in Chicagoland with his wife Laura. Mark is a member of the board of directors of Resilience, is a Sustainability Commissioner in La Grange Park, IL, and spends his free time reading, cooking, listening to music, and participating in outdoor adventures with his family. He is also a lifelong NY sports fan.

You can reach Mark at

E: [email protected] O: 312-521-0354