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Tim Mills, Vice President of European Operations
Mills has a proven track record of successful entrepreneurialism with a background in managing international operations, export management, large account management and distribution sales management. Prior to joining Turun International,
Mills worked as National Accounts Manager and Distribution Sales Manager for Senior Technologies, now a subsidiary of the Stanley Works Corporation, an S&P 500 company.
He is currently responsible for managing the
European operations of Turun International splitting his time between the company offices in Lincoln, Nebraska and London, England. Current duties include product management, oversight of Europeans sales and marketing programs and implementation of the company’s overall strategic plan for Europe ensuring success for the company and our North American, European and Asian partners.
Mills has a particularly strong background in developing and marketing patient safety equipment for the healthcare industry particularly as it relates to helping healthcare providers manage the difficult behaviors associated with Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia. He has been involved in bringing novel technologies from concept stage to products which are marketed internationally.
Mills is a 1988 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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John Brasch, President and CEO
Best known for founding and leading the nation's leading brand
of patented Alzheimer's safety products, Brasch has an impressive
record of both business and academic achievement.
Brasch holds a PhD in business administration from Washington
University in St. Louis. As a business professor at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1969 to 1980, Brasch published in
various journals, including the Journal of International Business
Studies and The Harvard Business Review. He also served as
editor of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies.
At UNL, he developed and taught the university's initial courses
in International Marketing and International Management. He
also gained funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce and
established and supervised the Export Leads
Advisory Program,
a multi-year outreach effort by the business college to Nebraska
businesses during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
In 1980, he ventured
into the private sector,
founding International Management
Services, an export management company that provided services
primarily to Nebraska companies.
IMS pioneered an innovative bathing system for geriatric care
in seven countries. The company also pioneered an innovative
obstetrical delivery apparatus in Europe and the Pacific Rim.
Brasch later founded Senior Technologies, Inc., a designer,
manufacturer and marketer of electronic patient safety products
sold to hospitals and nursing homes. On the strength of its
flagship WanderGuard and Tabs monitoring devices and an innovative
orange branding strategy, STI grew to become the largest and
strongest in its class between 1985 and 2002.
As CEO, Brasch oversaw every facet of the business, including
a research and development program that encouraged the filing
and maintenance of more than
a dozen patents. He was a co-patent
applicant on a successful patent, and provided legal oversight
for
the defense of a patent through appeals to the U.S. Supreme
Court. (An unsuccessful but highly insightful experience.)
Brasch sold STI to Stanley and continued on as CEO until 2004.
He continues to be involved in developing global trade as
president and CEO of Turun International, which is headquartered
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