Kim Thompson brings a wealth of experience in business management and consultation to this forum. His business successes include founding a successful technology company and taking that company public. His work has earned him a reputation for problem solving and creative thinking.
His formal education lies in the fields of economics and law. Mr. Thompson received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Michigan. He received his B.A. in applied economics from James Madison College at Michigan State University.
While still a college student Mr. Thompson managed a national wholesale distributor.
In his senior year he founded his first corporate start up. Following the completion of his degree, Mr. Thompson joined California Craftsman, Inc. as a Vice-President with primary responsibility for both financial operations and marketing.
He was the director of business development at Franchise Venture Partners, LLC. He subsequently joined the firm of Shearson, Lehman, Hutton where he specialized in equity trading and research of small cap companies.
Mr. Thompson received the highest series seven score for all Shearson brokers in his class nationwide. His experience in those small cap equity markets has proven to be invaluable both in his legal and business successes.
Prior to becoming a public company CEO, Mr. Thompson was the founder and senior litigation partner in a California commercial law firm where he worked as corporate and litigation counsel to privately held and public companies.
His many accomplishments in corporate law include winning and collecting in full what his firm believes to have been the largest award of lost profits in a California commercial arbitration up to that time. He has represented business clients ranging from small start ups and micro caps to Fortune 100 companies.
An important part of his work was winning victories on behalf of corporate clients in disputes over intellectual property and distribution rights. An experienced negotiator and litigator, he has successfully handled numerous high-stakes business negotiations and disputes.
Mr. Thompson is particularly proud of the business opportunities which he has been able to create for clients. In one example from the firm profile, a corporate client was in a negative cash flow and on the verge of closing; Mr. Thompson identified a large corporation as a potential buyer and successfully negotiated a lucrative sale of the business.
An award winning speaker, Mr. Thompson thrives on persuasive advocacy. His legal successes include multi-million dollar awards and verdicts for both corporate claimants and corporate defendants. He is an active member of both the California and Illinois state bars, and is a partner in the Chicago law firm of McJessy, Ching & Thompson.
With a background in business leadership and in advising public and private corporations, Mr. Thompson continues to bring a unique perspective to the successful management of business. His extensive business and legal background enables him to create practical solutions to business problems and seize opportunities for growth.
His extraordinary performance as the chief executive of a growing technology company led Emerging Growth Research to publicly recognize him as a "highly talented CEO."
Mr. Thompson is an active public company CEO and is always looking for new business opportunities and challenges. He is a member of the Triple Nine Society for persons with documented genius level IQs (having tested above the 99.9th percentile).
He is also active in the realm of science and invention where he has to his credit a number of provisional patent applications including innovations in the areas of biotechnology, organic polymers, genetic engineering and magnetic field manipulation, among others.
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