John Foster, MBA

FOUNDER

John P. Foster has 30 plus years of leadership and management experience with multiple companies at various stages of development across several fast paced industries including; finance (Investment Banking Partnerships, Valuation Services), business consulting (Strategic Planning), national distribution and electronics recycling (Computer Hardware and Consumer Electronics), healthcare (Co-Founded Medicaid HMO) commercial real estate (Development of Medical Facilities, Personal Investing) and publishing (In Room Magazine – Hyatt Hotels).

John is the Managing Member of PathFinder Group (PFG), a Tampa based Family Business Advisory focused on helping to ensure the American Dream for business owners through Growth and Transition Planning, Process Improvement, Leadership Development and Creation of High Performing Cultures.

He is also a Licensed Partner with LXCouncil a CEO Peer to Peer group working with CEOs to grow their businesses with year over year sustainable growth.

John has been a life-long entrepreneur and from 1996 until 2005 he served as Chairman and CEO of Alliance Computing Technologies, Inc. (ACT).

In his capacity as ACT’s Chairman, John interacted regularly with Shareholders, an outside Board of Directors, Bankers and General Counsel in communicating the company’s vision and reporting results. As CEO of ACT he led the formulation of strategic initiatives, oversaw the deployment of tactical plans and was ultimately responsible for the company’s success. Over a four-year period, ACT increased profitable sales an average of 127% per annum to $24MM. His duties also took him to Washington, DC where he met with both Houses of Congress as an advocate for the Rent To Own (RTO) industry.

John is a Founding Member of the Tampa Chapter of the Private Directors Association (PDA) a Chicago based organization dedicated to private company board education. Within this chapter he co-chairs the committee on Diversity Equity and Inclusion.

John earned his BA in Psychology from Duquesne University and an MBA from the University of Tampa in 1993. In 2014 The University of Tampa invited him to teach Family Business as an adjunct professor in the John Sykes College of Business. He has completed 240 graduate level credits in Commercial Investment Real Estate Analysis, acquired his Florida Real Estate Broker’s license, and a 6PAK Captain’s license. He is very active in the community serving on the BayCare Behavioral Health Advisory Board, University of Tampa’s, Board of Fellows, the Rotary Club of Tampa as a past member of the Board, a Rotary Foundation Trustee and past President of the Rotary Club of Tampa (2008-09). In January of 2018 John was invited to serve as a Director on the Board of Flanigan’s Enterprises Inc. trading as BDL (NYSE).

In his spare time John is a beekeeper, who likes brew beer, bake sourdough bread, fish, kayak and read.

Holly Tompson, PHD

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Dr. Holly Tompson is a Professor of International Business at Florida Southern College. She has taught undergraduate and MBA courses in the U.S. and abroad for over 25 years, serving on multiple committees and supervising senior theses.

Prior to Florida Southern College, she worked as a Senior Research Analyst for the Institute for Corporate Productivity. Holly has taught at the University of Tampa, Saint Leo University, the University of Central Arkansas and the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, where she lived with her family for four years.

Dr. Tompson graduated Magna Cum Laude from Trinity University with a B.A. in Business Administration and Psychology. She completed her doctoral work in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management at the University of South Carolina, where she received the Educational Foundation Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.

Dr. Tompson lives in Tampa with her husband and 3 children. In her work with the Institute for Corporate Productivity, she has advised numerous Fortune 200 companies in Leadership, Global Management, and Coaching.

Holly is a certified Executive Coach and has partnered with the Center for Focused Leadership Executive Education program since 2006. She received certification to administer the Hogan Personality Indicator as well as the Bar-On Emotional Intelligence Assessment.

Holly works with several non-profits in the Tampa Bay area and teaches in the University of Tampa’s Non-Profit certification program. Her current research includes coaching and peer-to-peer mentoring, work-life balance and adjustment to international job changes.

Dr. Tompson has authored or co-authored numerous refereed journal and proceedings articles for publications such as The Journal of Management, The Journal of International Business Studies, Business and Society, The Journal of Education for Business, The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and Human Resource Management.

