PERSONNEL PROFILES

BERNARD H. KRAKOWER Principal Bernard H. Krakower is presently a Principal with KRAKOWER GROUP, INC. a management consulting and executive resource firm, with offices in Santa Barbara and Santa Monica, California, providing services to high growth, start up, mid-size and large corporations on a domestic and an international basis. Mr. Krakower has more than thirty years of experience in organizational planning and executive search in both domestic and international companies.

After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in Advertising from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1960, Mr. Krakower spent the next five years with Lytton Financial Corporation. He then joined James R. Colvin and Associates, a consulting firm in Los Angeles that provided organizational planning services to companies, such as Computer Sciences Corporation, Hitco, ITT Gilfillan, Standard Oil of Indiana and Lockheed. In 1967, Mr. Krakower joined Scientific Data Systems and instituted and directed an aggressive and successful recruiting program for marketing, sales and operating systems development in North America and the United Kingdom. From 1969 to 1971, Mr. Krakower was a founder and Director of Operations for Executive Search at Tratec, Inc., which provided services, products and systems to improve sales and marketing for established and emerging high growth companies worldwide.

In 1971, Mr. Krakower founded Krakower & Associates Inc., an executive search firm. Then, in 1979, he formed Krakower/Brucker International, Inc., a unique California based management consulting, due diligence and executive search firm that specialized in high technology and high growth industries, where he was Chairman until 1987. The company had up to sxteen people in recruiting, research and administration serving on a domestic and international basis.

Mr. Krakower earned a Master of Business Administration degree in the Presidential Key Executive Program from the Graduate School of Management at Pepperdine University. He was past Chairman of the Los Angeles Business Council and the Los Angeles Chamber Foundation which helped establish a 23 acre regional park in West Los Angeles. Mr. Krakower is a member of the Board of Visitors for the George L. Graziadio Graduate School of Business & Management at Pepperdine University. He was recently President of the Los Angeles Countywide Citizens Planning Council Commission and was also on the Advisory Board to the Ambassador Foundation's Performing Arts in Pasadena, California and National Jewish Hospital for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine in Denver, Colorado.

Mr. Krakower is married, has three children and resides in Santa Barbara, California.

RENNY MINTZ
Associate
Renny Mintz has been associated with Krakower Group, Inc. since 1991. She is a leading Research Consultant and has more than 30 years of executive search experience. She started in 1961 with Avery & Associates in San Marino with responsibility for every facet of human resources consulting. In 1969 she joined Bell & Howell at their Data Systems Division in Pasadena, California in Market Research. She then joined the national search firm, Wilkinson, Sedwick & Yelverton in Los Angeles in research and recruiting. After three plus years she joined a new executive search firm called McCray, Quinn & Associates in west Los Angeles as Director of Research until late 1978.

Since 1979, she has focused on research and ancillary services such as references and due diligence in almost every industry with a great concentration in various aspects of high technology. She has provided enormous amounts of research material for both the computer, software, telecommunications and bio-medical industries. She has extensive knowledge of high technology companies and their respective organizations.

Ms. Mintz attended the University of California at Los Angeles and took a variety of program courses, as well as continuing education programs.

 

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