Mr. Peterson's contributions to industry include:

• Sponsored the creation of the Society of Maintenance & Reliability Professionals in 1992 and has served on the Board of Directors since that time
• Led development of professional certification within SMRP, founded SMRPCo
• Speaks extensively on the topic of Asset Management in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, South Africa and South America.
• Published author of the following articles:
  • Developing an Asset Management Strategy (Maintenance Technology, 1997)
  • The Central Issue: To Centralize or Decentralize Maintenance (Maintenance Technology, 1998)
  • Breaking the Bottleneck (MRO Today, 1998)
  • Defining Asset Management (Maintenance Technology, 1999)
  • Designing the Best Maintenance Organization (Maintenance Technology, 1999)
  • Developing an Asset Healthcare Program (Maintenance Technology, 2000)
  • Creating a Successful Corporate Maintenance Council (Maintenance Technology, June 2002)

Mr. Peterson's experience has included practice leadership in two major management consulting firms, and his extensive includes working in refining, petrochemicals, pulp & paper, power generation, production & exploration, mining & minerals, steel, aluminum, automotive, office equipment fabrication, food processing, pipelines, utilities, carbon & graphite, government and transportation. His education includes an undergraduate (Phi Beta Kappa) and graduate degree in Physics and a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and has engaged in graduate study towards his MBA at Louisiana State University.

Herb holds a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering and a Masters of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Colorado, Boulder.  

Mr. Army's Industry Highlights:

• Developed a streamlined and performance-based process for reducing maintenance costs by identifying the appropriate strategies for maintaining a facility, while achieving corporate financial goals.
• Serves on the Board of the Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals Certifying Or-ganization.
• Assisted a Fortune 500 life sciences company develop a strategic outsourcing plan for the operations and maintenance at their facilities in two geographic regions. He also facilitated the development of the processes to support this strategic plan.
• Responsible for the development and implementation of a streamlined risk based maintenance process for a large southern petro-chemical manufacturer
• Provided senior level process consulting services to a wide range of clients. His assignments have taken him all over the United States and Canada, and to places abroad such as Australia, Brazil, Germany, Puerto Rico, Czech Republic, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Russia, and Spain.
• Conducted numerous training courses in the area of work management and Maintenance Cost Management methodology.
• Authored several papers on maintenance topics including a recent series on the Asset Reliability Continuum.

Mr. Army's experience includes over 30 years in designing and implementing maintenance, operations and asset management process improvements for power generators, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC), the Department of Energy (DOE), and domestic and international mining, industrial and petrochemical facilities.

As an Asset Management consultant, his clients have been international conducting projects throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand. His clients have come from all sectors of the manufacturing spectrum including Petrochemical, Mining, Power Generation, Food and Beverage, Airport Facilities, Primary Metals and Fabrication, Chemicals, Semi-conductor, Textiles, in processing modes from continuous processes, batch processing and discrete manufacturing. His project leadership has provided his clients with many multiples in return on their project investment.

He has been invited to speak at many international conferences on the topic of asset management and is a regular contributor to many international publications. He is currently directing the efforts of our company in the Southern African region.

Prior to SAMI, he was Director of Consulting Services for a CMMS system software provider, then Vice President of a Management Consulting firm as their asset management practice leader.

He was employed by a large Swedish Consultancy Company for 25 years, primarily as the department manager for consulting activities within reliability and maintenance. He was a project leader for the development of maintenance intiatives within the Austrian Defence, and he was the company manager for a subsidiary of the Swedish consultancy company in Norway, primarily managing maintenance consulting activities for the Norwegian Defence.

Jan is the Chairman of the Swedish Maintenance Society, UTEK. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the European Federation of National Maintenance Societies, EFNMS. (The members of the EFNMS are the National Maintenance Societies from 18 European Countries.) Between October 1999 and October 2001 he was the President of EFNMS. He is the Chairman of the EFNMS Certification of European Experts in Maintenance Management. He is the Swedish representative for European Standardization work within CEN, regarding Maintenance Contracts, Maintenance Terminology and Key Performance Indicators in Maintenance.

Jan has been the Managing Director of SAMI Europe AB since 1999. As such, Jan is primarily acting for the development of SAMI business in the Scandinavian and European markets.