Leadership

Norman J. Beles

Mr. Beles has served as the chairman of the Company since January 2016. He is the President of Belcorp Financial Services, Inc., a real estate and commercial lender to small and mid-sized companies. His previous experience includes serving as President and Chairman of Health Chicago, Inc., a Chicago-based HMO, and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Central DuPage Health System. Mr. Beles is a CPA and has a MBA in Finance from the University of Detroit. He has over 35 years of experience in the banking, finance and health care fields. He previously served on the boards of directors of several other local banks. He also serves as a Trustee at Benedictine University.

Joe Rizza

Mr. Rizza has been a director of the Company since January 2016. He has been an owner/operator of automobile dealerships in the greater Chicagoland area for over 40 years. He is also the President of two finance companies, Midwestern Financial Corporation and Security Premium Finance Company, as well as the President of Seneca Insurance Agency. In addition, Mr. Rizza has an extensive real estate background and continues to be involved as an investor/developer in numerous real estate projects. He also previously sat on the boards of directors of various charitable organizations.

Fred B. Barbara

Mr. Barbara has been a director of the Company since January 2016. Mr. Barbara is the founder and previous owner of the Barbara Family of Companies. He has over 25 years of experience in the transportation and waste disposal fields. Mr. Barbara currently is a self-employed investor and business consultant in transportation, waste disposal, and industrial development. Mr. Barbara is the owner of Barbara Holdings, LLC, a real estate investment company. Mr. Barbara also serves as a director of Evergreen Environmental. Mr. Barbara is an active supporter of several children’s charities.

J. Robert Collins Trust

Mr. Collins was a director of the Company from January 2016 - September 2019. Mr. Collins had over 30 years of experience in the securities, asset management, finance, banking, and real estate industries. Mr. Collins was Managing Member of RCG Holdings, LLC, a diversified financial services firm headquartered in Chicago. Mr. Collins had been a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the MidAmerica Commodity Exchange, the New York Mercantile Exchange and the New York Board of Trade. He was also a member of the board of directors of Millennium Trust Company, LLC.

Gaurav Issar

Mr. Issar has been a director of the Company since January 2016. Mr. Issar serves as the President and CEO of Allant Group overseeing the strategic growth and operational execution of the business in addition to being on the Board of Managers of Allant Group. Prior to joining Allant, Mr. Issar spent over 11 years at Project Leadership Associates (PLA), in various executive team and practice lead roles developing and overseeing customer relationships, strategic growth, and delivery oversight for multiple business units as well as, for a brief period of time, the sales and marketing operations in the company. In 1998, with another co-founder, Mr. Issar created and steadily grew a business intelligence/data warehousing firm to provide analytical and reporting services to enterprise-level organizations which was acquired by PLA in late 2005. Mr. Issar has also previously worked for Price Waterhouse and James Martin & Co. in multiple development and team lead roles. Mr. Issar holds a BS from University of Michigan as well as MBA from Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

Charles B. McKenna

Mr. McKenna has been a director of the Company since January 2020. He has successfully advised on more than 80 mergers and acquisitions with revenues ranging from $50 million to $3 billion on three continents by leading due diligence and directly advising companies on many accretive acquisitions, focusing on strategic restructuring and repositioning of existing businesses. Mr. McKenna was Senior Managing Director for Crowe Capital Markets, a boutique investment banking business he founded that quickly grew in its peak year to more than $400 million transactions serving both small and blue chip company clients, and he also served two Board terms for Crowe Horwath LLP, one as a member and one as Chairman.

Charles received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Accountancy) from Western Michigan University. He held certifications as a General Securities Representative (Series 7 & 63) and General Securities Principal (Series 24). Charles is also a long-standing member of the AICPA and Illinois CPA Society. Mr. McKenna currently serves on the Board of Directors of Penske Motor Group, the largest privately owned Toyota and Lexus dealer in North America, as well as on the Board of Directors at Wheaton Bank and Trust, part of the Wintrust Bank Group. He also on the advisory Board of Directors (2014 – present) for JVA Partners, a holding company which owns several manufacturing and distribution companies to include Belwith Products.