Bob Spears Email & Phone Number

Tampa, Fl, Us

Lutz, Florida, United States

Pine Lake Companies have been a leader in Tampa Bay's Green Industry since 1998. Pine Lake Nursery & Landscape contracts with general contractors and property owners install new landscaping, and Pine Lake Services maintains landscaping at existing commercial properties.In the Summer of 2022 our family entered into a partnership with Janet & Michael Trapuzzano and invested in the two companies. Bob is now on the ground in Tampa as Chief Financial Officer helping to manage and grow the businesses.

Del Mar, California, United States

Consultant offering assistance to companies on financial and operational issues and special projects. • Currently acting as CFO for a company setting up a new direct-to-consumer hybrid studio-home fitness concept.• Wrote business plan for a property management company to form a captive insurance subsidiary to offer tenant liability insurance to tenants living in their properties. Project currently being implemented.

Carlsbad, Ca

Chilldyne delivers direct-to-chip cooling of data center servers using its patented liquid cooling system saving electricity and enabling cooling of higher-power processors in densely populated server racks.• Closed first sale of more than $1 million in company history, $1.25M to Korean customer in 2017. • Improved supply chain by establishing relationships with outsourced partners to supply key components needed to respond to customer demand.• Grew revenue to $1.3M in 2019 and $1.9M in 2020 – during the Covid-19 pandemic – after two successful installations at Sandia National Lab cooling Penguin Computing Open Compute Project (OCP) servers.• Represented Chilldyne on cooling industry leadership groups to accelerate acceptance of liquid cooling as an acceptable alternative to traditional air cooling. Outreach resulted in Chilldyne realizing first reference sale at Sandia National Lab in 2019.

Omaha, Ne

Burlington Capital focuses on multifamily real estate and international agribusiness investments. • Sold Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) group and helped company restructure its non-Real Estate activities.

Dakota Dunes, Sd

Consulting company providing client companies management assistance with business operations-related issues. • Co-founded with a Dakota Dunes, SD franchisor company a distribution company that brought in-house internet-based sales and order fulfillment to support a network of 150 franchised Tiger Rock Martial Arts studios. • Distribution company operations started up on-time, on budget and continues to run profitably.

North Sioux City, Sd

InMoTx created an innovative way of combining vision-guided robotics and patented ability to grasp non-rigid items to automate handling of pick and pack conveyor belt operations saving labor cost and improving packing speed and quality. • Raised $4.3M investor funding to recapitalize a robotics company and move its HQ from Denmark to U.S. • Focus was on selling automated robotics packing solutions to food packaging and processing companies. • Established customer technology demonstration center to showcase product solutions.• Sold company to primary supplier – Adept Technology – in 2011, who was ultimately bought by Omron in 2015.

Ten years with Gateway - 9 1/2 between 1990-2000 and seven months in 2006Senior Vice President, Configure-to-Order (2006)• Recruited by Gateway Chairman to reintroduce Configure-to-Order capability. • Led turnaround that resulted in sale of Gateway’s Professional division to MPC Computers for $90M in 2006 and Gateway to Acer for $710M in 2007.Vice President, Gateway Financial Services (1998 – 2000)• Created and managed portfolio of financial products and services. Increased annual volume of financed PC sales 5x (from $400M to $2Billion) in two years via software, marketing and operational focus.• Started FDIC-insured Utah Industrial Loan Corporation (ILC). Contributed $90M in pretax profits.Senior Vice President, Americas (1995 – 1997)- Managed Americas division ($4B P&L and 6,700 employees) encompassing marketing, sales, manufacturing, customer support, HR, finance and IT. Increased annual revenues 32% to $4.2B in 1996 and $5.3B in 1997. Opened call centers in Virginia, Kansas City, Sioux Falls and Rio Rancho, NM. Opened new manufacturing operations in Hampton, VA and Salt Lake City, UT.Vice President, International (1995)- Established Asian operations in Tokyo, Malaysia and Australia. Grew Asian Business from zero to sales of $236M in 1996 and $355M in 1997. Opened call center in Yokohama, Japan and constructed 180K sq. ft. manufacturing facility in Malacca, Malaysia. - Purchased assets of Osborne Computers, market-share leader in Australian PC market to form Gateway Australia.Managing Director, Gateway 2000 Europe (1993 – 1995)- Led startup of Gateway’s European business after considering numerous other European locations. Hired management team and established facilities, legal and organizational logistics. Grew from zero to $428M in revenue and 1,100 employees in two years.Previous positions included (1990 – 1993): Treasurer, Director of IS and VP of Administration.

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

MesoSystems Technology has patented air-sampling technology incorporated into an air-sampling product to detect airborne bio-hazards such as anthrax. Recruited by Ardesta, LLC – an Ann Arbor, Michigan venture capital firm – who had invested in MesoSystems Technology to improve the company’s operations. • Turned company around by downsizing company, raising bridge financing to redesign the initial flagship air-sampling product and introduced a second handheld air sampling product.• Served on Board until sale of company to ICx Technologies for $20M in 2005. Ardesta realized a substantial profit on their investment.• ICx Technologies was subsequently bought by FLIR Systems who continues to operate MesoSystems Technology and was acquired in 2021 by Teledyne Technologies.

Mba, General Managment With Finance Emphasis

Ab, Economics, With Distinction

Activities and Societies: Four years varsity swim team and College record holder. Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Foreign language study.

Mbt, Business Taxation

Activities and Societies: General tgaxation curriculum. Recipient of Prentice-Hall Tax Service Award as "the most outstanding MBT (Master.