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Herman CainHerman Cain delivers a myriad of messages to today's corporate and nonprofit audiences. Travels From: NE |
Topics: Business, Customer Service, Leadership,
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Raised in rural Georgia, Cain adopted the lessons of his parents -
dedication to hard work and the importance of faith - and carried
them with him to the pinnacle of the corporate world.
Cain earned a degree in mathematics from Morehouse College in 1967
and later earned a master's degree in computer science from Purdue
University, while working as a mathematician for the Department of
the Navy. He then worked as a business analyst for The Coca-Cola
Company. In 1968, he married his wife, Gloria and they have two
grown children.
In 1977, Herman Cain joined The Pillsbury Company and within three
years, at the age of 34, rose to the position of Vice President of
Corporate Systems and Services. Cain, reflecting his father's drive
to seek greater challenges, then set his sights on a corporate
presidency.
With this goal ahead of him and his mother's faith to support him,
Cain resigned his senior position and started on another career path
- the restaurant industry. He started from the ground up by making
hamburgers at Pillsbury's Burger King division. Nine months later,
he was managing 400 Burger King units in the Philadelphia region,
the country's poorest performer. Within three years, his region had
earned the reputation for excellence and was the company's best.
In 1986, Pillsbury appointed Cain to the presidency of the then
financially-troubled Godfather's Pizza, Inc. chain headquartered in
Omaha, Nebraska. In 14 short months, under Cain's leadership, the
chain regained profitability. In 1988, he led his executive team in
a buyout of the company from Pillsbury.
Cain was elected to the Board of Directors of the National
Restaurant Association in 1998. In 1994/1995, he served as Chairman
of the Board of Directors. While leading this association, he
developed the organization into a pro-business voice via national
debates and speeches concerning health care reform, employment
policies, and taxation. Following this experience, he was appointed
to serve on the Economic Growth and Tax Reform Commission. He then
became a senior advisor to the 1996 Dole/Kemp campaign for the
Presidency.
Herman Cain continued the responsibilities of President and Chairman
of Godfather's Pizza, Inc., while beginning a second career
delivering national keynote speeches. Using his messages as the
foundation, he created his own leadership consulting company, T.H.E.
Inc. (The Hermanator Experience). T.H.E. packages his speaking and
develops his products, including books, videotapes and audio tapes,
CDs of gospel music, and promotes his keynote speeches. He has
authored three books to date on topics ranging from leadership to
self-empowerment. In 2002, he became an Executive Lecturer for the
Gallup Organization.
In 1996, Cain became CEO and President of the National Restaurant
Association. He had been a member of the NRA Board since 1988, and
had served as its elected volunteer chairman in 1994/1995. Cain thus
became the only volunteer chairman to become the full-time CEO and
President of the Association while still a member of the Board. Cain
headed the NRA in this position for two and a half years.
In 1999, Cain sought to leverage his restaurant experience with the
technology market and he became CEO and President of RetailDNA. Its
mission is to provide innovative marketing solutions to the retail
sector.
Cain remains President and CEO of T.H.E., Inc. and serves on the
Boards of Directors for Aquila, Inc., Reader's Digest Association,
Inc., and Hallmark Cards Incorporated. He is currently a candidate
for the United States Senate from Georgia.
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