Mr. Brinker has been a Director of American TonerServ since 1995. Since November 2005, he has served as President, CEO and Principal Financial and Accounting Officer of the Company. As of July of 2006, he no longer serves as the Principal Financial and Accounting Officer of the Company.
From 2002 to 2005, Mr. Brinker has been a business consultant and served as President of ASKM Enterprises, Inc., his consulting firm. Mr. Brinker served as President of ATS from 1995 to 2002. He has over twenty years of experience as a principal, operating officer and financier of financial and other service businesses, and technology companies. Mr. Brinker has extensive operational, financial and/or senior management experience with a number of financial services companies including American Home Shield (a publicly traded company) and Benchmark Lending Group. Mr. Brinker served as President of American Home Shield (AHS), the nation's largest home warranty company, from 1987 to 1995. Mr. Brinker led a turnaround management team that engineered a buyout of AHS by ServiceMaster and management in 1989.
Mr. Brinker is a Certified Public Accountant and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Santa Clara University in 1979. Mr. Brinker has also completed certain graduate courses at Stanford University.
Tom Hakel
Director & Secretary
Mr. Hakel has been a Director of the Company since 2001, and as Secretary since November 2005. Mr. Hakel serves as Chairman of the Compensation committee. He has extensive experience in corporate finance and business development.
Since 1998, Mr. Hakel has been the founder and manager of International Commerce Group, LLC, a business consultancy organization working primarily with emerging stage technology companies. He also served as the CEO of Accerra Corporation, a web based communications and marketing service from 2003 to April 2004. From 1997 to 1999,
Mr. Hakel was co-founder of DTI Network Services, LLC and ICN/CommSource Network Services, LLC, which bought international undersea network fiber optic cable capacity. Prior to that, Mr. Hakel was Executive Vice President at World Change Communications ("WXC"), a telecommunications company with over $400M in annualized revenues from 1996 to 1997. In both consulting and operational roles, Mr. Hakel has assisted numerous companies with the development of strategic plans, debt and equity financing and mergers and acquisitions, including transactions involving companies in the software, telecom equipment, financial services and Internet industries.
He is a Certified Public Accountant and received a B.S. Degree in computer science from California State University, Sonoma in 1985.
Chuck Mache
Chairman of the Board
Chuck Mache
has spent a quarter-century selling, managing, building,
and leading sales organizations, with a specialty
in highly competitive industries. He used his breakthrough
sales approach to lead the transition of Benchmark
Lending Group from a mortgage broker to a full
mortgage bank, and dramatically increased both
the number and size of loans in a short period,
turning the company into a mid-size player in the
California market.
As Executive VP of Sales for American Home Shield, Mache grew revenues from $6M
to $100M in ten years, formed strategic partnerships with other market leaders,
such as Coldwell Banker and Prudential, and restructured sales teams during acquisitions.
From working in the field to leading the executive team, Mache has mentored thousands
of sales professionals. Through those relationships, he discovered the four paths
to breakthrough sales, and he is committed to using these concepts to build next
level sales teams worldwide, through his speeches, coaching, and consulting programs.
Chuck is the founder of Chuck Mache Communications, and The
Four
Kinds
of Sales
People is his first book. He lives in Santa Rosa, California
with Cindy, his wife of
twenty-five
years, his three children, Shannon, Rachael, and Thomas, and his yellow lab,
Charlee. Learn more about Chuck at www.ChuckMache.com
Steven R. Jensen
Director
Mr. Jensen has been a Director of the Company since August 13, 2007. He was the founder and CEO of Optima Technologies, LLC, from which the Company purchased certain assets on April 1, 2007. Mr. Jensen still serves as the managing member of Azaria Management Group, L.L.C. (the new name for Optima Technologies, L.L.C.) which has been engaged in the business of print management, printing supplies and repair service since 1987. Mr. Jensen received a Bachelors Degree in Accounting from the University of Miami in 1985. Mr. Jensen has extensive industry experience and knowledge as he has been in print management & supplies industry for over 20 years. Mr. Jensen earned his Bachelor of Science from Miami University in Ohio where he majored in both Accounting and Finance. After college, Mr Jensen completed pilot training in the United States Air Force.
William Robotham
Director
Mr. Robotham became a Director in July 2006. William A. Robotham serves as the Chairman of the Audit committee. He is a certified public accountant and the executive partner for Pisenti & Brinker LLP. He has served as the partner-in-charge of the Auditing and Accounting department, the Tax department and the Management Advisory Services department. He joined the firm in 1966, became a partner in 1969 at twenty-seven years of age, managing partner in 1983 and executive partner in 1996. Mr. Robotham currently works in tax, general practice and management consulting for the firm.
He is also a director of American River Bankshares, a publicly-held company listed on NASDAQ. Mr. Robotham is Chairman of the audit committee and is a member of other committees of American River Bankshares. He also serves on the regional board of North Coast Bank and is Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Randal Nutritional Products, Inc. Mr. Robotham is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants.