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Keith C.
Baker
Keith C. (Keith)
Baker is President of KCB
Associates, a highly
diversified personal counseling, business consulting, and corporate
training company based in Southwestern Ontario, Canada and
Southeastern New
Hampshire, USA.
Keith was first
commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air
Force via the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) in 1973. He
then spent the next 20 years of his professional life as an Air
Force officer, primarily in the Comptroller field. During his
career, he served in a number of important financial management
and leadership assignments both in the United States as well as
overseas.
For example, from 1978 to 1982, Keith supervised
a staff of seven instructors who designed, developed and taught all
basic and advanced officer and enlisted Cost and Management
Analysis training for the Air Force. During this assignment, he
had overall responsibility for new course development and
maintenance, as well as personally teaching complex financial
and business concepts to literally thousands of both US and
allied military officers.
Over half of his Air Force career was spent at
the Aeronautical Systems Division, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio,
where he served in several key Comptroller positions. In these
assignments, Keith successfully implemented emerging automated
program network and project management concepts into a wide
variety of ongoing aircraft development and modification efforts
worth several billion dollars. This included a number of
modification projects on the B-1 bomber and F-117 Stealth
Fighter as well as KC-10 and KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft.
Soon after his
retirement from the Air Force in 1993 (after a full career)
Keith founded KCB Associates.
Since that time, Keith and his growing staff of professionally
trained consultants have provided "helpful help" in
the form of targeted training courses as well as
"hands-on" consulting to numerous small to
medium-sized companies throughout the
United States, Canada and Mexico.
However, far from being just another "detached"
corporate
consultant, from 1994 to 2003 Keith served as a member of the
Board of Directors for AMSAT,
The
Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. AMSAT is a non-profit,
501(C)(3) educational and scientific corporation of over 4000
members based in Washington, DC. Keith also served the
corporation as it's Executive Vice President from 1994 to 1998
before then taking a turn as AMSAT's President from 1998-2000.
Currently, AMSAT's ground and space-based
corporate assets are worth well in excess of $200 Million. The
organization has used predominantly donated resources and
volunteer labor to build and launch over 35 Amateur Radio
satellites into Earth orbit since 1961. During his time as a
senior elected official of the Corporation, Keith's
"hands-on", expert leadership and oversight of an
international team from over 14 nations helped assure the
funding, construction and successful launch of the largest and
most expensive Amateur Radio satellite ever built...AMSAT's
Phase 3-D. The satellite was later re-named AMSAT-OSCAR 40 once
it was successfully launched in November, 2000.
Keith graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of
Arts degree in Earth Sciences (Geology) from the University of
New Hampshire in 1973 and holds both a Master of Human Relations
(Psychology) degree from the University of Oklahoma, and a
Master of Science Degree in Administration from Central Michigan
University.
He is a graduate of the Air Force's Cost and
Management Analysis School, Comptroller Staff Officer School,
Technical Instructor School, Professional Military Comptroller
School, Squadron Officer School, and Air Command and Staff
College. He is the recipient of the Air Force Commendation Medal
and was decorated with the Meritorious Service Medal three times
for outstanding achievement.
(Current as of October, 2007)
Robert M.
Kelley
Robert
M. (Bob) Kelley, is President of Kelley Communication
Development. Since 1979, Bob has taught a wide variety of
planning and project management techniques to thousands of
executives, managers and professionals in the United States, as
well as in some 15 other countries on 6 continents.
He has spoken and on diverse management
subjects at seminars, conferences, and professional society
meetings sponsored by a wide variety of organizations including
the American Management Association, the Association of Systems
Management, the Data Processing Management Association, and the
Project Management Institute.
Bob is the author of the
very popular book Planning
Techniques (Basic and Advanced)
that has appeared on the top-ten best selling book list
of the Dayton Daily News for multiple weeks. He has also
written numerous project management-related articles that
have appeared in a number of professional journals and
other business periodicals.
Bob
Kelley founded his company after 20 years experience in
the data processing, automotive and aerospace industries,
working for companies including the NCR Corporation,
General Motors and B.F. Goodrich.
Bob
holds a B.S. Degree in mechanical engineering from Case
Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and a B.A.
Degree in liberal arts from Ambassador College in
Pasadena, California.
(Current as of October, 2007)
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