Dan and Joel

Since I don't want to hit any subject too many times in a row, I'll pause today from describing what we do and move onto introducing two members of our team.

Dan Cook is the founder and President of OPS America. He is a veteran of the US Navy, having served on nuclear submarines as an engineer. He has a wonderful family and is one of the most optimistic people I've ever met. His nickname in the Navy was "Golden Boy" because things always seemed to go his way. That good luck is now serving us well at OPSA.

Dan has hired everyone at OPSA himself, so he truly has built the company. He also has built most of the mechanisms by which we find new customers. Like most company builders, many internal details slip by him, but he's hired detail experts in Brenda and Tammy to cover that for us (more on them in the future).

Joel Buckley is a Vice President of OPSA and the longest-tenured full-time employee after Dan. He is the marketing wizard of our team. Joel is a good golfer (although I remember winning the last OPSA golf outing), a work-out demon, and played college-level soccer. He is terrible at Dance Dance Revolution. Also, I met his girlfriend at the company Christmas party last month and she is way out of his league - smart, funny, likes football and too attractive for Joel. Hopefully for him she won't read this. Seriously though, except for his annoying support of the Vikings, he's a great guy and the company would not nearly as successful and fun without his contributions and influence.

More on the team in future posts, along with information on the fact that we have offices in Viking country (no playoffs again) and Packer country (division champs and playing in January again).