RESUME

Henry R. Hillenmeyer

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Nashville, TN 37205 ad026e@r.postjobfree.com

Cell 615-***-****

Compass Executives – Senior Advisor 2006 – 2021

Served as Advisor to (and sometimes acting head of) companies in construction, human resources, food production, food distribution, restaurant, printing, genetic testing and university club businesses.

Genetic Assays, Inc. 2006 – 2021

Served as the sole outside director of this genetic testing company, helping the principals grow the company five-fold over those years.

Junior Achievement of Middle Tennessee 2001 – 2021

Served on the Board of this non-profit, which now reaches 40,000 young people each year. Served as Chairman of the Board twice, once to host the national meeting of Junior Achievement, where the laureates are inducted into the National Business Hall of Fame. Raised several million dollars for this organization.

Music City Flats, LLC 2009 – 2020

Started and served as President of this casual dining restaurant company in the Gulch in Nashville, TN.

Cooker Restaurant Corporation

Served as Chairman and CEO of this public casual dining restaurant company. 1999 – 2004

Was called in by the board to save this troubled company with 64 restaurants in eight states because I had started the concept in 1984 and operated it successfully before we sold it. We restructured the company in Chapter 11, with the support of the banks, reduced debt from $82 million to $27 million and got the company producing positive cash flow.

SkillSearch Corporation 1995 – 1999

Served as Chairman and CEO of this private company, which began by building a database of college alumni and selling searches to companies looking for talent. Changed the company’s service to CareerHighway.com, a resume database which found candidates through university alumni associations and through a joint venture with Clear Channel Communications, Inc., the world’s largest owner of radio stations.

Chickering Meadows 1994-1995

Personally developed this residential community in Nashville, TN.

Southern Hospitality Corporation 1979 – 1994

Served first as Executive Vice President and a Director, then as President, then as Chairman and CEO of this public company which operated 89 restaurants under the Wendy’s, Ireland’s, Mr. Gatti’s, Cooker and Tempo’s banners. The company was sold in 1994 to DavCo Restaurants, Inc.

Ireland’s Restaurants, Inc. 1974 – 1978

Served as President and a Director, and later also as Chairman, of this public company, which operated casual dining restaurants. This company purchased Wendy’s of Nashville, Inc. in 1979 and the company was renamed Southern Hospitality Corporation.

CBM, Inc. 1968 – 1974

Served as a Vice President and Director, then President, then Chairman and CEO of this private computer facilities management company in Cleveland, Ohio. Served during this time as a “professional company fix-it man” for venture capitalists who had invested in this and other companies.

Kanawha Valley Bank 1965 – 1968

Joined this bank in Charleston, West Virginia (the state’s largest bank) after graduation from Yale as a management trainee, becoming the youngest officer in the prior history of the bank in 1967. Worked in commercial lending, trust and data processing departments and led the computerization of the trust department, which was several times the size of the bank.

OTHER BOARD SERVICE

Universal Tire, Inc.

Served for five years on this $200 million regional tire distributor board, helping the owner strategize and complete the sale of his company.

World Presidents’ Organization

Having served as Chairman of the Rebel Chapter (seven southern states) of the Young Presidents’ Organization, I then served for six years on the international board of the World Presidents’ Organization.

Tennessee Special Olympics

Tennessee Society to Prevent Blindness

Harding Academy, Nashville, TN

St. Andrew’s School Alumni Corporation, Middletown, DE

EDUCATION

Yale University

B. A. Degree in Economics in 1965. While at Yale, was Captain of the Varsity Crew (rowing team), which reached the finals of the U.S. Olympic Trials in 1964. Was a member of the Fence Club and Scroll and Key Society.

St. Andrew’s School, Middletown, DE

Was President of the Senior Class and a Prefect. Earned nine varsity athletic letters – quarterback in football, Captain in basketball (set school scoring record) and Captain and stroke of the crew which won the National Schoolboy Rowing Championship.

PERSONAL

Married with five sons ranging in age from 41 to 57 and ten grandchildren. Member of St. George’s Episcopal Church in Nashville, TN since 1974. Former member of the Nashville Exchange Club, the Yale Club of New York City, the Belle Meade Country Club, Nashville, TN and the Golf Club of Tennessee.

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