JOdy Tompson, phd

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, MARKETING, STRATEGIC PLANNING

Jody Tompson is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management at the Sykes College of Business at University of Tampa and the Director of Business Strategy at Naimoli Institute. He is also the Founder of CitriClean of Florida, an all-natural citrus based dishwasher detergent. He specializes in organizational dysfunctions, organizational decline, entrepreneurship, and family businesses.

Dr. Tompson has taught business courses for 25 years using the case method, statistical surveys, computer simulations, among others. Outside of the classroom, Dr. Jody Tompson provides on-site training in business planning, strategy and innovation. He consults with top management on decision making skills.

Tony Ryan Gain

COMPANY CULTURE, LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Recently Tony retired as Vice President Business Development for Florida for Lee Hecht Harrison Inc. His Corporate career began with Drake Beam Morin Inc. (1992-2011) and assignments/responsibilities included: Career Coach, Career Center Manager, General Manager Florida and Senior Account Executive. When the Adecco Group purchased DBM he became the Vice President for Business Development for Florida for Lee Hecht Harrison Inc. (2011-2014). His areas of expertise include: Career Transition Management and Sales, Leadership/ Followership Development, Culture Focus, and Change Management.

Tony’s first career was with the United States Marine Corps starting as a Private and achieving the rank of full Colonel. He has three combat tours, served with the State Department and on Recruiting duty, was ranked the number one Officer Recruiter in the Corps. He has led everything from a 4-man fire team to a 1400-man Battalion Landing Team, and was at one time the youngest infantry Colonel in the Marine Corps. In Desert Storm he was awarded the Legion of Merit and Defense Superior Service medals as the Chief of Current Operations, under General Norm Schwarzkopf.

As a consummate professional and gifted speaker known for promoting growth through change, Tony maintains top mental, physical, and spiritual condition, and enjoys sharing his energy, ethics and attitude.

Tony’s education, training and recognition includes: One-year graduate residency work at the National Defense University, Washington D.C., a BA in Sociology, and Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities.

Michael Kelly, MBA

LEAN SIX SIGMA, STRATEGIC PLANNING

Michael Kelly has served as an organizational development consultant to employees at all levels of the organizations he’s counseled. His clients represent a variety of industries including transportation, construction, financial services, food services, government, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, sales, and utilities. In the area of rail transportation, Michael has worked primarily in the area of Process Management with Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, CSX, and BNSF. As a faculty member for the ING Business School in Amsterdam, Netherlands, he also served ING as an advisor on Lean Six Sigma implementation to the senior regional management of the Asia-Pacific Insurance Division, which covers the entire Pacific Rim from China to India, including Australia.

Among Michael’s other clients are TIAA-CREF, Premier Health Care, NextEra Energy, and Educational Testing Service (ETS). In addition to authoring Everyone’s Problem Solving Handbook [LINK] (Productivity Press, 1991), Michael has developed over 100 custom training programs covering such Leadership Development and Lean Six Sigma topics as Greenbelt training, Strategic Planning, Process Improvement & Measurement, Problem Solving, Team Building, Project and Change Management, Interviewing, Coaching, and Performance Management. Michael received a BBA from the University of North Florida in 1974, and an MBA from Nova Southeastern University in 1981.

JOHNathan moore, AIA

OWNER'S REPRESENTATION

Jonathan Moore has 20 years experience as an owner’s representative, architect, entrepreneur and business development professional. He recently sold ownership in an award-winning architecture practice to pursue real estate development consulting with an emphasis on risk management.

Jonathan is an Owner’s Rep, assisting owners through the process of expanding, renovating or building new construction. He provides architecture, construction, financing, scheduling and logistics services with over $1 billion of construction experience amongst the team. A special focus includes leveraging the value of idle balance sheet assets, non-profit and institutional advisory services with associated risk assessment. Managing risk within a capital project allows an organization to minimize time, resources and funds. An Owner’s Representative assists an owner in an expansion / development process, bringing relative design, construction and development experience into the ownership team. Owner’s Reps assist with the selection of architects, developing schedules, leading meetings, providing third-party reviews as well as being the “owner’s tuned eyes” during the entire process.

