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Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer Dan Scheuer
Dan Scheuer is Chairman of the Board of Directors, President, Chief Executive Officer and Corporate Secretary of the Company, and has served in these positions for the Company since its inception in February 2003. Prior to forming the Company, from November 2000 to February 2003, Mr. Scheuer worked as a Customer Relations Management consultant for “The Taxman, Inc.”, a Newport Beach, California Certified Public Accounting firm. From February 1992 until March 2000, he was independently working as a marketing consultant to a gourmet specialty foods Company, “Old Jerusalem” as well as running his own wholesale distribution Company, “Just-In-Time, Inc.”, which bought licenses from Nintendo, Warner Bros. (Ghostbusters), Surge Licensing (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), and others and created a product line of iron-on embroidered emblems that sold to nearly all major retail chains in the country. From September 1985 to February 1988, Mr. Scheuer served as the National Sales Manager for Pride Plastics in Buena Park, California; a family owned custom injection molding Company. His activities at Pride Plastics were to develop a new line of proprietary products and subsequently build a national sales organization of independent manufacturers sales representatives. Mr. Scheuer secured a license for the Company with Nintendo of America and also was responsible for contract negotiations with major retailers such as Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Sears, Toys R' Us and Blockbuster Entertainment.
Director and Chief Financial Officer - William P. Lyons Jr., CPA, MBA
Chief Financial Officer William P. Lyons Jr., CPA, MBA is an entrepreneur who started Lyons Financial Services in 1992 to offer accounting, tax and management consulting services to business firms and individuals in Orange County, Ca. Mr. Lyons is familiar with SEC reporting procedures; and he examines client financial records and reports, and attests to their conformity with standards of reporting by performing compilation, review and financial statement audits. As a consultant, he has assisted firms in improving their "bottom-line" profits by implementing money management techniques. Mr. Lyons prepares tax returns for a variety of business firms and individual clients; and he advises clients on the tax benefits of certain business decisions. He has prepared tax returns for individuals, corporations, partnerships, LLC's, trusts, estates and exempt organizations. He has also represented clients in tax matters before the Internal Revenue Service and other tax agencies.
During the period 1980 to 1991, he was the Treasurer and a Director of Security Trust Company. This financial institution, with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, provided banking and record keeping services primarily for the corporate/institutional market. Mr. Lyons is experienced in cash management services including lock-box systems and controlled disbursements. He designed and installed "Profit Center Financial Statements" which enabled senior management to monitor the monthly performance of all profit centers. Before starting this trust Company in 1981, he spent two years as the Chief Financial Officer at Cantor, Fitzgerald & Co., an investment-banking firm in Beverly Hills, California. Mr. Lyons received his basic training in public accounting with "Big 5" firm - Pricewaterhouse-Coopers, where he spent three years on the audit staff, and two years in the management-consulting department. A veteran of the United States Marine Corps, Mr. Lyons earned his Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing from Manhattan College. He earned his Master of Business Administration in Accounting, Finance and Investments from New York University. Mr. Lyons is a Certified Public Accountant in California.
Vice-President of Marketing and Public Relations Kathy Barnum
Kathy is the owner of the Kathy Barnum Agency, Inc., from June 1970 to present an Advertising/Public Relations firm that has been involved in marketing and promotion of some of Orange County’s premier events, international media campaigns for major corporations worldwide, new product introductions, and almost every regional and national election campaign.
Kathy earned her BA in Communications from the University of Colorado, and has implemented many award winning strategic marketing plans, providing an assortment of communication production services in support of her client’s media relations efforts and in alignment with their consumer-oriented brand campaigns. Kathy’s work was recently nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for a feature story she wrote, “Taking Your Widgets Over the Top”. Her peers have her listed as one of the best PR Wizards in the Industry.
Throughout the years clients have received increased name recognition, high visibility, corporate positioning, and prestige through carefully orchestrated and innovative special events, grand openings, fund-raisers, sporting venues, concerts, multi-faceted entertainment productions, and community and public outreach programs. Kathy Barnum’s talents include production of television shows, commercials, documentaries, public service announcements, video productions and radio, print and electronic press.
Kathy’s diverse client database includes: Walt Disney, Baskin-Robbins International, Tiffany & Co., Master Show Productions, Boy Scouts of America, American Cancer Association, Proud to Be An American Parade for CNN, Washington, DC, NBC, Fox Sports Network, 7/UP, Van Camp Sea Foods, Ritz-Carlton Hotels, and Meeting Masters International, including promoting and working with many celebrities over the years.
Prior to owning her own Agency, Kathy worked for Meeting Masters as the assistant to President, Jim Fish. She managed all administration and project planning, oversaw budgets, personnel, travel, and implementation for all conventions, concerts, trade shows, and annual corporate meetings for an impressive client list. She was responsible for contract negotiations, and production of all collateral materials. Kathy worked on the Opening/Closing Ceremonies for the last two Olympics and has been a staff consultant for several major television stations.
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