A team dedicated
to your success.

Co-Founders

Doug Mitchell

CEO/PRESIDENT

Bill Mitchell

ADVISOR

Board of Directors

Doug Mitchell

CEO/PRESIDENT

Dan Geraty

FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN – CLEARENT

CEO – DENTAL INTELLIGENCE

Ron Maurer

RETIRED DIRECTOR OF DIVERSITY & INCLUSION – EXPRESS SCRIPTS

Mike Stolte

CFO – BRYAN CAVE LEIGHTON PAISNER

David Truetzel

PRINCIPAL – US CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT

Advisory Board

John Baluka

Owner – JB Consulting

John Gaal

Director – Missouri Works Initiative

Jamie Dennis

Director – Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis

Kathy Jordan

CEO – Jordan Search Consultants

Tom Muzzey

Former Superintendent – Orchard Farm School District & Warren County R-III Schools

Doug Mitchell

PRESIDENT

Doug Mitchell has worked in the construction industry for 25 years. While working for a family friends business he was able to learn both commercial and residential applications. After a couple years of learning all ends of the company he had decided to go out on his own. Once started it was a very short time before he found himself hiring and looking for showroom space. It was his mission to stay customer focused and to give his customers a quality installation with a guaranteed craftsmanship. As the president of the organization he grew the business into a successful and very reputable organization working for companies like Drurry and holiday inn hotels. On the residentials side companies like Bozich Construction and Schneider Construction Services.

Doug has served as a collegiate coach, recruiter, and consultant to serve collegiate wrestling programs. With over a decade of college recruiting, he has noticed the lack of knowledge the high school coaches, parents and students had of the recruiting process. Doug developed a process of identifying the right college based on the students' wants and needs. In 2017 Doug pitched the idea of creating a scholarship app, which served as an initial inspiration for what ScholarPath became.

Bill Mitchell

ADVISOR

Over the Past 20 years, Bill Mitchell has worked in secondary education, post secondary education, various business settings, business development and non-profit engagement. He has a unique insight into the challenges of motivating high school students and the real world life of high school guidance counselors.

As a career and technology instructor, as well as a collegiate coach, Bill has strong beliefs that all students should work on developing a well define career pathway. Bill focuses on creating strong relationships and deploying sound strategies to help everyone he works with. As a business strategist he has decided to work with other agencies to help solve challenging problems, develop new strategies and deploy critical business elements to foster growth within the local community.

In his different roles, Bill has strategically focused on corporate partnership between educational institutions and many business sectors. As an educator Mr. Mitchell has prided himself on strengthening community partnerships between the chamber of commerce and other Non-Profit agencies. This has helped foster fundraising opportunities, built strong internship opportunities, and created a number of scholarship models within local universities. While working in the educational leadership he has focused on his institutions 12th grade transition process.

Dan Geraty

FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN – CLEARENT

CEO – DENTAL INTELLIGENCE

Dan Geraty is the Chief Executive Officer at Dental Intelligence, a software as service company headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT. Dan is also the founder of Clearent, LLC a financial services company he started in St. Louis and which now has customers in over 130 countries. Dan has an undergraduate degree in business from Indiana University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves on the boards of Xplor Technologies, Deck Commerce, Payouts Network and ScholarPath. Dan lives in St. Louis with his wife Wendy and has deep roots in the St. Louis community.

Ron Maurer

RETIRED DIRECTOR OF DIVERSITY & INCLUSION – EXPRESS SCRIPTS

Ron Maurer is retired after a 20+ year career at Express Scripts/Cigna. Ron served in Human Resources and Finance management roles during his time there. Prior to Express Scripts, he spent 5 years at SSM Health Care in Human Resources Management. Ron has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Southeast Missouri State University. In retirement he serves the community as a member of the Board of Advisors for the National Kidney Foundation of Eastern Missouri, Metro East Illinois and Arkansas. Ron is a former board member of the Starkloff Disability Institute and Center for Workplace Compliance. Ron is married to Cindy and they have a daughter, Anna.

Mike Stolte

CFO – Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Michael Stolte serves as the firm’s Chief Financial Officer. In this role, he oversees the accounting and finance needs for the firm’s domestic and international offices.

Mr. Stolte manages a department of eighty-two accounting professionals. The departments that report to him include: Accounting IS, Accounts Payable, Billing, General Ledger, Reporting and Tax.

Prior to joining Bryan Cave, Mr. Stolte held accounting and finance positions at Sherwood Medical Company and ITT Financial Corporation.

David Truetzel

Principal – US Capital Development

David Truetzel is a seasoned financial executive and investor. He is a Principal at US Capital Development and a General Partner of Augury Capital Partners. He has founded and invested in several financial services companies, including Clearent, LLC. in St. Louis, and has been an investor in commercial real estate developments across the United States. David has an undergraduate accounting degree from St. Louis University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves on the boards of PEX Card, Inc., Bonfyre,, Inc., Paranet,, LLC. ScholarPath, LLC and SintxTechnolgoies, Inc. David and his wife Stephanie are both native St. Louisans

John Baluka

Owner - JB Consulting

John Baluka has been developing software for 30+ years. The first 10 years, John worked at Thompson Coburn in St. Louis, Missouri. John began as an entry level software developer and left as a senior software architect. John left the law firm to focus on entrepreneurial initiatives based in real estate, a coffee & wine bar, limousine service, and a local newspaper. John rediscovered that his passion is around software development. For the last 15 years, John has been a sub-contractor, business owner, and a Dad. While taking on work as a sub-contractor, John continues to focus on various entrepreneurial initiatives in the software development space.

