Craig Wilson has spent a career in business start-ups, acquisitions, and globalizing commercial and industrial equipment and supplies businesses. Mr. Wilson became the first franchisee of American Recruiters in May 1999. American Recruiters is the premier business-to-business executive recruitment organization serving foodservice, food processing, HVAC, white goods industries, high technology, healthcare-related fields, financial and HR markets. With more than thirty years of hands-on experience, Mr. Wilson was publisher of Global Foodservice and FYI Magazines, the only global publications in foodservice spanning 145 countries worldwide. Prior career highlights include President and Chief Executive Officer of RATIONAL Cooking Systems, Inc.Mr. Wilson's prior assignment was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for Middleby, with P&L for three international divisions, seven operations, 240 employees, including a design engineering firm, two fabrication plants, and six sales and service operations. He has personally conducted business in 67 countries to date and has negotiated joint-ventures and trading agreements in such diverse markets as Canada, Czech Republic, England, Germany, Italy, Kuwait, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam. Mr. Wilson also served four years on the Board of Directors of the North American Association of Food Equipment Manufacturers, serving also as the Chairman of NAFEM International. Mr. Wilson recently founded CAD Solutions Group, an engineering design firm that outsources kitchen and construction design to the Far East.He was also President of the Board of Theatre Building Chicago, a non-profit incubator for new theater works in the Chicago area. Specialties: M&A, Corporate Recruitment, Start-ups, Counseling, Strategic facilitation, Marketing Strategies, Theatre Productions, Outsourcing
Listed skills include Start Ups, Marketing Strategy, Leadership, Management, and 46 others.
