Meet Our Team of Talented Business Consultants
We have assembled a very diverse team of consultants offering extraordinary expertise in most areas of business.
This Professional Team Can Help!
Will Spence
Spence, CEO of Spence Associates Inc (S&A) has 40 years of experience working with a broad range of businesses. Previously with the Winston-Salem-based Wachovia Bank for 35 years and retiring as the CEO of North and South Carolina Banking with extensive experience in retail, commercial banking, trust, and consumer retail investments. Duties involved working with a very large sales force, management at all levels, and very frequent interaction with customers.
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Cell: (904) 894-1556
E-Mail: willspence@bellsouth.net
John Collier
John Collier has spent the last 35 years consulting in a broad range of markets building manufacturing, sales, marketing, and sourcing worldwide. He has formed partnerships between US and International companies to improve their manufacturing while building their marketing and sales for their product globally. His consulting strengths in building manufacturing facilities, including staff management, development, and expansion of product line, creating a marketing strategy, and establishing the sales force have been instrumental in his clients’ success.
William R. Austin (Bill)
Bill has developed over the last 40 years extensive knowledge and experience in a diversity of industries and to include experience running companies.
Bill began his career in banking where he spent his first 13 years after graduating from Elon University. He then became a senior advisory consultant nationally and internationally to businesses and industries in the areas of corporate strategies, structure, management, ownership, administration, and risk management. Bill will thoroughly analyze your company for problems and opportunities and will offer solutions that are sustainable over time.
John Daniel (JD)
John is a sports investment banking and management consultant. Over the last 30 years, John has had a successful history of raising more than $250 million in capital to help develop and manage sports facilities and programs. In 2017, John helped establish and oversee a $1.1 billion energy efficiency investment fund.
In 1997, John joined the PGA Tour to oversee the creation of the National First Tee Golf Program. More than $100 million was raised in the first two years to develop 100 golf facilities.
GARY L. LOWERY, MD, PhD
Highly accomplished Senior Executive and Orthopedic Spine Surgeon with more than 30 years experience developing new spinal and orthopedic technologies. Demonstrated record of organizational and leadership success, including company creation and cutting edge new product development. Strategic minded, results-oriented, noted for building enduring relationships with internal and external constituencies through open communication and consensus building. A proven industry leader, frequently presenting to industry groups, investment firms, and major technology firms. Twenty years as a practicing Spinal Surgeon prior to 10 years as EVP Strategic Development in the Biotechnology Sector. In addition Gary has a Dual PhD (Pharmacology & Nutrition) increasing the depth and breadth of knowledge in many aspects of Clinical Medicine as well as basic science and clinical research.
Lt. General Lawrence P. Farrell Jr, USAF (Ret.)
Larry Farrell served 33 years in the US Air Force and has followed that career with 16 years in business and association management.
His Air Force service encompassed duties from combat fighter pilot and Commander to system management, acquisition management, planning, budgeting and strategy. He served 23 years in fighter operations at several levels of command. After that he served as System Manager for the F-4 and F-16 weapons systems worldwide, as Planner/Programmer for US Air Forces in Europe, as Air Force Programmer, as Deputy in the Defense Logistics Agency, and as Vice Commander in the Air Force Systems Command. His last assignment was as Deputy to the Air Force Chief for Planning and assembling the $100B plus Air Force Program.
HECTOR MCEACHERN
Forty plus year career in the field of Human Resources Management and Leadership
Demonstrated ability to select, develop, and implement human capital strategies that achieve business objectives
Proven leader with commitment to excellence through executive coaching, leadership consulting, diversity and inclusiveness, training and inspirational speaking and HR Consulting
Hector has over forty years experience in management of human resources for diverse workforces for Wachovia Corporation and Texfi Industries. His emphases include executive coaching, diversity coaching and training, motivational speaking and cultural assessments.
MARC S. NEHAMKIN
Mr. Nehamkin has over 35 years in international business development and technology ventures. He founded ITC International (ITC Global Group) in 1984 to provide global expertise to companies from startups to Fortune 1000 international firms. His focus is on technology commercialization, strategic market entry, licensing, joint ventures, and related services. He has worked on projects spanning many industries including clean-tech and energy generation/efficiency technologies; semiconductors and new materials; photonics, computers and software; bio/medical and environmental; automotive, industrial automation, and many others.
