_______________________ Brooks Helmick Managing Director _______________________ The IML Boston Group E. Brooks Helmick Brooks Helmick has an extensive operating management and general management consulting background in a number of industries including both high and low technology firms, financial services firms, and publishing. He began his career by turning around a manufacturing firm serving the electric utility industry. After completing the turnaround in three months, he turned to consulting and joined Cryton Corporation, a general management consulting firm headquartered in Washington, DC. He became a principal at Cryton and specialized in helping the U.S. Navy excel in the high-speed execution of large ($1B), emergency funded programs in the fields of reconnaissance, electronic warfare and special operations. Brooks Helmick's operating experience includes nearly 10 years with XTRA Corporation, a global, NYSE transportation and financial services firm. First as vice president responsible for finance and subsidiary operations, he restructured and turned around a five-division subsidiary. Later he was elected executive vice president for the parent company and was chief executive officer of a number of the XTRA’s subsidiaries, including the largest owner-operated trucking company in the U.S. (In 2001, XTRA was purchased by Berkshire Hathaway). He has also held senior management positions at Digital Equipment Corporation and RCA Computer Systems. In 1980, after helping to build XTRA's flagship leasing business from $50 million in assets to an industry leader with record profits and over $500 million in assets, Mr. Helmick returned to the consulting practice and is now Managing Director of The IML Boston Group. Brooks Helmick was a line officer in the U.S. Navy. He holds a BSME degree from Cornell University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Richard D. Holbrook Principal Dick Holbrook has over 18 years experience in general management, during which he was involved in managing rapid growth companies, turnarounds, and the selection and management of acquisitions. He has held senior positions in a number of operating capacities including: divisional president for Textron, Inc., divisional general manager for Dennison Manufacturing Co. and divisional general manager for Packaging Systems Corporation. He has also been vice president of marketing for Ludlow Clement Charts, a subsidiary of Ludlow Corporation and technical marketing director for Polaroid Corporation. Dick Holbrook was a line officer in the U.S. Navy, and he holds a BS degree from Boston University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. James O. Justice Principal Jim Justice has extensive consulting and operating business experience in the fields of energy, high technology and project management. He has been chairman and chief executive officer of Harding Oil, a production and exploration firm in Dallas, Texas. He has also been CEO of Cryton Corporation and Saglio Co., both management consulting firms based respectively in Washington, DC and Los Angeles, California, and was a Vice President for the Management Systems Corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Jim Justice also has served as a U.S. Naval officer in a number of senior project management capacities. He holds a commercial pilot's license, is fluent in German, and holds BSME degree from the University of Minnesota, a BEE degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Site Map