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β’ Family First - No Exceptions
β’ Friends and Mentors are Essential
β’ Do Excellent, Thoughtful Work
β’ Live in Integrity
β’ Speak the Truth with Love, Even When Risky
β’ Pursue Self Investment and Personal Growth
β’ Embrace Constant Learning
β’ Exercise Personal Responsibility
β’ Seek New Opportunities
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β’ Married to my smokin' hot college and current-day sweetheart for 37 years
β’ Dad: two impressive young men (30 / 27) and one KICKASS daughter (21)
β’ Servant to two dogs + five cats
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β’ Play upright bass for the Denison University Bluegrass Ensemble
β’ Enjoy being a Native Kentuckian and UK basketball fan
β’ Cheer on Denison students in all sports
β’ Drive my '73 Mercury Cougar XR7, top down, every chance I get
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β’ Clifton Strengths: Strategic β’ Maximizer β’ Ideation β’ Activator β’ Belief
β’ Kolbe: 4 β’ 2 β’ 9 β’ 4
β’ Myers Briggs: INTP
β’ Working Genius: I D β’ W G β’ E T
β’ Enneagram 8w7 - I'm a laid-back Social 8
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β’ Pitch Your Best
β’ Pitch With Purpose
β’ Seven Priorities of High Impact Business Owners (2025)
OK, now the regular stuff:
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ππππππ High Impact Business Owners to be the leader their company, team, and family deserve.
β’ See Rick Coplin International
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β’ American Red Cross
β’ Licking County Foundation
β’ C-TEC of Licking County
β’ Young Entrepreneurs Academy
β’ SEA Change Social Enterprise Accelerator
β’ Kappa Sigma, Gamma Xi Chapter
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β’ Business leaders
β’ Entrepreneurs
β’ College Students
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β’ Helped to start, scale, and exit a startup: Armada Group
β’ Played a key role in the startup and growth of the Dublin Entrepreneurial Center in Dublin, Ohio
β’ Lead Denison Consulting and Entrepreneurship programs
πππππ Collegiate level Entrepreneurship
β’ See The Ohio State University
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I havenβt seen it all, but Iβve done enough to know I can leverage what Iβve experienced and learned to influence individuals, businesses, and our world.
ππππππ - Regional and local economic development professionals on entrepreneurial initiatives. See Entrepreneurial Initiatives Advisor
πππππππ - Hundreds of entrepreneurs as they designed business models, pitched their opportunities, connected with essential resources, and raised funds to fuel growth. See Rev1 Ventures
πππππππππ - for dozens of companies in manufacturing, finance, marketing, and technology acquisition & deployment at KPMG and Ernst & Young