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Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

VNTG Home is a revolutionary furnishings marketplace and design destination. We are committed to saving beautiful things. Driven by our inspiration to delight dwellers, home décor enthusiasts and designers with affordable high-quality furniture, we created a furnishings and design marketplace that gives our customers the freedom to afford luxury, express their creativity and live beautifully. Our 60,000 square foot home in Cleveland is an unforgettable treasure hunting experience with thousands of one-of-a-kind furniture, lighting, and home decor items. Our inventory is curated to create a unique and robust assortment of surprisingly affordable, quality merchandise.The VNTG Home digital marketplace is an online hub where you can shop and upcycle from thousands of items - from both VNTG Home and our Marketplace Dealers. Our state-of-the-art shopping and creative experience is made possible anytime, anywhere, 24/7. You can restore, remake and relove almost any home furnishing. Living beautifully in only a few clicks.Our talented design team, aided by our on-site upcycling artisans, make personally-designed home décor an affordable reality. We have our own facilities for restoration, upholstery, fabrics, custom paint finishes, and more, to make old furniture special again and personalize what you do have.Now that you know us bit better, we'll let you in on a little secret. VNTG Home isn't just about sales. It’s about building communities. That’s why we created our Philanthropic Program which supports a wide range of nonprofit partners with critically needed funding. Our services unlock and increase the value of once loved quality furnishings, driving both the demand and selling value. Utilizing commerce to build people and communities is the core of our business platform. We do the work so our philanthropic partners can do more good.http://www.VNTGHome.com

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Estate services. Downsizing, moving, liquidating. Life transitions can be difficult and stressful. With years of experience, we developed a progressive approach to estate services.In today's competitive market, we offer our clients professional photography, superior staging, pricing, research, and extensive use of social media. We are constantly improving our techniques.We are skilled in every area of estate organization and dispersal, with the means to make any type of sale successful. This could include an estate sale, private sale, online auction, live auction, cleanout, buyout, or any combinationLocal or long distance, we work with you to ease the process. Combining experience and resources, we develop and present an organized plan for your entire project. From there, you can count on our experienced team to handle your needs, navigating the process from beginning to end.Most often, the goal is to have a home, clean and ready for new owners, at the same time realizing the full value of your assets.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Since its founding in 1998, eBearing.com has been the only truly independent news and information resource dedicated to the bearing industry worldwide. We offer the industry's only vendor-neutral database of worldwide manufacturers, distributors, and brands; and the industry's only targeted online job board.We also work as intermediaries, to help buyers and sellers find each other and transact as seamlessly as possible in the global marketplace. This requires knowledge of tariffs, duties, import and export activity and regulation, packaging, and hundreds of other details which can derail deals if not handled with experience.I have personally researched and authored over 1,700 news articles about the bearing industry. The website www.eBearing.com currently receives several hundred thousand visitors per month, achieving essentially 100% C-level management penetration in the bearing and power transmission industry sectors.Consulting - eBearing and our network of experienced bearing industry professionals offer a wide array of confidential consulting services for M&A, manufacturing management, product development, project management, competitive situation analyses, and other key functions for companies worldwide in the bearings and power transmission equipment industry.We also provide confidential assistance to numerous governmental and quasi-governmental agencies, along with public and private equity investors and analysts. For private sector interests, we help our clients develop a better understanding of manufacturing and industrial companies and investment opportunities -- in areas which can often elude analysts who for good reason lack hands-on manufacturing management and operational experience.eBearing most often works confidentially behind the scenes. For example, we provide financial analysts with objective information to look for and related questions to ask during the quarterly and year-end earnings calls run by publicly traded companies worldwide.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Front Door Productions is an episodic TV production company focusing in and around Cleveland, Ohio.We are a vital downpayment on Northeast Ohio’s future -- a declaration that the Cleveland area WILL be in the episodic media business.Why? Because media shapes popular culture. And popular culture is what determines how cities are perceived across the nation and around the globe.The Cleveland area must take control of the way the world views our goods and services, and our allure as a place to live, work or visit. We must proactively carve a brand for Northeast Ohio -- reinforced on a weekly basis.To harness the momentum of the ongoing Cleveland renaissance and build it into a powerful international brand, we must produce TV right here and send it out to the world every week, every month, every year -- becoming part of a global conversation.Front Door Productions plans an ambitious slate of weekly TV shows, including reality, scripted and news programs -- all serving to highlight the history, wonders, and exciting new developments going on in and around Cleveland.The essential ingredient is commitment. Those who support our efforts to demand the voice of Northeast Ohio be heard, will commit, as we have, to successfully growing an episodic entertainment industry in Ohio. It can and will be done.The key question is not “if” but “when.” The answer is now!http://www.frontdoorproductions.orgIn pre-production : > Estate Rockers - episodic televisionhttp://www.estaterockers.comIn Development :> The Big Pivot (Tech Entrepreneurs)- Scripted ½ Hour TV> Off the Menu - Reality TV - Restaurant Workers behind the scenes> Rock Hall Apprentice - Competition/documentary TV - hybrid> Ohio Speaks - Subject experts on national TV> Record Resurrection - former rockstars get a second chance> North Coast Types - scripted ½ Hour Comedy> Untitled Marc Peterson Project - Music Industry> Inventors Hall of Fame Presents - Doc show> Metropark Safari - Animal show

