WolfePak Software CFO Melissa Pursley

“I am truly looking forward to being part of the transformational effort to build a stronger, customer-centric WolfePak that is laser-focused on providing innovative software solutions for independent oil companies.” – Melissa Pursley, WolfePak Software CFO

ABILIENE, Texas (PRWEB)
August 18, 2020

WolfePak Software, a leading provider of oil and gas accounting, regulatory compliance, and automation software, announced today that Melissa Pursley has joined the company as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Pursley brings over 20 years of financial leadership in both public and private, high-growth software companies.

“Melissa’s proven track record of creating shareholder value, corporate finance expertise, and understanding of vertical software companies will be instrumental as we continue to grow,” said Brent Rhymes, CEO of WolfePak Software. “We are very excited to welcome Melissa to WolfePak’s executive management team.”

Pursley joins WolfePak with a multitude of financial leadership, M&A, and business experience in high-growth industries like data, software, and healthcare. She recently served as Vice President of Finance at Progyny (NASDAQ: PGNY) in New York City, where she was part of the IPO team that took the company public in late 2019. Before Progyny, Pursley held financial leadership roles at TravelClick, Dun & Bradstreet, and LexisNexis.

“WolfePak helps independent oil and gas companies increase profitability and lower their operating costs,” said Pursley. “I am truly looking forward to being part of the transformational effort to build a stronger, customer-centric WolfePak that is laser-focused on providing innovative software solutions for independent oil companies.”

Both upstream and midstream oil companies use WolfePak’s business automation software to lower their operating costs and increase profitability by streamlining back-office processes, oilfield data collection, and business transactions. WolfePak Software simplifies financial reporting, accounting functions, production management, crude purchasing and more. Benefits include reduced costs, increased efficiency in labor-intensive processes, such as revenue distribution, and greater access to data that enables more informed business decisions.

About WolfePak Software

WolfePak Software offers a fully integrated suite of software products for oil and gas upstream and midstream customers, including exploration and production well operators, crude oil purchasers, transporters, haulers, investors, CPA firms, and service companies. Located in Abilene, deep in the heart of the Texas oil patch, WolfePak serves customers throughout the United States and the world. With its staff of experienced software developers, CPAs, and oil and gas professionals, WolfePak has provided best-of-breed accounting, document management, oilfield data collection, land management, and automation software and services since 1986. For more information, please visit http://www.wolfepak.com.

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We will look to Martha’s leadership and industry experience to lead our commercial team, support our customers, and continue our growth throughout the adhesive and technical materials markets.

FOREST PARK, Ill. (PRWEB)
August 18, 2020

Duraco is proud to welcome Martha Sloboda, Vice President of Sales to the company. Martha joins Duraco with over 20 years of adhesives, coatings, technical materials development, and sales experience in both industrial and healthcare markets. In this role, she will be a part of the company’s executive leadership team and will be responsible overseeing the sales team by leading all sales efforts to contribute to the conclusive profitability of the company.

Martha’s addition is aligned with the company’s long-term strategy to grow the business while focusing on delivering outstanding customer service and tape expertise to customers.

“I am excited that Martha has joined our team,” said David Danelz, CEO of Duraco. “She has a strong background and positive track record of driving growth in the adhesives and tape industries. We will look to Martha’s leadership and industry experience to lead our commercial team, support our customers, and continue our growth throughout the adhesive and technical materials markets.”

She was recently with Scapa, a leading global adhesives supplier, where she led all sales, marketing, product development, and research and development resulting in $225MM USD in annual sales. As the global commercial director, she was responsible for expanding their global footprint, delivering growth for specific franchises, supporting mergers and acquisitions identification and integration, and helping develop and optimize processes and systems to support a diverse, global team to efficiently report on their performance and pipeline.

Martha received her B.A. in Japanese from Connecticut College and an MBA from the Loyola Sellinger School of Business.

