- Serving as Chief Operating Officer of Job Accord, a multi-national human resource company with offices in New York, Washington, D.C., London, New Delhi and Bangalore;
- President of Distro-Cal, a marketing company in the advertising specialty industry;
- Partner in Global Strategies, Incorporated, advisors for international business development.
- Managing the transfer of patented biotechnology from the National Institutes of Health to his client, which enabled the company to raise $25 million in venture capital funding.
- Vice President of Certified Marketing Services International, an ISO 9000 business-consulting firm, where he assisted international companies in human resource certification.
- President of Computer Applications Development and Integration (CADI), the premier provider of software solutions for the criminal justice market. CADI dominates the market of case management software, with the largest number of installations in the world. During his tenure, Jack negotiated a strategic partnership with Behring Diagnostics, a $300 million division of Hoechst Celanese, the company's largest contract.
Jack also served as a gubernatorial appointee in the Administration of Governor James Gilmore in the Commonwealth of Virginia, serving as the Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Resources, working with then-Secretary Claude Allen, acting as the Chief Operating Officer of the $5 billion budget. During his tenure in state government, Jack acted as the Chief Technology Officer for the Secretariat, where he was responsible for the successful Year 2000 (Y2K) conversion for the 16,000-employee unit.
Previously, Jack served as a manager with Menlo Care, a medical device manufacturer. While at Menlo, he was a part of the team that moved sales from zero to over $12 million, resulting in a buy-out by a medical division of Johnson & Johnson.
A former Captain in the United States Army, having served in Combat Arms and on the U.S. Armor and Engineer Board, Jack directed research and conducted testing, and recommended solutions to problems in night vision and electro-optics.
Jack earned an MBA from George Mason University and completed graduate work in the International Operations Management Program at Oxford University. His under graduate degree is in education.
His publications include "Doing Business in the Values Vacuum," an article syndicated by Scripps-Howard News Service to over 350 newspapers worldwide. (And ghostwriter for high profile managers, including a Presidential candidate. . .)
Jack competes in 26.2-mile marathon runs, and he and his wife, Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D.,who is an author and a political commentator, live in the Washington, D.C. area with their five children.
John Wesley Yoest, Jr.
Telephone 202.215.2434 • Jack@Yoest.org
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SELECTED MEDIA EVENTS |
Keynote Speaker, World War II Submarine Veterans memorial service Master of Ceremonies and Speaker, Year 2000 Lessons Learned symposium, Vienna, VA IT Human Resource Expert, “Managing Your Career” WMAL Radio, Washington, DC Introduction speech for Steve Forbes, The Family Foundation Gala Introduction speech for Congressman Bill Archer, press conference, Capitol Hill Multiple articles syndicated by Scripps-Howard News Service resulting in publication nationwide. |
| SELECTED PUBLICATIONS |
G.I. Jane at VMI
by Jack and Charmaine Yoest for The Women's Quarterly, Autumn 2001
To Get A Job, First Get A Plan And Then Get Busy - Jack Yoest. Appeared in The Daily Progress, January 20, 2002. Debt of Honor: Remembering the USS Bonefish by Jack Wesley Yoest, Jr. Published in the Virginian-Pilot , June 18, 1999. Conducting Business in the Values Vacuum , by Jack Yoest. Effective Boards: What They Do, How they Work , by Leon Masiewicki and Jack Yoest, Presentation to Virginia-Piedmont Technology Council, September 2001 Mr. Yoest's Ten Simple Rules for Dating Our Daughters. WHY 'SAVING PRIVATE RYAN' FALLS SHORT, by Jack Yoest. For Scripps Howard News Service, March, 1999. Publish and Peddle . . .or Perish: An Academic's Guide to Selling your Book: 10 behaviors to sell your book
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