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Resume of Brian R. Odell
Experience
Owner-Member, Arlington ACE Hardware 11620 2003-present
Purchased established (23 years) 3500 sq ft store in a residential neighborhood of Berkeley, CA. Annual sales are approximately $700,000, with ACE purchases of about 95%. Vision 21 achieving, except for Activant. Does no print advertising. No ACE Rewards, due to Activant requirement. Six other ACE stores, two Home Depots, two Orchard Supply Hardware stores, and three True Value stores within a five mile radius. "Highly Profitable" according to ACE Retail Financial Report.
Vice-President & Controller, HIH America 1999-2002
A $150 million workers compensation insurer operating in the Western U.S.
Vice-President & Chief Financial Officer/CIO
Innovus Integrated Benefit Services, LLC 1995-1998
A start-up joint venture of Blue Shield of California and TIG Insurance
Senior Director of Finance, Industrial Indemnity Co. 1987-1995
A $1 billion, multi-line commercial insurer.
various financial planning/management positions with Wells Fargo Bank,
Hewlett Packard Co., and Redwood Bank 1979-1987
Education
Master of Business Administration (Finance)
University of California, Berkeley 1984
B.A., Economics
California State University, East Bay 1979
Statement of Candidacy of Brian R. Odell
I am offering myself as a candidate for Board Director of ACE Hardware Corporation because I feel that the Membership deserves an alternative to the nominees selected by the current Board of Directors. The current nomination process ensures that the status quo is maintained and that there are no dissenting voices on the Board as regards to oversight of the Management Team, its policies, or its strategic direction. I also feel that the 80% of ACE Owner-Members that own a single store are unrepresented on the Board of Directors: of the 11 current Member-Directors, only one (John Patricia) is a single-store owner, and he is a former Retail Business Manager for ACE Corporation. Neither the Board nor the Management appreciates the value of the Owner-Operator in defining the ACE brand. Their focus is entirely on supporting chain store operations.
Some of my goals as a Director are:
1) Dramatically increase the exchange of information and ideas between the
Board and the entire Membership. Establish Board accountability to the
Membership, including opening up the Director nomination process, re-
establishing the majority quorum requirement, and reducing the length and/or
number of Director terms (currently three terms of 3 years each).
2) Enforce programs of accountability for ACE Corporate Management by
establishing performance benchmarks and requiring regular progress reports
to the Board and the Membership, including for retail development
effectiveness and return on investment, supply chain productivity,
merchandise buying effectiveness (cost and sale ability), budget management
and Member dividend growth.
3) Promote an open-access Information Technology structure.
4) Promote a service-oriented focus in Oak Brook. ACE will be successful as a
cooperative if it thinks and functions as a cooperative, not as a franchisor.
5) Increase the retention of existing stores.
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The following four Owner-Members are running on the 2008 CAO proxy to represent you as Ace board of directors... |
Brian Odell
Arlington Ace Hardware
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