Great people make up our volunteer Advisory Board:
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Lorraine Ball - Lorraine is a twenty-year veteran of corporate America, having led marketing, training and creative teams for companies ranging in size from family owned, to those included in the Fortune 500. She is a certified teacher, facilitator and college instructor. She has used creativity, positive energy and collaboration techniques to inspire her teams to achieve exceptional results. Today, she teaches managers across the United States how to incorporate these techniques into their daily routines.
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Phone: 317.908.0262
Email: hello@roundpeg.biz
Website: www.roundpeg.biz
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Howard Bienstock - As President and Senior Executive Consultant, Howard has 20 years of executive experience in corporate growth and turnaround management. He has developed a diverse and fiscally insightful business acumen with a proven track record of creating and implementing unprecedented sales growth strategies; cost reduction efforts; leadership development; and overall process improvement in both national and multinational corporations. Howard provides practical success strategies to a myriad of executive clients who desire to stretch their business success to the next level. In addition to being a master negotiator, Howard has forged well respected relationships with vendors and OEMs which allows ROI to leverage his experience and knowledge to provide totally "risk-free" cost recovery solutions for their clients. Howard has led his team to a 100% success rate in recovering lost profits - truly "maximizing the return on their business investment!"
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Phone: 317-439-2679
Email: howard@roillc.net
Website: www.roillc.net
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Merri Cronk - Merri Cronk is the owner of FranNet of Indiana, and she provides free consultations to individuals who are serious about looking into business ownership. She works to match the personal, professional and financial goals of her clients with carefully selected national franchise companies. She also facilitates monthly seminars on franchise ownership. Having realized her own dreams as a business owner, Merri has a great interest in making sure those who share her dream understand that owning a business can be safe and affordable. Merri and her husband, Scott, also a FranNet advisor, are the owners of multiple businesses including a multi-territory franchise business. She has experience as a free-lance writer for publications including Broker Agent Magazine and the Indianapolis 500 Official Program. She is a graduate of Texas A&M University.
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Phone: 317-849-4052
Email: mcronk@frannet.com
Website: www.frannet.com
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Doug Edge - Doug is the president of Edge Marketing. Doug has been in the business trenches and knows what it takes to create customer relationships that last a lifetime. He also has successfully written business plans, grants and winning marketing strategies for small businesses and large corporations. Doug specializes in early stage business and marketing planning.
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Phone: 765.617.0224
Email: dedge@insightbb.com
Website: www.dougedge.com
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Mike Finnegan - Mike has over 20 years of customer care and relationship building under his belt. He enjoys connecting other people and being connected. Mike has leveraged golf as a networking tool throughout his professional career. Mike has used his enthusiasm along with his extensive experience with solution selling, marketing, and management to provide technology solutions that solve business needs and help people and organizations become more successful. Mike works with small, medium and large clients to identify ways to leverage technology solutions in a cost effective manner so they may better serve their customers needs on-time and under budget! ESI focuses on providing secure, collaborative information technology solutions that span from the desktop to the data center.
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Phone: 317.596.9891 ext 115
Email: mfinnegan@esiindy.com
Website: www.esiindy.com
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Karl Freburg - Karl is a search consultant with Protis Executive Innovations, a firm that provides human capital solutions based on the ability to deliver cross functional, top-tier talent through retained searches and consulting and organizational design engagements. Karl focuses on the consumer products arena, specializing in placements of salespeople in great positions. He has developed a wide array of skills, business savvy and knowledge through his experiences in several business disciplines, including consumer products sales, strategic business consulting and financial services. Karl believes that networking is the genesis of relationship building, which will provide real benefits to those that engage in relationships in an honest and empathetic manner.
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Phone: 317.275.5434
Email: kfreburg@protisei.com
Website: www.protisei.com
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Dale Fugate - Dale Fugate – Dale is the Director of Sales and Operations for e-Practical Solutions, Inc., a Search Engine Optimization, Web Development and Hosting Company. He has over 15 years of leadership, operations and sales experience serving more than 10 years as an Army Officer. While on active duty he completed a Masters Degree in Information and Communications at Ball State University. Dale is committed to networking and relationship building. He focuses on improving his clients’ web presence, search engine positioning, and conversion rates; helping to define and measure success.
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Phone: 317-286-4004
Email: dale.fugate@e-psinc.com
Website: www.e-psinc.com
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Robert P. Gallup - Bob Gallup joined Nursing Knowledge International in March 2003 bringing over 18 years of executive leadership, national sales management, corporate marketing and operational expertise in high technology industries. Mr. Gallup has an extensive background in leading, building, and recreating complex businesses for large Fortune 500 companies as well as in startup technology organizations.
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Phone: 317.290.5500
Email: bob@nursingknowledge.org
Website: www.nursingknowledge.org
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Bryan Gray - Success in business is not a matter of can or can’t, but whether you will or won’t.
A philosophy that only works through daily practice–something that earned Bryan
Gray uncommon success and the opportunity to help and guide others. In 1995, Bryan created a Midwest-based ATM company that sold just five years
later for $5.25 million. He did this while helping grow a national ATM distribution
network, the future buyer of his company, into Inc. Magazine’s 15th fastest growing
company in the nation in 1999.
A philosophy that only works through daily practice–something that earned Bryan
Gray uncommon success and the opportunity to help and guide others.
