Richard Mahler Richard Mahler Senior, Co-Founder CEO: Tepidus (a philanthropic umbrella company), HERO Employees Services, Richard Mahler & Associates, Int’l Children’s Support Foundation (ICF); Co-founder The Xperience Outreach; Recipient of various community service awards. Rich has been married 31 years and resides in Staten Island, NY. Richard Mahler Junior, Co-Founder CEO: Tepidus; President: Richard Mahler…
Phil Battin Phil Battin,Vice Chairman Pinnacle Forum Chicago; Sr. VP GCG Financial; NY United Nations Christian Embassy Board; Former Board Fellowship of Christian Athletes; YMCA Chaplain, Leader Navigator YMCA Indian Princesses; Former Benevolence Counselor, Willow Creek Church, South Barrington, IL. B.S. Finance & Acctng, Cedarville Univ; CFP De Paul Univ; Graduate of the Masters Program.…
Merrill Oster Merrill Oster is the Founder of Pinnacle Forum America and current member of its National Board. He is a dynamic businessman, international journalist, publishing entrepreneur, author, and keynote speaker. (For a complete bio, see www.pinnacleForum.com.) Merrill resides in Illinois and Arizona with his lovely wife Carol, has 2 children and 6 grandchildren. Accomplished…
Russell Wolf Russell Wolfe, CEO & Managing Partner Pure Flix Entertainment, Inc.; Owner/President Premier Event Management. He resides in Scottsdale, Arizona with wife, Alysoun and their 2 young children. Click to watch Russell Wolfe on Vimeo Russell Wolfe found Pinnacle Forum in 2008, just 3 years after the inception of Pure Flix, the largest producing Christian…
Rick Klopcic Rick Klopcic, President of Fireside Dinner Theater in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, one of the most popular attractions in the Midwest; Former Pinnacle Forum National Board Member; Former Member YPO, Current Member WPO; Various church boards; 2006 Grand Prize Winner of the prestigious Jones Dairy Farm ‘America’s Best Restaurant Families’ Award. Rick has been…
David A. Cook David A. Cook, Consultant to Multiple Entrepreneurial Ventures and High Impact Non-profits; CFO for SDG Inc. (a Cleveland Clinic start-up venture) & ‘Truth For Life’ Ministry, Former CFO Matrix Essentials Inc.; Former CPA- Arthur Andersen & Co.; Boards of Entrepreneurs EDGE, NEO Pinnacle Forum, NEO Leadership Foundation, Lifework Leadership, Ambassadors in Sport,…
George Kawasaki George Kawasaki, Managing Director Ronald Blue & Co, (one of the largest independent fee-only RIA firms in the U.S. providing financial counsel based on Biblical principles), Chicago, IL; CPA; Financial Planner & Investment Advisor; Former Sr. Auditor Deloitte & Touche; Former Sr. Manager Kraft Foods; MBA, Northwestern Univ J.L. Kellogg School of Management; Univ…
Chuck Stetson CEO Essentials in Education; Managing Director, PEI Funds; Yale; Columbia Univ. School of Business; LLD Concordia Univ., Portland; U.S. Navy; Nat’l Speaker on education; FOX News CBS Sunday Morning and The TODAY Show. Numerous Associate Press articles, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and TIME Magazine. Chuck Stetson changes things. It’s…
Dick Toliver Top Left: Major Dick Toliver F-15 Operational Test Pilot 1975; Bottom Left: Dick and Peggy – 47th Wedding Anniversary; Bottom Right: Dick’s Family COLONEL RICHARD ‘DICK’ TOLIVER, USAF, RET. Protégé of the Tuskegee Airmen, Author, Publisher, Motivational Speaker The timing of Colonel Richard Toliver’s interview is chilling. Not only did it ‘accidentally’ fall…
Joe Slawek Geneva, IL July 2012 Picnic for over 550 employee family members. (FONA lobby) Slawek Family Left to Right: Daughter-in-law Megan, son Luke, holding their daughter Elliana; daughter Joy, Joe, wife Mary, son Kirk, and his wife Mallory. Joe Slawek, Founder FONA Int’l; Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame; Sr. Nat’l Acct Exec Food Materials Corp; Marketing…
