With over 35 years of experience as an executive officer, consultant, joint venture partner or principal in private and public enterprises, John brings a wealth of direct hands on executive management skill and direction to the enterprise. His passion for customer service and client satisfaction directly drives the corporate marketing message because brand building is built on execution. His past positions include President/CEO of a publicly traded company on the Over-The-Counter Securities Market. He also has significant experience in Mergers and Acquisitions, having negotiated, structured and closed several private transactions and six public subsidiaries acquisitions. By effectively building management teams based on the requirements of the specific project, his teams have created, launched and held executive management positions and responsibilities for consolidations of multi-disciplined operations in the international franchise, credit card processing, construction and wholesale shopping industry. John has also performed business development projects for Fortune 500 companies.
A diverse executive and management background with substantial credits in the creation and implementation of market expansion strategies for corporate, subsidiary, public and privately held companies.
Mitchell Freifeld’s 30 year professional career has highlighted the capabilities needed to work with any company, turn it around quickly and make that company extremely profitable. He has applied a combination of practical and academic experience to a variety of businesses, using his extensive knowledge and marketing techniques which has enabled him to grow small to medium sized companies to a large national presence.
Mitchell’s experience is vast, specifically as principal in a large real estate and development company, and co-founder and President of the third largest Mortgage branch company in the U.S which he made into a National Mortgage powerhouse with over 3,500 employees, 400 plus offices in over 42 states within the first two years. The Company’s fundings were in excess of $5 billion dollars per year. He then started a healthcare company that is growing at a quick pace and will soon be for sale or an IPO.
Mitchell has also ventured into the medical field, opening two urgent care walk-in clinics. Within the first year, the initial clinic brought in over a million dollars in revenue. He proceeded to open a second clinic and within six months it was slated to produce the same, if not more, revenue than the first in 2010, currently both clinics are under sales contract to a local physician.
His keen marketing strategies and overall knowledge of any company’s day to day operations ensures success and great profitability. With Mitchell’s extensive National contacts, he has access to Fortune 500 companies in numerous industries and their employees thereby utilizing these resources and tools to guarantee success to any venture very quickly.
Mitchell Freifeld’s professional career outside of running the day to day operations of two large National corporations focuses on industry groups and panels to further his current contractors and garner support from his peers nationwide. Because of his accomplishments and contacts, he brings extensive national focus and media exposure to American Community Development Group.
David Atkinson has over 30 years experience in marketing, creative services and investor relations, including investor relations for a $900 million company that traded on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges.
During his career, he has successfully developed, branded and marketed products, services, people and companies in nine different industries. David has worked and consulted with Fortune 50 companies including projects with some of the world's most recognizable consumer product brands. His broad scope of work ranges from start-up companies to major firms including Sara Lee Corporation, Office Depot, Staples, Ace Hardware, True Value, Home Depot and Lowe’s. His branding and positioning experience also includes leadership coaching as well as working with and promoting nationally known speakers and celebrities at large venue motivational seminars.
However, his most rewarding efforts include assisting in developing and marketing a line of coverage products that revolutionized the entire North American agricultural industry and saved thousands of small farms from going out of business. This project alone resulted in $454 million in revenue for the company he worked for.
David is now focusing his energies on improving the lives of people who truly want and deserve a second chance in life. His current work at American Community Development Group also involves providing essential consulting services for non-profit agencies.
Ron has experience in a broad spectrum of business disciplines in both public and private sectors; they include: manufacturing & distribution, health services, energy, environmental, technology driven products, real estate, marketing and non-profit entities.
Management services performed by Southbridge are typically company restructure or launch, and post acquisition implementation. These services have been performed in both the private and small cap public sector. In restructuring situations Southbridge brings needed changes and implementations into an organization assisting them in meeting defined improvement targets. In launch or post acquisition environments the Company will implement systems and staff, creating an operating unit that meets defined benchmarks of performance. A specialty focus is consolidation of companies, in a synergistic market niche, where SBRI services utilized are M & A, funding, and management implementation.
Prior to 1990 Mr. Brewer served as President of Mid-Continent Companies, which was a multiple division enterprise that grew ten-fold from 1980 until 1990 through acquisition, start-up and growth of existing revenue opportunities. Ron has created and facilitated all steps in formation of emerging public companies to include; merger & acquisition, capital procurement, public formation, and management implementation.
Southbridge Advisory Group, Inc.
Southbridge Advisory Group, formed in 1990 as Southbridge Business Resources, is a boutique management services firm focused in merger & acquisition representation, capital procurement, and strategic management and marketing program implementations. Our primary focus is small-cap to mid-cap companies in both the public and private sector along with formation and emerging growth companies.
SAG headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma serves clients throughout North America. The company name evolved in 2008 through merging the services and talents of two boutique firms with similar focus creating greater capabilities of performance within our firm.