Butler International, Inc. (fka BUTLQ)

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IMPORTANT DD ON BUTLQ

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Who is Edward M Kopko? He is the former President/CEO of Butler Int., Inc. up until March 2009, (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_M._Kopko

A couple months later they filed for bankruptcy but Butler America, LLC agreed to acquire all of the remaining assets of Butler International (BUTL NOT BUTLQ) for $27 million. (1) http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Butler-International-Signs-Asset-Purchase-Agreement-1224865.htm (2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler_International

His son Frederick H. Kopko Jr. (updated on 2/24/11) has taken a position within the past month at Butler: (1) http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Kopko_Frederick_558976.aspx

They've been based from a couple locations such as Montvale, NJ & Fort Lauderdale, FL (1) http://www.implu.com/company/138264 but a little legwork shows Butler America, the present owner who ACQUIRED them, with a new address: (2) http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=291684 2 Trap Falls Road Suite 204 Shelton, CT 06484 (203-926-2700) www.butler.com
By calling the number I have verified they are the MOST RELEVANT to Butler.com as it is an ACTIVE PHONE NUMBER =) with their description!!

That lead me to do a Who-is search on Butler.com WHICH PROVIDED ME WITH THE FOLLOWING INFO! (1) http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/butler.com shows
Administrative Contact,
Technical Contact :
Koosharem
[e-mail]
3820 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

They DIDN'T MAKE THIS INFORMATION PRIVATE which is quite often a result of a new website transfer. So I said hmm, let me call that number.. and guess who it was? SELECT STAFFING CORPORATE NUMBER!!! Then I visited their website News section and see they have been acquiring + merging as of lately with many different entities! http://www.selectstaffing.com/SelectStaffing/main.cfm?nlvl1=4&nlvl2=82&pg=

IN CONCLUSION, Select Staffing has been (A) acquiring and merging with new businesses (B) Has acquired Butler.com and since the Who-Is is recent, this must have been done recently. (C) Edward M Kopko has been doing well and not been hiding from anyone, he lives an open lifestyle and has done plenty of good and charitable work. (D) Ed has a Wikipedia page and his former magazine http://chiefexecutive.net is still up and running. Ladies and gentlemen, a little work goes a LONG WAY & I've managed to decrypt what is on the verge of being public! THANK ME LATER! I don't have a paid account so I can't sticky this and I only have 15 messages a day so whoever can sticky this, PLEASE DO!! If you're feeling adventurous follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/TanaTrump

Having put this much of the puzzle together I decided to do some more DD on the new company Edward M Kopko is President/CEO at, a company called MercuryZ (1) http://mercuryz.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98&Itemid=125
(2) Mercury Z 3700 Regency Parkway Suite 100
Cary, NC 27518 [phone] [phone]

Which lead me to do a Who-Is upon which I found Edward's direct line WHICH I CALLED AND GUESS WHO'S VOICE WAS ON THE VOICEMAIL?!--Edward!!
(3) Last Updated on: 22-Feb-11
Edward Kopko
[e-mail]
[phone]
2100 N Ocean Blvd 31A
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33305
publisher of Chief Executive Magazine ( http://chiefexecutive.net/ME2/Default.asp )

Furthermore, to just show Ed's character you can see he is on the list of medalists for (1) http://neco.org/index.php & can be seen here in a snapshot of Edward in a business meeting (2) http://www.acton.org/pub/religion-liberty/volume-17-number-4/ceo-serves-moral-purpose-and-business-leadership

Here's some everyday normal stuff to wrap up my DD that you can also find using STANDARD business searches:

-------------------(Reuters List)
Name Age Since Current Position
Murray, Frank 54 2004 Director
Tyler, Wesley 48 2004 Director

Comeau, Thomas 65 2009 Chairman of the Board
Uyematsu, Ronald 48 2009 President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Koscinski, Mark 50 2007 Chief Financial Officer, Vice President, Principal Accounting Officer, Controller
Simone, Gerald 48 2008 Senior Vice President - Finance and Accounting
Beckley, James 54 2004 Senior Vice President - Technical Services and Project Engineering
LeCroy, Walter 75 2003 Director
Petrossi, Louis 66 2003 Director

---------------------(Google's List)
Christine (Tina) Ciocca President
Scott E. Rhodes VP Operations
Rob Olsen Chairman

Thomas F. Comeau Chairman of the Board
Ronald Uyematsu President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Mark Koscinski Chief Financial Officer, Vice President, Principal Accounting Officer, Controller
Gerald P. Simone Senior Vice President - Finance and Accounting
James L. Beckley Senior Vice President - Technical Services and Project Engineering
Walter O. LeCroy Director
Louis F. Petrossi Director
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Biographies

Comeau, Thomas

Mr. Thomas Comeau is the Chairman of the Board of Butler International, Inc since March 7, 2009. He was the President of Swissport Fueling, Inc., the fueling division of Swissport, Inc., from 1995 through 2007. Effective January 1, 2008, Mr Comeau retired as President of Swissport Fueling, Inc. and has agreed to remain with the company as Senior Vice President Global Sales and Projects on a reduced schedule. Swissport is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ferrovical Group, headquartered in Madrid, Spain. Swissport does business at over 140 airports worldwide. Mr. Comeau has served as Chairman of the Board of the National Air Transportation Association and Chairman of the General Aviation Taskforce. Mr. Comeau holds a B.S. degree from Salem State College.

