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Mr. Bickel has over 40 years of experience in sales and senior management positions with manufacturing based companies, serving as the president of Allison Spring and Manufacturing (1968-1973), Bicor Machinery and Manufacturing (1974-1979), and Keel Corporation (1980-1986), all California-based manufacturing companies of high-tech metal parts and assemblies. From 1986 through 2002, Mr. Bickel served as vice president of Uniglobe USA and president of Uniglobe Midpacific, assisting to build a national travel franchise system with over 900 locations. He later built golf retail franchise system. Since 2002, Mr. Bickel has acted as vice president and secretary of World Health and Education Foundation and as vice chairman of MedChannel LLC, a medical device company serving radiology and surgical markets.
In additional to his entrepreneurial experience, Mr. Bickel currently serves on the Board of two other Business Development Companies, CALI Holdings and GTREX Capital. While serving in that capacity, he has gained hands-on experience in areas such as the evaluation of potential investments, the valuation of assets and providing assistance to portfolio companies in meeting their business goals.
Mr. Bickel earned a B.A. in economics from Middlebury College and did post-graduate work in metallurgical engineering at Youngstown State University. He is a member of Rotary International and of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. | 