Gary L. Luick  

Principal

PointeBreak Solutions, Inc.

gluick@pointebreak.com

Gary L. Luick retains more than 30 years of diversified experience in energy, industrial products, and advanced technology enterprises throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. After growing up in Omaha and graduating from Creighton University with a Bachelor's degree in Marketing and an MBA, Mr. Luick started his career as an economist with Internorth at first and American Natural Resources later. He then advanced through operations planning and financial management positions to become the troubleshooting director of corporate development for the multi-billion-dollar, diversified company Allied-Signal. During his tenure at Allied, he bought, sold, and ran a number of disparate companies on two continents in three of the company's sectors: automotive, industrial, and electronics products. He also served as a director on the boards of several of Allied's European subsidiaries with operating overview responsibility. While with Allied, Mr. Luick identified, negotiated, and closed a total of 13 acquisitions/divestitures in North America and Europe.

Mr. Luick then moved west and took on GTI Corporation, a faltering 33-year-old public company with majority foreign ownership in the United Kingdom and South Africa. He transformed the sleepy enterprise into a pace-setter in the new networking industry with manufacturing operations in six countries including the United States, Hong Kong, China, Ireland, Germany, and the Philippines. As a result, GTI became the leading magnetics supplier to the industry with a more than 50 percent market share, and 12 consecutive quarters of a 100 percent or more increase in earnings per share. As GTI's president, CEO, and director for seven years, Mr. Luick grew the telecommunications technology company from $30 million to more than $175 million in revenues, from $26 million to a high of $400 million in market capitalization, and from eight percent to 24 percent in return on equity.

Since GTI, Mr. Luick has contributed his expertise to various organizations as their CEO, interim CEO, and director in areas such as wireless data communication and software development. His skill is strategic; he first positions the enterprise for the future, and then assembles, manages, and motivates its management team to adamantly pursue a goal of steady growth and profitable performance.

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