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Mr. S. Gene Thompson serves as Chief Executive Officer, Treasurer and Secretary of Holiday Island Holdings, Inc. For the last 3 years, Mr. Thompson's focus has been on assisting the exclusive Developer of Holiday Island Development Corporation market and sell its real estate holdings internationally. He has 25 years of experience in senior-level financial and operational management in mid to large companies in diverse industries, including: Recreational Land Development (Resort / Planned Communities), Commercial Real Estate, Food Processing, and Land Transportation, specializing in turnarounds, new company / division startups, high growth projects, and earnings / process improvement plans. For the last 15 years Mr. Thompson has worked on a contract consulting basis in C-Level positions with troubled and expanding companies, privately and publicly held, developing and implementing strategic plans, profit engineering, and raising associated debt and equity capital. Since the late 80’s, he has been engaged with owners, principals, majority shareholders, and top management of industry-recognized companies with national and regional scale, in long-term financial and management assignments, including: Vice President & Treasurer of National American Corporation / Thousand Trials, Inc. – largest domestic recreational land developer / management company at the time, General Manager of Holiday Island Suburban Improvement District – a 4,000 acre planned / recreational / residential community, Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Sunland Distribution – a temperature controlled food distributor expanding operations with large real estate and commercial facility acquisition and financing transactions. He served as President of Jordan 1 Holdings Company (formerly Gasel Transportation Lines Inc.) since July 7, 2005 and served as its Treasurer. Mr. Thompson served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Jordan 1 Holdings Company since May 2001. From early in 2000 until his election to office with Gasel Transportation Lines Inc., Mr. Thompson served as a Financial Consultant to Jordan 1 Holdings Co. He served as a Financial Consultant to Sunland Distribution, a transportation company with its offices in Florida. Before commencing his financial consulting positions, he served three years as General Manager of Holiday Island Resort, a 5,000 acre resort community. He serves as a Director of Holiday Island Holdings, Inc. He served as Director of Jordan 1 Holdings Company since July 7, 2005. He has an MBA from the University of Arkansas and BSBA in Accounting from Henderson University.
