Kenneth Goodgame is an alumnus of the University of Tennessee with a degree in Marketing. He began his marketing and sales career in 1995 working as a product merchant for Hardlines D28. His role included managing purchases for the Southern Region, store opening programs and the expansion of the company to Puerto Rico.

In 1999, Kenneth joined The Home Depot as the Director of Property Brands. He launched the 20 SKU Husky Air Program and led the company to dominate the market. Before his promotion as the Senior Global Product Merchant, he increased sales and improved GMROI AND launched RIDGID.With his promotion, Kenneth secured procurement for $1.6 billion worth of product nationwide and $18 million in gross margins.

Mr. Goodgame then joined Newell Rubbermaid in Huntersville, NC in 2002 as the Senior Vice President in marketing and sales of the Channel, Irwin PTS & Shur line products, in 2002.His work grew the firm to a net worth of $490 in less than 3 years. He set up various products and ad campaigns as well as redesigning the international marketing strategy.

In 2004, Kenneth Goodgame earned a promotion as the company’s president and general manager for Bernzomatic. He grew the sector by 94% by launching product lines and acquiring a $30 million product company. During his tenures at the company, he was also the president and general manager of Rubbermaid Cleaning until 2004.His position there rerouted the company’s YOY fails to secure a $30 contract with Walmart, $100m enterprise units and $1.5m to the bottom line.

Kenneth then worked for Techtronic Industries as the President of Baja Motorsports ad Direct Tools Factory outlets. He redesigned the company’s business module and added a $5m profit to the enterprise. He reduced the competition gap with competitors and reduced the products’ costs by 8%. In two years, Kenneth opened 30 more stores of the company and raised the net worth to $1.6m in total sales. In 2010, Kenneth modernized the branding and merchandising of Ace Hardware Corporation as its General Merchandising Manager. He implemented a Craftsman program, hence growing the sales from $9m to $180m.By 2013, Kenneth had increased the annual growth from $35m to $50m

Between 2013 and 2015, Goodgame led True Value Hardware Corporation in Chicago Illinois as its Chief Merchandising Officer and Senior Vice President. His roles included overseeing the P&L purchases, inventories, functional strategic planning groups and the talent management and merchandising team. He improved the buyers group and raised the savings by 8%.By 2015, the annual test markets increased by 9%due to the launch of the SKU EDLP program. The program also improved the retail price of products in stores.He then created an additional program named “New at True Value” that implemented its regulations in more than 2800 stores and rose to be the most successful program for the stores’ increase in sales

Learning about static electricity is hilarious for students. Scientifically known as the triboelectric effect, children do crack-up at the sight of their Frankenstein hair. As they experiment with a Van-de-Graaff electrostatic generator the elation is electrostatic. So when Keith Mann and his Dynamics Search Partners team visited Uncommon Schools at Crown Heights, nothing about it was electrically neutral. The atmosphere was a buzz. The five paneled executive recruiters were there to peak interest in high school seniors for college and job preparation, and the electricity in the room was certainly positive. The New York based entrepreneur, Keith Mann saw the senior’s potential, and happily praised them.

Uncommon School’s staff boasted the event was bubbly, and the kids thrilled. Having established a charter school, Uncommon School is an educational system based on quality, not stadium like capacity as public schools are.

Dynamics Search Partners is a remarkable executive search company deemed on gathering the best hedge fund and private equity personnel. They match qualified job seekers to hiring managers. So did the students recognize the arc between their future, and the man standing before them? The answer is yes.

It is a fact that most objects are electrically neutral, however on occasion, analogous to this event, when objects in close contact touch, some object lose electron, and the others gain electrons, triboelectricity. Similarly, there was an exchange of ideas at the senior resume expo between Uncommon School students and Keith Mann which both say the experience will stick with them enduringly. This same philosophy is congruent with Dynamics Search Partners motto, creating long-lasting relationships and partnerships. This is the foundation.

Source: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dynamics-search-partners-launches-partnership-with-uncommon-schools-in-nyc-226729301.html

Jason Halpern launched JMH Development Company in 1990. Halpern is from a family run construction company background that has so far gone into its third generation. The 46-year-old construction developer plans to honor his late father, Joel, by carrying on the tradition of quality construction and passing it on to his 14-year-old son, Max, from a previous marriage. Halpern, whose father was killed in a powerboat racing competition in 1981, began his career in the 1980s working in his father’s construction business. In the late 1990s, the company was sold to Reckson Associates. It was then that Jason Halpern founded a new construction company called JMH. Halpern honored his father’s memory by creating the Joel A. Halpern Trauma Center at Westchester Medical Center. The center has specialized doctors who work with many trauma’s including burn victims, heart patients, neurology, and orthopedics.

Jason Halpern’s company has developed hotels, apartment buildings, town houses, and beach houses. The most amazing hotel is called Aloft South Beach, located in the heart of Miami Beach. Aloft South Beach has a fitness center, 235 hotel rooms, outdoor pool, and a roof top deck lounge. This spacious hotel sits on the property that was once The Motel Ankara.

The Halpern Family has had over 50 years of experience building luxury apartments in the Westchester County, NY and New York City area. They have built a solid, quality reputation that Jason plans to continue. Today, JMH constructs buildings in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Miami Beach, FL. In addition to constructing new buildings, Halpern works to renovate older structures. One of the pride and joys is the reconstruction of a building that was constructed in 1913 in Brooklyn NY, a warehouse that kept goods from the Austin Nichols Company. More than a century later, the warehouse is being reconstructed into a luxurious 340 apartment rental with a state-of-the-art gymnasium. The warehouse was originally designed by Cass Gilbert who created the old Woolworth building. The Halpern construction company is renovating old townhouses from the late 1800s, early 1900s, leaving some of the original design.