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| Our Team
| |  | Laurence B. Valant
Larry has over thirty years of general management and strategic, organization, marketing, operations, IT, and executive compensation consulting experience. As the founder of Valant & Company, Larry's consulting leadership has extended from well-funded and successful start-ups (achieving first year profitable sales in excess of $35 million) to $2.0 billion + companies.
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| | | | John T. Loechner
Jack's career encompasses leadership successes in marketing, sales, research, new product development, and business growth strategy within such companies as GE, McGraw Hill, Ingersoll-Rand and Honeywell. Following a BA degree from Principia College, and 4 years as a Naval Aviator, he attained a Master's in Business from the University of Michigan.
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| | | | Jason J. Valant
Jason began his professional career working for Deloitte & Touche in their Dallas office, leaving them to guide several small businesses to unprecedented financial success.
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| | | | Gayle Hustad
As the founder and owner of a telecommunications business, Gayle brings an entrepreneurial and small business perspective to Valant & Company. Holding P&L leadership of a pager and mobile phone service provider, she led this business in securing 90 percent of the market against their major competitor, US West Communications. Her strengths in marketing and customer service positioned the business for its eventual acquisition by Consolidated Telephone.
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| | | | Kirk Solo
Kirk Solo's consulting work has spanned a wide range of industries and has included both strategy formulation and implementation work. Much of his career has been spent consulting for Chief Officers of Fortune 500 companies. Kirk has worked with the senior executives of such companies as General Motors, AXA Financial, Harcourt Inc. and Smith Kline Beecham.
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| | | | Andy Bowen
Andy Bowen is the Valant Company partner who focuses on corporate communications and media relations strategies for our clients. Bowen served as Senior Vice President at two national public relations agencies, Ketchum and Fletcher Martin Ewing. He is founder and owner of Clearview Communications Inc., a full service public relations and media relations firm based in Atlanta, with a national reach.
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| | | | Brian Valant
Brian brings more than 11 years of experience building successful businesses to the Valant & Company team. Brian started his first company, Homework Etc. LLC (a light construction firm), in the small Western Colorado town of Montrose, building it from the ground floor into a multi-state, multi-million dollar enterprise.
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| | | | John Lankford
You know better than anyone what real results would look like for you and your business. But wouldn't it be great to have a working roadmap to those results? Leverage the expertise of Master Certified Business Coach John Lankford. During the last 36 months with the ActionCOACH Pinellas Team, dozens of his clients have grown their revenues and/or profits between 17% and 640%.
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