About Duraco

Duraco is a B2B manufacturer of specialty tapes, which are sold into highly attractive end markets including Point-of Purchase displays, appliances, transit packaging, construction, signage, and HVAC. Duraco’s application-specific tapes are strong alternatives to mechanical fasteners and traditional glues offering longevity, strength, efficiencies in customer’s assembly operations and breadth of substrates. Duraco’s customer service team will continue to offer their expertise to customers determining which products are ideal for their applications. With a highly diversified customer base, Duraco has maintained loyal relationships for over 65 years and is continuously growing with over 6,800 customers in 2019. Duraco is headquartered in Forest Park, Illinois.

Duraco’s recent acquisition of Infinity Tapes, headquartered in Lawrence, Massachusetts is a leading manufacturer of double coated tapes, silicone coated liners and tamper evident products in the transit packaging and industrial end markets.

Duraco and Infinity Tapes have a combined workforce of 180 employees with fulfillment centers that are in Rancho Cucamonga, California and Mississauga, Canada. To learn more about Duraco, please visit http://www.duraco.com.

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SIUE’s Pietro Sasso, PhD, assistant professor and immediate past director of the CSPA program.

“This will inform my teaching of our CSPA students as it challenges our conceptualization of college male identifying populations within the margins, and those who are edged to the boundaries of campus support systems.”

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (PRWEB)
August 18, 2020

Developing future campus leaders who will inspire next generation students through inclusivity and care, is a critically important task that educators like Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Pietro Sasso, PhD, do not take lightly.

Sasso excels in that mission as assistant professor and immediate past director of the University’s College Student Personnel Administration (CSPA) program. His influential work and its reach are being further amplified as he serves as the Vice Chair for Convention Programs of the American College Personnel Association’s (ACPA) Coalition on College Men and Masculinities (CMM).

Sasso assumed this national position in August, joining a leadership team comprising distinguished scholars and administrators from across the nation. In his new role, he will coordinate the CMM’s sponsored programming review process while serving as a reviewer for sponsored program proposals. Additionally, he will assist in coordinating activities for the annual ACPA Convention and future ACPA events.

“I am really looking forward to expanding my leadership with CMM to continue to facilitate research discussions that pushes the constructs of intersecting masculinities and the theoretical complexities of multiple masculinities,” said Sasso. “This will also inform my own teaching of our CSPA students as it challenges our conceptualization of college male identifying populations within the margins, and those who are edged to the boundaries of campus support systems.”

The broad aim of the CMM is to promote men’s development throughout college campuses. The coalition’s vision is to focus on marginalized understandings of college masculinity, centering the experiences of men who experience systemic oppression. Our hope is that by centering these voices to be heard, new conceptions of what it means to be a man can emerge and influence educational research and practice. This aligns with Sasso’s current research focused on topics of masculinity in higher education.

In 2017, Sasso was named an Emerging Scholar in Residence by the CMM for his prior research related to men and masculinity within student affairs and higher education. During his two-year residency, Sasso worked with fellow emerging researchers and supported the work of the coalition as a resident expert by authoring critical thought pieces and delivering conference presentations.

Sasso has two forthcoming publications exploring masculinity on college campuses: an article for the Journal of Critical Scholarship in Higher Education & Student Affairs exploring white supremacy in college male student protests, and a text on multiracial masculinity, tentatively titled, Intersecting the Borders of Manhood: Multiracial Masculinities among American College Students. During his board service, he will continue to investigate such topics while developing programming to raise awareness of the ideas and issues surrounding men and masculinity in higher education.

To learn more about the CMM, visit myacpa.org/scmm.

By preparing the next generation of leaders in a knowledge-based economy, SIUE’s Graduate School fulfills the region’s demand for highly trained professionals. Graduate school offerings include arts and sciences, business, education, engineering, nursing and interdisciplinary opportunities. SIUE professors provide students with a unique integration of theoretical education and hands-on research experiences. Students can obtain graduate certificates or pursue master’s degrees, and be part of a supportive learning and rich intellectual environment that is tailored to the needs of adult learners. The Graduate School raises the visibility of research at SIUE, which ranks highest among its Illinois Board of Higher Education peers in total research and development expenditures according to the National Science Foundation. Doctoral programs are available in the Schools of Education (EdD) and Nursing (DNP). The School of Engineering and the Department of Historical Studies feature cooperative doctoral programs (PhD), and the College of Arts and Sciences features an Environmental Resources and Policy cooperative PhD.

