Private middle market companies are the backbone of the US economy and the core asset for their owners. Unfortunately, most owners treat companies like jobs, not assets. This results in the slow and painful destruction of company value, leaving the owner with few options and a poor retirement.
If we can teach owners to act like owners, not just CEO's, average companies will become great companies, and they will have valuable assets that can be sold for the benefit of themselves, their family, and the country's economic future.
Energize company owners to see the opportunity 'today' to act as Chairman. Then deliver the ideas, process and tools needed to take action and build their company into a valuable asset.
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 Chuck Richards, Founder & CEO
After four startups as CEO and CFO, two turnarounds, and making the Inc 500, Chuck formed Chairman's View to share with owners and leaders the critical importance of Value. He has helped hundreds of owners and CEOs of private companies. As a speaker and lecturer, he has written articles, been interviewed on TV and radio, including NPR, and has been quoted in national magazines. Chuck has a BA in Economics from Williams College, and a ME from MIT in Engineering & Business. He has four children and resides in VT with his wife, Jeanne.
 Paul Donovan, President
Paul Donovan is a senior executive with more than 30 years of experience in information technology, both domestic and international, customer service, professional services and corporate strategy and management. He has a track record as a change agent and as a leader in business improvement through information technology. His responsibilities have ranged from being responsible for merging the technology and infrastructure of many companies into one large financial services company to being responsible for the international technology for a large financial services company. Mr. Donovan also led a consulting practice and has been a principal and executive for a software and service company.
Mr. Donovan was a partner at Tatum LLC, an executive services firm. Prior to Tatum he served as Executive Vice President and CIO for ING Americas. He held several CIO/Executive positions at Fidelity Investments. He has led a consulting practice at Coopers and Lybrand and was a founder and principal for a software and service company, Advanced Information Management Inc.
 Robin Ann Bienemann, Hartford Senior Chairman
Robin has served in an executive capacity for companies as small as $1M and as large as $8B, responsible for upwards of $500M in revenue. She founded and established Ocean Industries, a quality control equipment manufacturer in Manchester, NH. Her most recent position was Sr. Vice President of Operations with BlueArc Corp, a $30M computer storage manufacturer based in San Jose, California. As a business owner and executive, Robin has had extensive operational and leadership experience. She has dedicated her career to working with individuals, suppliers and cross functional groups to deliver bottom line results in turnaround and sustaining situations. Bienemann is a New England native and was raised in Vermont. She received a BA from Springfield College in Philosophy and Literature. She was a Sloan Fellow at MIT where she received an MS in Management Science. She lives in Granby, CT with her husband Tom; they have three children.
 Michael Balinskas, Hartford Regional Chairman
Mike has more than 25 years of experience in businesses ranging from business development, strategy and planning in public corporations to operations, process improvement and management of small private ones. In his role as Vice President and General Manager of a $350M holding company, Mike was intimately involved in the acquisition, integration and divestiture of more than a dozen privately held companies. In his most recent position, he managed an East Coast, $85M line of business focused on IP network systems integration. A central Connecticut native, Mike received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and his MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. For the past 20 years, he has lived in Berlin, CT with his wife Nancy and their three grown children.
 R. Thomas Stocker, Jr., Providence Regional Chairman
Tom has extensive experience creating value as a senior operations/finance executive with a proven track record of EBITDA and working capital improvements, an unrelenting focus on the customer, a history of successful cross-functional team building and operations excellence. His background of working in multiple industries along with over 30 entrepreneurial portfolio companies of a Providence-based holding company owned by a large private equity firm provided him with the skillset to understand and provide meaningful counsel to leaders for unique and complex problems. Tom has acted as an advisor to CEOs of companies ranging in size from $10 million to over $300 million on operating and strategic performance improvement opportunities. He has mentored several executives into "A" players.
Tom has worked with and for companies with revenues from $10 million to the Fortune 50, including Nortek, Danaher, Kraft Foods and Georgia-Pacific. Tom received his MBA from the University of New Haven, and lives in East Greenwich RI with his wife and three children.
 Philip N. Jacobs, Providence Chairman
Phil has broad, multi-industry consumer product and industrial experience at the owner and CEO / COO levels with privately-owned startups, turnarounds and public high-growth divisions of Fortune 500 companies from $0 to $200 million in revenues.
Phil has held senior level positions with Dominion Glass in Canada, Wheaton Glass, Libbey Glass, Josten's and National Starch and Chemical, all leaders in their respective industries. He has worked extensively in Europe and the Far East on both technology exchange and import-export agreements.
Following many years in corporate life, Phil worked with smaller local businesses in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, turning around troubled companies in medical products and industrial wire manufacturing. He gained experience in small business ownership through partnerships in consumer leather products and retail display companies, successfully positioning each for sale. Over the past several years he has held consulting positions with local companies seeking market growth and profit improvement.
Phil holds a BS in Textile Chemistry from North Carolina State University and an MBA in Marketing from Fairleigh Dickenson University. He served as an officer in the US Army Chemical Corps during Vietnam and the Cuban crisis. He has four grown children and resides with his wife in Barrington, RI.
L. Michael Hone, Boston Regional Chairman
For 25 years, as a chief executive and turnaround specialist, L. Michael Hone has introduced innovative products; stabilized and streamlined companies; reorganized sales and operations; opened new markets; negotiated favorable acquisitions and alliances; and restored the confidence of investors and customers following scandal and bankruptcy. His senior-executive career began in 1981 at PSC Inc., a Rochester, NY publicly-held maker of laser-based bar code scanners. Most recently he was COO of Conseco Insurance Group., a public company based in Carmel, IN. Prior to Conseco he served as president, CEO and director of Bizfon Inc., a private manufacturer of low-cost telecom systems located in Salem, NH. Michael also served as the COO and a director for Lucid, Inc., a private company based in Rochester, NY that manufactures cellular imaging medical products. In the late 1990's, as President and CEO, Michael led the recovery at Centennial Technologies, Inc., a publicly-held maker of PC memory cards, located in Wilmington, MA.
He attended Ohio State, is a former chairman of AIM USA and AIM International and a named inventor on seven U.S. patents. His efforts earned many companies top accolades from Forbes, BusinessWeek and the Boston Globe. He is a director on the boards of EveryNetwork, a Boston-based manager of outsourced communications and IT systems; Lucid, Inc. and Bizfon Inc.; and has served on numerous other private, public and nonprofit boards.
 Dave DuFour, Boston Chairman
Dave duFour has had a diversified and challenge laden operating career in general and marketing management with Westinghouse, Polaroid and two smaller companies. He has successfully competed in the semiconductor, test & measurement, eyewear, imaging, photographic, scientific equipment and electrical equipment industries. He has held the positions of: COO, general manager, CMO and vp of sales and marketing. He started up two businesses, played pivotal roles in three turnarounds and led six revitalizations. He also has had broad global involvements and been part of nine M&As.
Dave also has fourteen years governance experience as a director for private, not for profit and a NYSE company.
He has a BSEE from MIT and an MBA from Harvard and lives in Concord, MA with his wife Kitty.
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