Power Lifestyles International is committed to using solid moral and business principles to grow a very successful company. In order to create a dynamic plan, and execute effectively, we have retained on our Board of Directors, six strong, mature, high character leaders from the business community. Each of these individuals have impeccable credentials, and have already been instrumental in maintaining our commitment to excellence. We are fortunate to have their involvement, and look forward to many years of exciting business building together.
The is as follows (in alphabetical order):
Richard A. Day
Founder, Chief Executive Officer
Daycom Systems, Inc.
Rick Day is founder and CEO of Daycom Systems, a premier voice communications VAR based in San Diego. Rick’s experience includes nearly 20 years in the computer and telecommunications industries with an emphasis on mid-range systems. After five successful years in the secondary market for IBM and AT&T equipment, he started Daycom Systems in 1992. Rick has grown the company, and transformed its operations and value proposition, substantially, several times in the fast-changing telecom industry. Daycom is now a leading communications VAR and maintenance provider with over $20 million in annual sales. Daycom consults, designs, installs, integrates, and maintains voice communications, messaging, and call center systems for medium and large commercial businesses nationwide. The company currently employs more than 50 employees, and has over 300 commercial customers nationwide – names like: Wal-Mart, Geico, Mutual of Omaha, Intel, AARP, and many others. The company carries four major product lines – Avaya, Nortel, Siemens, and Cisco, as well as a fully array of value-added, Daycom-branded services. Rick has developed substantial expertise in strategic decision-making initiatives, specific goal-setting, corporate communications, building and evolving management teams, building boards for privately-owned businesses, M&A activities, and
in leading financial, sales, and operations management. In addition to being the co-founder of R&R Asset Management, he is on the Board of Advisors for Bente Hansen & Associates, and serves as Director on the Boards of Power Lifestyles International and Sequoia Asset Management Group. Rick is past President of the North American Telecommunications Dealers Association (NATD), a professional trade group that ensures the highest ethical standards among telecommunications dealers. Rick also served on the Vendor Liaison Committee for the American College and University Telecommunications Association (ACUTA), and served two years on Avaya’s BusinessPartner Advisory Council. Rick has a BS Degree in Finance from San Diego State University and is a veteran of the US Navy.
Michael S. Hudson
President / CEO / Founder
Power Lifestyles International, Inc.
Mr. Hudson has spent the last 30 years providing leadership in the development of successful organizations, as an executive and consultant. With an emphasis on business development and marketing, he has helped launch companies in health care (nutrition), technology (small dish satellite systems), and Internet (web systems for affinity organizations). Mr. Hudson has acted as V.P. of Sales for a large start-up person-to-person marketing company, and previously built the second largest independent rep organization in a health products person-to-person marketing company. Mr. Hudson also built and owned a direct-to-consumer business selling personal computers, that penetrated consumer markets in 36 states. In 2004, Mr. Hudson was retained as a consultant to train sales reps for a company introducing a new healthy energy drink that generated over $10 million in sales its first year, even though it was marketed in less than 35 stores of a large national retail chain. After watching over 10,000 presentations of this other energy drink to prospective customers, he realized that a similar but healthier energy drink, if marketed more strategically, could become the lead product of a successful nutritional marketing company. In early 2006, Mr. Hudson found the right nutritional experts to formulate this new healthier energy drink, along with other impact products, and is now completing the business development process in order to launch sales in 2007.
Eric Leaver
President
Leaver Group
Eric Leaver is an entrepreneur focused on the health, fitness and nutrition industries. He is currently CEO of Brainstorm Biosciences, Inc. – a product development and marketing company - and Leaver Group Inc. – a consulting firm serving the health, fitness and beauty industries. Prior to this he served as president of the National Academy of Sports Nutrition, an online education and certification program directed, primarily, toward personal trainers wanting a foundational and pragmatic understanding of sports nutrition. Mr. Leaver is the co-founder and former Chairman/President of Zipfizz, Inc. which markets an effervescent sports-and-energy drink mix, and achieved sales of over $12 million in its second year of operations. Mr. Leaver has transacted business in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Kuwait, Russia, Poland, Germany, Austria and Denmark.
