_______________________ Brooks Helmick Managing Director _______________________ The IML Boston Group Brooks Helmick Brooks Helmick has an extensive operating management and general management consulting background in a number of industries including both high and low technology firms, financial services firms, and publishing. He began his career by diverting his original plans to take three months to help his father turn around Helmick Corporation, a manufacturing firm which served the electric utility industry, and which at the time was experiencing accelerating losses. After the turnaround, the company, which by then was already over a century old, then continued to survive for over another 75 years. When it eventually closed doors in 2023 it was over 150 years old, making it one of very few companies in West Virginia history to survive that long. Today that record may be superceded only by the Greenbrier Hotel, which is still today a longstanding retreat for the Washington DC elite. After completing the turnaround, largely by tightening the firm's focus, he began a consulting career by joining Cryton Corporation, a general management consulting firm headquartered in Washington, DC. He became a principal at Cryton and specialized in helping the U.S. Navy excel in the high-speed execution of large ($1B), emergency funded programs in the fields of reconnaissance, electronic warfare and special operations. Upon leaving Cryton Brooks acquired ten years of senior level operating experience, initially with Digital Equipment Corporation, then RCA Computer systems, and finally with XTRA Corporation, which at the time was a global, NYSE transportation and financial services firm. At XTRA, first as vice president responsible for finance and subsidiary operations, he restructured and turned around a five-division subsidiary. Later he was elected executive vice president for the parent company and was chief executive officer of a number of the XTRA’s subsidiaries, including Mercury Motor Express, which was then the largest owner-operated trucking company in the United States. Long after leaving XTRA, and just after the turn of the millinneum, the company was purchased by Berkshire Hathaway. After helping to build XTRA's flagship leasing business from $50 million in assets to an industry leader with record profits and over $500 million in assets, he returned to the consulting practice and launched The IML Boston Group. At one point, in the decade just prior to the onset of the Internet, but still a time of rapid technological change, he diverted from his consulting practice to serve his church for three years as Assistant Manager and Chief Financial Officer of the Christian Science Publishing Society. Brooks Helmick was a line officer in the U.S. Navy aboard the carrier USS Essex. He holds a BSME degree from Cornell University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.