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SUCCESS SECRETS OF AMERICA’S FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES – Jim Reavey of FM Facilities Maintenance

Steve Straub — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 01:58:40 +0000

Jim Reavey is CEO of FM Facilities Maintenance. FM Facility Maintenance provides facility maintenance for clients with multisite restaurant and retail locations. FM Facilities Maintenance manages more than 25,000 customer locations nationwide, representing more than a million service requests annually. Just this year, FM finalized a deal to provide maintenance for all 6,200 of 7-Eleven’s corporate- and franchise-owned locations in the U.S. and Canada. Jim grew FM Facilities Maintenance revenue from $11,500,000 to $110,400,000 in three years. an amazing 906% increase.

As CEO Jim takes a primary role in the delivery of all aspects of FM Facility Maintenance’s Facility Maintenance made simple approach, including the implementation of the company’s Guaranteed Savings model.

Reavey brings over a decade of experience in operations and facility maintenance, most recently with Johnson Controls, a leader in building efficiency and power solutions. In his prior role, Reavey was Vice President and General Manager for Johnson Controls’ Retail/Multi-Site business, experience that relates closely to FM Facility Maintenance’s service offering to over 30,000 retail sites. Johnson Controls recorded revenue of over $34.5 billion in 2008.

Jim received his BSBA degree from Rockhurst University in Kansas City.

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SUCCESS SECRETS OF AMERICA’S FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES – Ken Paradis of Crowe Paradis Services Corp

Steve Straub — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 03:34:27 +0000

Ken Paradis is CEO of Crowe Paradis Services Corp. Crowe Paradis provides nationwide representation for Social Security Disability claimants as well as health plan selection and enrollment assistance for Medicare beneficiaries. In conjunction with employer-sponsored group life, disability, and health plan participants, Crowe Paradis works to guarantee that disabled employees receive education, advocacy, and benefit coordination assistance. Ken grew Crowe Paradis revenue from $1,300,000 to $16,700,000 in three years, an amazing 1,208% increase, in the middle of a recession.

Blending his insiders’ knowledge, legal expertise, and business acumen to the nation’s second injury funds, Ken’s first venture, Alternative Risk Concepts, Inc. (“ARC”), has capitalized on hundreds of millions of dollars in untapped recovery and reserve reduction opportunities for its clients. From humble beginnings in the back room of a law firm in 1999, ARC counts household name, top five largest insurers, TPAs and self-insured corporations as its clients.

Teaming up with co-founder Michael Crowe in 2002, Ken also launched Crowe Paradis & Albren (CP&A) to capitalize on SSDI advocacy opportunities for claimants and disability carriers throughout the country. With contracts held with six of the top ten long term disability carriers in the country, CP&A has experienced explosive growth and now stands poised to move from the nation’s second largest single SSDI advocacy company in the country to the top position in the near future. Here again, the application of business solutions to legal challenges in a niche industry continue to provide tremendous opportunities. As with all of the ventures, the tremendous talents of nearly 100 employees have both propelled CP&A’s growth as well as maintained its focus on quality.

A native Bostonian, Ken earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with majors in Classics, History and Political Theory with Honors from the Colorado College in 1990. He is a recipient of the US Congressional Truman Scholarship as well as former Scholar-In-Residence of its Foundation. Ken graduated from the University of Notre Dame School of Law in 1994 while serving on the editorial board of the Journal of College and University Law.

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SUCCESS SECRETS OF AMERICA’S FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES – Ivan Koon of You Send it

Steve Straub — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:44:05 +0000

Ivan Koon is CEO of YouSendIt, Inc. YouSendIt is a Web-based digital file delivery service that allows users to securely transfer electronic files that are too large or too sensitive to e-mail. With nearly 12 million users, it enables more than 15 million transfers monthly in 220 countries among creative designers, photographers, business consultants, and media producers. Its more than 10,000 corporate users include Levi’s, Ritz Camera, Vmware, and Reuters. Ivan increased revenue from $100,000 to $15,500,000 in three years, an incredible 1,415% increase in the middle of a recession!

Ivan manages the company’s core operations, business growth, strategy and key partnerships. In this role, he has transformed the company from an ad-based to a subscription-based model and has played an integral role in solidifying YouSendIt’s leadership in digital content delivery.

Ivan has a proven track record of more than 20 years of operational and management success. Prior to joining YouSendIt, Koon was senior vice president of the Acrobat Intelligent Document business unit at Adobe, where he more than doubled Acrobat’s revenue in less than three years and created an Enterprise Document LifeCycle Server business that grew to over $100 million in revenue.

Before Adobe, Koon was president of the New Technologies Division at BEA Systems, a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software. Under his leadership, his team quickly became the fastest growing business unit in the company. Earlier in his career, Koon also served in a variety of executive management roles at S2 Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Stratus Computer, including president and COO.

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SUCCESS SECRETS OF AMERICA’S FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES – Patrick Husting of Extended Results

Steve Straub — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:27:50 +0000

Patrick Husting is the CEO of Extended Results. Extended Results offers technology and business intelligence services to companies across numerous industries, including media/entertainment, financial services, government, health care, manufacturing, high technology, and retail. He grew revenue from $734,000 to more than $5,000,000 in three years, an amazing 578% increase, in spite of the recession.

Patrick founded the company with a passion for leveraging technology into unique and effective business solutions – ultimately to help maximize a company’s ROI. He is a business intelligence pioneer who has guided companies like Microsoft, Intel, HP, Dell, Honeywell, Nordstrom and Polo Ralph Lauren over the past 18 years – establishing a new way for organizations to leverage business intelligence solutions.

Patrick is revolutionizing the way companies evolve with PushBI for desktops, Smartphone’s, and iPhones. Prior to founding Extended Results Patrick spent a number of years as a senior consultant with Microsoft where his role was to identify, negotiate and manage strategic relationships with fortune 500 companies and technological partners. Working with the CEO and CFO at eHome, Patrick was instrumental in the formation of the company and raising capital of 40MM. He helped hire key management stakeholders, created worldwide technology support group, built and managed a team of 60 people and assisted in the product strategy development along with revenue planning and worked on strategic corporate development.

In his spare time he is busy enjoying life as a great friend and leader to his family with four amazing sons. He holds a bachelor of arts from Arizona State University in Management Information Systems.

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