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Phone: 317.578.9100
Email: bryan@yourblueprint.com
Website: www.yourblueprint.com
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Greg Knotek - Greg Knotek has over seventeen years experience in the IT industry. During his 12 years with Accenture (Formerly Andersen Consulting) he led advanced technology teams in implementing cutting edge browser based technologies. His projects included development of the first Internet banking interface for NationsBank in 1995, conversion of several major software applications to browser based technologies, implementation of the first content management system on Accenture.com, and planning the Internet related aspects of rebranding Andersen Consulting to Accenture.
Greg founded Zent Consulting in 2003 with the purpose of bringing the dual benefits of web-based technology and strong branding to the Small and Medium Business market. Zent Consulting partners with clients to identify and implement initiatives that provide maximum return on investment.
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Phone: 317-509-4137
Email: gknotek@zentconsulting.com
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CJ McClanahan - CJ McClanahan is a licensed business coach with Action International, the world’s largest business coaching organization. He specializes in helping business owners implement the strategies necessary to reach their professional and personal goals.
After beginning his career with Arthur Andersen, CJ shifted his focus towards the small business. He served as the Director of Finance and Operations for a medium sized manufacturing organization and spent three years prior to joining Action as a Director of Sales and Marketing for an established national software company. CJ is recognized as one of the top coaches in the United States and was recently distinguished with an “Action Man of the Year” award.
CJ is dedicated to helping business owners understand that a business should be a “commercial, profitable enterprise that works without you.”
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Phone: 317-697-2262
Email: cj@gorainmakers.com
Website: www.coachcj.com
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Dennis Nash - A 1987 graduate of the University of Massachusetts School of Business, Dennis has spent the majority of his career as an Employee Benefits consultant providing small to medium-sized business with a wide array of Group Benefits including Medical, Life, AD&D, Vision, Disability, 401K and Dental Insurance.
Rather than focusing solely on short term solutions to a problem, Dennis works closely with his clients to develop an innovative, long term strategic plan for better managing their benefit programs.
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Phone: 317-817-5199
Email: Dennis.Nash@Hylant.com
Website: www.hylant.com
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Steve Roberts - Motivation and Recognition, Inc. is a 27-year-old Indianapolis based company that was formed to aggressively address the growing concern of Corporate Motivation. We are a full service provider and consultant in recognition, sales incentive, and safety programs. Our commitment to utilize innovation technology paves the way to address the need of today's recognition environment. Let us help protect your most important asset, YOUR PEOPLE!
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Phone: 317-347-1047
Email: steveroberts@mrecognition.com
Website: www.AtABoy.net
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Joel Russell - Joel Russell is president and owner of eImagine Technology Group, Inc., a software development firm that specializes in delivering technology solutions on time and under budget. Mr. Russell has ten years experience using technology to solve business problems and is actively involved in researching new technologies. Today, he focuses on creating easy to use, easy to implement solutions for eImagine’s clients.
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Phone: 317.577.9958
Email: jrussell@eimaginetech.com
Website: www.eimaginetech.com
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Eric Schneller - Eric is Owner and President of Crew Property Improvement Specialists, LLC, a company specializing in remodeling and all maintenance services for residential and commercial property. Eric has 14 years experience in the property management field. In addition to his undergrad degree in Business from IU, he has a Masters Degree in Higher Education that some say is going woefully unused. Crew prides itself on being able to solve almost any maintenance problem or remodel desire, through it's skilled and multi-talented craftsmen. Crew has grown to over 10 employees in just over a year, and is looking for even more exponential growth. Eric believes strongly in the combination of customer satisfaction and active networking as the #1 way to grow a business into a great success story, and strives to bring that to life every day.
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Phone: 317-731-1000
Email: crewspecialists@aol.com
Website: www.crewspecialists.com
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Julie Sterle - Julie has been involved in many aspects of information technology for the past 10 years in the Midwest: sales, marketing and staffing. Presently with Fusion Alliance in Indianapolis she is responsible for helping clients realize their business goals through the integration and implementation of technology-based solutions. As an organization, Fusion Alliance strives to employ and retain leaders in each of our specialty areas. In doing so, we offer our clients proven experience-based consulting services. In addition to her professional achievements, Sterle is an active leader in the community and is a 1994 Graduate of the University of Toledo.
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Phone: 317-514-8605
Email: jsterle@fusionalliance.com
Website: www.fusionalliance.com
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Thomas Wagenhauser - Thomas Wagenhauser is president and owner of ACustomNet, Inc., a small business consulting firm that focuses on solving technology headaches. Thomas Wagenhauser has 10 years experience working with small and medium sized businesses solving many of their technology problems while focusing on always meeting or exceeding budget restrictions. Thomas specializes in working with a wide variety of software and hardware products and is always creative in his problem solving processes. Today, Thomas is using that knowledge to help other small businesses solve their technology issues. ACustomNet is “IT Pain Relief for Small Business”!
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Phone: 317-283-2006
Email: twagenhauser@acustom.net
Website: www.acustom.net
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Marty Whalen - Marty Whalen is the Chief Learning Officer at OD Source, a results based executive management consulting firm providing organizational development, strategic human resources, leadership development and technology solutions. He is a dynamic conceptual leader with extensive worldwide experience in assessments, creative design, planning, staffing, budgeting and promotion of business management & technical training programs. Marty is a value based program/project manager & consultant in several areas encompassing process improvement, educational development, instructional services, career coaching, strategic partnership orchestration, business to business network marketing, customer loyalty and employee retention. His charter is providing clients with measurable business results by creating innovative program designs, leadership programs, team building exercises, change management processes, training services, relationship building skills and pro active customer service culture.
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Phone: 317-844-3133
Email: MWHALEN@INDY.RR.COM
Website: www.od-source.com
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