Paths to Success for Boat Service Companies

Jim Bronstien, a 30 year Marine Industry veteran, is widely known in the industry and has been active in numerous marine businesses and industry initiatives during his career. He is known by many as the former owner of Rybovich, where he presided for over 21 years before selling and leaving the company in 2005.

For the past 10 years, Jim has been engaged with a diverse assortment of marine businesses. He is the owner of Marine Business Advisors, a consulting firm specializing in assisting marine oriented businesses with organizational, operational, and business development issues. With this company, he has partnered with numerous marine businesses in either an executive advisory role or partnership role. Active partnerships include Saunders Yacht Works in Gulf Shores, Alabama where Jim is a shareholder and board chairman. He is also the managing partner with US Marinas, a South Florida based Marina Management Company he owns in concert with a major Brazilian marina owner. They currently have a long term operating agreement with a brand new 112 slip marina project in Miami. Jim is also the owner of Tres Ninas, the first and only boat rental business in Costa Rica. Jim is also an active advisor to various companies, including Universal Marine Center in Ft. Lauderdale, MyTaskit, Marina Pez Vela in Costa Rica, United Yacht Transport, Ravens Marine as well as Hinckley Yachts Service Division.

Jim has degrees in finance and marketing and holds a vast amount of knowledge and experience in all facets of the marine industry business. Jim is a frequent speaker in numerous marine industry functions, including IBEX, IMBC and others. He has also been the lead instructor in ABBRA's Marine Service Manager's Training program and former chair of the ABBRA organization. Over the years, Jim has been very active both in the marine industry and in his South Florida home town community where he has served on a number of industry and community boards; many of which he has chaired.

Kevin Hutchinson is founder and CEO of MyTaskit, provider of the easiest to use and most complete task sharing platform on the planet.

Before founding MyTaskit, Kevin helped revolutionize how information is shared within the health care industry. From 2008 to 2011, until the acquisition by Navinet, Kevin served as CEO of Prematics, a leading provider of mobile technology improving care coordination for patients and physicians.

Prior to Prematics, Kevin served as founding president and CEO of Surescripts, a national shared platform enabling healthcare professionals to transact business, share and access clinical information to support patient care and collaboration. Under his leadership, the Surescripts network grew to the largest care coordination network in the country; today more than 900,000 healthcare providers, 95% of the nation's pharmacies, 270 million patients use Surescripts' services, processing over 7 billion healthcare transactions, including 1 billion electronic prescriptions, real-time eligibility checks and nationwide access to patient medication history information.

Kevin's recognized expertise and leadership in shared platforms and information technology led to his 2005 selection to serve at the request of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael Leavitt as a commissioner and technology industry advisor to the Secretary. In 2009, he was also appointed by President Obama's national coordinator for health IT, David Blumenthal, to serve on the newly established federal Health Information Technology Standards Committee advising the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) on the development and use of health information interoperability standards.

Kevin has served as an advisor and board member of numerous technology and non-profit companies including Surescripts, Prematics, dbMotion, Patient Ping, Dell Computer (Life Sciences), TransforMed, and the University of Oklahoma.

Kevin is a graduate of the University Of Oklahoma majoring in Business Administration and Management Information Systems.

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