The Summit Organization, LLC

The Summit Organization, LLC is a management consulting firm organized in 1992 to provide turnaround and restructuring assistance, corporate finance (including business planning, cash flow modeling and financial and operational project management) and merger & acquisition services for lower middle market clients primarily in the manufacturing, distribution and service industries.

The senior management executive of Summit is Thomas L. “Tom” Swiers, a CPA and a highly qualified “results-focused” executive manager and business owner who has a talent for proactively solving a multitude of business problems faced by owner-operators in a rapidly changing global economy. Some of the areas that Tom has expertise in include the following

Profitability Improvement                                           Acquisition Due Diligence

Productivity Enhancement                                        Computer Support Systems

Product Cost Analysis                                               Strategic Business Planning

Cost Accounting Design & Implementation              Team Leadership

Inventory Investment                                                Sales Management

Cost Containment & Reduction                                Strategic Business Planning

Debt Restructuring                                                   Budgeting & Forecasting

Outsourcing                                                              Interim / Part-time COO/CFO

Operations & Financial Reporting Systems             Crisis Management

Mr. Swiers acquired, financed and operated three manufacturing companies between 1985 and 1999. Functioning as President & CEO, Swiers was involved with all aspects of business operations (including manufacturing, procurement, sales and marketing and finance) for these companies that designed and manufactured hydraulic cylinders for construction and mining equipment OEM’s, branded sleepwear and playwear for infants and toddlers sold to most major U.S. mass merchants and discounters, and components for U.S. Navy nuclear reactors. Mr. Swiers has experience operating in several Caribbean and Central American countries and has licensed machining technology to a major South Korean corporation.

Prior to Swiers’ first acquisition in 1985, seventeen of his prior twenty-two years of business experience was as a practicing CPA as a Partner with KPMG and a Senior Manager with Arthur Andersen & Co. With both of these firms, Swiers specialized in providing a broad range of services to privately held lower middle market companies including audit, tax, systems design and implementation, acquisition due diligence and general business consulting.

For a five-year period during the mid to late 70’s, Swiers held senior financial officer positions with two major sporting goods manufacturing companies and a NYSE listed defense contractor.

Swiers holds a B.S. in accounting from San Diego State University. He is a CPA in Illinois and California and is a member of the Illinois Society of Certified Public Accountants. He is a past president and director of United Way of Elk Grove, served for twenty-two years as a member of the zoning board of appeals for the village of Kildeer, Illinois, past president of Sonoma Condominium Association and a current member of the Architectural Review Committee for The Villages, Florida.