Ray Birk

Friends of Parkinson’s Inc
Kella Consulting, CEO
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For most of my business life I have been in management. Management of
people. Something I have always enjoyed. My management has been from
the group leader to the supervisor to the general management of 130
employees. The functions that I managed included plant engineering,
maintenance, quality, product development, cost control, sales, accounting,
engineering and manufacturing.

Throughout my career, I have always found it helpful to communicate in
different forms. It has been important to me that everyone understood the
direction and knew their role in fulfilling their responsibilities. While many
people hate the thought of going to a meeting, I found it was very effective
in having everyone hearing the same message at the same time. After the
meeting, minutes were sent out so that everyone in and out of the meeting
knew who was expected to do what task and by what time.

For forty years I worked for the same company. I never changed but twice
the company ownership changed on me. For the last 30 years, I ran a
manufacturing facility. When I started there were 18 employees, when I left
there were 130 employees. What I bring to Friends of Parkinson’s is 30
years of experience of how to manage an organization for growth.