John J. Bowen
Biographical Summary
John has practiced as a CPA in Ohio for 39 years and retired from professional service as a CPA, June 30, 2001. As a consulting member of the firm, Corporate Resources Consulting Group, Inc. his focus is transaction planning and stewardship including Wealth Utilization AnalysisTM.
John’s practice has included a client base in 30 states and his concentration has been on tax analysis, design and implementation of wealth utilization strategies, consulting on tax-efficient family business transfers and transaction structuring as well as the development of systems and reports for accountability and control over all financial operational areas of businesses and not-for-profit organizations. Additionally, John’s practice has included the design and implementation of charitable trusts, shared ownership arrangements, IRA rescue techniques and tax advantaged entities, methods, systems and procedures as well as the development and training of specialists in advance charitable fund-raising programs.
John has been a conference speaker at various advanced planning programs for life insurance agents, CPA’s and attorneys throughout the U. S. As a guest lecturer for the American Institute of CPAs in Advanced Tax Seminars and the Ohio State University Graduate and Undergraduate Federal Income Tax Courses John has been available to share with other professionals some of the experience and insights achieved during his career as a practitioner.
J. C. "Jim" Rushing III
Biographical Summary
Jim is a creative and analytical financial executive with leadership skills in business management in all areas as a Chief Financial Officer who served as Executive V. P. & C.F.O. of a publicly owned materials technology company and serves as a Director of Ultrastrip Systems, Inc., Stuart, Florida.
As Chief Financial Officer his functional duties included investor relations, treasury, control, SEC filings, human resources, mergers & acquisitions, financial planning including liquidity planning, budgeting, forecasting and participating as a member of the senior management team with the directors and executive management. The company employs 1,100 in the U.S., U.K., Mexico and the Dominican Republic. He was lead negotiator in the simultaneous sale of non-performing assets and global licensing of the Company's core technology to the largest global healthcare products distributor. This 1999 transaction provided funding to liquidate all debt ($25+ million) and produce significant funding ($14 million) to allow the Company to pursue the development of further technology. Since early 1999 the Company achieved six consecutive profitable quarters for the first time in its history.
Previously he was Vice President - Finance, (CFO) of a division of a British Company based in London, England. His division is based in Nashville, Tennessee. As a $500+ Million division of the British based company, this operation included 1,600 employees. Jim joined this company in 1995. His responsibilities included recruiting competent financial personnel, organizing and administering global budgeting processes for seven operations in Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States and establishing improved financial discipline in the capital appropriations arena of the Company. The Company enjoyed record success during 1995/96. The financial integration of a major acquisition, which doubled the size of global operations, was his major focus in 1996. The new operations were managed from an initial losing profile to a profitable double-digit return on sales by the second year of operations.
As CFO and Senior Financial executive over the last twenty-five years in construction design and engineering, and national telecommunications manufacturing (NORTEL), aerospace aircraft manufacturing (A7’s Navy/Air Force), construction materials distribution and nonwoven fabric manufacturing, he brings strong leadership skills and diverse business experience to focus on new projects.