Award-Winning Serial Entrepreneur Headlines OVF’s
Award Luncheon
by LORI WILLIAMS
“The 1996 OVF Venture of the Year Award filled our sails with air,” says Stan Chase. “We displayed the green granite trophy in our conference room and it did the bragging for us.” Back then Stan was President of an IT company called The Rock Island Group. There were very few websites in those days, personal computers were brand new and laptops were nonexistent. Routers, however, were everywhere. “You had to have one to put networks together,” recalls Chase, “and this was when most people thought routers were just woodworking tools.” “I had a background in corporate America, with deploying the devices to connect networks. I did that for Hertz rent-a-car all over the world. But I wanted to put that know-how to work for Oklahoma companies.” READ MORE
SPECIAL GUEST
Ted Streuli
Publisher,
The Journal Record
Ted Streuli has worked at newspapers in California, Texas and Oklahoma over the past 30 years and has been the editor of The Journal Record since 2004. He is the incoming president of the Oklahoma Press Association and has served on the boards and committees of many nonprofits including The Colby Foundation, Campfire, Possibilities Inc., Harding Fine Arts Academy, the YWCA, Leadership Oklahoma, The State Chamber, and the Oklahoma City Chamber. He has won numerous journalism awards as well awards for business ethics and national recognition for his work in mental health. Each week Ted can be heard on several Oklahoma radio stations and seen on OETA's Oklahoma News Report.
We are honored to have Mr. Streuli join us as a special guest for the 2018 Venture of the Year & Most Promising New Business awards luncheon.
2018 Venture of the Year & Most Promising New Business Event Sponsor
“We view our clients with tomorrow in view,” says Andrew Cullen, the Oklahoma District Manager for Insperity. “We know that if we do things that way, today is always going to take care of itself.”
That kind of visionary thinking not only fuels Andrew Cullen’s work at the full service HR solution company; it also explains why his organization is sponsoring this year’s OVF Awards Luncheon. “The ventures that OVF highlights are the same organizations Insperity seeks as clients. We want the best in class.”
And in return, Insperity offers premier benefits. “If you look at any of our would-be competitors,” says Cullen, “you’ll see that we have approximately three to four times the service personnel as a ratio to client company employees. We are very, very hands-on with a wide variety of excellent services. No other PEO can do what we do.”
The solutions provided by the company with 30+ years of HR experience include Fortune-500 level employee health insurance and benefits, payroll and HR administration, management of a 401(k) plan, and workers compensation coverage and claim resolution. Also offered is a robust interactive HR tool known as the Insperity Premier™ online human capital management platform.
One of Insperity’s unique services is recruiting and outplacement support. Click on the Careers Tab on their website (Insperity.com) and you’ll find a listing of jobs with their client companies.
“We serve businesses with five to 5000 employees,” says Cullen, “and we are delighted to be in Oklahoma as of 2017. We believe it is a tremendously underserved market for what it is we do. I’m happy to report that we’re making some very good progress here.”
“The organizations looking for a better way to do what they are doing with their human capital – those are the companies we want to work with. They’re looking for that extra secret sauce, if you will, that will help them get over the edge. That’s what Insperity brings to their client companies.”
