Competitors for 2008 Ford California Ironman 70.3

Brent de Jong

Brent de Jong - AEI (Houston, TX)

Brent de Jong is founder and Vice Chairman of AEI. AEI owns, manages and operates power generation plants and delivers electric power and gas to over 6.1 million people in emerging market countries and has 11,800 employees. Brent founded AEI in 2005 with the acquisition of several emerging markets energy infrastructure companies. For his achievements at AEI, Brent was selected as one of the final nominees in the Texas area for Ernst and Young's prestigious "Entrepreneur of the Year" award. Prior to AEI, Mr.

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John Schlagenhauf

John Schlagenhauf - Badger Truck Center (Milwaukee, WI)

John Schlagenhauf is a co-owner and CFO of Badger Truck Center Inc. located in Milwaukee and Madison Wisconsin. The Badger Truck Center family of companies, which is ranked as one of the largest 75 Privately held companies in Wisconsin, is made of three truck dealerships, a truck rental and leasing company, a truck equipment division, a rebuild division, a government division and a driver leasing company.

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Patrick Moneymaker

Patrick Moneymaker - Kforce Government Holdings, Lutz, FL

Kforce Government Holdings is a subsidiary of the professional staffing firm, Kforce Inc, and specializes in IT, Data Confidence and financial services to the US government. Patrick spent 30 years in the US Navy as a naval aviator, retiring with the rank of Rear Admiral, and 8 years as an executive in high tech firms focused on high tech government services. As CEO of Kforce Government Holdings, he feels he has the greatest job in the world, and leads three promising companies in the holding company portfolio.

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Maury Blackman

Maury Blackman - Accela, Inc. (Danville, CA)

Maury Blackman is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Accela, Inc.

Accela is an international software company focused on connecting people to government services 24X7. The Company serves a global client base of more than 500 jurisdictions and maintains offices in San Ramon, CA, Beijing, CH, and Abu Dhabi, UAE.

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Marc Mertens

Marc Mertens - Scanfor (Oelegem, Belgium)

Marc Mertens is the President and CEO of Scanfor.   Scanfor is a transportation company active on the Scandinavian and East European market with daily departures of fulloads, partial loads and groupage.   The company is based in Wommelgem, Belgium and has partners and branch offices in Finland, Estonia and Sweden.

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Sean McCann

Sean McCann - Sterling Underwriters (Chicago, IL)

Sean M. McCann is President/CEO of Sterling Underwriters. Sterling Underwriters is a Wholesale Insurance Brokerage and a Managing general Agent specializing in Insurance Programs for Contractors.

Sean is a member of the Young Presidents Organization & a founder of the ChicagoLand Chapter of YPO. He is Currently serving as Chapter Chair of the Chapter.

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Julian Coiner

Julian Coiner - Agent 007 Real Estate (Frederick, MD)

Julian A. Coiner is the CEO and Broker at Agent 007 Real Estate, a Commercial Real Estate Firm in the Baltimore/Washington Metropolitan area. Julian owned advertising agency, S2 Media for 15 years prior to starting Agent 007 Real Estate. The commercial and investment real estate group has seen tremendous growth since its inception. Julian follows his mantra (If you're not living on the edge...you're taking up too much space!) in both work and sport, and finds a similiar focus and drive allow his to succeed in both business and triathlon.

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Lonnie Hunter

Lonnie Hunter - Law Offices of Bennet DeLoney & Noyes (Midvale, UT)

Bennett DeLoney & Noyes, P.C. ("BDN") is a quality collection law firm servicing delinquent debt nationwide with litigation in the Mountain West. Sophisticated technology and quality people makes outsourcing unpaid debt a no-hassle and profitable experience. BDN has been representing Fortune 500 companies and smaller businesses nationwide for over 13 years. As CFO, Lonnie has responsibility for the financial viability of the firm, and brings 15-years experience as a CPA in public accounting to BDN. He joined the firm in 2004.

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Robert McFarland - Great Plains Imaging (Wichita, KS)

Robert McFarland is the President and CEO of Great Plains Imaging, a dyamic teleradiology company based out of Wichita Kansas. The company currently provides total radiological solution to large and small Hospitals chains as well as multispecialty groups across the country.

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Luigi "Jimmy" Palma

Luigi "Jimmy" Palma - LAPT Investment LLC (Miami Beach, FL)

Luigi Palma president LAPT Investment LLC, a development company that buys properties mainly in south Florida. The company uses his own  construction company to develop or remodel the projects.
Luigi Palma is been racing in triathlon since 2003. He participated in 6 half Ironman distance races with his best time of 5:00 and 2 Ironman races, including the 2007 CEO Challenge at Ironman Austria, with his best time of 11:52.

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Bryan Gonzalez

Bryan Gonzalez - Channel Electric (Honolulu, HI)

Bryan Gonzalez is the President and Owner of Channel Electric, Inc., a Hawaii based company providing electrical contracting, data communication and information technology services throughout the islands. Bryan began his career as a field electrician and formed Channel Electric in 1995. Through Bryan’s vision, hard work and perseverance, Channel Electric, Inc. has since expanded into the multi-million dollar contracts arena working primarily in the federal government sector.

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