Bill Cracklen

Bill 1990

Claudette and Bill 1992

Bill Cracklen ALCO
Benndorf-Verster
Vancouver BC, Canada 
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In 1976 two major local firms, Benndorf Office Equipment and Verster Business Machines, merged to become Benndorf-Verster.  At that time Bill and two investors purchased the newly formed Benndorf-Vester and 11 years later (1987) they joined the AOP Team and Bill was named President of ALCO Canada as well as continuing to oversee the operations of Benndorf-Vester.  Bill knew most of the players which made him the best person to acquire, grow and developed the Canadian operation for ALCO.  Bill continued in these positions until his retirement in 1995. 

Claudette and Bill 1991

Prior to Bill becoming the President of Benndorf-Vester, Vancouver BC, Canada in 1976, he ran the family carpet business "Cracklen Carpets" from 1961 till 1975.  

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Today, Bill and Claudette live in Quebec (on Lake Champlain since 2002) and have a home in West Palm Beach, Florida.   They have 3 adult children and 2 grandchildren all in Vancouver. Both of them continue to play as much golf  as possible (Bill says his golf game isn't very good anymore), Claudette still enjoys photography and they enjoy their grandchildren, family and friends in Quebec, Vancouver and Florida!  

Steve Fedell

Steve Fedell 2009

Steve  Fedell ALCO 

Allegheny Business Machines

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Where do we start…..Good Guy, Good Family Man, Good Salesman, Good Manager, Good Football Player….We could start with any one of the above and write a book!  One of the nicest gentlemen you will meet (he should have been from the south)!

1989

Early 1980 Football Picture

After an exciting but short football career (Pittsburg Steelers, 1981–1982) cut short because of an injury, Steve joined another very nice gentleman, Guy Mattola at Allegheny Business Machines. Steve began his business career as a sales representative in 1982 and became the General Sales Manager in 1984 until Allegheny became an AOP partner in 1989 at which time Steve was promoted to Vice President of Sales and then to Area Vice President in 1996.

Mel Blount and Steve Fedell 

Today, Steve still resides in the Pittsburg, PA area and is Northeast Regional Vice President for Ricoh Corporation, responsible for $1.5 billion dollars of sales and service business.  He is a member of Football Team Honor Society and very involved in the Homeless Children’s Education Fund.

Jack Hendrickson

Jack Hendrickson 2004

Jack Hendrickson 1988

Jack Hendrickson 
Copy-Line
San Diego, CA
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Jack Founded Copy-Line in 1962, selling the early "diffusion transfer" copy machines and became an SCM dealer in 1964. As the copier market grew and Savin came to the United Staes, Jack became the second Savin dealer in the country in 1965 (behind Hallie Gibbs, who was the the first).  Copy-Line was one of Savin's strongest and largest dealers throughout the late 60's and 70's and continued to be one of the largest and strongest Savin (and later Ricoh) dealers in America.  

Jack sold Copy-Line to ALCO in 1988 and became an AOP Partner.  He continuing his leadership of Copy-Line until his retirement from AOP in 1990.  After retirement from AOP, he founded HFP Investments, LLC, which provides funding, advice and consulting, to a select number of builders and developers in the San Diago, California area.

Jack and JoAnn 2004

Jack and JoAnn 1988

Today, Jack and his wife JoAnn have good health and still reside in the San Diego area, and spend many summer weeks on their "Fleming 55 Yacht" in Canada.  They are very involved in their community and enjoy boating, "squash", family and friends.  Jack continues to be an avid "squash" player and is a member of the San Diego Racquet Club .  Jo Ann and Jack have been married 57 years (as of this writing 3/21/13) and have 3 children, 9 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren.

*Note from Jim Kincer:  I would like to thank Gary Martin providing information for Jack's page on "AOP Today"!  I had a very nice conversation with Jack on 3/26/13 and again in July 2021.  

Mike Koether

Mike Koether 2005

Mike Koether   ALCO
Infincom                  (Home of Dudley Do Right)
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Mike in 1991

Mike founded Infincom in Pheonix, Arizona in 1982, Infincom was acquired by AOP in 1987.  In the early days Mike spearheaded the AOP Facilities Management program which contributed hundreds of million dollars in new revenue to the companies bottom line.  In July of 1994 Mike was named"Executive Vice President of Marketing" and he retired from 

AOP in 1997.

Mike is a native of Chicago, and currently resides with his wife Ginnie, in Marco  Island Florida and  Paradise Valley, Arizona.He is involved in various community organizations, including the Economic Club of Phoenix, and is a Director of the Turquoise Samaritan LPGA Golf Classic. Today, he spends his retirement days fishing and playing golf! 

