Steve Barnett 40 Years Experience B.S. Management & Accounting, Mississippi State University

Steve, a Managing Partner with Andersen Consulting for 25 years (now Accenture, a Global 500 Company), with experience operating technology, software and consulting companies, has led the implementation of business initiatives, administrative services and organizational restructuring on a world-wide basis. Steve restarted and grew underperforming Energy product line consulting practices in three cities and grew a geography-based consulting practice from 65 people to over 400 raising revenues to approximately $50M.

Steve was instrumental in forming a global organization and culture by driving market focused changes into Europe and Asia and leading the development and implementation of a career development model for 60,000 professional personnel located across the globe.

During the separation of the office accounting functions for the Americas from Arthur Anderson, Steve was responsible for the development of the first Administrative Service Center providing systems, computing and call center operations serving accounting, time and expense reporting, billing, payroll, accounts payable, HR and general accounting and reporting needs of 30,000 people in the Americas.

Prior to joining Arrow Investments, Steve was one of the founding partners of Cherry Creek Capital Partners investing in technology and software related companies and serving as CEO and COO for two of them. Steve proudly served his country as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army.

Steve is also an executive partner with Arrow Holdings.

John Brown 30 Years Experience B.S. Nuclear Engineering & Operations, U.S. Military Academy at West Point B.A. Accounting, Bentley College Graduate Work in Business, University of Denver

John, a former CFO, controller, management engineer, plant manager and practice leader, brings over 30 years of practical hands-on leadership to Arrow, its investors and its businesses in the areas of business development, finance and operations. His experience spans both public and private businesses, large and small, in North America, Europe and Asia.

His lifetime of work in technology, manufacturing and service sector organizations successfully helped lead those organizations to innovate, transform and then drive performance. John has always gravitated to situations of high uncertainty leading to participation in transforming initiatives throughout his career (green-field investments, buy and sell transactions, divestitures). He has participated from conceptualization and planning through the implementation of well over 200 initiatives, large and small. As a recent example, John helped a small Internet ASP company launch, from concept and prototype through initial deployment, resulting in its recent purchase by a multi-national company headquartered in Holland. His roles included business planning, documentation, financing, deal negotiation and operations.

John’s formal training includes nuclear engineering, operations research and management engineering, accounting and finance. He held an accounting certification for nearly twenty years. In response to practical and widespread problems he observed in achieving the hoped-for results of strategic initiatives, John published an article on the practical aspects of planning and executing such initiatives for results that received international recognition.

Mark Endry                          30 Years of Experience Ohio State University

Mark, a seasoned business and technology manager, has led a software company IPO and a strategic acquisition creating a company with over $400 million in annual revenue.

Mark’s experience includes SEC & AMEX filings, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, building and running a service-oriented IT organization, corporate networks, software development, and building and managing large multi-national high tech companies.

Mark’s past positions include President and CEO of a Denver based software company, CIO of J.D. Edwards and several positions over 16 years with Digital Equipment Corporation including Director of Global Telecommunications and Networks.

A contributing author of Business Driven Information Technology: Answers to 100 Critical Questions for Every Manager - Stafford University Press, Mark has been recognized nationally with several honors and awards including ComputerWorld Premiere IT 100 Leader, Colorado CIO of the Year and CIO Magazine’s CRM Top 100 Award, and Call Centre Focus Magazine’s Gold Prize for European Call Centre of the Year.

Bob Geoffroy                               20+ Years of Experience B.S., Regis University Graduate Work in Business, University of Denver

Bob has been building business across the U.S. and abroad for the last 20 years. His experience ranges from developing new product lines to implementing lean manufacturing and strategic supply chains to targeting strategic acquisitions for sustainable long term growth.

He has served a Fortune 500 company and held positions including Vice President of Manufacturing, Plant Manager, and General Manager. Bob also led a start up business serving the semiconductor industry.

In these various positions he has been responsible for the development effort of a global product platform while managing plants in the US and Germany, developed supply chains to reduce inventory in growing businesses while improving customer service and bottom line performance, and turned around underperforming manufacturing operations.

Bob was also responsible for integrating several successful acquisitions into existing operations.

Chan Pollock                               30 Years of Experience B.S. Computer Science, Michigan Tech University M.B.A., University of Minnesota

Chan’s strategic IT planning, outsourcing evaluation, offshore partner development, acquisition integration and global ERP implementation success coupled with his business-focused systems and technology management experience make him an expert in transformational success.

A former CIO for global manufacturers Johns Manville and StorageTek; his experience encompasses manufacturing and distribution operations in North America, Europe and Asia. Additionally, he possesses broad internetworking and foundational system experience from Network Systems and Control Data.

Chan serves as an Executive Board member for the University of Colorado's Center for Information Technology and Innovation, and is an advisory board member for GAVS, an offshore technology provider headquartered in Chennai, India.

He is a published author: Business Driven IT - Answers to 100 Critical Questions for Every Manager – Stanford Press.

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