Employee Professionals Management Team
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Richard K. Reiling, Chief Executive Officer
rreiling@employeepro.com
Mr. Reiling currently serves as Chief Executive Officer. Until June, 2001, he served as Managing Director
of the Bollard Group, LLC which he co-founded in 1997. The Bollard Group is a Houston-based entity with substantial merger and acquisition experience
as well as significant forays into the venture capital markets. In 1995, he was a founder and ex-Chairman and CEO of Group Maintenance America
Corporation (GroupMAC), later known as Encompass Services (NYSE: ENS). This Houston based company was a leading consolidator of the HVAC (heating,
ventilation and air conditioning) industry. $195 million in gross proceeds were raised and within one year the company was generating revenues in
excess of $1 billion. Mr. Reiling's responsibilities at GroupMAC included the original concept and planning, securing seed and follow-on equity
capital and bank lines of credit, negotiating agreements with acquisition candidates, and identifying and retaining key management and Board members.
From 1989 to 1991, Mr. Reiling was co-founder of and served as Senior Vice President of Acquisitions and a Director of Republic Waste Industries,
Inc., a publicly traded consolidator of a wide range of industries including landfill and solid wast-related businesses. During his tenure at
Republic, the company grew through an aggressive industry consolidation plan from a startup in 1989 to a revenue base of $67 million in 1991.
Currently, Republic Industries (NYSE: RII) has a revenue run rate exceeding $10 billion in fiscal 1997. From 1974 to 1989, Mr. Reiling served
as President of three private companies involved in the septic, sewer and plumbing services, spill clean up and remediation, and indoor air
quality. In 1987, Mr. Reiling sold one of these companies (Roberts Environmental Services) to Allwaste, Inc., an industrial services company
traded on the NYSE, eleting to receive stock in Allwaste's first round of consolidating acquisitions after completing its initial public
offering. Subsequently, Allwaste expanded by acquisitions to a revenue base exceeding $400 million prior to being itself acquired. Mr.
Reiling served as Chief Executive Officer of Harbor America, Inc., a Houston-based Professional Employer Organization, from 2001-2003.
Mr. Reiling graduated from the University of Oregon with a Bachelor of Science Degree.
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Robert L. Sarver II, Chief Operating Officer
Bobby@employeepro.com
Robert Sarver is a graduate of National
Aviation Academy and American Medical & Aeronautical Institute. He spent 14 years flying B727s, B707s, DC8s and B747s, accumulating
over 12,000 flight hours. In 1998 he started a company in the Professional Employer Organization (PEO) industry. Success enabled him
to retire from the airline in 1999 to work full time in his new career. Mr. Sarver successfully operated his PEO for six years before
selling it to Reiling Capital at the end of 2004. He remained with the company to run the Fort Myers office and was named the Fort
Myers Region Director 2005.
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Richard S. Rouse, Senior Vice President, Corporate Administrative Officer
RRouse@employeepro.com
Mr. Rouse currently serves as Corporate Development Officer for Reiling Capital Group.
From 2002 to 2005, Mr. Rouse co-founded and served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development & Administration for SPI Petroleum LLC,
responsible for managing the integration of acquired businesses and the development of programs and administrative systems to leverage the value
of the ongoing business operations of the Company. Prior to forming SPI Petroleum LLC, Mr. Rouse was one of the original founders of GroupMAC and
served as Executive Vice President of Corporate Development, playing a similar role in implementing key administrative processes that led to the
successful growth of that company, including insurance and bonding programs, risk management, HR and benefits, purchasing, corporate programs and
communications. Mr. Rouse spent over 17 years in the Petroleum Refining and Marketing industries, including 11 years with Exxon Chemical Company
where he served in a variety of positions within specialty product groups, from technical representative to the product manager. His Exxon
experience included responsibility for pricing, sales, marketing, project management, technology, manufacturing coordination and market
forecasts. Subsequent to his career with Exxon, Mr. Rouse was one of three co-founders of Lubripac, a high-volume blender and packager of
lubricants and specialty chemicals. Lubripac built a $36 million facility in Houston (one of the largest in the world), acquired a similar
operation in the Midwest, and grew to approximately $200 million in annual sales. Mr. Rouse was responsible for sales and marketing, project
development, budgets, forecasting, and general administrative functions for Lubripac. Subsequent to sale of the Lubripac facility to Texaco in
1990, Mr. Rouse became one of the original founders of Republic Industries, where he was responsible for sales and marketing and a variety of
development and administrative functions.
