Career Progression:

President/C.E.O., Accudura Co. 1995-Present
Chief Operations Officer, American Harvest 1996
Corporate Vice President of Operations, Huffy Corporation 1990-1994
Corporate Vice President of Technology, Huffy Corporation 1987-1990
Vice President of Operations, Huffy Bicycle Company 1983-1986
President/General Manager, New Process Products 1981-1982
Business Manager New Ventures, Wilson Sporting Goods 1979-1980
Director, Research and Development, Wilson Sporting Goods 1976-1978
Manager, Product Development, Wilson Sporting Goods 1973-1975
President/General Manager, Electronic Precision Industries 1970-1972
Vice President Operations, Electronic Precision Industries 1969
Product Development Engineer, Ford Motor Company 1967-1968
Engineer in Training, Ford Motor Company 1965-1966

Education:

Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS B.S.M.E.
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK M.S.M.E.
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL M.B.A.
Ford Motor Company Advanced Education Fellowship
Wilson Sporting Goods (a Pepsico Company) Advanced Education Fellowship

Achievements:

Douglas Dempsey built a career which spans working for and with companies from start-up to Fortune 500. His assignments involved solving problems ranging from Marketing & Sales to Outsourcing to Quality to Engineering. His ability to lead others to accomplish worthy objectives cooperatively, while applying the latest in technology is unique, special and has proven unusually profitable for his employers and clients. His experience includes European and Far Eastern sourcing for the past thirty-five years. He introduced six-sigma and CAD/CAM while they were still unknowns to most. He holds 4 patents personally, yet led an organization of 1,800+ employees to improve productivity over 300% in a 4-year period. He's made standing-room-only presentations at International Productivity Conferences and Symposiums describing his leadership and involvement in new products, innovative processes and outstanding corporate successes. Helping others achieve beyond their imagination is his specialty.

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Career Progression:

President, Shared Time Human Resources Management, Inc., 1993 - Present
Manager, Human Resources, Ross Corporation, 1991- 1993
Manager, Human Resources, Furon Companies/Synflex Division, 1988-1991
Manager, Staffing, Banc One Corporation/Bank One Cleveland, N.A., 1987-1988
Manager, Employee Relations, Allied Signal Corp, NARCO Division, 1981-1987
Senior Employee Relations Representative, Bailey Controls, 1979-1981
Manager, Personnel, Avtron Manufacturing, Inc., 1975-1979
Employment Interviewer, M.K. Ferguson Company, 1973-1975

Achievements:

Glenn Levar has worked twenty two plus years in corporate world working for privately owned to Fortune 50 companies. He has successfully participated in three company turnarounds and two start-up organizations. Levar defeated five union organizational attempts and successfully negotiating several union contracts. Designed and implemented changes to benefit programs resulting in an annual projected cost savings of $750,000. Initiated new recruitment process to hire sales representatives and shift leaders reducing employment agency fees $70,000 and reduced employee turnover by 57%. Since the inception of STHRM, Inc, in 1993, Levar has utilized his knowledge and experience to advise dozens of privately held companies in leadership, HR strategy, and execution.

Glenn held the rank of Colonel in the United States Army Reserve until his retirement in November 2002.

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Career Progression

President of Great Lakes Resource Center 1994-to date
Owner/Operator of Country Estates Farm 1975-to date
CEO Ritzman Pharmacies 1995-2000
Corp. V.P. Human Resource Development, Rubbermaid 1974-1994
Principal, Middle School 1966-1974
President/Owner Osage Recreational Facility 1958-1968
Elementary Teacher 1956-1966

Achievements

A student of leadership behavior, Finley has been a leader in developing leadership in others. He worked with publicly and privately held companies and a variety of businesses/industries as well as public schools. As a CEO, he reinvented Ritzman Pharmacies to enable it to survive and prosper as a privately-held retail community pharmacy chain; As V.P. of Human Resource Development, he developed a corporate-wide human resource development function at Rubbermaid that provided leadership to enable Rubbermaid to be FORTUNE'S Most Admired company and grow from $275 million to $2 billion. Tom designed and implemented a team managed and taught middle school that promoted academic achievement and personal growth of its students; Finley is an entrepreneur and as such, has successfully managed six different businesses. He and his partner now run a successful consulting firm focusing on the use of measurement to drive change and performance.

