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About Jack Stack:

John P. (Jack) Stack is president and CEO of SRC Holdings Corpora­tion. SRC remanufactures gasoline and diesel engines for the automotive and off-highway markets, distributes engine kits, manufactures power units and remanufactures electrical components, and conducts seminars and training programs specializing in all aspects of teaching people how to implement open-book management. SRC has annual sales of over $600 million and currently employs more than 1,900 people.

Stack, a graduate of Elmhurst College, came to SRC in 1979 as the Plant Manager of International Harvester after eleven years of direct supply chain management experience. In 1983, Stack and the SRC employees bought the company from IH and have turned it into what Inc. magazine has proclaimed “one of America’s most competi­tive small companies.” He is the author of the book The Great Game of Business, published in 1992, which was selected one of the thirty best business books of the year by Soundview Executive Book Summaries. This open-book management program has been recognized by the CBS program Eye on America and PBS’s McNeil-Lehrer Report and has received both the National Business Ethics Award and the Business Enterprise Trust Award. SRC was also selected as one of the Top 100 Companies to Work for in America. Jack’s second book, A Stake in the Outcome, was published in March 2002.

Jack has been named the Springfield Area Chamber of Com­merce’s “Springfieldian of the Year,” an honor bestowed annually on a local community member who has worked to improve the quality of life in Springfield. He has also received the Springfield Business Journal’s Economic Impact “Lifetime Achievement” award for out­standing professional accomplishments and contributions in the business community. Inc. magazine has called him the “smartest strat­egist in America” and named him one of twenty-five entrepreneurs selected to represent the twenty-five years Inc. has been published. Jack was also listed among the “Top 10 Minds in Small Business” in Fortune Small Business magazine. He was recently named the Remanu­facturer of the Year by ReMaTecNews at their annual conference.

Jack serves as a director on the boards of several SRC-affiliated companies, including Newstream Enterprises, CNH Reman, and SRC of Lexington. He is a trustee for SRC’s employee stock ownership program, VEBA Trust, and 401(k) Program. He also serves on the board of directors of Paul Mueller Company, and is an advisory board member of the Greater Ozarks Centers for Advanced Professional Studies (GO-CAPS), which includes Springfield and twenty of the surrounding school districts. GO-CAPS, a program for high school juniors and seniors, gives students the chance to explore their interests in engineering and manufacturing, entrepreneurship, medicine and healthcare, and IT and software solutions.

Jack is presently serving as a director of Care to Learn, a local not-for-profit agency that provides relief to children with emergent hunger, health, and hygiene needs. He serves as the chairman of the advisory board of Harmony House I-Care, a not-for-profit organization that provides shelter, advocacy, and education to survivors of domestic violence. Jack is the founder of the Boys and Girls Clubs’ “Invest to Invest Club,” which was created in order to generate a new source of funds for their youth programs and to serve as a tool to teach business basics to club members and provide a friendly and competitive venue for the Invest to Invest group members.

Jack has been married to Betsy for forty-seven years and is the father of five children and grandfather of ten.

About Darren Dahl:

Darren is an experienced ghostwriter and business journalist. He’s written many words in his career, more than one million of them, targeting various topics in the worlds of business and entrepreneur­ship. That spans the more than five hundred articles he has written for publications like the New York Times, Inc., Forbes, the Huffington Post, and American Express OPEN Forum. He is particularly passionate about projects that connect to the notion that conscious businesses can be a force for good and positive change in the world.

Darren has worked with some of our era’s leading entrepre­neurs and business thought leaders in writing blogs and white papers covering a slew of topics ranging from practical how-to pieces to in-depth profiles on some of the world’s most intriguing companies and entrepreneurs. He’s also ghostwritten multiple books, two of which have landed on multiple best-seller lists while others have garnered attention and applause from other leading business publi­cations, such as the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, and Strategy + Business.

Darren earned a master of arts degree in journalism from Columbia University, a master of business administration from the University of Albany, and a bachelor’s degree in English and economics from Union College. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with his wife, Stephanie.