Ric Brutocao served as President, COO of Dacor, the luxury kitchen appliance brand, based in Costa Mesa, CA. and with sales and distribution facilities based throughout North America. He reduced break even over 50% through Lean manufacturing and then subleasing excess space. Brutocao completed deals with PAC Sales (Best Buy), Sears and Lowes. To support the mass merchants, a new family of products was developed in under 18 months for the growing Gen X segment. Previously, Brutocao served on the Board and as interim CEO of Advanced Materials Group, a manufacturer and converter of foam products. Brutocao led the company into the lucrative medical field developing a foam pad used in mammography. Serving on the Board of Centergistic Solutions, a developer of software, Mr. Brutocao negotiated an arrangement which resulted in Centergistic becoming the exclusive provider of certain products to British Telecom.Mr. Brutocao founded LDM to provide billing software to the Cable TV market. LDM invented software allowing a cable customer to immediately view a pay event, charging the customer credit card while enabling the customer’s set top box. LDM’s proprietary products were purchased by Burroughs Corp (now Unisys). Mr. Brutocao co-founded LifeSavers of America, developing a methodology to statistically sample blood, permitting the inexpensive harvesting of bone marrow to cure leukemia patients. LifeSavers was merged into the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, MD where Mr. Brutocao served on thet board. President George H. Bush honored LifeSavers naming it as one of America’s “Points of Light”Brutocao was VP of Whittaker's prestigious Riva Yacht,S.P.A, Sarnico, Italy. Brutocao was part of a small team that initiated and ran Whittaker's hospital, medical services contract in Saudi Arabia. He managed offices in Los Angeles, London, Copenhagen and Beirut.Mr. Brutocao served in Vietnam and was awarded the Bronze Star. .Specialties: Team building, Leadership, Mentoring Start Ups, Turnarounds, Financing, Technology Management, Mergers & Acquisitions