THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

  • Jim Bourey

    With more than 30 years of experience as a leader in the public and private sector, Jim focuses on the planning and execution of a wide range of strategic growth initiatives for the firm. One of his principal areas of emphasis is to lead a team to promote economic growth within the firm‘s footprint. Prior to joining Elliott Davis, Jim held several chief executive positions having responsibility for up to ten thousand employees and an annual budget in excess of one billion dollars. These positions included work in Nashville, Tennessee; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Seattle, Washington; Tampa, Florida; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Phoenix, Arizona and Greenville, South Carolina. While serving as the City Manager for the City of Greenville, South Carolina, his vision inspired many downtown projects such as Fluor Field, Riverplace and the rejuvenation of Falls Park. He has extensive experience in organizational management, financial management, capital improvements, strategic planning, performance measurement, and intergovernmental relations/grants. Other affiliations: Board Member, United Way of Greenville Board Member, Metropolitan YMCA Board of Directors, Commerce Club Board of Directors, Greenville Rotary Club

    D. Oscar Groomes

    Mr. Groomes is a Metallurgical Engineer, Physicist and Materials Scientist by trade. He earned BS degrees at both Tougaloo College and Brown University and an MS from Carnegie-Mellon University before joining GE in 1984 on an Engineering Management Program, followed by the Corporate Audit Staff. Oscar joined GE Plastics in 1988 as a Sales Rep and held subsequent positions in Marketing, Product Management, Sourcing and Commercial Leadership. In 1997, he went to Brazil as President of GE Plastics South America. In 2000 he was appointed General Manager of the Polycarbonate Business in Europe, and in July 2001 he assumed the role as President of GE Specialty Chemicals. In October 2002, Oscar was appointed President and CEO of GE Rail Services in Chicago, Illinois. In2004 he left GE to join Almatis, a privately held LBO, as Chief Executive Officer based in Frankfurt, Germany. Oscar retired from Almatis after a successful sale in December 2007. Oscar is currently consulting with Groomes Business Solutions for small developing companies. He also lectures on international business based on his vast experiences in the corporate and private sectors. He sits on the boards of Robert Family Holdings where he served as Acting CEO (9/2012-1/2013), Schramm Inc., Legacy Resources and Secure Origins. Oscar is a retained advisor for GenNx360, a midmarket B2B private equity firm. He is based in Charlotte, NC. Oscar studied piano and guitar through his college years and became an audiophile post college. His passion for music led to the creation of a Jazz newsletter that has evolved to O‘s Place Jazz, a digital jazz magazine running over twenty years. He is widely known as a jazz critic

    Ronald Hutchinson

    Ronald Hutchinson is Senior Vice President of Product Development for Harley-Davidson Motor Company (Retired). In this role, Hutchinson was responsible for O.E. Motorcycle Engineering, including Platform Teams and Centers of Expertise; Materials Management; Logistics and Transportation; and the Parts, Accessories, Custom Vehicle and Trike Operations. In addition to P&L responsibility for the $1.3 B PACT organization, he had accountability for the product design and development capabilities of that organization. Hutchinson worked for Harley-Davidson more than 30 years. From 1975-1985, he held a series of engineering, manufacturing and quality positions. After a four-year period during which he was a Principal and Vice President of KW Tunnell, Hutchinson returned to Harley-Davidson as Vice President of Total Quality in 1989. He has subsequently held a number of senior leadership positions including Vice President of Customer Service; Vice President of Parts & Accessories; Vice President and Coach; and Senior Vice President of Product Development. After retiring from Harley-Davidson in 2009, Hutchinson started a new venture, Accessory3, Inc, to provide unique comfort, convenience and safety related Accessories for motorcycles and trikes. Accessory3 products are sold in select Harley-Davidson and Lehman Trike Dealerships. Hutchinson currently serves as Board Chairman for Wiscraft, Inc., a private, non-profit manufacturing company which offers employment to visually impaired people. He also is retired from advisory boards at Texas A&M and Arizona State University. Hutchinson earned a Bachelor of Science from Purdue University and an MBA from the University of Detroit. He has also taken advanced programs at the University of Tennessee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan. Hutchinson is an Air Transport Pilot and an avid motorcycle enthusiast. Among his collection of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, his favorite is his 2009 CVO Ultra. Prior professional experience also includes a variety of Engineering positions at Cummins Engine Company and Ford, Heavy Truck Division.