Michael McBride
Executive Vice President
The McBride Companies
Mr. McBride began his career with The McBride Companies following his graduation from the University of Kansas in 1979, where he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration. McBride Companies is a 57 year old Electrical and Data services company operating nationally through 14 company owned branch offices. Mr. McBride concentrates his efforts at McBride in business development as well as strategic direction as an owner and member of their board of directors. He was responsible for the development of McBride M-Power division which is a leading provider of critical electrical and data services to Fortune 500 companies. He also was the founding investor and served on the board of Blue Hornet Networks until they sold to Digital River, a publicly traded technology company. McBride was an active member of The Executive Committee (TEC) from 1998-2003. He has been married since 1978 and has one son and one daughter.
Robert K. Young
Chief Executive Officer
Newcross technologies
Robert Young recently served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Federal Telecommunications within SAIC, responsible for strategic direction, major procurement strategy, and acquisitions. Mr. Young is active on the Board of Directors of Media World Communications (Melborne, Australia), Daycom Systems, Ramp Rate Technologies, and the Advisory Board for SBC (San Antonio, Tx.), iPass (Redwood Shores, Ca.), Clear Technologies (Denver, Co.), S5 Wireless, Atreus Systems, Hellosoft Inc., Sofinnova Ventures (San Francisco, Ca.). Mr. Young is the co-founder of Nirvana
Wireless (San Diego, Ca.), RFSol (San Jose, Ca.), and The Panum Group (Bethesda, Md.). Previously, Mr. Young was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the SAIC Global Telecommunications Group, where he built and managed SAIC’s $115 million global commercial telecommunications business. As part of this assignment Mr. Young sponsored SAIC investments in 13 telecommunications companies with SAIC’s Venture Capital Corporation and developed formal relationships with clients such as SBC, Qwest, Bell South and The County of San Diego. Previous board assignments include Chairman of ANX Asia Pacific (SAIC/Mitsubishi Joint Venture), Board of Directors SAIC Ltd. Europe, Board of advisors for Wisor Telecom, Packet Video, Airespace. Before joining SAIC in 1999, Mr. Young was the Vice President for Global Services for Viasoft, where he was responsible for revenue growth of $35M and for managing more than 200 employees in 55 countries. Prior to that, Mr. Young was a Project Executive with IBM Global Services where he directed the development and implementation of complex networking and ERP software projects including resource planning for more than 600 personnel in IBM’s Global Services organization. Before joining IBM, Mr. Young was Executive Program Manager at Lockheed Martin, where he directed an engineering and support staff of more than 450 engineers. Mr. Young has a Bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary and a Master’s degree in Engineering from Oklahoma State University and is a registered Professional Engineer and certified Project Management Professional.
Toni Ziv
President
My Blue Lotus
Toni Ziv, a 1989 University of Illinois at Chicago Bachelors of Electrical Engineering and Masters of Computer Science graduate, joined Qualcomm, Inc. to become a key member of the first CDMA architecture team and a CDMA patent holder. She rapidly advanced to the title of Director of Engineering, and successfully lead a team of engineers to produce software being used worldwide today by wireless operators such as Verizon, Sprint-Nextel, AT&T, KDDI, and China Unicom. Her focus since retiring from Qualcomm in 2000, has been to develop her business, My Blue Lotus, which seeks to empower women and children to a world of passion and joy through healthy spiritual, fitness, and nutrition based choices. She is also an active leader in her community for her two children's school health and wellness programs and credits Dr. Phil's Pathways, Inc. for giving her everything her heart craved, and without the fear! She travels regularly to Dallas with her husband to participate as associate trainers in the Pathways Relationship Rich program. She is a powerhouse of energy and enthusiasm and a natural networker to which she attributes her success in all of her undertakings and to which she is passionately committed to seeing Power Lifestyles propagate!
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