We are Entrepeneurs

John Bambach, MBA, Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP):  Serial entrepreneur having started three companies, 1984-2000 (two successful and one not-so-successful).  Revived a 70-year-old Contractor that he bought in Ch. 11 in 2008.  John served as CEO & CFO for his companies, leading M&A, financing, business integrations and strategic negotiations.

John is a respected executive with extensive experience serving as CEO, CFO, COO, Financial Advisor, Chief Restructuring Officer and Court-appointed Receiver to numerous companies since 2004. Demonstrated success with multiple corporate restructurings and high-growth organizations. Guides cross-functional teams in the design, redesign, and launch of leading-edge business solutions, delivering record profitability and/or liquidation value. Forges strategic partnerships, leading change management and building consensus across multiple organizational levels.

• Results:  Our consulting references are clients that were forced to hire me by their senior lenders or attorneys
• Completed over $162 million in financings, acquisitions, and divestitures in cable television
• Built software firm from ground level to $72M in sales; won Start-Up of the Year Award
• More than 20 years’ experience with government agencies.

John is also affiliated with Asterion Consulting whose expertise encompasses Forensics, Valuation & Intellectual Property.

Dr. Sharon Glazer, President of Healthy Organization, Inc. and Professor and Chair of the Division of Applied Behavioral Sciences at the University of Baltimore, holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational (IO) Psychology from Central Michigan University and M.S. in Applied IO Psychology from the University of Baltimore. She had a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Occupational Safety & Health, a Fulbright Fellowship to the Technical University of Budapest, Hungary, and an Erasmus Fellowship to Rene Descartes University (Paris V), France. Sharon was also a Full Professor at San Jose State University in California and a Full Research Professor at University of Maryland.

Sharon has over 25 years of teaching, consulting, and research experience, with expertise in cross-cultural issues in occupational, organizational, and worker stress, organizational culture/climate and engagement, and organizational development.  She has consulted for nonprofit, for-profit, and government organizations, for example, Trigger Transformations, Inc., Prometric, Inc., National Aquarium, DoD, Kaizen, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Inc., IPMA-HR, Agora, Inc., University of Maryland, Baltimore, and Ameritech.

For ten years, Sharon was the Treasurer for the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology and from 2010 to 2015 Sharon served as Editor of the International Journal of Stress Management. She is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the International Academy for Intercultural Research, and the International Association of Applied Psychology.

Mark J. Freiman, Pharmacist: founder of FREIMAN RATNER COMPANIES, [HBC/Save More, Harold’s Drug, HBC/Health & Beauty Stores, Price Rite Drugs, HBC/Price Rite, & Body Accents], which he sold in 2005.

Mark’s other ventures: CEO/President and founder of the Retail Drug Chain, 21 stores in Regional Shopping Malls in the northeast corridor; Chairman of the Board for Body Accents (women’s athleisure chain) with 16 stores from Virginia to New York and Connecticut; and, Harold’s of Stamford (Harold’s Hallmark Stores, Lovables and Zingg) .

Mark is an accomplished Senior Executive with a unique successful combination of entrepreneurial and corporate leadership background in managing and developing high growth retail organizations  Mark is a well-known consultant and notable engagements include:

• Consultant to Leading Homeopathic Consumer Product Company as interim CFO.
• Consultant to Leading Private Equity Firm’s Mass Retailing Company 370+ Stores.
• Special Consultant to the CEO/Chairman Publicly Traded Retailer 400MM revenue, 350+ Stores in USA and Puerto Rico
• Canadian Women’s Apparel Chain (160+ stores)
• Shoe Retailer (75+ stores)
• Hardware chain (70+ stores) with both ACE and True Hardware affiliations.
• Major Consumer Holding Company (implemented plan to fold the most profitable division into Newco, isolating exposure from non-performing assets of the other divisions, coordinated and negotiated sale of non-productive assets & restructured revolver).
• Receiver – Florida Pharmaceutical Distributor
• Walmart (Pharmacy Division) – 23 stores in the Connecticut district