WILLIAM R. (BOB) NORRIS, Ph.D
Dr William R. (Bob) Norris is an innovator with over 18 years of senior executive experience in high tech businesses as both an intrapreneur and a serial entrepreneur. As an intrapreneur, his focus was on the introduction of robotics products in a Fortune 500 OEM. As a Chief Executive Officer, Bob has successfully started three businesses based on technologies he developed in robotics, mechatronics, machine learning and green technologies. He holds nine U.S. patents. Bob has Bachelors of Science, Masters of Science and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and holds a Masters in Business Administration from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in Durham, NC. He served with the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division managing a paratrooper unit on no notice deployment status, and is a veteran of the Desert Shield and Desert Storm campaigns.
RICHARD TOPPING
Richard Topping has spent the last 25 years as an owner’s representative and principal consultant in the Commercial Construction Industry. For the past 15 years Richard has focused on the Data Center/Critical Facility’s sector becoming an Accredited Tier Specialist with the Up Time Institute. He is an expert at Design Build ground up construction project management focused on critical facilities, including Data Centers, Hospitals, Office, Retail, and Back Office development.
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SHARYL LIN BANCROFT
Sharyl Lin Bancroft is very experienced in business development and networking. She founded her first company, a modeling agency, while she was attending ASU. She also worked in commercial Real Estate in Arizona until she moved to Northern California in 1976 where she founded a marketing, sales and training company to assist the auto dealerships in business development, sales training, and “more profit” while focusing on increasing “the Customer Satisfaction Index rating”. She helped several of the companies that she represented develop their product lines, and opened national & international accounts. She also believes in giving back and worked with the team that developed the “Until There’s A Cure Foundation” and their AIDS bracelet which has raised considerable money for the care and suffering of Aids patients, for education in the schools about preventing Aids, and money for the development of a vaccine.
SEAN MAHER
Sean is President of Total Green Technologies, which deals with using microbes to clean hydrocarbon contamination in soil and water without removing material off site; therefore very cost effective. With our Neptune technology, we convert organic waste generated by the food industry into grey water on site in restaurants or large applications like landfills, we convert FOGs to grey water and greatly reduce BOD and TSS and we have the ability to clean any organic matter in an environmentally friendly and cost effective way manner.
LAWRENCE L. SCHAEN
Larry, a senior merchandising executive has extensive experience in the retail Industry, both domestic and overseas.
Initial Introduction was as a Trainee at R.H. Macy's Corporation, New York City, New York. Ensued was a 10-year period that focused on all phases to merchandising and administrative responsibilities. Each step up the ladder broadened my perspective of the retail business.
To broaden my knowledge of various retail operations, I accepted the position of Senior Vice President of Merchandising for McCrory Stores (a nationwide chain of variety stores), and Mangel Stores (a ladies specialty chain) for runs of approximately five years each.
TIM ALDERSON
Tim has recently settled in Asheville, NC after a 28 year career as a management consultant and CFO of a number of growth companies from start-ups to major corporate divisions, usually from conception. Prior to that he was a consulting civil engineer working as a project manager on projects in the UK, Middle and Far East.
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James Evanow
James Evanow is an international speaker, author, and trainer. His company, Pace Your Self Empowerment Systems provides breakthrough training in the areas of emotional intelligence, leadership and belief awareness. His flagship program, “Chart Your Course” shows corporations, organizations and individuals how to overcome unproductive patterns in leadership and communication to achieve higher productivity, thus increasing the bottom line of the company, and improving their business and personal relationships.
F. Michael Cable
F. Michael Cable is a 14-time Emmy award-winning journalist and serial entrepreneur with a proven track record of high level output &achievement in various fields including:
Broadcast Television News
Network Television Development, Production & Syndication
Direct Response Television
Integrated Media Relations
Internet Start-ups & Community Development
Intellectual Property Development & Monetization
Consumer Product Development
Consumer Product Sales & Marketing