Founded in 2007, PRIMA Business Specialists LLC is an execution-based business whose sustainable competitive advantage is the rapid delivery of resolutions to its client companies’ problems. PRIMA has served numerous clients in various industries and markets with services ranging from fractional executives to talent acquisition and retention; all whose foundations are based on execution achieved through clarity, alignment, KPI measurement and single point accountability.

IMPACT offers the cannabis industry an enterprise-wide organizational health assessment and improvement process. Outputs of the assessment provide the client with a series of categorized health scores (which are analogous to credit scores) measured against established best in class risk practices in a report that effectively provides a gap analysis and customized corrective action syllabus which directs the client to prioritize based on their criticality to business operations, cost control/reduction and continuous improvement objectives.IMPACT recently combined with the National Cannabis Risk Management Association (NCRMA) and will serve as the lead brand while NCRMA manages association membership and the NCRM Academy’s educational offerings.

The National Cannabis Risk Management Association – NCRMA is a the only cannabis risk-management focused, not-for-profit trade association in the Americas. The NCRMA services and resources are all strategically aligned to minimize loss, improve revenues, improve operations, and safeguard the interests of stakeholders and owner/operators of member businesses.

CR3 Partners, LLC is a national turnaround and performance improvement firm with offices in New York, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and Irvine. We assist, guide and collaborate with management teams facing any sort of transition, stress or distress. Whether outlining strategies to accelerate growth, improving an operating inefficiency, solving a working capital shortfall, providing urgent crisis management, or guiding a company through a bankruptcy, our seasoned team of executives will quickly assess, stabilize and implement the best options for each situation. Our team is relied upon by middle market companies nationwide who seek senior-level counsel, be it in an advisory or in a more structured interim management or CxO role. At CR3, we help our clients effect real change. • We plan. If you don’t know where you are going, you will never get there. • We implement. A plan without execution is a hopeful wish. • We drive change. We lead as advisor, interim manager or executive coach. • We achieve results. Whatever it takes, we get it done.

PKPM ADVISORY GROUP (PKPA) was founded by Rocco Petrilli (PRIMA BUSINESS SPECIALISTS LLC) and Dr. Michael Krehl (MTSG Consulting), in addition to their individual consulting companies, to provide professional, commercial and technical consultation to the global powder metal (PM) industry. Both Krehl and Petrilli enjoyed long-term management careers in the PM global marketplace and are experienced in all aspects of the business. PKPM will service its clients in the areas of strategy development/execution, manufacturing, sales marketing and business development, R&D and talent acquisition and retention. An offered specialty of PKPM will be advisory services involving mergers and acquisitions including but not limited to valuation of acquisition targets, planning and execution of due diligence processes and integration of the newly acquired enterprise.

SAMI offers the latest in super abrasive machining capability on a “job shop” basis to a wide range of markets. Super abrasive machining is a process that provides productive machining of difficult cutting operations involving substantial material removal. Commonly referred to as “grinding at machining rates”, SAMI offers the precision of grinding at speeds and costs similar to those generated by single point machining. SAMI offers a wide variety of CNC controlled machine styles and capabilities.“Introduction of super abrasive machining technology is vital for today’s manufacturing companies who are faced with unparalleled cost and quality pressures” said Rocco Petrilli, CEO of PRIMA and SAMI. “The availability of super abrasive machining as a sub-contracted service enables companies to take advantage of a valuable service without a significant outlay of capital. Further, proper integration of super abrasive machining in conjunction with other net shape material processes works to maximize the process/cost ratio and provide economic and functional solutions to many applications”

Enterprise Ventures Corporation (EVC) is a for-profit organization that acts as the technology commercialization arm for Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC).

1st Team LLC is an expanding professional services firm that combines the power of essential marketing, advertising and public relations with a broad range of specialized business management, improvement and M&A transactional talents. 1st Team specializes in manufacturing, health care, technology and defense related markets while providing an extension of this success to any company that subscribes to its principles and philosophy.

Recruited to establish the first North American business of Plansee/Sinterstahl GmbH. • Member of Sinterstahl Corporation Board of Directors• Member of Sinterstahl GmbH Global Management Board• Led the successful completion of a 58,000 square foot green field manufacturing facility that produced its first component from a completely automated manufacturing sell in less than 100 days following the beginning of large scale site excavation.o Led the successful acquisition of a division of a recognized manufacturer of automotive powertrain components and technology.• Played integral role in the negotiation, formation and integration of PMG Corporation, a joint venture between Plansee AG and a division of Mitsubishi Materials Corporation.

Full general management responsibility for three U.S. based PM manufacturing and research and development facilities that produced over $60 million in annual sales with approximately 400 employees. • Member of Federal Mogul Sintered Products global governing board that directed the commercial and technical and capital business plan for the multinational PM enterprise

Recruited to Morse TEC by the President and General Manager to lead the development and execution of the corporate strategy for the supply of sprockets for the company's automotive chain systems.• Developed a new business strategy for the manufacture and/or procurement of engine and transmission sprockets to supply Morse TEC’s North American, European, and Asian market needs.o Expanded into a 100,000 square foot manufacturing facility that employed $22 million in capital equipment to produce $37 million in sprockets annually to address the North American market needso Combined technology transfer with negotiated strategic supply agreements to support the European and Asian Markets

Technical positions with various automotive component companies in PA, OH, and WI.