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Gary Harpst - Chairman
As founder and chairman of Plumbline Solutions, Gary took the initiative to ensure that the Solomon product line would continue to survive and thrive. By starting Plumbline Solutions, Gary and the leadership team were able to retain the intellectual capital that originally developed Solomon, and continue to enhance and extend Solomon and related solutions.

In the fall of 2000, Gary started a new Findlay-based company, Six Disciplines Corporation. He spent almost a year talking with small business owners and other experts to research the needs of small businesses and explore ways to leverage the latest technologies to meet those needs. He is the author of "Six Disciplines For Excellence: Building Small Businesses That Learn, Lead and Last".

Prior to Plumbline Solutions and Six Disciplines, Gary was a co-founder of Solomon Software and led that organization for twenty years. In twenty years, Solomon installed more than 60,000 systems in small and medium-sized businesses around the world and grew to be one of the industry leaders in its market.

Gary was named four times to the "Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting" by Accounting Today magazine, and holds an honorary Doctorate from University of Findlay.

Eric S. Kurjan – Board Member
Eric Kurjan is the President and owner of the Six Disciplines Leadership Center of Northwest Ohio located in Findlay, Ohio. Six Disciplines Leadership Centers offer a new class of professional business improvement service that helps the best performing organizations to achieve lasting business excellence. By using the Six Disciplines™ Methodology, a systematic business-building methodology, practical Internet technologies, and an organizational coaching and strategic advisory service, passionate business leaders learn how to become more aligned with their strategy, focus on execution, and improve their organization’s performance to achieve lasting, sustainable excellence.

Most recently, Eric was President of Plumbline Solutions, Inc. In this role, Eric had overall responsibility for working with the Senior Leaders and Team Members to ensure the mission, values and goals of Plumbline were met. To accomplish this, under Eric’s leadership, Plumbline became one of the first clients of Six Disciplines.

Prior to joining Plumbline, Eric was the general manager of the North American Professional Services organization for Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft® Business Solutions division. As general manager he led a team of more than 500 professionals providing services to partners and customers in the areas of consulting, technical support, and product education and training. With 20 years in the industry, Eric's knowledge of partners, customers and team members is key to ensuring strong business performance and organizational integration.
Formerly, Eric was the general manager of Microsoft Corporation - Great Plains’ Solomon business unit, where he was responsible for product development, professional services, and sales and marketing across all Solomon product line offerings. Eric was also senior vice president of Solomon Software’s Services Business Units, responsible for technical support, product education, professional consulting, custom development, systems engineering and specialty services to Solomon’s users and channel partners. Eric has also held the positions of vice president of the Knowledge Management Group, vice president and general manager of Support and Education Services, vice president of Sales and Marketing, and vice president of Sales in his tenure with Solomon Software.

Eric spearheaded the critical re-engineering of the company’s Technical Support Department and the highly successful launch of its award-winning, market-leading Solomon IV® for the Windows® operating system accounting product. He was also instrumental in negotiating the details of the acquisition of Solomon Software by Great Plains in 2000.

Eric earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Miami University of Oxford, Ohio, in 1982.
 

Jack Ridge - Board Member