Professional BiographiesROGER B. ORLOFF is a veteran of over 40 years of experience in profit center management, strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, administration, investment banking and consulting. In the course of negotiation and due diligence with numerous owner-managed middle market companies, he recognized their difficulty in securing knowledgeable and client-specific assistance in recognizing and removing the obstacles to building great companies and developed a commitment to help fill this gap. He has lectured and written extensively on corporate acquisitions and strategic planning. Mr. Orloff received a Master in Business Administration with Distinction from the Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is Vice Chairman of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Management Dean’s Advisory Council, Trustee of the Advisory Council of its Annual Fund and Chairman of the Patroon Society of the Annual Fund. The Rensselaer Alumni Association awarded him its highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award. For 16 years, Mr. Orloff chaired the Harvard Business School Club of Atlanta Leadership Breakfast Series, a forum for Atlanta’s CEO’s and civic leaders, serving as Director and Vice President of the Club. He is a past Director of the Harvard Business School Alumni Association and was Chairman and President of its Philadelphia Chapter. He is Secretary and Trustee of the Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity Educational Foundation and recipient of the fraternity’s lifetime achievement award. Previously, Mr. Orloff served as Vice President of the Rensselaer Alumni Association, chapter Vice President of the Association for Corporate Growth, chapter President of the North American Society for Corporate Planning and President and Chairman of the Canadian-American Society of the Southeast. He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) and of its Nineteenth Century Base Ball and Origins committees. |