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Stu Neal (Ph) 804-730-9125 (Fax) 888-317-4508 Email:
SpeakingBusiness@aol.com Summary
Entrepreneur,
Business Educator, Author, and Professional Public Speaker with over thirty years experience in business and management, both
in the private sector and in the public sector with municipal government. Mr. Neal’s background includes business development,
sales, and marketing on local, state, and national levels. Business related areas of expertise include extensive experience
in business management and marketing as a principal owner (or partner) of twenty separate small businesses since age twenty-one,
and include experience in direct sales to both large and small business and governmental entities while working for national
companies. Mr. Neal has an extensive background with education and training which includes curriculum development and
teaching of market specific sales programs, market analysis, employee relations, entrepreneurship, and small business startup
and management. Mr. Neal has had the honor of receiving numerous awards during his career for contributions to the business
education community including the “1990 Award of Merit” by the Maine Vocational Association. From
2000 to 2006, he was the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Development with the Community College Workforce Alliance
in Virginia. Mr. Neal was listed in the Who’s
Who in Professional Speaking from 1998 to 2003 as a nationally recognized public speaker on entrepreneurial related subjects.
Within the last several years he has presented keynote speeches or seminars for over a dozen local organizations in Central
Virginia, and has appeared as a local guest expert on CNN’s “Local Edition” and Richmond’s RIC-TV “Business Connections”. Mr. Neal is presently listed
in the 2008 edition of the Marquis “Who’s Who in America” and “Who’s
Who in Business and Finance.” In 2002, Mr. Neal’s first novel, DISC, was published. He is also author of a
newspaper column, Talking Business, which began in 2003 and is published monthly in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
That column is specific to small business related issues and content, and has been quoted nationally from the west coast to
Florida. Mr. Neal is President of Interactive Educational Concepts, Inc.; President
and CEO of GearMax USA Ltd.; and Principal of the SMN Consulting Group, all headquartered
in Hanover County, Virginia.
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