Uyematsu, Ronald

Mr. Ronald Uyematsu is the President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Butler International, Inc since March 7, 2009. He is a founder of and principal of Agdenes Media, LLC a documentary film production and distribution company founded in March 2006. Previously, Mr. Uyematsu was a consultant for TMC Entertainment and its predecessor, Total Media Group, Inc., worldwide production and distribution companies, from April 2002 to April 2006. From August 2004 to June 2005, Mr. Uyematsu was associated with BMA Securities, a securities broker-dealer. From July 1998 to April 2002, Mr. Uyematsu held the position of Vice President at VMR Capital Markets, U.S., a registered broker-dealer. Mr. Uyematsu attended Boston College and the University of California, Irvine.

Koscinski, Mark (makes 240,614/yr)

Mark Koscinski, a certified public accountant, became Vice President and Controller of Butler International Inc. on February 1, 2006 and Principal Accounting Officer in September 2006. Mark Koscinski was appointed asChief Financial Officer and Principal Financial Officer. Previously, he served as a Principal in the Financial Advisory Services of Northern New Jersey for SolomonEdwards Group, a management advisory and accounting services firm from June, 2005 until his appointment at the Company. Previous to this, Mr. Koscinski was the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Pressman Toy Corporation, a privately held manufacturer and distributor of toys in the United States from April 2002 until March 2005. Mr. Koscinski holds degrees in economics, accounting and tax. He is currently a doctoral student at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Mr. Koscinski also serves as the Finance Officer of the Byzantine Catholic Diocese of Passaic.

Simone, Gerald

Mr. Gerald P. Simone was appointed Senior Vice President of Finance and Accounting of Butler International Inc.. He previously served as Vice President Operational Accounting for Citi Mortgage from December 2006 until his appointment by the company. Previous to that, Mr. Simone held positions as a Director of Accounting Projects for Crane Incorporated from September 2005 to December 2006, as a Sarbanes-Oxley Consultant for Spartech Corporation from January 2005 to September 2005, as a Controller/Vice President for Hudson Global Resources from June 2003 to November 2004, and as a Controller/Vice President at Comsys from May 2001 to June 2003. Mr. Simone has also held financial positions with the company from 1995 to 2001. Mr. Simone is a certified public accountant.

Beckley, James (93,500 in options) (makes 291,181/yr)

James L. Beckley has held the position of Senior Vice President - Technical Services and Project Engineering since April 2004. Mr. Beckley had been Division Vice President - Butler International, Inc. (Technical Group) since January 1999. Mr. Beckley joined Butler in December of 1990 as the Vice President for the Northwest territory (San Jose and Seattle) of the former CTS division. Mr. Beckley has held a wide variety of positions with Butler that included management responsibility for all sales, recruiting, and administration for the CTS division west of the Mississippi River. He later became Vice President of BI Sales West, and eventually Vice President for all of BI Sales. Mr. Beckley received a BA degree in Public Administration from California State University, Chico.

LeCroy, Walter

Mr. LeCroy currently serves as a director of LeCroy Corporation (NASDAQ: LCRY), the company he founded in 1963. Using its core competency of wave shape analysis, defined as the capture and analysis of complex electronic signals, his company develops, manufactures, sells and licenses signal acquisition and analysis products. Its principal product line consists of a family of high-performance digital oscilloscopes used primarily by electrical design engineers in various markets, including communications test, data storage and power measurement. Mr. LeCroy holds a B.A. degree in physics from Columbia University.

Petrossi, Louis

Mr. Petrossi has a varied business career mixing years in the financial services industry with Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Petrossi currently is the President and Managing Director of Chadwicke, Inc., Saratoga, CA., a comprehensive financial planning business. Prior to his career in financial services, Mr. Petrossi worked in marketing for Johnson & Johnson and Pitney Bowes. Mr. Petrossi holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Hartford.

Murray, Frank

Mr. Murray is the Founder, President and Director of InterTech Media, LLC, a software company that provides software to media companies throughout the United States and the Caribbean, since 1999. Concurrently, he is the Founder, President and Director of EMS Companies, LLC, a publishing and software company. From 1996 to 1999, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goodman Manufacturing Company, one of the largest private companies in the United States. Previously, he held leadership positions in merger and acquisition services with The Beacon Group, Merrill Lynch & Co. and Dillon Read and Co. Mr. Murray received an A.B. degree in mathematics and economics from Ohio Wesleyan University and a M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School. He is a Trustee of The Mead School.