Fishing Pictures posted are from a 2005 fishing trip with brother Bob at Cody, Wyoming

Tom Deverell

Tom 1992

Tom Deverell ALCO
Kex Copy Source
San Sierra Business Systems
Copyline
San Diego, CA
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Tom 2012

Tom began his AOP career in 1977 with Kex Copy Source in upstate New York, where he served as sales manager and chief financial officer. In 1989, he became president of struggling, San Sierra Business Systems in Northern California, and the following year he became AOP Vice President, (focused on individual AOP company performance improvement).  In 1992 he was named president of the San Diego Marketplace, and from that position, moved to president of the Northern California District, (succeeding, retiring Barry Taylor).  The Northern California District included all of the marketplaces in California from the Oregon border in the north to Bakersfield in the south.  Tom managed the annual AOP revenues of more than $260 million.

In 2001, Tom Deverell retired after nearly 25 years with AOP and founded a software company, designing and marketing real estate software until he re-entered the document services business in 2003.

In 2003 Tom became CEO of Officia Imaging, Inc  in San Diego and over the next 10 years grew the company into one of the largest document imaging solutions companies in California.  He sold Officia Imaging, Inc in 2013 and in November of that year founded SAGE Executive Group.

Tom Deverell Family 2014

Today, Tom is chair of SAGE, an advisory group for like-minded business leaders from diverse industries, driven to become better companies and leaders and improve the bottom line!

Tom married Tamara in 2001 and they reside in the Carmel Valley area just east of Del Mar.  He has two adult sons, both working at Officia and two young children ages 7 and 9 (at this writing). Tom spends time with family and friends and is very involved in his sons Boy Scout experience!

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Jan. 2022:  Email from Tom:  "Tamara and I recently returned for a week in Portugal & Spain. (Pictures below) I am extremely active in my CEO coaching business, currently coaching over 30 companies in SD. 

 

Mike Dudek

Mike Dudek
ALCO
Downingtown, PA
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Mike was Vice President of Acquisitions for AOP in the mid '90's (1993-1998) and in 1998 became the VP Finance.  He retired from AOP in 2001 and entered his Private Law Practice.


Currently in addition to his law practice in Downingtown, PA, he owns and operates "The Zygoquest Group", providing custom mergers and acquisitions to clients all over the world.  Mike provides his clients (buyers and sellers) with financial and legal services.  Zygoquest is the number one merger and acquisition authority in the office products industry.

Bob O'Brien

1991

Beth and Bob 1992

Bob O'Brien       ALCO
O'Brien Business Equipment
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Prior to founding O'Brien Business Equipment, Bob was with the Xerox Corporation for many years and was Secretary of the Columbus, Ohio Chamber of Commerce during the late '70s. He founded O'Brien Business Equipment, Columbus, Ohio in 1981.  AOP purchased the company in 1988 and Bob became a member of the AOP Team.  Bob continued as President of O'Brien Business Equipment as well as The Greater Columbus Region CEO, until being promoted to AOP Senior Vice President of vendor relations for AOP worldwide. 

Bob, Brooke, Beth 2011

Bob and Beth 2011

On 9/9/16 Beth sold her dental practice and retired.  Their daughter Brooke, after graduating from Georgetown is working in sales for Bloomberg in New York City and enjoying living and partying in the Big Apple.  

Bob and Beth 1991

In 2016 they sold their Ohio home and have purchased a home at Kensington in Naples. Bob is on the board of the country club and plays over 200 rounds a year. They would love to hear from any of our alumni who visit or live in SW Florida. 

Beth, Brooke, Bob, 2017

(Click here to see more of Bob and Beth's pictures from Austria, Montreal and Quebec City, Nevus, Rome and Florence, Barcelona, Hong Kong, Hawaii, France and Paris)

Beth, Brooke, Bob
June 2019

Rick Davis

Rick 2011

Rick Davis AOP

NightRider Overnight Copy Service

Houston, Texas

Rick and his wife Terri still live in Tomball, Texas, a suburb of Houston. After selling his chain of Speedy Print Shops in 1987, he founded NightRider Overnight Copy Service, a photocopying service company that catered to the legal profession. Rick developed NightRider from start-up into a nation-wide company, with offices in every major US city and more than 2000 employees (the largest of its kind, at that time).  He sold NightRider to AOP in 1992 and remained with AOP through early 1994 drring the transition. 

Rick 1993

After AOP in 1995 Rick purchased an IT company in Atlanta that grew to become "Extreme Logic", an internet company with offices in many US cities. "Extreme Logic" became the Microsoft National Partner of the year in 2000. In October of 2003, Rick sold "Extreme Logic" to Hewlett Packard. 

Today, he is very active with family,  the community and his church.  Rick, and The Davis family own a very unique restaurant in Tomball, TX called "Main Street Crossing" which is managed and operated by his son Matt Davis.  "Main Street Crossing"  provides food, drink, live music (entertainment) and a meeting place for several church communities, (Take a look at the very interesting website)!

Every Sunday, Rick hosts a radio show called "The Things That Matter Most", on 1160 AM KVCE Dallas/Ft. Worth and 700AM KSEV Houston, where he discusses a wide range of spiritual  viewpoints with insight and encouragement.

