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Craig Elderkin
  
 
Craig has been advising CEOs, Presidents, and General Managers since 1998 on business issues such as setting strategy, improving marketing, cutting costs, and improving organizational effectiveness. Larger clients include Aetna, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, Citicorp, Minute Maid, JP Morgan, Sullivan Payne, and TRW. He has also worked with small business owners throughout the Midwest.
 
Craig has an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University. He has served on several non-profit boards and advisory committees for mental health and public education institutions.
Renate Stolzer
 
Renate is a senior financial professional with expertise in developing and implementing risk management processes, governance structures, and policies. She has extensive general management experience in budgets, human resources, audit, and regulatory compliance.
 
Renate has an MBA from Northwestern University, and a JD and BS in Mathematics with Honor from DePaul University. She has served on the Anti-Cruelty Society Governing Board and is on the advisory committee for a local public education institution.
Nick Arvis
 

Nick Arvis has been in small business his entire career, primarily as a President. After starting a landscaping and painting company in high school, he attended NorthwesternUniversity and received his Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering. Afterward, while helping form his construction contracting companies, he earned his MBA in Finance from The University of Chicago.

Nick has extensive experience helping CEOs build their businesses, including marketing, operations, and personnel. He is an expert meeting facilitator and executive coach.

 

Nick has more than twenty years experience leading CEO peer groups. In 1990, as a member of the University of Chicago Entrepreneurial Roundtable, he formed a group of business owners who met monthly to work through business issues. He has been involved with peer groups ever since and has formed the Presidents Advisory Committee (PAC) to provide the preeminent peer group experience to second-stage business owners across America.

Nick is a member of the Chicago and Columbus, Ohio, Chapters of The Entrepreneurial Institute.