Management Team

Norman W. Collins, Esq. - Chairman and CEO

Norm brings over 45 years of legal and business experience at almost every level of commercial activity. At an early age, with a BS degree in Business Administration and a Juris Doctor Degree from Michigan State College of Law, he was named President and COO of a group of companies owned by National City Lines, a NYSE company. He later acquired one of those companies in a leveraged buy out transaction.

As a young entrepreneur, his company was named an INC 500 company indicating his ability to grow a company organically as well as through acquisition. Soon thereafter he was nominated and became a member of the Young President’s Organization (YPO).

He began the practice of Law in 1990 concentrating on Mediation and Arbitration of corporate disputes nationally and internationally. He has served as an advocate before Tribunals of the International Court of Arbitration in Paris and Geneva. While based in Europe for almost 10 years he served as a Management Mentor, Turn Around Specialist, Lead Director and Interim CEO for several privately held companies. For the last ten years he has served as Principal in Collins & Associates and is the Executive Director of the Living Memorial Foundation, a non profit organization for the benefit of the victims of 9/11 under the Patronage of HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco.

Kevin F. Pickard – Chief Financial Officer

Kevin brings more than 20 years experience as a certified public accountant providing publicly traded companies with auditing and financial management expertise ranging from accounting and SEC reporting to mergers and acquisitions and initial public offerings.

Kevin has served since 1998 as a principal officer and owner of Pickard & Green CPAs (formerly Pickard & Company, CPAs), an accounting firm he founded that specializes in providing SEC accounting and other financial management consulting services for small to medium sized companies. These services include preparing public company SEC filings, due diligence on potential acquisitions, financial projection and business plan preparation, company restructuring as well as positioning companies for initial public offerings.

Previously, Kevin was a Partner with Singer Lewak Greenbaum & Goldstein, where he co managed the firm’s securities practice group.

Earlier, he spent over nine years with Coopers & Lybrand (currently PricewaterhouseCoopers), where he focused on auditing companies in the high tech and manufacturing industries.

Kevin holds both a Bachelors of Science and a Masters degree in Accounting from Brigham Young University.

John Shaw – Corporate Communications Director

John Shaw brings more than 20 years experience as a corporate communications professional directing investor, public and media relations for companies ranging from venture-stage to publicly traded mid cap companies.

He has owned a corporate communications consultancy since 2001 working with a number of private and publicly held technology companies. In the ten years prior, John held VP – CorpComm officer roles at publicly traded companies such as Loudeye Technologies (Nasdaq), as well as privately owned venture capital firms (and their portfolio companies) including Digital Media Campus.

Previously, he consulted to a variety of emerging-growth companies, serving for five years with two of the world’s most respected financial public relations firms, the Financial Relations Board (now part of IPG) and Sitrick and Company.

Prior to becoming a management consultant, John was a stockbroker with E.F. Hutton, an award-winning journalist at a Gannett newspaper, on-air reporter/anchor for a CBS Television News affiliate, and reporter for The San Diego Business Journal.

Earlier, he served as a Captain and Communications Officer in the United States Marine Corps, and received his M.A. in Management from Webster University, St. Louis.