Theodore Landgraf: Board Advisor – Leader, Innovator, Motivator, Strategic Change Agent
Mr. Landgraf is an experienced global leader empowering, motivating, and producing the lasting change for individuals and organizations. His international experience empowering and changing the lives of many executives, leaders, and organizations in more than 150 nations has increased profits, improved capital, and reduced costs in the tens of billions of dollars with sustainable outcomes.
Mr. Landgraf is a committed and an initiative-taking executivewith more than 30 years of global business, training, strategic, procurement, finance / funding, and leadership experience in many different industries, from minor to Fortune MNCs.
Global Leadership and Executive Profile
+ Growth Leader: Experienced in capital improvement, revenue profit increase, and bottom line cost and efficiencies for many small to large clients in many nations.
+ Global Experience: Many industries (private, public, small, large, non-profit, local, and national government).
+ Organizational Systems: Streamlined entire procurement, finance, and management systems in many organizations increasing profits, improving capital, and reducing costs ($1 Million to more than $100 Billion+ gross revenues).
+ Best Practice: Creation and implementation of best practices, standard operating procedures, governance, compliance, turnkey systems, contracts, and training for efficient maximization of teams and profits, capital improvement, and cost reduction.
+ Knowledge Management: Developed a comprehensive, in-depth set of intellectual property in business processes, leadership, management, business development, procurement, capital, cost, and other core business areas.
+ Local, Regional, National, and Global Strategist: Developed and implemented many business and finance plans for optimum outcomes in many organizational KPI areas.
+ Developer: Many businesses and individuals throughout Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Africa, the Middle East, and Australia.
Mr. Landgraf’s Clients and Partners
Professionals, entrepreneurs, executives, business owners, managers, directors, board members, and many more wonderful people from diverse backgrounds and experience with more than one-thousand organizations and hundreds of thousands of individuals.
Erwin Jack: Global Team Developer, Relationship Growth Expert, Servant Leader
Mr. Erwin Jack is a respected executive with more than 30 years of diverse relationship skills development and more than 10 years of sales and marketing experience.
Mr. Jack is exceptionally instrumental in bringing together people and partnerships for the mutual benefit of all parties involved. Mr. Jack’s desire to successfully develop people and grow business makes him an outstanding ATS contributor as he provides reliable support to people within and outside of the organization.
Mr. Jack empathizes with people and actively seeks to find solutions through collaboration. Being astute, he even finds himself mentoring people.
Mr. Jack’s background includes a degree in Mathematics Education with Distinction from the University of Calgary, with service in various roles from education, customer service, sales, marketing to strategy, and experience in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.
Mr. Jack is committed to integrity and trust; he genuinely inspires others to successfully achieve their potential. Whether in professional or personal life, Mr. Jack’s beliefs drive him as a genuine leader. He is dedicated to his wife and three children and is a strong proponent of family life.
Jim McBride: Board Advisor – Operations, Sales, Growth Leader, Global Strategist
For more than 40 years, Mr. Jim McBride has been showing companies and investors the best strategies and inside secrets on how to preserve their assets, increase their profits, and reduce costs. Mr. McBride has advised and mentored thousands in sales, sales systems, and operations over his 40+ years in business and management. Mr. McBride’s focus on details to help optimize, improve systems, and operations is his passion.
Some of Mr. McBride’s 40+ Year Career Accomplishments:
+ Served more than one-thousand organizations.
+ Supported more than ten-thousand people with their sales and sales processes resulting in billions of dollars in revenues.
+ Implemented and directed more than one-thousand training calls and webinars empowering organizations in sales, increased clients, more revenues with greater profitability.
Mr. McBride, with his passion for effective and efficient processes, has made a career out of learning, showing organizations, and empowering clients with the best implementation strategies, and the most innovative and up to date ways to accomplish this. His diligence to help find individuals and organizations ways to better accomplish this is his strength.
Empowering and supporting organizations to grow and thrive is always Mr. McBride’s priority. He also likes to share with people and organizations there is just as much opportunity in protecting what you have, while becoming efficient with what you have. Mr. McBride compares it to this: “It is hard to fill up a bucket when there are holes in the bottom. Plug up the holes and the bucket will fill up even with a trickle.”
Mr. McBride loves the outdoors, is an athlete, enjoying most sports. He is an accomplished Skier, Surfer which is something he has loved for over 45 years.
A dedicated family man, business leader, Mr. McBride is currently COO of ATS, residing in the San Diego area for almost 60 years, and an Alumni of the United States International University (B.A., 1991).
Ben Landgraf: Board Advisor – Marketing, Sales, Client Acquisition Solutions, Projects
Mr. Landgraf is a dedicated, highly motivated individual with more than 12 years of experience in marketing, sales management, social media, client acquisition and services, training, and project management.
Mr. Landgraf has accomplished many task objectives, projects, and developments, including the following:
+ Increased branding, sales, and marketplaces for ATS in the U.S., Europe, Southeast Asia, and many other regions.