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Career Progression

President The Baker Company 1979 -2005
Founder & President Global Sports Registry, a B2B Innovator
VP, International Operations - Worldwide Sports & Recreation
Executive Director - Ward Foundation (non-profit)
Strategic Global Plan, Huffy Bicycles (Consultant)
President and CEO, Melch's Foods
President & CEO - Time Sports (Wimbledon brands)
International Director, Prince Manufacturing
VP Sales - Snauwaert (divison of Spalding) 1977 - 1979
International Director Wilson Sporting Goods 1972-1977

Achievements

Since 1979 when Baker formed his consulting company, he has been involved with dozens of companies in jump-starting products or developing strategic roll-outs. Baker has always been a technology maven and established the first Internet registry for companies within the recreational and sports industry. Baker's most memorable achievement is the introduction of the oversized metal tennis racket to Europe when the world was playing with small wooden rackets. Baker doubled its sales every year for six years until it represented 40% of the global business at the time of the sale of the company.

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Career Progression:

President, Third Force, Inc. 1999 - to date
Worldwide Director of Marketing; Alpha Technologies (previously Monsanto Instruments) 1998 - 1999
Marketing Manager, Vernay Laboratories Medical Products, 1993 - 1998
Manager Marketing Services, West Pharmaceutical Services, 1987 - 1993

Achievements:

Ivana Taylor has built a business around making pricing and competitive pressures disappear. She built The West Company's (WST) first professional marketing team that re-positioned this organization from a rubber component manufacturer into the premier provider of pharmaceutical systems. Ivana was recruited by Vernay to grow their $7 million medical business unit by targeting high-growth markets. In 1998, Alpha Technologies (previously Monsanto Instruments) sought her out to develop a re-positioning strategy to grow the business and set it up for re-sale. Today, she's the one CEOs call when they want to develop a turnkey sales and marketing operation that lets make more money with less effort.

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Career Progression

President & Chief Creative Officer, emaginit; 1993 - to date
President & CEO, Daniel Moneypenny & Associates; 1987 - 1993
President, Innovative Team; 1979 - 1987

Achievements:

Moneypenny spearheaded Amway's branding efforts through the mid 1990's developing 47 consecutive successful branding assignments throughout Europe, Japan and domestically. Moneypenny led Diebold's ATM hardware and software branding launches across 26 countries. Daniel travels far and wide developing branding elements via naming corporate & product, positioning both corporate & product, along with full spectrum ideation for Fortune 50 & 100 clients. Emaginit continues to build its database, that holds in excess of 600,000+ branding entities. He strongly believes that intellectual property will become the new currency. So much so, emaginit is launching its own IP division to insure conception to consumption continuity.

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Career Progression:

President and CEO, The Enterprise Group 1994-to date
Group President, Rubbermaid Office Products Group, 1992-1994
President, Huffy Bicycles, 1983-1992
President, Huffy-Oklahoma Bicycle Division, 1979-1983
VP Planning & Development, L.R. Nelson Corp.1977-1979
Director of Logistics, L.R. Nelson Corp., 1975-1977
Manufacturing Manager, & General Manager, OEM Products, L.R. Nelson Corp. 1967-1975
Supervisor, Electronic Packaging, Automatic Electric, Div. of GTE 1965-1967

Achievements:

Mariotti led Huffy Bicycles to the preeminent position as US market leader in bicycles, and world's largest and best-known bicycle company, during which the Huffy plant was the most productive bicycle plant in the world. Mariotti then led the turnaround and restructuring of Rubbermaid's Office Products Group, consisting of 9 business units on 4 continents. Since forming The Enterprise Group in 1994, Mariotti used his knowledge and experience to advise dozens of well-known companies in strategy, execution, operations and organization while authoring eight business books, hundreds of articles and speaking to thousands describing his work and business philosophy on partnerships.

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Career Progression:

President & CEO, J J Kokal & Associates, Inc. 1984 to date
President, KRK Techno, Inc. 1991 - 1995
President Elpar Div., Elwell-Parker Electric Co. 1986 - 1990
Subsidiary GM, Linde A.G. (Baker M. H. Corp) 1982 - 1984
Manager, Mfg., C-E Cast Equipment Co. 1979 -1982
Manager, Engineering, Joy Manufacturing Corp., 1977 - 1979
Supervisor, Ind. Eng., Elwell-Parker Electric Co. 1973 - 1977
Manager, Materials & Inv. Cont'l., A-M Corp., 1968 -1972

Achievements:

Developed as a manager and executive responsible for significant operating successes in five different companies over the course of 20+ years, at all levels of manufacturing, materials, technology and senior management/ownership levels.

