Greenwood Industrial
Battery Services, Inc.

Market Leader in providing Industrial Battery and Charger Sales and Service Solutions
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Susan R. Burt
Chief Executive Officer/Managing Director

Susan Burt is the co-founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Managing Director of Greenwood Industrial Battery Services, Inc. As such, Greenwood Industrial Battery is certified as a woman-owned business. She also serves in the same capacities for Norwood Consulting Group and Norwood Environmental Group. Ms. Burt has over 24 years of experience in various areas of commercial real estate, including as a partner in a commercial real estate development company, a regional vice president of a national property management company, a senior asset manager of a life insurance company, and as manager of loan administration for various banks.

Ms. Burt established an asset management division and provided oversight and management of an extensive nationwide portfolio of commercial real estate assets for a Texas-based commercial real estate development company. Additionally, as a principal in this firm, Ms. Burt directed all due diligence and analyses of proposed construction projects and investment strategies.

As a regional vice president for a multifamily management/development company, Ms. Burt directed the management of 5,000 apartment units in the Atlanta region, which included a staff of more than 100 employees. Ms. Burt also served as Director of Asset Management for this firm and initiated the development of the department from the ground up, which included the management of an 8,500 unit multifamily portfolio.

Ms. Burt has also served as a senior asset manager for various financial institutions and for Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company. She has managed all commercial property types that included both performing and troubled assets. Her duties included tenant lease negotiations, marketing, maintenance, renovations, and capital improvements.

Ms. Burt’s experience also includes the management of a $700 million commercial real estate loan portfolio for a Texas-based bank. Ms. Burt supervised 20 employees and designed a PC database for the bank.

Ms. Burt holds a BBA in Finance and Real Estate from The University of Texas and an MBA from Southern California University’s Center for Professional Studies.


Michael N. Burt
President/Managing Director

Michael N. Burt is the co-founder, President, and Managing Director of Greenwood Industrial Battery Services, Inc. Mr. Burt is also the co-founder and CEO of Norwood Consulting Group and Norwood Environmental Group.

Mr. Burt has more than twelve years of business ownership experience. He also has more than 26 years experience in banking, commercial real estate lending, loan workouts, foreclosures, litigation management, credit analysis, financial analysis, loan underwriting, loan portfolio due diligence, loan portfolio sales, and property site inspections.

During his career, Mr. Burt has successfully managed commercial real estate loan departments for large regional banks and savings and loans, including the initiation and development of a Construction Lending department. Management of these lending departments included loan production, underwriting, loan closing, loan administration, and sales and marketing activities.

Mr. Burt has also created and managed a Real Estate Owned department for a Texas-based bank. This included the management and marketing of all commercial and residential real estate assets. He successfully designed and implemented innovative business plans that increased the value of the real estate portfolio by 28%.

Additionally, Mr. Burt managed a large commercial real estate loan portfolio of problem assets located in various states. Mr. Burt successfully negotiated workouts between borrowers and participating lenders and resolved distressed assets through the development of strategic asset-based business plans.

Additional accomplishments by Mr. Burt while a bank executive include the securitization of loan pools with RTC mortgage-backed security initiatives. Also, Mr. Burt managed and directed the liquidation of a South Texas Savings and Loan Association on behalf of the FDIC.

Mr. Burt also served in various positions for consulting firms serving commercial mortgage lending clients and the FDIC. Mr. Burt managed the operation of extensive FDIC and RTC bulk loan sales and portfolio due diligence projects. Additionally, Mr. Burt managed commercial loan underwriting, due diligence, property site inspections, agreed-upon procedures, and portfolio analyses for commercial mortgage conduit clients.

Mr. Burt holds a BBA in Finance from The University of Texas at Arlington and an MBA from Southern California University’s Center for Professional Studies.


Mark Hawkins
Vice President/Managing Director

Mark Hawkins is the co-founder, Vice President, and Managing Director of Greenwood Industrial Battery Services, Inc. Mr. Hawkins has more than 27 years of experience in industrial battery manufacturing, sales, and service.

Mr. Hawkins served in many capacities at Bulldog Battery/Powerflow manufacturing for more than nine years. While at Bulldog/Powerflow, Mr. Hawkins performed grid casting, pasting, lead burning, cell assembly, cell formation, and cell dropping.

Mr. Hawkins has partnered in and helped establish three industrial battery service companies prior to Greenwood. With these companies, Mr. Hawkins managed the servicing and repair of industrial batteries. He also oversaw new business development activities and the establishment of dealer relationships with new battery lines.

Mr. Hawkins has also owned and operated his own pest control company, which he formed with Mr. Burt.

Mr. Hawkins attended Dallas Baptist University where he played baseball.


Roland E. Ruble
Director of Business Development

Roland Ruble is the Director of Business Development for Greenwood Industrial Battery Services, Inc. Mr. Ruble is also a Director of Norwood Consulting Group and Norwood Environmental Group. Mr. Ruble has more than 40 years experience in senior level management positions in commercial real estate, graduate business school program management, international consulting services, and manufacturing.

Mr. Ruble has served as the Chairman of The MBA Consortium, an alliance of fifteen premier graduate schools of business. He also served as the Director of the Two Year MBA Program for the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.

Mr. Ruble has owned and operated his own consulting firm, successfully providing management, technical, and marketing consulting services to companies in the United States, Europe, Latin America, China, Japan, and Korea.

Mr. Ruble has successfully served in various senior level management positions in large manufacturing companies that included the management of operations in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

Mr. Ruble holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Pepperdine University.
 
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