    George Moore

    George Moore is an executive with 25 years experience in business development, finance, sales, marketing, and operations management. George is currently the founder and CEO of BoomCloud, the first 3D social mobile media platform in the world. For the past 10 years, he has advised multinational companies on strategic projects and programs related to strategy, business development, marketing, finance, technology, operations, web-based services, and IT infrastructure development. Until 2003, he was a senior principal for Accenture, an international consulting firm. After Accenture, George started his own strategy consulting firm, iotek. His firm managed projects such as helping China Telcom privatize their business. and created and drove T-Mobile‘s MVNO, wholesale business. In the mid-1990‘s, he served as a Senior Vice President of ANTEC, a large technology integrator for cable and broadband industries, where he was responsible for operations and strategy implementation for broadband, and wireless businesses, and supply chain operations. He created and implemented the first Supply Chain Management program in the cable industry managing over $1 billion in materials and products owned by the largest cable company in the world, TCI. Prior to that he was the Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions and led the company in $190m in acquisitions and integrations. George was also the President and Director of The Bear Group, a Japanese subsidiary focused on an advanced Biometric signature verification product. He led a team of 20 software and hardware engineers. He has extensive startup experience, as he helped Shaquille O‘Neal start his online footwear and apparel company, Dunk.net, and has been involved in many other startups in telecommunication services, health and wellness, online entertainment, and advertising. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and served as a Naval Aviator for the US Navy. He is also a graduate of the Japanese Naval War College, Defense Language Institute and Harvard Business School. He is fluent in Japanese. He is most proud of creating the first inner city lacrosse program in Denver Colorado, City Lax, which boasts over 350 disadvantaged kids learning to play lacrosse. Many of whom have gone on to graduate from private schools and receiving scholarships to college.

    Harold Scott

    Harold A. Scott joined Harley-Davidson Motor Company in 2000 and served 8 years as Vice President of Human Resources before his retirement in 2009. As vice president, he had worldwide responsibility for all human resources activities including but not limited to labor relations, compensation, benefits, learning & development, succession planning, safety & security, diversity, facilities management environmental affairs and staffing. Prior to joining Harley-Davidson, he was Vice President of Human Resources for Otis Elevator Company, a division of United Technologies. His responsibilities at Otis were similar to his most recent responsibilities except that they were limited to the United States, Canada and Central America. In addition, during Harold‘s 37 year career he held a variety of human resources positions working for major companies including American Motors, Bendix, AlliedSignal (Honeywell), and Gemini Corp. He has also been active in the community, serving on a number of not-for-profit boards including the Urban League, Red Cross and the Fresh Coast Classic. Most recently he joined the board of directors of the Center for Veteran‘s Issues.Since retiring Harold spends much of his time staying abreast of business and human capital development issues and consulting for Accenture , King Manufacturing and Cargill.Harold was born in New York, New York, raised in rural Michigan and holds a bachelor‘s degree from the University of Michigan. A former high school sousaphone player, Harold learned to play the trumpet and toured with PASTTE during the early 1970‘s. Married to Cynthia, he has 2 adult sons and resides in Brookfield, Wisconsin

    Randell Young (D.Mus.)

    Director Randell Young (59) is the managing general partner of Venture-Net Partners, an investment group which currently includes: Uriel Sokolov, the former vice president of Raytheon Commercial Ventures; Doug Pewitt, the former assistant director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Reagan Administration; and Mario Fiori, the former assistant secretary of the Army in the Bush Administration. Dr. Young has previously served as chief financial officer for Web portals MedNets.com and TheGospel.com and participated as a director and early-stage investor in numerous other projects including Telephony International, Inc., a joint telecom venture with Lucent Technologies (ALU); Vista Consolidated, Inc., a manufacturer of utility truck covers; Synodon, Inc. (SYD), developers of innovative pipeline surveillance technologies; The Orange County Blues Festival; and Accuray Incorporated (ARAY), manufacturer of the CyberKnife radiosurgery and Tomo radiotherapy systems, recently named by Fast Company as one of the World‘s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Robotics. Venture partners of note have included Al Shugart, Euro-America Partners, Jacques Valle, Fred Adler, George (Jay) Keyworth, Copernic Technologies, ZLUH Partners, Michael Jay Solomon, Good Samaritan Health System, Health Advantage Ventures, Pacific Republic Capital, Fernando Quinonez Meza, H-Quotient, Lucent Technologies, The Marubeni Group and Grupo Arcano. A founder and former Orange County Chapter Chair of Boone Pickens‘ United Shareholders Association, Dr. Young has represented shareholders and, on their behalf, addressed the annual meetings of Northrop Corporation, Allergan, National Education Corporation, Community Psychiatric and Southern California Edison. He has lectured at the graduate level on contemporary issues in venture capital at The University of Phoenix and holds a doctorate in music (D.Mus.) from City University Los Angeles. His Venture Capital Primer has been used by McGraw-Hill‘s Online Learning Center in support of its textbook Principles of Corporate Finance, Sixth Edition (Brealey & Myers); and Harvard University in support of KSG PED-328 Community Financial Institutions and Microfinance in Theory and Practice. Dr. Young has been the subject of interviews and articles appearing in the Los Angeles Times, The Orange County Register and the Orange County Metropolitan. His commentaries and essays have been published in the Los Angeles Times, The Orange County Register The San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today The Wall Street Journal, The Orange County Business Journal, The Baltimore Sun and Inc. Magazine. His stock market analyses can be found at The Motley Fool where his All-Star-rated portfolio (PauvrePapillon) currently outpaces all professional fund managers and has consistently, on a daily and continuous basis, placed in the top one percent of all participants since August 2007, a span now of over 83 consecutive months.