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Chairman and President Dr. Albert D. Bates, Chairman and President, is the founder of the Profit Planning Group, a research and executive education firm headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. The firm works exclusively in the area of corporate financial planning. He makes approximately 100 presentations each year on topics such as Improving the Bottom Line, Getting Serious About Profit, Doing More with Less, and Pricing for Profit. He also provides strategic direction for the firm’s investigation into profitability research for over one hundred different trade associations. He has written extensively in both the professional and trade press, including the Harvard Business Review, the California Management Review and Business Horizons. In addition he writes the quarterly Profit Improvement Reports for the firm’s trade association clients. Al received his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Arlington and his MBA and doctorate from Indiana University. While at Indiana he was one of the first recipients of the Ford Foundation Fellowships in Business Education. He is married and has three college-aged daughters, which is why he gives 100 presentations a year. When he is not traveling giving seminars he enjoys tennis and skiing. He is not particularly good at either one. Operations and Technology Brian Rickel, Chief Operating Officer, oversees the firm's operations including development, implementation, and delivery of Profit Planning Group's products and analysis services. Brian is the architect of the firm's proprietary data analysis systems. He has been involved in all phases of software engineering and project management for a variety of technology firms since 1982. Prior to joining Profit Planning Group he served as a Senior Project Manager for database systems with a unit of ATT Broadband. Financial Analysis Tami Donaldson, Senior Financial Analyst, manages the configuration of systems used for data analysis. She received a BS in accounting from Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado and joined Profit Planning Group in 1994 after working for Arthur Andersen. Cindy Rinaldi, Senior Financial Analyst, oversees the entry, cleaning, and analysis of financial data submitted for survey projects. She received a BA in accounting from Metropolitan State College in Denver, Colorado.
Office Management Diane Coffelt is the data entry clerk for the document tracking system. |
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