Mr. Rouse graduated from the University of Colorado with a Bachelor of Science Degree.
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Arthur B. Goetze, Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning & Development
AGoetze@employeepro.com
Art brings 25 years of various senior management responsibilities involving
structuring, financing, managing, and the marketing of complex business transactions.
Previously licensed by the NASD. Art has engineered and executed numerous complex syndications, and healthcare projects for organizations
including Century Development Corporation, First Winthrop Securities, Sisters of Charity Healthcare Network, Christus Healthcare, and St.
Lukes Episcopal Healthcare.
In 1996 Goetze, along with three others, founded GroupMAC a mechanical
services consolidation company which they took public in 1997 on the NYSE. It was subsequently re-listed as Encompass Services Corporation. As Sr. VP of
strategy and acquisitions, Art was involved in the acquisition and integration of more than 100 platform operating companies and scores of
tuck-in acquisitions representing gross sales in excess of $2.5 Billion.
Art is also a guest lecturer at the University of Texas IC2, College of Technology Commercialization where he shares his knowledge
and experience in the areas of entrepreneurship, corporate governance and forming winning strategic alliances.
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Esther Reiling, Director of Strategic Projects
EReiling@employeepro.com
Esther Reiling has a strong background in financial services marketing and payroll administration. She joined the company in Houston in
2005 as a payroll specialist and later assumed sales and marketing responsibilities. Earlier, she was marketing director for Robertson
& Associates, a high-net-worth financial advisory firm in Houston. She began her insurance career in California with General Accident
(later CGU and One Beacon), where she focused on claims processing, claims fraud investigation, and workflow management. Ms. Reiling is
a licensed property & casualty agent in Texas.
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Natalie Matthews, Florida Regional Director
NatalieM@employeepro.com
Natalie Matthews currently serves as
Jacksonville Regional Director. Natalie joined the Professional Employer Organization (PEO) industry in April of 1999. Ms. Matthews came to the
PEO industry from the medical field at Urology Associates of Northeast Florida, where she gained an extensive knowledge of provider and consumer
lines of managed care, not only in health benefits, but also in workers’ compensation. She received licensure for Health, Life and Variable
Annuities in October, 2003. She joined Employee Professionals in 2006, with the acquisition of another PEO.
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Carol Crean, Houston Regional Director
CarolC@employeepro.com
Carol Crean joined Employee
Professionals in 2003. Prior to that, she was Vice President at Harbor America, where she developed and implemented employee benefit programs and
managed the human resources department. Before that, she spent 12 years with Alliance Benefit Group, where she advanced from office manager to corporate
officer. Ms. Crean has 20 years experience in the employee benefits field and holds a degree in finance. She is involved in numerous organizations,
including the Professional Businesswomen’s Golf Network, American Business Women’s Association, the Annual PBGN Susan G. Koman Cancer Golf Tournament
(Director) and Gulf Coast Chapter of the USNA Alumni Association.
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Gina Mylla, Operations Controller
Gina@employeepro.com
Gina Mylla has served as Controller of Employee Professionals since 2001. Prior to that she was EP’s Assistant Controller for 18 months.
Before coming to Employee Professionals, Ms. Mylla was Accounting Manager for a publicly held, start-up internet search engine company. Previously,
she lived in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where she was Controller for a commodities export company for 12 years, after working as a Credit Analyst for the Sao Paulo
branch of Bank of Boston. Ms. Mylla holds a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from FAAP University in Sao Paulo.
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