Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Time:  8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Event Description

Rick Mazursky
Principal/Coach
The Executives Profit
www.theexecutivesprofit.com

Rick Mazursky has experience working with all sizes of companies from start-ups to nationally recognized corporations. He specializes in growing companies by capturing market share and attaining profitability. He also has extensive experience with product development and manufacturing in the Far East.

Rick has held numerous executive and leadership positions in companies that created and sold electronic educational toys, consumer electronics and software. He helped launch Cabbage Patch Dolls and was a partner in a toy business that was sold to a publicly traded company. He served as President of VTech Industries, President of G.P. Toys and CEO of Digital Innovations.

As Co-Founder of The Executives Profit, he currently coaches clients in a variety of service and product-oriented industries.

AWARDS

• Inducted into the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame
• Nominated for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award
• Awarded Nine U. S. Patents

Sari Klein
Director
Team Discovery
www.teamdiscoveryonline.com

Sari Klein is the Director at Team Discovery concentrating on building relationships and helping find the perfect candidates to fit our client’s needs. Ms. Klein has 23 years experience as a recruiter assisting a diverse roster of clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses. Ms. Klein’s philosophy is to treat each client and candidate with respect and individual attention. Ms. Klein graduated with a B.A in Sociology from the University of Illinois, Champaign, IL and has a Masters Degree in Education from National Louis University, Evanston, Il. Her personal interests include cooking, gardening, reading and fitness. She has been involved extensively within her community having served on Arts and Riverwoods and currently is on the Riverwoods caucus. She belongs to the Heartland Literary Society and is on the Board of a national not for profit.  

Charles A. Krugel
Human Resources Attorney & Counselor
Labor & Employment Law on Behalf of Management
www.charlesakrugel.com

As a management side labor and employment attorney, Charles Krugel, www.charlesakrugel.com, has represented businesses in hundreds of negotiations and disputes. His primary focus is helping businesses reduce their employment and labor expenses and to efficiently and discreetly resolve disputes, whether through in-house procedures, negotiation or litigation. He has over 15 years of experience in the field. For the past 9 years, he has run his own successful management side practice. Besides having earned his Juris Doctorate from Ohio Northern University, Charles has a Master of Arts in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a Bachelors in Psychology from Bradley University. Also, he's a published author and frequently the subject of numerous TV, radio and newspaper interviews regarding his field. Charles is on the boards of directors of numerous organizations including the Chicago Bar Foundation's Young Professionals Board, 2010 Vice Chair of the Board of the Greater O'Hare Association and Chair of the GOA's Government Affairs Team, Board Chair of the YMCA Alliance of Chicago, and Board Member for ChildServ.   

Tom Gorman
Founder and President& Counselor
Entrepreneurial Design, Inc.
www.entrepreneurialdesign.com

Thomas Gorman is Founder and President of Entrepreneurial Design, Inc., a software company with stage appropriate business financial planning tools for start-ups through to companies that have $10M to $20M in annual revenue. Previously, he was an independent consultant, where he developed the tools that Entrepreneurial Design is commercializing. Prior to that, he was COO of Leverage Point Media (LPM), a subsidiary of Menasha, which launched Labeldollars, an in-store coupon program distributed through deli weigh-scales, in 1,600 Safeways (Dominick’s in Chicago) in a 6-week rollout. Before that he was co-founder of Labeldollars, and moved to Chicago with the sale to LPM. During his career, he co-founded a reverse vending recycling equipment company, Canpactor that was sold to investors. He co-founded and was VP of Marketing of a medical equipment company, Roman Labs, that produced portable oxygen concentrators and nebulizers, which was sold to Lifecare. He co-founded and was President of a television production company, Your First Choice, that produced a self-syndicated TV shows about Medicare patient choice that was aired in 32 markets in the South and Southwest, and was sold to investors. He was VP of Business Development for PAC Enterprises, an international turnkey aluminum can manufacturing plant engineering firm, that built plants in China, Brazil, Taiwan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and New Zealand, that was Colorado Exporter of the year in 1996. And after that, he was CFO of an incubator, Arete Industries, where he managed the commercialization of developmentally disabled learning software and robotic projects. Mr. Gorman is on the board of Cathedral Shelter of Chicago, one of the oldest homeless shelters in America. He holds a BA degree in Economics from DePauw University and an MBA from the University of Colorado.   

Moderator
Jason Jacobsohn
AEGIS Professional Services
www.aegisps.com/

Jason Jacobsohn is well known in the Chicago area as a “connector” and go-to person for entrepreneurs who want to grow and maintain their success. Currently, he is Director of Venture Development at AEGIS Professional Services, which offers integrated, comprehensive business services through its legal, consulting, and capital sourcing practice groups.

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