Curt Richter

Curt Richter 2005

Curt Richter
Badger Business Products
Hartford, WI & Southwest Florida

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Carol and Curt 2011

Curt Richter 2013

Curt and Carol 1982

Badger Business Products, was the first dealer in the United States to carry the Savin copier line.  Curt founded Badger in in the late 1960's and sold to ALCO in 1987.  He continued as President of Badger through the name change to IKON and resigned from AOP in 1994.  Curt built several other businesses, including Imaging Concepts, (a Sharp Dealer) which was founded with his son, Curt Jr. in 1990 and sold the business to Global in 2005. He also entered the water business in the late 1990's and sold the company a few years later.  

                                 

Carol and Curt 2016

Today, Carol and Curt reside in Southwest Florida and still own homes in Wisconsin and New Mexico.

   The Milwaukee Sentinel - Feb 3, 1993

Jim Teel

Jim Teel ALCO
J.L. Teel Business Systems.                              
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Jim served as President and CEO of J.L. Teel BusinessSystems in Columbus,MS. from 1975 till 1998.  TBS was a full line Canon Ricoh copier dealer with 175 employees in offices throughout the mid-south.

J.L.Teel Company and Jim Teel became an AOP Partner in 1991. In 1998, Jim became the Southern District President ofAOP/IKON.

Rick Maier                 Bob O'Brien                  Jim Teel

During his tenure with TBS Teel owned and operated Lynn Leasing, a small ticket leasing company. Before starting TBS in 1975 Teel worked for Xerox and A. B. Dick Co in sales and management. Teel has been active throughout the years in various business and civic organizations including Board of Directors, Deposit Guaranty National Bank in Columbus, Mississippi; Rotary International (Paul Harris Fellow); Chairman, Mississippi University for Women Foundation and Finance Chairman, Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra board of Directors.

TODAY, Jim is owner of SoundBlast Technologies, LLC, an Oil and Energy Company, Orlando, FL.  SoundBlast Technologies was founded in 2006  to pursue research and development of coherent detonation wave technology.  SoundBlast is a high technology,small business with the mission of providing high-pressure acoustic solutions for both military and commercial applications.  The SoundBlast team is composed of experienced entrepreneurs, former military personnel and accomplished scientists, all with decades of experience in product development

Jim and Suzanne live in Winter Park Florida, and Jim spends a good deal of time playing competitive Croquet!

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       Jim   (about 1990)                                                           Jim 2019

Jim Kincer

Jim 2012

Jim 1991

Jim Kincer ALCO

CopyCorp

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Copy Corporation, Louisville was founded in 1978, which became the largest independent copier company in Kentucky with offices in Louisville, Lexington, Bowling Green, Owensboro and Evansville.  We became an ALCO company in 1989. I continued with AOP until 1996. In late 1996 we entered the water purification/cooler business and in 2002 merged the business with, Don Dudnie, John Peters, Bob Kearns, Ed Kane, Jon King and Rich Bova to become Quench USA.    Today, I continue managing our residential rental property business (JK Property, LLC) we have owned for the last 30 years.

Jim Kincer 2010

In 1998, I was elected the Mayor of our hometown, Pewee Valley, KY  also  some of you may remember, we owned two Louisville radio stations WFIA and WXLN-FM.  Both stations were sold in 1995. 

Joyce and Jim 2006

Family Picture 2013

Joyce and I have three children, Nikkii, Jim Jr. and Derek.  We have six grandchildren and fortunately, they all live around Louisville.  We enjoy our family, Florida home, classic car collection and traveling as much as we can!  

Mike Abram

Mike Abram
and wife Carol 1992

Mike and Carol 1990

Michael Abram  ALCO

Calgary Copier Ltd.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Calgary Copier and Mike Abram became a member of the AOP Team in 1990 and he retired from AOP in 1999.  He was president of Calgary Copiers for several years and grew Calgary to a national company even before it was sold to ALCO in 1990.  

In February 2000, after leaving AOP (in 1999), Mike became President of Shaw Ventures, a division of Shaw Communications Inc. and Mike became President of "Shaw Direct" in 2003.  He continues to lead his teams within Ventures, Big Pipe and Cancom (Truck Tracking) with the addition of the team at Star Choice.  Shaw Direct provides digital picture and Dolby surround sound audio and video Direct-to-Home (DTH) satellite services in Canada. It distributes digital video and audio programming services via satellite to Canadian residences and commercial establishments. Shaw Direct was formerly known as Star Choice Communications, Inc and changed its name to Shaw Direct in April 2009.  As of December 19, 2003, Shaw Direct operates as a subsidiary of Shaw Communications, Inc.  

Mike  also served as a Director and Member of the Audit Committee for Canadian Hydro Developers Inc. from April 2003 to April 19, 2005 

Today, Mike is retired and the best I have been able to learn, he retired in 2008 or 2009.   He and Carol still reside in Calgary Alberta, Canada.

Mike Abrams and Gary Strauss