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The Act Group senior staff includes Dick
Bauer and Frank Kozak. Dick Bauer, CPA, was President, CEO and owner of a
manufacturing business for 20 years. He has 15+ years of experience as a
consultant and business owner advisor. Frank Kozak, MBA, was Executive Vice
President, CFO, and owner of two service firms. He has 20 years of business
management experience. Additional staff possess capabilities including general
management, facility management, organizational performance and efficiency, and
international business.
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Richard J. Bauer
Managing
Consulting Member
Dick’s strong financial and
CPA background gives him a clear understanding of the business importance and
use of financial statements, profitability concepts, budgets, cash flow, and
cost containment programs. With his extensive experience in manufacturing, Dick
is as comfortable inspecting factory operations in a hard hat with his sleeves
rolled up, as he is in a suit sitting behind his desk analyzing financial
statements. Correspondingly, he is experienced in analyzing operational
processes and skillfully implementing efficiency changes as well as in reading
“between the lines” of financial reports.
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Seasoned and disciplined
through education and experience, Dick brings his counsel to both entrepreneurs
and experienced business leaders. He has the ability to relate to a wide variety
of clients, intuitively perceiving their level of understanding of business
concepts. He begins where they are and brings them gently forward. When he sees
a question in his listener’s eyes, the teacher in Dick comes out. He adds
diagrams, pictures and analogies to the explanation to help the client
understand the importance of taking action in a certain direction.
His own companies, which he
led from the late 1960s to early 1990s, expanded to international markets; he
has used this experience to assist client companies to think globally. A world
traveler, Dick frequently engages in negotiations with principals from other
countries on behalf of his US-based clients. For several years, Dick has been a
member of the World Business Council. He has served as a delegate to the White
House Conference on Small Business as well as the National Advisory Council of
the SBA. In 1983, Dick was awarded honor SBA Man of the Year.
A life-long Toledo resident,
Dick graduated from Bowling Green State University and later earned his MBA at
the University of Toledo. He has been CEO of four successful companies in Toledo
and raised his family here. Dick and his wife Carol have a daughter Dana, and a
son Douglas who shares his father’s love of adventure in the outdoors. Dick and
Carol enjoy traveling, fitness, and living in Toledo.
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Frank M. Kozak
Senior Advisor
Frank focuses on: Strategy
Development and (more importantly) Execution, Financial Management, Sales and
Marketing Strategies, Operational Efficiency, Organizational Design, Business
Planning, and Leadership Performance Improvement. He is a strong believer in the
benefits of lean processes, accountability, and being nimble in the pursuit of
opportunities.
Frank Kozak is
the former CFO and Principal of Watterson Environmental Group, LLC and g2
Revolution, LLC. He is Past President of the Sylvania Community
Improvement Corporation and the Toledo Organization of Management; President of
the Toledo Area Metroparks, Friends of Secor Park; Treasurer and Executive
Committee Member of Partners in Education; and Member of the City of Sylvania
Zoning Board of Appeals; and was Chairman of the Feasibility Study of City of
Sylvania and Sylvania Township Merger.
He holds the position of
Adjunct Professor at Bowling Green State University where he most recently
taught the Business School’s capstone course in Business Policy and Strategy.
Frank obtained a B.S. from Syracuse University and an M.S. from Ohio State
University in the sciences, and an MBA from Bowling Green State University.
Frank is motivated in business
and life to help others. His passion is applying his business experience and
expertise to assist business leaders in developing excellence in their
companies. He strongly values candor, integrity, and honesty (except when it
comes to describing the number and size of the trout he caught on fishing trips
with his Dad). Frank has been married to a great gal, Heidi, for 29 years and
has two awesome daughters, Kimberly and Katherine.
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Frank provides solutions, he takes action
based on facts, and he has a strong understanding of the personalities of people
involved. Frank, being the past owner of two successful entrepreneurial
companies himself, brings a great deal of practical experience to his own style
of executive problem solving. I would highly recommend Frank to any company
experiencing growth, implementing change, and developing performance goals,
expectations, accountability, and profitability.” - Jim Weber, Principal, Weber
O’Brien, Ltd.
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