Full operating and P&L responsibility for manufacturer of automotive and light truck hub assembly units, ball and roller bearings, patented axle bearings, clutch release bearings, mounted and unmounted industrial and agricultural ball and roller bearings, seals.Negotiated and managed Green's acquisition and transition from a privately held business to a division of publicly-traded Park-Ohio Corp.A vertically integrated manufacturer, Green produced bearings from tubing and raw forgings through machining, turning, heat treat, grinding, broaching, finishing and assembly. We also designed, tooled and manufactured our own rolling element retainers, locking collars, phenolic pillow blocks, flange units, and elastomeric garter spring seals.- Steered post-acquisition Green from lower-volume mfg to high volume customers and markets, improving operating efficiency and continuous product line development.- Grew the high-margin specialty bearing segment, adding patented and sole-source bearings, seals and mounted units.- Responsible for all strategic and tactical product and market planning and execution, price points, market segmentation, etc., both nationally and internationally.- Managed a large network of U.S. and international sales agencies.- Developed what became industry-standard automotive application catalog format; drove the industry's first conversion to electronic cataloging.- Won two key packaging awards, including SEMA Best Packaging- Developed and introduced a second parallel "value" line of automotive bearings, with complex overseas sourcing.- Improved production and costs by proving capex value of bringing several key mfg processes in-house, adding several advanced manufacturing and QC technologies.- Leveraged Green's first-to-market efforts, as the first to introduce a rolling series of new products to the automotive aftermarket, taking full advantage of the first-mover's market penetration, volume and profit opportunities.

Cleveland, Ohio

Founded in 1939 to remanufacture vacuum cleaner bearings, Green became a key supplier of aircraft control surface bearings during WWII. Later, Green refocused on high-volume automotive and industrial ball and roller bearings, eventually developing a wide array of market-leading manufacturing processes, products and patented specialty bearings.Green had many firsts, among them the aftermarket wheel bearing hub assembly, patented axle Repair Package bearing, polymer retainer, and others.- Recruited by the company's bankers, I stepped in to help guide Green out of bankruptcy and refocus away from direct competition with low-cost foreign competitors. What was to be a two-year assignment quickly became a career direction.- Built a team to execute a series of three-year plans -- grew salesand profitability 12-fold and moved the product line, packaging and market awareness out to a leading position in the industry.- Reorganized and streamlined business operations from front office to shopfloor, production scheduling, inventory management, warehousing, shipping and through to customer relationships.- Turned around sales and profits by focusing on new products and markets, bringing management information systems to bear on product costing, production scheduling, sales and inventory management.- Became the first bearing manufacturer to move cataloging, pricing and support information away from all-print and introduce electronic formats.- Customers and product engineers worked together to design and implement a program to keep the product portfolio continuously fresh and use product life cycle management for older products.- Opening communication from customers to sales and engineering, achieved market domination in several high-margin, low-volume specialty bearing segments.- Developed the industry's best-prepared network of sales agencies, both automotive and industrial, worldwide -- often backed by market and geographically specific support materials.

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