+ Recruited marketing professionals, clients, and Franchise Owners for ATS.
+ Helped create, test, and implement a global funnel marketing and sales system for ATS.
+ Increased productivity, trained fulfillment teams in safety and fulfillment, conducted safety audits, improved productivity, and quality, and implemented process guidance.
+ Helped orphanages and nonprofit organizations throughout the island of Mauritius, Reunion, and South Africa.
Mr. Landgraf’s leads client acquisition and services, project management, and global social media marketing. The primary areas include marketing, support clients, partner recruitment, business development, social media, global communications, and administrative project management.
Mr. Landgraf’s education and training:
+ Central Washington University – Bachelor of Science in Aviation Management and Minor in Administrative Management.
+ Skagit Valley College – Associates in Arts.
Art Brunton: Procurement, Inventory Control, Logistics, and Forecasting/Demand Planning
Executive Global Experience
Mr. Art Brunton brings 38 years of operations (14) and consulting (24) experience in supply chain and procurement leadership in business sectors such as pharmaceutical and biotech, financial services, food & beverage, telecommunications, agricultural, healthcare, hotel, specialty chemicals, investment banking, and light metals sectors.
Some Results
Mr. Brunton’s value through procurement and supply chain improvement to his companies and clients has been through process and organization transformation, value chain improvement, and sustainable training. In these areas, he has consistently led both major initiatives and teams to breakthrough results of $250M+ in savings, and significant business risk mitigation.
Global Empowering Leadership Training
Mr. Brunton is also an international Procurement trainer, having trained across North America, Asia, West Indies, and Europe for over a decade. Most recently, he has developed a comprehensive, robust set of intellectual property for the process of supplier relationship management (SRM).
Personal History
Mr. Brunton grew up in Aliquippa, PA, outside of Pittsburgh, and now has a home in Delray Beach, FL. He is a proud father of one daughter who is a Rheumatologist at a hospital in Maine. His two corporate assignments were with Alcoa (‘86-’93) in Industrial Engineering and UDV (now Diageo, ‘94-’00) where he spent most of his time in Procurement and Supply Chain. In mid-2000, he stepped into the consulting era of his career, and has not since looked back.
Education
Mr. Brunton’s educational background includes a Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Engineering from West Virginia University, and an MBA with a concentration in value-added management and finance from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York.
George Adongo: An international career coach who has appeared on Keynote Speaking, engages in Fortune 500 executives, Hollywood stars, besides appearing on prominent USA TV and radio shows, and podcasts discussing social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, and global authentic career innovation.
Some Career Life Highlights
+ Mr. George Adongo served as a Project Manager for a global social impact program for eight years, managing resource mobilization, planning and execution of projects.
+ In 2022, he contributed to a book (yet to be published) among the world's influencers as a co-author, "The 28 Credentials of Entrepreneur."
+ He debuted in the world's top influencers in the celebrated journal "Brave Inspires Brave" with the article "Trailblazing Global Social Change through Vicarious Learning." Likewise, he is featured in the second publication “Global entrepreneurship: Decoding the Investors’ concerns.”
He featured among the global Icons in the Brave Inspires Brave podcast, discussing Contribution to Global social change through communication for Development.
+ As an academic, Mr. Adongo mentors undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students in research skills.
+ He mentors upcoming authors in writing conceptualization, focusing on ideation, developmental, line, and copy editing.
+ He discusses the influence of African and Asian community leaders on social impact programming with major networks.
+ He brings community transformation, as done for a prestigious national school in Kenya in 2024. They enlisted him as Academics and management chair of his class, where his teamwork, analytical, and communications skills have transformed the community.
Financial Experience
Through his role as a liaison between investors and business owners, Mr. Adongo is facilitating Finance Readiness Consulting, with ATS, for projects from $100 Million to $5 Billion in more than 160 nations. He is also building his own personal portfolio through onboarding Relationship Development Directors.
Activities, Leadership
+ He serves as a liaison between donors and social impact initiatives in Africa, emphasizing research, funding due diligence, and sustainability.
+ Along with colleagues from the USA, he has served as a board member for a group that oversees non-governmental organizations.
+ He is also a board chair of two non-governmental organizations in Africa.
+ He reviews, writes, and edits ATS content and materials, which is utilized with international partners.
+ He specializes in mentoring young professionals, producing seasoned graduates who hold prominent positions as thought-leaders worldwide in the fields of education, research, entrepreneurship, agriculture, media, and health.
+ He oversees numerous executive coaching colleagues while providing his own executive coaching business practice.
Author
+ Mr. George Adongo George is currently completing his book, which seeks to highlight the seminal value of global career liaisons.
+ Co-author (Publication underway): Vol. 2, "The 28 Credentials of Entrepreneur."
Education
+ George is a PhD student: Development Studies.
+ He is pursuing a second master’s degree in international Community Development at Northwest University, in Kirkland, Washington, United States.
+ He graduated from Africa International University in Kenya with a master's degree in divinity with a focus on Biblical studies (Greek).