Decision Makers
Board of Directors
Michael D. Queen, President and Director. Mr. Queen has been the President of the Company since 2004. Between 2003 and 2004, Mr. and Mrs. Queen owned and operated Dickenson Holdings, LLC, a firm which provided consulting services to small businesses. Mr. Queen served as President and a director of Pennexx Foods, Inc. from 1999 to 2003. From 1997 to 1999 Mr. Queen was the Vice President of Sales, Marketing, and Business Analysis at Prizm Marketing Consultants of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. Prizm Marketing provided market research, pricing modules, and distribution and advertising plans for business clients. From 1995 to 1997 Mr. Queen served as the President of Ocean King Enterprises, Inc. in Folcroft, Pennsylvania. Ocean King was a specialty seafood appetizer supplier to supermarkets. Mr. Queen's address is 2601 Annand Drive, Suite 16, Wilmington, DE 19808.
Mr. Drennan is a co-founder of Universal Capital Management and serves as its Vice President and CFO. He has more than 30 years of strategic and hands-on experience in management, marketing and finance in the financial services and information technology industries. He has directed and implemented business turnarounds, crisis management and strategic planning for customers and clients ranging in size from $5 million in revenue to Fortune 100 companies in a variety of industries. Since 2001, Mr. Drennan has been a partner in and a co-founder of Mulberry Consulting Group, LLC. Mulberry provides business and management consulting services to small and mid-market companies in a variety of industries with emphasis on operational analysis, strategic and operational planning and implementation solutions and processes.
Steven P. Pruitt, Jr., Director. Mr. Pruitt is DuPont's Internal Control Coordinator and is responsible for implementing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance procedures on a global basis. Mr. Pruitt also assists in the development and implementation of critical internal controls and business processes throughout the company. Prior to business school, Mr. Pruitt worked for five years with the DuPont company in their Internal Audit Group. As a Senior Auditor, he helped to lead and train business teams on assessing and improving their business models. He also spent a year overseas focusing on educating DuPont's joint ventures and subsidiaries on better business practices. Mr. Pruitt graduated with an MBA degree from The University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. In addition to his Master's Degree, he holds a BS in Accounting Degree from the University of Delaware and passed the CPA exam in 1999. Mr. Pruitt's address is 430 Canoe Club Road, Newark, Delaware.
Jayshree Moorthy has over 20 years experience in operations and management with the diversified technical services sector. She managed and led the successful Frontier Technologies Inc., from a startup to a $2MM growth company providing information technology, telecom and engineering services. Jayshree is also highly proficient in marketing management, customer relationship management, sales automation, product marketing support and IT enabled consulting services.
Jeff Muchow is a veteran of food and agricultural processing industries. His current work involves senior management involvement in business startups, mergers and turnaround situations for food processing enterprises. Previously, Jeff was assistant to the Chairman of IBP and president of IBP?s China Joint Venture in pork while employed with IBP, Inc., Dakota Dunes, SD, now a division of Tyson Foods. His other responsibilities while at IBP included development of case ready systems for the pork division and assistance with design of hog production contracts for the hog procurement division. He has also worked on projects in Russia, Bulgaria, and Poland and Brazil during the past 15 years. He was previously COO of Townsend Poultry in Millsboro, DE and Partner in Food System Associates in Washington, DC. He received his bachelor?s degree in agricultural economics from SDSU in 1968, a master?s degree in agricultural economics from the University of Missouri in 1970, and an MBA from the University of Northern Colorado in 1976. Jeff currently serves as Trustee for the FarmHouse Foundation and South Dakota State University Foundation. He is a member of Universal Capital Management Board of Directors, Wilmington, DE; a business development corporation specializing in providing startup capital to new companies.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Universal Capital Management, Inc |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
Doctorate Degree In Electrical Engineering |
Former |
Steven Pruitt is DuPont's Internal Control Coordinator and is responsible for implementing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance procedures on a global basis. Mr. Pruitt also assists in the development and implementation of critical internal controls and business processes throughout the company. Prior to business school, Mr. Pruitt worked for five years with the DuPont Company in their Internal Audit Group. As a Senior Auditor, he helped to lead and train business teams on assessing and improving their business models. He also spent a year overseas focusing on educating DuPont's joint ventures and subsidiaries on better business practices. Mr. Pruitt recently graduated with an MBA from The University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. In addition to his Master's Degree, he holds a BS in Accounting Degree from the University of Delaware and passed the CPA exam in 1999.
Stewart Taub is president and founder of a global customer acquisition company, which has generated over $1 billion in revenues for the companies he has contracted with since 1987. Stewart is responsible for the development and implementation of marketing strategies, system designs, sales techniques and corporate missions that have resulted in unprecedented market penetration in the residential, small business and fortune 100 arenas. In 1987 due to the rising tide of the bottled water industry, Stewart identified a unique niche in providing an inexpensive alternative to bottled water by providing a point-or-use water filtration system that retailed for less then $200. In his first year Stewart developed a marketing and distribution system that generated in excess of 12 million in North American sales. In the years to follow his sales organization grew internationally with nearly $100,000,000 in revenues.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Dechert Llp |
|
Current |
| Universal Capital Management, Inc |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| CoreStates Bank |
Executive Vice President |
Former |
| Core States, Inc. |
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Former |
| University of Virginia School of Law |
J.D. |
Former |
Mr. Pickard is the founder and owner of Alpha Equipment Company. Alpha Equipment was established in August 2003 as a distributor for CO2 Blasting Machines. Led by Mr. Pickard, the company developed an air operated chiller/dryer for cooling and removing moisture from compressor airlines for which there is a patent pending. Mr. Pickard also holds patents developed for the Specialty Steel Industry. Among them is a patent for precision edge shaving in a variety of configurations on both ferrous and non-ferrous strip materials. Alpha Equipment Company developed an air operated chiller/dryer for cooling and removing moisture from compressor airlines for which there is a patent pending.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Alpha Equipment Company |
Founder |
Current |
| Alpha Equipment Company |
Owner |
Current |
| Universal Capital Management, Inc |
Board of Directors |
Current |
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