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Raj Chowdhury Surpasses Mark Zuckerberg

PALO ALTO, Calif. (PRWEB)
August 18, 2020

CEO of HashCash Consultants, Raj Chowdhury has surpassed Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, on Crunchbase’s global media ranking. As of Monday, Chowdhury is holding 57th position within the top 100 most influential people listed under the Crunchbase. Zuckerberg is currently ranked 58th on the list. (Ranks are dated 17.08.2020)

A blockchain pioneer, Raj Chowdhury is the chief architect behind the strategic growth and global recognition of HashCash Consultants. It is under his able leadership that the company has ascended to the position of being one of the top blockchain development companies, creating novel standards in the industry and setting exemplar through their innovations.

Speaking with the media, Raj Chowdhury mentioned, “Through collaborations and my engagements with industry leaders and global regulators, my goal has been to accelerate the mass adoption of blockchain and cryptocurrency across verticals. I have channelized both individual endeavors and company efforts into building futuristic and scalable infrastructures to make up for the drawbacks of the legacy systems, for a digitally smart and decentralized future.”

Lead by him, HashCash Consultants has forged notable alliances with leaders and entrepreneurs across sectors, creating a robust network comprising of global banks, fintech, and enterprises. Chowdhury is the mastermind behind prominent blockchain collaborations in major industries, influencing the transformation of legacy architectures.

Before joining HashCash as the Chief Executive Officer, Raj Chowdhury executed the first-ever inter-bank Trade Finance and Remittance through Blockchain integration between two major global banks. Alumni of Tufts and Santa Clara University, and Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy for MBA and MS, Raj Chowdhury holds an equally impressive academic record as a research associate at MIT’s Microsystems Technology Lab. After completing education, he went on co-found multiple start-ups, all of which worked with emerging technologies.    

About HashCash Consultants:

HashCash is a global software company offering solutions in Blockchain, AI, Big Data, and IoT through its platforms, products & services. HashCash Blockchain products enable enterprises to move assets across borders in real-time for Remittances, Trade Finance, Payment Processing, and more. HashCash runs US-based digital asset exchange, PayBito & Digital asset payment processor, BillBitcoins. HashCash offers crypto exchange solutions, Payment processor software, ICO services, and customized Blockchain use case development. It propels advancement in technology through Blockchain1o1 programs and its investment arm, Satoshi Angels. HashCash solves the toughest challenges by executing innovative digital transformation strategies for clients around the world.

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Carl J. Taylor, President of Carl J. Taylor & Co. Executive Search

Some businesses are considering new, alternative, or complementary programs for their hiring needs, and diversity/inclusion efforts are a priority.

DALLAS (PRWEB)
August 17, 2020

In recent weeks, the country has experienced a significant increase in the attention paid to diversity and inclusion. This is not a new topic of conversation, but it represents issues which have been addressed differently by organizations. Many companies have developed extensive diversity and inclusion programs over several years. Other organizations have begun to address the issues in their hiring and development efforts. Still other companies have attempted to pursue new programs only to be frustrated by a lack of success or by other business needs taking priority.

Carl Taylor, an Executive Recruiter based in Dallas, Texas and President of Carl J. Taylor & Co. knows that currently, most companies are trying to get their business restarted and/or ramped up. As a part of this process, he notes “that each organization will deal with its people needs based on its own experience, and it may consider new or rededicated initiatives as a part of these people decisions.” Taylor says that ”some businesses are considering new, alternative, or complementary programs for their hiring needs, and diversity/inclusion efforts are a priority.”