Performed broad-based assessment of needs, of relevancy of staff to needs, developed a strategy for improvement and outlined the execution of plans in both operations and/or elsewhere in the organization.

Led multiple successful turnarounds ranging from plant improvements saving millions of dollars per year to a few necessary dissolution/divestment and liquidation through Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 where a successful turnaround could not be achieved in the lenders acceptable time-frame.

Acting as an interim executive, managed projects that led to either dramatic improvement and success, or the orderly packaging for sale/divestiture (and on rare occasions to bankruptcy and liquidation). Managed these turnaround situations in both private and public companies improving profitability, market share or both, by bolstering or revitalizing their leadership, repairing or replacing broken processes and instituting necessary discipline where it had been lost. This was done via quick, realistic and thorough assessment of existing situations, which led to decisive, implementation plans, followed by hands-on guidance and training of staff in the appropriate execution of changes.

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Career Progression

President, C. John Grom Executive Search Inc. 1994 to date
Manager, Executive Recruiting, Rubbermaid Inc.1983 to 1994
Partner, Munster Grom Owston & Lantz, Recruiting firm
Department Manager, General Tire & Rubber Co.

Achievements

C John Grom has been a recruiter since 1975, including ten years on the corporate staff of Rubbermaid as Manager of Executive Recruiting. From 1983 through early 1994 Grom was personally responsible for bringing 107 executives to Rubbermaid, including seven Division Presidents. In all he personally recruited 18% of all the bonus-eligible executives at Rubbermaid including four of the eight members of the Corporate Executive Committee.

In addition to bringing new talent into the organization, he played a key role in identifying and selecting internal candidates for promotion to executive level positions. Prior to joining Rubbermaid, Grom was a partner in the recruiting firm of Munster, Grom, Owston and Lantz in Akron, Ohio, specializing in finding technical and manufacturing managers for the Rubber and Plastics industries. Earlier in his career he spent 10 years with The General Tire and Rubber Company in managerial and technical positions.

Since leaving Rubbermaid in 1994, Grom established C. John Grom Executive Search, Inc., conducting senior level searches for a broad range of industries. Since April of 1994 he has conducted over eighty searches for more than thirty different companies. He holds a BSBA Degree from The University of Akron, majoring in Finance.

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Career Progression

Calfee Financial Advisors, President, 1998 to date
The Koptis Organization, Partner, 1991 - 1997
International Management Group (IMG), 1982 - 1991
Investment Advisors International, Vice President
Curtis Industries, Inc. (Congoleum), Director Sales Administration, 1980 - 1982
Arthur Andersen & Co., Audit Senior, 1976 - 1980
MBA from the University of Chicago, and BA from Stanford University

Achievements

Provided financial, tax, insurance, pension, estate and investment advice to top management at companies like B.F. Goodrich, Whirlpool, Mead, UAL, J.MM. Smucker and Rockwell, as well as small business owners, professionals (lawyers, doctors) and people of independent wealth. In addition, he was responsible for the financial affairs of sports clients including Ivan Lendl, Scott Hamilton and John Havlicek. Past Chair of The Board of Examiners and past member of the Board of Governors of The CFP Board of Standards in Denver, Co. Served for six years on the Judson Retirement Community Board, and is Treasurer of the Board of The Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Adjunct Professor the David N. Myers University in Cleveland, Ohio and past member of the Board of Trustees.

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Career Progression

2005 Ð 2008 Global Forecasting Manager, Raymarine Corp Merrimack New Hampshire
1997 Ð 2005 Director, Forecasting, Bosch Tool Corp / Vermont American Corporation Louisville KY 40202
1993 - 1997 Manager, Sales and Marketing Administration, Rubbermaid / Newell Office Products, Inc.
1977 - 1993 Manager, Forecasting, Rubbermaid Incorporated, Home Products Division
1974 - 1977 Production and Inventory Control Manager, J.M. Smucker Company, H.W. Madison Division

Education

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management, The University of Akron,
Concentration in Marketing. Graduated cum laude.
Certification in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) through the American Production and Inventory Control Society.

Achievements

Al Klayko has spent his entire career becoming more and more adept at outguessing what will happen in the future by studying past and present conditions. He has been one of the pioneers in stand-along forecasting systems that can be interfaced with large enterprise software platforms. Klayko moved beyond forecasting to the planning and marketing support areas, a natural progression given his professional competence. He is a veteran, and an expert in a field in which every company needs help.

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