Bill has seventeen years experience with a Fortune 500 energy company in a series of management positions including Manager, Financial Analysis, Exploration and Production; Manager, Planning and Analysis, Marketing Division; Vice President, Marketing, Gas Liquids; and President, Gas Liquids.
Bill started new business venture in construction services and served as President and General Manager. He directed all activities associated with a new start-up business including the financial structuring, incorporation, advertising, marketing, hiring and production.
He was hired to initiate the activities of the Business Assistance Center in 1986 and now oversees the development and implementation of programs offered by the BAC. Bill is also a certified Economic Development Financial Professional (EDP).
A native Oklahoman, Ron graduated college with a BS in Business Administration in 1972. After spending the next eight years as a buyer for department store chains in Texas and Oklahoma, he moved back to Tulsa and opened three retail stores as a partner and corporation manager. These stores were the first in Oklahoma to promote the "Outlet" concept in linens and domestics. His next move, still in the same industry, was as a partner in a marketing company. Operating out of the World Trade Center in Dallas, the company represented manufacturers and importers from Maine to California. Their products were marketed to customers throughout the South, Southwest, and Northern Mexico.
Ron has been with the Business Assistance Center since 1988. His areas of concentration are in human resources, financing, and sales management.
Ron is a certified Economic Development Finance Professional (EDP) and Associate of the Capital Resources Institute.
Bruce has over 20 years experience in retail business. His work experience has been almost totally in smaller owner-managed businesses. His first venture into entrepreneurism came in 1980 when he became an independent sales representative for a fastener company. This is where he learned the true meaning of the word "undercapitalized" and why it causes businesses to fail.
He then got into the self employment realm again as the co-owner and manager of a retail hardware store. Here he concentrated on all aspects of business by being involved in sales, financing, record keeping, marketing, advertising, merchandising, purchasing, collections, planning and implementing. He did this full time for almost 10 years and then sold the business after almost 12 years.
Bruce started with the Self Employment Preparedness Program at Central Vo-Tech in Sapulpa, OK in July of 1990. He then started with the Business Assistance Center doing the same program in May of 1991. He is also a certified Economic Development Finance Professional (EDP). Bruce has his BS degree in Accounting. His main areas of interest are marketing, market research, Internet marketing, and Web Site development.
Greg Conder
Greg has nearly 20 years of experience in the manufacturing and distribution industries with such companies as Bell Helicopter, Boeing Electronics and McElroy Manufacturing. Most importantly, he owned and operated a very successful manufacturing company for 14 years, selling in 2004 due to health concerns. His areas of concentration include planning, operations and management.
Greg holds a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering and management
from Oklahoma State University in addition to business graduate studies at the
University of Dallas. He is a licensed professional engineer (PE) and is certified
by the American Production and Inventory Control Society (CPIM). Greg is also
a Certified Economic Development Finance Professional.