Gregory S. Chelap, Esq. is the President and a Director of Venture Exit Partners, LLC . Greg is also a partner in the law firm of Skarlatos & Zonarich LLP. He has extensive experience in advising business owners and their families on matters relating to financial, tax and management strategies for building and conserving wealth. He works closely with business owners and their families to plan and implement business exit planning strategies.

Greg Chelap concentrates his practice on the representation of businesses and business owners. He has extensive experience in advising business owners and their families on matters relating to financial, tax and management strategies for building and conserving wealth. Mr. Chelap regularly represents business owners in planning, structuring and negotiating acquisitions and sales, start-ups, private placement financings, joint ventures, and many other business transactions. Mr. Chelap works closely with business owners and their families to plan and implement business exit planning and succession planning strategies. He regularly facilitates business advisory boards and prepares restrictive employment, shareholder and limited liability company agreements to accomplish the most efficient transfer of ownership, management and control of the business. To accomplish his clients' estate plans, Mr. Chelap prepares all forms of estate planning documents including wills, family limited partnerships, powers of attorney, grantor trusts, marital trusts, multi-generational trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts and charitable trusts. Prior to joining Skarlatos & Zonarich, Mr. Chelap held several financial advisory positions including: Chief Financial Officer of a waste disposal and recycling company; Corporate Finance Consultant for a business development and government relations company; and, Trust Officer for a national bank.

Mike’s firm has been heavily involved in the use of the entire Teleometrics product line for over 25 years. The firm’s Teleometrics-based work emphasizes an extensive leadership culture change process called "The Achieving Manager Experience". Mike introduced Teleometrics to LMI in 2001.

Mike holds both engineering and business degrees at the masters level and is a registered professional engineer. He is also a graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces Mike served in the United States Air Force, on active duty and as a reservist, and his career, before entering the training and development field with LMI, included engineering and management positions in aircraft operations, rotary wing flight test, and systems engineering.

Mike is co-founder and charter member of Catalyst, a national organization dedicated to furthering the state-of-the-art in training and development. Mike is included in Who’s Who in The United States and a variety of other reference publications.

Patrick J. Below is a leading strategic thinker and business consultant specializing in the areas of strategy and growth for small and medium-sized companies. He founded his company, The Below Group, in 1970, in affiliation with Leadership Management, Inc. In the past 35 years, his company has worked with over 150 small and medium-sized clients across a wide variety of industrial and service sectors.

He is author of two books on planning: The Executive Guide to Strategic Planning and The Executive Guide to Operational Planning. His third book, The CEO Challenge, was published in July, 2004.

Allen Raffetto has a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, with emphasis in cognitive processes, statistics, and psychometrics. Psychometrics is the branch of psychology that deals with administration and interpretation of quantitive tests for the measurement of psychological variables such as intelligence, aptitude, and personality traits. He is under contract with LMI in addition to running his own LMI assessment business. He is the host / moderator of the Assessments tele-training series, assists in assessments certification and works on special projects with LMI where his background proves valuable.

He earned a B.A. in Psychology from Stanford University, a M.A. at San Francisco University, and a Ph.D. at the University of North Dakota . He taught at several universities and was chairman of the Psychology Department at Beloit College. He has over 30 years of business experience emphasizing assessments, cognitive processes and job-related behaviors. Al has been a LMI Franchisee since 1998. He has been a member of the American Psychological Association and Sigma XI, a Scientific Society.

Paul Hindelang is a manufacturing consultant, quality engineer, and productivity/leadership trainer. Paul has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University and a M.S.A. in Human Resources from Central Michigan University.

He is involved in the ESD, ASQ, APICS, and the Troy Chamber of Commerce. Additionally, Paul is an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, a Certified Quality Auditor, a Certified Mechanical Inspector, a Certified Reliability Engineer, a Certified Quality Manager, Certified Quality Technician and Certified Program Facilitator. He is also APICS certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) and Integrated Resource Management (CIRM), an ISO9000 Lead Auditor (RAB IATCA Sr. Auditor #QI04940), and has been approved for QS-9000 Auditing by the Automotive Industry Action Group.