Jim Bates
President & CEO
Business Improvement group

Jim is a highly motivated and experienced Business Executive/Consultant who continuously delights customers by delivering high value solutions to everyday business challenges.  He has strong technical and business qualifications with an impressive track record of more than 30 years of hands-on experience in strategic planning, tactical deployment, business unit development, service management, project management, and secure system engineering strategies.  In addition to his many professional certifications, Jim holds master certificates in Project Management, Business Analysis, and Lean Six Sigma from Villanova University.

Areas of Expertise: 

• Assisting start-ups, new businesses as well as established businesses
• Writing business plans
• Conducting business analysis
• Engineering business processes and Systems
• Aligning technology with business processes
• Project Management

Preferred Contact Method:  jlbates@go-big.com

Don Day
President & CEO
DLD Business Consulting

Don is a C level executive who has worked for billion dollar corporations to mid size and family owned start up enterprises. I bring to any company a wealth of experience and quantifiable accomplishments in the areas of profit and loss, production and operation control, marketing and sales, quality control metrics, physical distribution, customer relations, and account management. A results oriented leader and mentor who encourages consistent positive results. I encourage an open environment as a "participative management" leader.

Areas of Expertise:

• P&L Statements
• Financial Oversight
• Sales and Marketing
• Business Development
• Production Control
• Product Distribution

Preferred Contact Method:  dday504716@aol.com

JoAnn Garbin
Founder & Knowledge Lead
KnowE Technology Consulting & Development

JoAnn has been providing expert energy and sustainability tools and advisory services to the world’s largest corporations and cities for 13 years. She specializes in the convergence of technology and sustainability and has led numerous applications from conception through development to deployment. She provides strategic guidance and support as well as hands-on expertise to those building or buying sustainability-related technologies.  In prior roles, JoAnn was instrumental in the definition, implementation, and on-going execution of energy and sustainability management programs for global clients with large distributed portfolios of buildings and fleets.

JoAnn earned her degree in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University where she is a guest lecturer. She is also a frequent speaker at many notable industry events and is LEED GA and ISO 14001: 2004 Auditor certified.

Areas of expertise:

• Energy Management
• Corporate Sustainability
• Technology Development (concept, specification, and prototyping through development, deployment, and support)
• Business Development/Sales/Presentations.

Preferred Contact Method:  Skype (JoAnn.Garbin) or email (jmgarbin@knowetech.com)

Linda Hauck
Business Librarian
Villanova University

Linda is a Business Librarian with more than 20 years’ experience performing the underlying research for market, business, and product development.  Over the years she has performed both business and legal research in multiple industries.

Areas of Expertise:

• Secondary Market Research
• Business planning research
• Product development research

Preferred Contact Method:  Linda.hauck@villanova.edu

Terrence Sheridan
President and Owner
GeoStorage Corporation

After more than 20 years of marketing and selling construction products, Terrence obtained a patent for an underground storm water detention system.  For the last six years, he has have built a company that licenses the intellectual property around the world.

Areas of expertise:

• Engineering
• Intellectual Property
• Sales and Marketing.
  Start-up of technology based companies

Preferred Contact Method:  tsheridan@geostoragecorp.com

Christopher (Chris) Tecca
President, CEO, and General Manager

Chris has held leadership positions including President, CEO, and General Manager and has experience in both Asia and Europe. Chris has been a part of and run companies from $50M up to $200M manufacturing different products from Datacenters to Industrial Machinery. His functional background is in Sales & Marketing with multi-channel experience.

Areas of Expertise:

• Strategic Planning - including market analysis, budgeting etc. 
• Sales & Marketing 
• Lean Business

Preferred Contact Method:  chris.tecca@gmail.com