A company must have a genuine long-term commitment to diversity hiring. A superficial effort or a temporary interest will not be successful and may negatively impact the company’s reputation in the marketplace. Organizations which have made the commitment have seen benefits, including recruiting advantages and business successes (new customers and more sales). Their diversity and inclusion programs address ethnicity, gender, geography, age, disability and/or other factors, specifically based on their needs, their business, and the future they envision for their company.

Organizations with a commitment to diversity are initiating or expanding their programs for identifying and attracting appropriate candidates for Boards of Directors, senior and mid-level management positions, technical experts, as well as line and staff openings. Some smaller companies which may not be as far along in their diversity efforts are creating advisory boards to enhance their knowledge and progression.

These companies know that finding the right people for leadership positions has been difficult in recent years, and they realize that this challenge will continue as business resumes. The increased awareness of diversity and inclusion hiring will contribute to the challenge of identifying and attracting the right people who will make a difference in their organizations.

Carl Taylor is a Dallas executive search and recruitment expert with over 25 years of experience in the recruitment industry. Carl J. Taylor & Co., an executive search and recruiting firm, has successfully completed challenging assignments for key board of director, management, and supervisory level positions in Texas and around the country. To learn more about Carl J. Taylor & Co., call (972) 490-7697 or visit the firm’s website at https://www.carltaylorco.com.

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Corporex Companies, LLC Hires Mark Bulmash as new Development Executive

Mark Bulmash will “help drive the value of current and future assets in our portfolio that will impact areas for generations,” said Dan Sink, CEO of Corporex.

COVINGTON, Ky. (PRWEB)
August 17, 2020

Corporex Companies is pleased to announce the hiring of Mark G. Bulmash as a Development Executive. In this role, Bulmash will focus on expediting the next phases of Ovation, Corporex’s mixed-use project in Newport, KY, and other current and future development projects, including the Companies holdings in the Denver area. (Corporex is the master developer for Ovation, a 25-acre mixed-use development comprising of more than 900 residential units, restaurants, retail, hotels, and offices.)

As former Senior Vice President of Development of The Howard Hughes Corporation, Bulmash has developed large-scale commercial and mixed-use projects and redeveloped/repositioned existing retail assets. He also had impressive tenures with Taubman Companies and Forest City Enterprises. Further, he has been responsible for sustainable development and brownfield redevelopment projects throughout his career.

“The Ovation project is another of Corporex’s premier mixed-use developments,” said Dan Sink, CEO of Corporex. “This high-profile project, with its unique appeal, landscape, and impact, will benefit from Mark’s experience and expertise. Mark will also help drive the value of current and future assets in our portfolio.”

“I am fortunate to have found a position at a company where I get to work with an amazing team and love what I do,” said Bulmash. “I am really excited to be here.”

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Bryan Hayes, new Managing Director of Corporex Commonwealth, LLC

“Bryan Hayes brings an abundance of knowledge and experience that will be invaluable to our aggressive plan for the growth of Corporex Commonwealth,” said Dan Sink, CEO of Corporex.

COVINGTON, Ky. (PRWEB)
August 17, 2020

Corporex Companies recently hired Bryan K. Hayes as Managing Director of Corporex Commonwealth, Inc., one of the Corporex Companies LLC’s family of companies. Corporex Commonwealth was created to lead the growth of the company’s hotel portfolio, including Commonwealth Hotels LLC and Commonwealth Hotels Collection LLC.

In his new role leading our hotel companies, Hayes will focus on building an aggressive growth plan through the strategic acquisition of hotel management contracts. He will also develop and provide various forms of financing, including asset-based and other secured lending options, to hotel owners and developers.

Hayes comes to Corporex most recently from White Lodging Services, where he held the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. During his tenure at White Lodging, he successfully grew the number of hotels in their portfolio and generated $300 Million in revenue growth. Hayes has a diverse and robust background in the hotel industry.

“We are thrilled to have Bryan Hayes and his more than 35 years of experience in the hotel industry,” said Dan Sink, CEO of Corporex. “He brings an abundance of knowledge and experience that will be invaluable to our aggressive plan for the growth of Corporex Commonwealth. I couldn’t be more enthusiastic about our future.”

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