A partnership between friends of 25 years. Founded on a promise of honesty, integrity and expertise, Osceola Blackwood is a partnership amongst OB Osceola Jr., and Fred Pauzar. Although Osceola Blackwood is built from diverse perspectives and experience, the team shares a deep commitment to bringing opportunity and success to Native people and Native Businesses. - “OB LLC’s” focus is Native American hospitality and gaming projects as well as Hard Rock Hotel and Casino opportunities. - Osceola Blackwood understands the Native perspective and culture sharing Native American values and drive to succeed. - They never embrace the status quo. Their work to date has been successful by applying new ideas, new practices and new technologies to make their projects both as profitable as possible and efficient as possible. Osceola Blackwood represents an uncommon commitment to quality, experience and Native American culture and values. They have vast experience in casino gaming and resorts that allows us to hit the ground running with your project. They recognize that they can follow or drive change. Their innate curiosity allows us to tap into the great wellspring of their and their partners' collective knowledge and skill through intuition as well as their process. The company stems from two companies comings together. The first, OSCEOLA — The Osceola Group -- a diverse collection of companies representing an uncommon commitment to quality, experience and Native American culture and values. The Osceola Group of companies was formed by Seminole entrepreneur, OB Osceola Jr. It is the culmination of a dream and ambitious vision that combines several diverse ventures under one umbrella. The group’s portfolio is wide-ranging, but they share one thing: a deep commitment to quality and bringing opportunity to Native and Non-Native businesses. The Osceola Group parents four subsidiary companies: Osceola Group Development, Osceola Group Construction, Osceola Group Insurance and Osceola Group Marketing. Currently work from these companies can been seen all across the nation. OB Osceola Jr. is a proud member of the Seminole Tribe of Florida and he personally oversees many of the projects within the various companies. The second BLACKWOOD, represents Blackwood Holdings Group -- a multinational Capital Partner and venture capital firm with deep managerial and technical expertise capable of accelerating the portfolio companies to market leadership. Blackwood, sponsors every stage of participation from early stage to management investment or buy-outs of privately owned businesses and subsidiaries or divisions of public companies with revenues between $5 million and $1 Billion.