John Gaal

Director – Missouri Works Initiative

In March 2021, Dr. Gaal accepted the newly created position of director for the MO AFL-CIO’s Missouri Works Initiative’s Worker Wellness Program. (At the end of January 2019, after 40 years of service, John retired as the Director of Training and Workforce Development for the St. Louis-Kansas City Carpenters Regional Council.) As a labor representative, he continues to serve on the St. Louis County Workforce Development Board and International Vocational Education and Training Association’s Board of Directors (president). John completed a union apprenticeship in carpentry nearly 40 years ago and has since earned an associate’s degree in construction management, a bachelor’s degree in architecture, master’s degree in international business, and a doctorate in organizational leadership. In addition, he completed post-doctoral projects at Harvard University (Trade Union Leadership: 2009) and University of Florida (Marketing & Management: 2014). John was honored with two Fulbright (Specialist) Scholarships in Labor and Industrial Relations (Tokyo, Japan: 2010 and Toronto, Canada: 2015). He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed and professional journals on issues related to various aspects of workforce development.

Jamie Dennis

Director – Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis

Jamie Dennis aka KP: Human rights activist and youth advocate. Jamie is a director at the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis. In 2014, He helped start the Urban League's award winning Save Our Sons adult workforce development program, and has also extended the program for use in high schools and prison re-entry. Over 600 men have completed the program, with over 400 placed in jobs. Jamie has over a decade of experience working with at risk populations and fifteen years of experience in the music business. A long time coordinator and mentor at Mathews-Dickey, he founded the Urban Music youth program in 2007. Using music as a starting point Urban Music helps kids build tangible music, organizational and social skills while establishing the habits of personal responsibility. Jamie is a co-founder and director of the Institute of Urban Capitalism, an innovative program that teaches urban youth how to succeed in our capitalist system. An accomplished recording artist and promoter, Jamie’s hip hop band “Out of Order” was a successful hip hop band that toured nationally with artists such as Nelly and Twista and received significant radio air time.

Kathy Jordan

CEO – Jordan Search Consultants

Kathy Jordan is the Founder and President of Jordan Search Consultants (JSC), a recruitment firm based in St. Louis, MO that provides innovative healthcare, executive, higher education and staffing solutions to clients throughout the nation. With almost three decades of professional recruiting experience, Kathy has a thorough understanding of the changing dynamics in the healthcare and higher education industries and has gained a national reputation for her unique recruitment and retention initiatives. By using a partnership approach with clients, she has implemented strategic recruitment models with organizations throughout the United States. Her ability to quickly assess an organization’s corporate culture and the professional and personal goals of each candidate produces bottom-line benefits for clients. Kathy’s strategies have effectively helped clients reduce time-to-hire, increase retention rates, and reduce recruitment costs.

Prior to founding JSC, Kathy was fast-tracked to management at two of the largest healthcare recruiting firms in the nation for her creativity and leadership acumen. Today, her background in professional counseling and expertise in investigative interviewing are key to assisting organizations in recruiting top professionals who will have a meaningful impact. An excellent communicator and strategic and creative advisor, Kathy is a recruitment asset to organizations throughout the country. She is frequently approached by the media for her thoughts on recruitment best practices and is regularly solicited to speak to peer and industry organizations.

Tom Muzzey

Former Superintendent – Orchard Farm School District & Warren County R-III Schools

Dr. Thomas Muzzey has 21 years of educational administrative experience. Serving as the Orchard Farm Superintendent since July 2013, he expanded PLTW courses at the high school level, to include Engineering, Biomedical and Computer Science and developed a partnership with Saint Charles Community college that led to an Early College program for junior and senior students. Dr. Muzzey engaged the community to create a strategic vision that led to the passage of an $18 million dollar bond issue in 2018, negotiated a Tax Increment Financing agreement that allowed the district to capture $8 million of new revenue over 7 years and successfully marketed and passed an $8.9 million dollar bond issue which allowed for the construction of a 26,000 sq. ft. early learning facility. Previously Dr. Muzzey served as Superintendent of the Warren County School District, Assistant Superintendent of Hillsboro R-3 Schools and a Junior High Administrator. He began his educational career as an Intermediate/Junior High classroom teacher.

Dr. Muzzey serves as the president of the Greater Saint Charles County Chamber of Commerce and is a board member of the Saint Charles City Economic Development Committee. He served as Chairman of the Education Plus Board of Directors and District President of the Missouri Association of School Administrators. Dr. Muzzey holds a Doctorate from Maryville University, a Master of Arts in Educational Administration, a Master of Arts in Teaching, and a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education.

A team dedicatedto your success.

Co-Founders

Doug Mitchell

Bill Mitchell

Board of Directors

Doug Mitchell

Dan Geraty

Ron Maurer

Mike Stolte

David Truetzel

Advisory Board

John Baluka

John Gaal

Jamie Dennis

Kathy Jordan

Tom Muzzey

Doug Mitchell

PRESIDENT

Bill Mitchell

ADVISOR

Dan Geraty

FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN – CLEARENT

CEO – DENTAL INTELLIGENCE

Ron Maurer

RETIRED DIRECTOR OF DIVERSITY & INCLUSION – EXPRESS SCRIPTS

Mike Stolte

CFO – Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

David Truetzel

Principal – US Capital Development

John Baluka

Owner - JB Consulting

John Gaal

Director – Missouri Works Initiative

Jamie Dennis

Director – Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis

Kathy Jordan

CEO – Jordan Search Consultants

Tom Muzzey

Former Superintendent – Orchard Farm School District & Warren County R-III Schools

A team dedicated
to your success.