RMTAAC's team is made up of highly experienced business professionals. Most of our project managers hold a graduate level business degree and have at least 15 years experience working with manufacturing companies in a wide variety of industries.
What's more, we care about your business. RMTAAC is a non-profit organization looking only for ways to help you and your firm succeed.
Click on the links below to find out more about each of our staff members.
RMTAAC Staff
Edvard Hag, Director
Joni Waddell, Assistant Director & Project Manager
Jolene Arford, Office Manager
Kathy McGinnis, Accounting Tech
Chris Stone, Project Manager
Tania Bahr-Torline, Project Manager
Amy Graziano, Project Manager
Stephanie Rinko, Business Consultant
Call RMTAAC at (303) 499-8222 or (800) 677-3791
Edvard Hag
Director
Edvard became Director of RMTAAC in 1994 after starting as a Graduate Research Assistant in 1987. He began working full-time as MIS Manager after completing his degree in 1989, and as Controller from 1992-1994. Edvard has an extensive background in accounting, finance, and information systems. Edvard received an MBA with a concentration in organizational management from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration, with an emphasis in finance with cost accounting, from Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
hag@rmtaac.org
(303) 499-8222, ext. 19
Joni L. Waddell
Assistant Director
Joni Waddell has over twenty years of sales and marketing expertise, both domestic and international. She has been with RMTAAC since 1994 and has worked with clients in a wide array of different industries, including manufacturers from the jewelry, airplane, and sparkling wine industries. She specializes in sales and marketing consulting, market research, and business and marketing plan development. Joni has extensive experience managing external consultants for clients in order to achieve the best possible results with the company's limited resources.
Joni received an MBA in Marketing from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1985, as well as Bachelor's degrees in both Finance and Accounting in 1983. Before joining the team at RMTAAC, Joni worked in the medical equipment and pharmaceutical industries, and also has experience working as an investment portfolio manager for a New York based brokerage house after becoming a licensed broker.
waddell@rmtaac.org
(303) 499-8222, ext. 18
Jolene Arford
Office Manager
Jolene Arford has been with RMTAAC and the University of Colorado since 1993. Jolene has bachelor's degrees in French and English from Fort Hays Kansas State College. After receiving her degrees, Jolene moved to Colorado and taught French and English to junior high and high school students before moving up to the university level. Both of Jolene's children were raised in Boulder, Colorado, which Jolene has called home for over thirty years.
arford@rmtaac.org
(303) 499-8222, ext. 15
Kathy McGinnis
Accounting
Kathy McGinnis has been with RMTAAC since 1998, after coming to RMTAAC from the Boulder Valley School district. Kathy moved to Boulder in 1987 from New Jersey, where she had raised her son and been raised herself. Kathy still has family in New York and Vermont, who she visits frequently. She has spent her entire career in accounting, after receiving a degree in mathematics from Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania.
mcginnis@rmtaac.org
(303) 499-8222, ext. 21
Christopher Stone
Project Manager
Chris Stone has been with RMTAAC since 2000. While at RMTAAC, Chris has developed an outline of key initiatives to facilitate U.S manufacturers' growth and profitability:
- Focus of limited resources on most appropriate market(s)
- Strategic investment in information systems
- Ongoing investment in employee development and training
- Combining manufacturing with a service component to achieve higher margins and build closer customer relationships
- Change is always necessary; ownership should constantly monitor threats to current business model
- Incremental initiatives are more likely to succeed than higher risk, long-shot, projects
Chris starts each evaluation of a manufacturer by benchmarking its financial performance versus its competition. He also reviews the company's management team and operations to identify opportunities for improvement, seeking to identify the key issues facing each company and how RMTAAC can help address these issues within the scope of the TAA program. In addition to his role as a management consultant, Chris has also led a wide range of projects redeveloping information systems for clients and has helped many companies develop and refine the use of internet technology in their marketing initiatives.
Chris received an MBA from the University of Colorado in 2002 and came to Colorado after receiving a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. His experience includes electronics industry consulting and forecasting, corporate business-to-business sales, and environmental and medical equipment safety consulting. Early in his career he spent two years as a production and research technician at a Golden, Colorado high-tech manufacturing company.
stone@rmtaac.org
(303) 499-8222, ext. 17
Tania Bahr-Torline
Project Manager
Tania Bahr-Torline came to RMTAAC in 2003 from Qwest Communications, where she had experience as a corporate marketing director for business and consumer products. Tania also brings experience in the new product development of technology based products to RMTAAC. Tania has experience in product design and manufacturing as well as technical thermal and vibration analysis within the scope of engineering. Tania specializes in B2B marketing, Strategic Business planning, Business development, sales management and customer relationship management. She partners closely with clients to identify growth solutions for their specific needs and to focus in on the areas critical to their success.
She earned her Bachelor's of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She also earned her Master's in Business Administration from the University of Colorado with an emphasis in marketing. She leads the outreach and development team at RMTAAC and also serves as project manager to clients.
bahr-torline@rmtaac.org
(303) 499-8222, ext. 20
Amy Graziano
Project Manager
Amy Graziano started with RMTAAC in 2005 with over fifteen years of experience in marketing and database marketing management. Most recently, Amy spent eight years as manager of wireless products and database marketing at Qwest Wireless. Prior to moving to Colorado, Amy spent seven years in New York City with Collier Newfield and Scudder Kemper Investments in Database Marketing and as Assistant Vice President of Marketing.
Amy has extensive experience working in both marketing and financial arenas. Amy earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1992 in Business Administration with majors in both Marketing and Management.
graziano@rmtaac.org
(303) 499-8222, ext. 16
Stephanie Rinko
Business Consultant
Stephanie Rinko started with RMTAAC in 2004 while pursuing her master's in business administration at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Stephanie specializes in marketing and business plan writing as well as strategic direction. She has worked on many marketing projects, including those for RMTAAC's outreach and development team. She has also worked on website design and search engine optimization.
Stephanie received her MBA from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a concentration in Marketing and Entrepreneurship in 2005 and came to Colorado after receiving her Bachelor's degree in Anthropology and French Language from Boston University in 1998. She has experience with non-profit organizations, grant funding, education and manufacturing.
rinko@rmtaac.org
(303) 499-8222, ext. 13
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