Mr. Jerry G. Simek, Director - Operational Management
The EMCO/Hanover Group

Jerry G. Simek, as an EMCO/Hanover affiliated member since 1985, heads EMCO/Hanover's Operational Management Team. He specializes in the areas of strategic planning, financial management, business/corporate development and international business. Mr. Simek has successfully directed and implemented a number of corporate reorganizations, refinancing programs, company turnarounds, market assessments plus company acquisition and divestiture programs in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe for more than seventy-five separate clients, including a multi-national trade company with annual revenues just under $1 billion.

Mr. Simek has also facilitated in the raising of capital in both the domestic and European financial communities for a number of public, private and start-up ventures; identified and established joint venture transatlantic manufacturing, trading company and licensing programs; established and implemented multimillion dollar project management, manufacturing expansion plus major cost reduction and value analysis programs; and established company policies and procedures as well as the MIS function. Mr. Simek has further evaluated and restructured marketing and manufacturing organizations; established financial reporting, capital expenditure and budget control programs. Mr. Simek was most recently President of several public, California based medical products companies where he facilitated in the turnaround and capital funding of these entities.

Mr. Simek's corporate background includes over thirty years of management experience with a number of major multinational companies in the medical, energy, electronics. trade and aerospace industries. Mr. Simek was Director of Management Services for a diversified aerospace products manufacturing company; Director of Planning and Business Development for a multinational energy equipment manufacturing company and has held key operational and management positions with several major multinational medical products companies.

In addition Mr. Simek has served as a Director/Board Member of several public and private companies in both the United States and United Kingdom. Mr. Simek is a member of several alumni, business, international and industry organizations. Mr. Simek has a AA in Engineering, a BS in Business and Economics from Illinois Institute of Technology and a MBA, summa cum laude, from Pepperdine University. Mr. Simek also holds a California Real Estate Broker’s License.