Jonathan has been a part of the Tampa community for 25 years, attending Chamberlain High School and graduating from the University of Florida. He received his Masters of Architecture at SCI-Arc / Los Angeles, where he worked under famed architect Eric Owen Moss. He is active with many community organizations including the Rotary Club of Tampa, and is the father of two young children.

Sie Kamide

GENERAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Sie Kamide has twenty-nine years of experience as a banker where he began as an Asset Based Lender and retired as a Community Bank Regional President. Sie understands business from the ground up and from the inside out. In addition to his years as an effective business banker, Sie ran businesses as an entrepreneur and as a consultant. As a consultant providing CFO services he helped turn a $100MM national environmental service company around and worked with banks to provide strategic planning with a special focus on problem asset acquisition and resolution.

As a risk manager and executive charged with credit policy Sie has a particularly unique understanding of managing risk and in building the balance sheet to mirror bank requirements for extending credit. Sie formerly was the co-owner of a glass fabrication company where he was responsible for increasing sales 50% in a two-year period. He received his education from St. Lawrence University where he earned a B.A. in Economics with a minor concentration in accounting Minor Concentration in Accounting. He has completed 21 Graduate Hours in the MBA program at The State University of New York at Buffalo.

James RandolPH

BUSINESS CONTINGENCY, BUSINESS CONTINUITY, DISASTER RECOVERY

James Randolph is an Information Technology Professional with twenty-eight years of experience in developing and implementing Business and Information Technology strategies to achieve stated goals. He has strong analytical and communication skills with experience at implementing cost-effective business solutions across multiple industries.

James served on active duty in the United States Navy from 1974 until 1981 then with the US Naval Reserves until 1988. After completing his military service obligation, he joined IBM as a technical marketing specialist. He has used these skills to develop and support business technology solutions in Florida since July 1994. Specifically, his expertise includes Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) methodologies including; Business Continuity Planning / Business Contingency Planning (BCP), Business Impact Analysis (BIA), Disaster Recovery Planning & Business Resumption Planning (DRP / BRP), E-Discovery Plans and has a strong background in Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) / Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) models focusing on Rural Healthcare Providers (CHC, RHC, CAH, and FQHC look-alikes) and Hospices via Health Information Management (HIM) consulting services.

James has been the lead consultant in multiple strategic planning, business assessment, and audit sessions. He also maintains a State of Florida certified MBE and City of Tampa certified SBE designation and serves as a; Advisory Board Member of Rural Health Partnership of North Central Florida, Member of Florida Hospice Palliative Care Association, Member of Tampa Bay Healthcare Collaborative, Chairman of Tampa Business Professional Roundtable (BPR), and President of Tampa Bay iSeries DEBUG User Group. James received his A.S., Electricity / Electronics and A.A., Business Administration from San Diego City College, San Diego, CA. He is also an accomplished Toastmaster having earned both the Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) and Advanced Leader-Silver Certificate Awards.

ANITA KRICK

HUMAN CAPITAL STRATEGIST

Anita M. Krick, Founder of AMK Strategic Growth Consulting and formerly Vice President Business Development with Right Management, is a dynamic executive with proven consultative skills, expert sales leadership and demonstrated senior human resources leadership in developing strategies to promote organizational success. Prior to joining Right, Anita was Vice President, Human Resources with NationsCredit Corporation, a NationsBank subsidiary.

Anita’s career includes both experiences inside corporations and as an external consultant. With over 22 years of corporate service to companies such as BankAmerica, Chrysler Corporation and NationsBank, Anita has been personally involved in numerous corporate relocations, acquisitions and mergers. She created an organization’s winning strategy for customer service and subsequently trained over 1,000 employees across the Americas. Anita began her corporate career by creating captive finance companies for manufacturers and distributors of consumer durable goods. Well-rounded in all business aspects, Anita is most interested and most energized by the linkage of an organization’s human capital “ingredient” to its business strategy. Her varied expertise has helped her to provide consulting services to executives and their teams in numerous industries, both large and small.

In addition to her degree from West Chester University, Ms. Krick is a graduate of the Chrysler Quality Institute in Highland, MI, and the Graduate School of Sales Management and Marketing of Sales and Marketing Executives International through Syracuse University.

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