Emergency landings, bouts of food poisoning, eating live eel, snakes, insects and blood duck soup, sleeping with 1,500 stranded travelers at an airport in Nagoya, Japan during a snowstorm...certainly validates the interesting, unusual times that Bob Overs and I have experienced over the last 20 plus years while working for the same company. As my superior and close friend, Bob has always been there for me and for this I am forever grateful. Two of the qualities which I admire most about Bob are his fairness and integrity. In his role as our company's COO and Executive Vice President, he exhibited professionalism and objectivity at all times. Bob continually demonstrated strong leadership skills and coaching ability, especially with our most senior level global managers. His management style is hands on, direct and insightful, thus ensuring that our company's core values were never compromised and that our agreed strategic direction and focus were maintained. His feedback was always direct, honest and professional. Using these skill-sets, he positively challenged our senior global management team yet allowed us to take risks thus realizing our full potential. Bob also exhibits strong relationship-building skills. The interpersonal relationships which he developed with our staff, with our global distribution network, as well as with our key multi-national account customers was beyond reproach. In addition, Bob led our company through some complex and difficult organizational leadership changes with great transparency...all the while generating record top and bottom line growth for the company. I would highly recommend Bob for any executive leadership position without reservation. Gary Armstrong Senior Vice President-Global Marketing & Sales (Ret'd)

I met Bob when we moved to Columbus, OH and were both leading companies in the Automotive aftermarket. Since we were not direct competitors, we built a relationship and explored potential opportunities to drive growth for our businesses. Bob is an excellent listener, collaborator and very strategic. He is driven, detailed and leads by empowering people. Though his foundation is finance, he offers all the C Suite skills required to be successful leading a company.

Emergency landings, bouts of food poisoning, eating live eel, snakes, insects and blood duck soup, sleeping with 1,500 stranded travelers at an airport in Nagoya, Japan during a snowstorm...certainly validates the interesting, unusual times that Bob Overs and I have experienced over the last 20 plus years while working for the same company. As my superior and close friend, Bob has always been there for me and for this I am forever grateful. Two of the qualities which I admire most about Bob are his fairness and integrity. In his role as our company's COO and Executive Vice President, he exhibited professionalism and objectivity at all times. Bob continually demonstrated strong leadership skills and coaching ability, especially with our most senior level global managers. His management style is hands on, direct and insightful, thus ensuring that our company's core values were never compromised and that our agreed strategic direction and focus were maintained. His feedback was always direct, honest and professional. Using these skill-sets, he positively challenged our senior global management team yet allowed us to take risks thus realizing our full potential. Bob also exhibits strong relationship-building skills. The interpersonal relationships which he developed with our staff, with our global distribution network, as well as with our key multi-national account customers was beyond reproach. In addition, Bob led our company through some complex and difficult organizational leadership changes with great transparency...all the while generating record top and bottom line growth for the company. I would highly recommend Bob for any executive leadership position without reservation. Gary Armstrong Senior Vice President-Global Marketing & Sales (Ret'd)

I met Bob when we moved to Columbus, OH and were both leading companies in the Automotive aftermarket. Since we were not direct competitors, we built a relationship and explored potential opportunities to drive growth for our businesses. Bob is an excellent listener, collaborator and very strategic. He is driven, detailed and leads by empowering people. Though his foundation is finance, he offers all the C Suite skills required to be successful leading a company.

Emergency landings, bouts of food poisoning, eating live eel, snakes, insects and blood duck soup, sleeping with 1,500 stranded travelers at an airport in Nagoya, Japan during a snowstorm...certainly validates the interesting, unusual times that Bob Overs and I have experienced over the last 20 plus years while working for the same company. As my superior and close friend, Bob has always been there for me and for this I am forever grateful. Two of the qualities which I admire most about Bob are his fairness and integrity. In his role as our company's COO and Executive Vice President, he exhibited professionalism and objectivity at all times. Bob continually demonstrated strong leadership skills and coaching ability, especially with our most senior level global managers. His management style is hands on, direct and insightful, thus ensuring that our company's core values were never compromised and that our agreed strategic direction and focus were maintained. His feedback was always direct, honest and professional. Using these skill-sets, he positively challenged our senior global management team yet allowed us to take risks thus realizing our full potential. Bob also exhibits strong relationship-building skills. The interpersonal relationships which he developed with our staff, with our global distribution network, as well as with our key multi-national account customers was beyond reproach. In addition, Bob led our company through some complex and difficult organizational leadership changes with great transparency...all the while generating record top and bottom line growth for the company. I would highly recommend Bob for any executive leadership position without reservation. Gary Armstrong Senior Vice President-Global Marketing & Sales (Ret'd)

I met Bob when we moved to Columbus, OH and were both leading companies in the Automotive aftermarket. Since we were not direct competitors, we built a relationship and explored potential opportunities to drive growth for our businesses. Bob is an excellent listener, collaborator and very strategic. He is driven, detailed and leads by empowering people. Though his foundation is finance, he offers all the C Suite skills required to be successful leading a company.