Tyler, Wesley

Mr. Tyler is the Founder and Principal of Old Oak Partners, LLC, a small business consulting and investment organization, since May 1999. He is also the President and Director of North American Commercial Parts & Service, Inc., a holding company of regional businesses that provide parts and repair services for commercial food equipment, since July 2003. He is also a Director and Principal of Westport Resources Investment Services, Inc., a registered broker-dealer with the SEC and National Association of Securities Dealers, and of Westport Resources Management, Inc., a registered investment advisor, since December 2002. From 1991 to May 1999, Mr. Tyler was president of GCS Service, Inc., the largest independent servicer of commercial food equipment and in 1998 he directed the sale of GCS to Ecolab, Inc. (ECL: NYSE), a Fortune 500 company. Mr. Tyler is registered as an Investment Advisor Representative through Flat Rock Three, LLC. Mr. Tyler attended Manhattanville College and the University of Bridgeport. He serves as a Trustee of Greens Farms Academy.

Based out of
200 E. Las Olas Boulevard Suite 1730A
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
United States - Map
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Full Description

Butler International, Inc. (Butler), incorporated in 1985, provides outsourcing, project management and technical staff augmentation services that are performed onsite at the client’s facility, offsite at a Company-owned facility, or offshore at Butler’s facility in Hyderabad, India. Butler offers capability in technical, information technology (IT), and telecommunications disciplines, including engineering design support primarily used for aerospace, defense and heavy equipment manufacturing; software applications development and implementation; enterprise network design and implementation, and telecommunications network systems implementation. Combined, aerospace/aircraft and defense are Butler’s largest vertical industry segments. Butler has serves companies in industries, including aircraft, aerospace, defense, telecommunications, financial services, heavy equipment and manufacturing. In July 2009, the Company announced that it has completed its previously announced sale of substantially all of its non-publishing assets to Butler America LLC. Butler was granted bankruptcy court approval on July 1, 2009, to proceed with the sale, and closed the transaction on July 7, 2009.

Outsourcing

Outsourcing services involve instances, where Butler manages an entire on-going operation on behalf of a client, thereby reducing the client’s cost and the burden of maintaining that operation. Engineering design utilizing computer-aided design (CAD) software and fleet maintenance are examples of outsourcing services provided by the Company. Outsourcing provides clients with access to needed expertise. Butler delivers outsourcing services at offsite facilities established by Butler for such purposes.

Project Management

Project management services involve projects wherein the Company assumes responsibility for specifically defined projects, such as telecommunications network systems implementation, enterprise network design and implementation, or engineering design utilizing CAD software. Depending upon the nature of the assignment, the type of equipment required, and the particular needs of the client, project management services may be provided either onsite at the client’s facilities or offsite at a Butler-owned facility designed for the client’s specific purpose. The Company frequently obtains the necessary equipment for a project (if not available from the client) on a lease basis.

Technical Staff Augmentation

Technical staff augmentation services are provided to supplement a client’s existing work force with technical professionals, who possess engineering design, mechanical, telecommunications, or IT skills tailored to the particular needs of the client’s business. Staff can be added or removed as needed, helping the client avoid costs associated with recruiting and hiring new employees with specialized skills.

Technical Services

Technical services involve skilled technical and engineering personnel providing services to companies worldwide competing in a range of industries, including aircraft/aerospace, defense, heavy equipment/machinery, research, energy, electronics, and pharmaceutical. The Company’s aerospace and defense clients utilize technical services to design and manufacture components for weapon systems and aircraft. Technical services also encompass engineering support services, including consulting, project management, drafting and design, and total outsourcing, while specializing in establishing, managing, and staffing focused engineering support centers carrying out both long-term and short-term projects.

Telecommunications Services

Telecommunications services help telecommunications equipment manufacturers and service providers upgrade wireless and wireline network infrastructure to support voice, high-speed data and video services. Services may be performed in the central office, which is the nerve center of the public network, or in the outside plant, and at cell site locations. Services include integration of wireless, optical, and broadband network systems, including engineering, installation and test (EF&I). Butler also provides fleet services, primarily to clients, which involve customized fleet operations for ground fleet-holders nationwide. The services it provides include vehicle maintenance and repair and total fleet management solutions.

Information Technology Services

IT services help companies implement business solutions that harness the power of technology to optimize business performance. The Company delivers quality assurance services that help clients implement effective software quality assurance testing processes, which help prevent software defects from causing costly business interruptions. Butler also provides clients with onsite, offsite and offshore application development and implementation services. Clients also utilize Butler’s IT staffing services to augment their internal IT staff. Butler provides these services to a variety of industries, including financial services, telecommunications, and consumer products.