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Educated - Ga. Tech Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering - 1978
Employed by Allis Chalmers corporation as Senior Field Engineer from 1978 to 1985. Rebuilt Steam Turbines and Generators for power plants. Investigated and rebuilt a number of major steam turbine failures. Published many times on the subject on turbine reliability.
Started Turbine Generator Maintenance, Inc. in 1986 and built it into the largest and most profitable non-OEM service provider in the United States. The company had annual revenues of $30MM and a list of satisfied Fortune 500 clients worldwide. The company operated in 47 states and many foreign countries. TGM was widely recognized as the quality alternative for turbine maintenance throughout North and South America in industries such as paper, phosphate, waste to energy, chemical, steel, sugar, power generation and others. The company developed significant amounts of intellectual property, trade secrets and management techniques that reduced outage times from an average of 16 weeks down to an average of 10 days. Many of the techniques developed by TGM are now industry standards.
Started Gas Turbine Maintenance in 1999 and built it into a leading supplier of gas turbine services. Customer list was a virtual Who’s Who of American business.
Both TGM and GTM were sold in 2007 to GFI energy ventures.
Tony has developed intellectual property and holds patents and copyrights in several disciplines.
Manufacturing Engineer / Operational Manager with 15 years automotive based experience. Obtained Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering with Bachelors in Business Administration, Management. Lead automotive operation from “Greenfield Development” to 60 million annual sales. Electro-Mechanical components with plastic, sheet metal, circuit board and sealed experience.
experience
Consultant, Rygo Consultants, Fenton, MI. Jan 2004- Current
- Assist in new development and move from 40K to 80 K sq. ft facility for Oakley Wheel and Tire assembly
- Develop and daily monitoring of progress against budgeted plans
- Project Manage “custom” capital equipment for machine builder Mecsmart Systems Inc
- Design and develop palletizer/depalletizer process for Hasbro Corporation
- Design and develop a linear transfer system (LTS) for Ray Connects fluid operation
Vice President, First Technology, Grand Blanc, MI: Sept. 1988- Jan. 2004
Component Assemble manufacturer for GM, Ford, Chrysler, Delphi, Toyota, Mazda and other automotive based clients Developed over 6 new product and processes complete to customer delivery Grew sales from $4 million to $60 million maintaining 20% net margins Managed over 150 employees including sales, engineering, finance, and operational personnel International P&L responsibilities for line production in France, England, U.S., and Dominican Republic International travel bi-monthly General Supervisor, AC Spark Plug, Flint, MI: Sept. 1982- 1988
- Injected molded plastics- fuel pump components, instrument cluster components
- Press room sheet metal- fine blanking to high-speed (2000spm) operations
- Platter room- chromate, oxide, heat treat, nickel, silver (barrel and rack platting)
- Sheer room- slit coiled material for press operations
- Managed in a union environment in quality, product control, and manufacturing
- Moved to two machine rate with operator inspecting parts
EDUCATION
Central Michigan University
M.A. Industrial Engineering, Sept83University of Illinois
B.A., Business Administration and Management June 81SKILLS
- High level of oral/written and interpersonal skills
- Analytical, proactive, and prioritizes. Inquires, solutions and progressive
- Office software: Word, Excel, Power Point, Project
- Specialized equipment: robotics, automation, vision
- Experience with time/motion studies, poke-yoke, ergonomics and error-proofing
- Recent training: lean manufacturing, ISO, PFEMA
Dr. Wagh has a Ph.D in physics. His expertise includes radioactive, hazardous, and mineral waste management and structural ceramics. With his colleagues, he developed a program at Argonne National Laboratory based on chemically bonded phosphate ceramics for radioactive and hazardous waste stabilization, pioneered research on bauxite tailings (high volume residue from alumina refineries) in Jamaica, directed projects related to utilization of greenhouse CO2, and hot gas ceramic cross-flow filters at Argonne National Laboratory, and developed a connected grain model to explain porosity and grain size dependence of transport properties in solids. He also worked as a consultant to several major firms in the aluminum industry.
His work has been subject of several articles in news magazines such as New Scientist, Chicago Tribune, and on TV programs such as Beyond 2000 and CLTV.
He has authored and co-authored approximately 100 scientific papers and holds 5 patents in the U.S. and abroad, and several patents are pending.
Stephen A. Zadrick is Founder and CEO of CenterPoint LLC. For the second year in a row he was recognized as one of Builder and Developer Magazine's Who's Who in the Building Industry (Jan 2005 & 2004), and was listed in Florida International Magazine's People edition titled Power Players: 100 A-List Floridians (April 2005) where he was included as an Innovator: People Who Use Originality to Reinvent the Status Quo.
