Sheri is the founder and principal owner of Shan Industries, LLC, a holding company that currently operates two manufacturing companies. Accurate Forming, a metal stamping company located in New Jersey and Thermodynamics, a rotational molding company operating in Oklahoma, were acquired from Tyco International in January 2000. In her role as Chairman and CEO, Sheri has expanded the product lines and capabilities of Shan's operating divisions and is working toward additional acquisitions.

Sheri is a former owner, CFO, and COO, of Magnetic Data Technologies/DBI, Inc., a $60 million manufacturing group with domestic and international holdings. During her tenure at DBI she engineered the company's acquisition of several other business lines and companies including Kodak's Datatape, a $55+ million company which made high speed tape recording devices for, among other things, the Space Shuttle.

Before joining DBI, Sheri was a litigator with the Miami office of Greenberg Traurig. She came to Greenberg Traurig after several years with the Washington and Miami offices of the United States Department of Justice, which she had joined through the Attorney General's Honors Program.

Sheri is also the founder of OrloVon, LLC, a real estate development company that was responsible for a 20-unit upscale condominium project in the historic Adams-Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC.

In August 2001 Sheri was invited to the President's Economic Summit in Waco, Texas, during which time she had a lively and widely quoted discussion with the President on, among other things, Sarbanes-Oxley. Sheri continues her public service today as a Presidential appointee to the National Women's Business Council, a non-partisan commission which advises the President, Congress and the SBA on matters affecting small business. Her board positions include Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government Women's Leadership Board, the Center for Women's Business Research and Boardroom Bound, the last an organization dedicated to promoting diversity in the corporate boardroom. She is a frequent speaker on all aspects of entrepreneurialism, mergers and acquisitions and accessing capital and spends a significant amount of time supporting and mentoring other women business owners.

In March 2002, the Women's Business Enterprise National Council recognized Sheri at the WBE's annual gala as an Outstanding Woman Business Owner. Sheri was selected in March 2003 by Enterprising Woman Magazine as the "Enterprising Woman of the Year" and now serves as a member of their Advisory Board. Sheri has been chosen by the Star Group to be honored in May 2005 as one of the "Leading Woman Entrepreneurs of the World." Recently Sheri participated in a Businesswomen's Summit hosted in Riga, Latvia at which 50 senior executive women from Fortune 500 companies, and from small and medium-sized American businesses were matched with women from the Baltic and Scandinavian Countries. Following the Summit, Sheri was pleased to host two businesswomen from Ukraine on the return portion of the program held in November 2004 in Washington, DC.
Philanthropy is a significant part of Sheri's life's work. Among other causes she supports and serves she is on the board of the Kristi House in Miami, a refuge and advocacy resource for young victims of sexual abuse that is housed in the Orlowitz Children's Advocacy Center of which she is a Founder. She is also active on behalf of the International Humanitarian Campaign Against the Exploitation of Children, an organization dedicated to the global eradication of child sexual trafficking, and is an Ambassador to The Global Coalition to End Human Trafficking NOW.

Jan is a founder of Shan Industries, LLC and is Secretary of the Board of Managers. Previously, Jan was a major shareholder, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of DBI/Magnetic Data Technologies and participated in the leveraged buyout of DBI from Applied Magnetics Corporation then a NYSE Company. As General Counsel to DBI Jan also participated in both the purchase by DBI of a division of Quantum Corporation and the acquisition by DBI of Datatape, a $55+ million company from Kodak.

Jan has been practicing law for more than twenty five years. Her career began as an aviation trial lawyer with the United States Department of Justice. Jan made the transition to the business world in 1989, becoming General Counsel to Piper Aircraft Corporation, where she not only reduced Piper's litigation costs by more than half, but also began accumulating the corporate and transactional skills she now brings to the Board of Shan.

Jan is currently Senior Counsel to the North American subsidiary of Airbus, now the largest maker of commercial aircraft in the world, managing sales and support transactions often valued in the billions of dollars.

Prior to helping form Shan Industries, Paul had a 27-year career at Eastman Kodak with a variety of financial and management jobs. The more recent positions included Chief Financial Officer for Kodak Consumer Batteries, a startup venture that quickly captured significant market share in the US and Europe; Financial Director for Kodak's worldwide Photo Processing Division; a billion dollar enterprise; and as a Director for Mergers & Acquisitions. In this last assignment, while managing the divestiture of a technology division of Kodak, Paul met Sheri and Jan who represented the successful acquirer.

John brought a wealth of experience to Shan Industries having worked for several middle market manufacturing companies. During his 20 year career, aside from holding various finance positions, he has also managed operations. In those positions aside from the normal finance functions he has helped develop and implement order entry systems, scheduling programs, JIT inventory systems and shipping systems.

John is a CPA and a member of the Institute of Management Accountants.

Mike Melymuk, President of the Thermodynamics Division, brings twenty-five years of rotational molding experience and plastics knowledge with an extensive background in material handling container systems to Shan Industries.

His career with industry leading companies includes building and managing a new business plant start-up, restructuring staid marketing organizations and numerous industrial product launches. Holding key positions in Sales, Marketing and General Management in many parts of North America has given Mike an appreciation for the diverse business opportunities available to Thermodynamics.

With a combination of a MBA degree and skills honed at Bonar Plastics, H&R Industries, and his own sales company, Mike is equally at ease with customers, engineering professionals and factory associates. Mike brings a disciplined approach and hard working, lead-by-example management style to an innovative company poised for growth.