The International Real Estate Trade Organization awarded CenterPoint and Mr. Zadrick Financing Idea of the Year in 2005 and the Chairman of the BIS awarded CenterPoint the International Business Innovation award for its efforts in forming SourceChina. SourceChina was also presented with the Golden Sourcing award at the CIHAF conference in Shanghai China by IRETO. SourceChina, of which Mr. Zadrick serves as Chairman of the Board, is a joint venture for sourcing Chinese vendors for all industries (specializing in the real estate industry). Source China was presented with the 2006 China Housing Industry Contribution Award, Golden International Partnership at the CIEHI conference in Beijing China by the Ministry of Construction of the Peoples Republic of China.
Mr. Zadrick is an Urban Land Institute Member (www.uli.org) and is also a member of the National Association of Home Builders (www.nahb.org), the Building Industry Association (www.biasc.org), the National Sales & Marketing Council and the National Council of the Housing Industry.
Through CenterPoint, Mr. Zadrick has founded, incubated and launched various startup companies including Source China, AllProof Precision Homes and One-Stop Media. One-Stop Media (www.one-stopmedia.com) is a one-stop shop for real estate developers providing strategic media planning and placement services including online lead generation. Source-China.com is the real estate developer's sourcing solution, providing developers with direct sourcing access into China. AllProof Precision Homes delivers the top international housing system solution combined with total turnkey quality homes.
As an independent consultant Mr. Zadrick then went on to become one of the first to organize a substantial corporate real estate trade, a multiple property Real Estate media barter contracts with Citicorp (Bank) Worldwide totaling approximately eight figures. This transaction, exchanging prime commercial real estate for media for use in funding the companies Visa and MasterCard spot radio and television advertising budgets, was the beginning of an industry trend. In 1992 the first project of this transaction (a property in Washington DC) was featured on the cover of Barter News as "Real Estate: Barter's Newest Venue".
In 1999 Mr. Zadrick, as co-CEO and Founder, incubated an 'in kind' media-based venture capital fund that closed-out in 2001 following the fall of the tech stock surge. Mr. Zadrick then went on to personally bankroll yet another new corporate barter company in 2001. The company officially became known as IGT Corporate Services, where Mr. Zadrick served as co-CEO. Their list of clients included Avon, Microsoft, SuperClubs Resorts, Allegro Resorts, Herbalife, Damiani Jewelry and many others. In December 2003 Mr. Zadrick left to form CenterPoint LLC.
Steve resides "on the road" between CenterPoint's various offices and clients, his horse ranch in Ocala, Florida and his apartment in Prague, Czech Republic, in Eastern Europe.
Andrew Young is the Senior Vice President at CenterPoint, in charge of developing CenterPoint s real estate client base and passing on his knowledge of their various creative financing programs. Andrew shares responsibility for developing and closing over $100 million of multi-family and master planned community real estate financing transactions over the last two years alone. He has been a foremost authority in the development and implementation of CenterPoint's ever expanding list of services.
More recently he has concentrated his efforts on becoming highly involved in contractual issues and negotiations on behalf of the company and works closely with Matt Zifrony (General Counsel) to review and revise CenterPoint's Real Estate Investment Agreements to meet the needs of both clients and investors.
Andrew has also become highly competent in the financial analysis of investment opportunities and has made use of various tools to review and dissect each opportunity enabling him to present that opportunity in a clear and concise manor to senior management personnel.
Mr. Young is an active member of NAHB (National Association of Homebuilders) and a Sustaining member of the ULI (Urban Land Institute).
A native of England, Andrew spent his childhood being educated at Royal College in Newcastle upon Tyne, the North East of the country. He completed his higher education at an early age and went on to embark on an extremely successful career in the fashion industry.
During these months and years Andrew lived and worked in most of the major cities of the world including, London, Paris, Milan, New York, Tokyo, Sydney, Soul, Hong Kong and Hamburg to name but a few. Whilst in these various countries Andrew secured lucrative contracts with many of the major fashion houses including Prada, Louis Vuitton, Hugo Boss, Burberry, Donna Karen, Fendi and Jil Sander amongst many others. He had the privilege of experiencing many different cultures and working with many high profile names within the industry at an early age.
After living in New York City for 3 years Andrew made the move to Miami, Florida in 2003 where he met Steve Zadrick and Caprice Lacroix. He began his relationship with them by communicating with various C level executives on their behalf, at some of the countries top corporations, which led to the execution of numerous agreements.
Andrew has always had a passion for music; his father is a classical composer and conductor and spent time training him in classical Piano and Viola form a young age.
Andrew's additional interests include animals, growing up owning two horses that he competed with in various local and national events, and sports, playing soccer and windsurfing.