About
Our Company: Management Team
Why
We Exist : Management
Team
MANAGEMENT TEAM PROFILES:
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Patrick
J. Buckhoff
 Patrick
J. Buckhoff graduated from Ohio University
with a Bachelors degree in Applied Physics
in 1987. Following college, Mr. Buckhoff served
in the US Army as an armor officer, leading
troops during Operation Desert Storm. He is
the recipient of numerous decorations including
the Bronze Star.
After his Honorable Discharge from the Army,
Mr. Buckhoff continued his impressive career
with Matsushita (MUTEC). He was promoted
through various positions in Production and
Inventory Control Management, Manpower Planning,
Purchasing, Manufacturing Operations, ISO
and Kaizen. Mr. Buckhoff has served as Board
member of a non-profit organization. He has
been a speaker for conferences which include
the Institute of Supply Management.
Mr. Buckhoff’s career has included
prestigious positions relating to Supply
Management and Procurement with Pella Corporation
and also with Atrium Companies Inc., where
he began as Corporate Vice President of Procurement.
His roles continued to expand, gaining expertise
in the Toyota Production System, Workforce
Performance Development and Compliance Management.
Most recently, Mr. Buckhoff has served as
General Manager for manufacturing and distributions
companies.
Mr. Buckhoff brings considerable expertise
to Accelerator Consulting Group, in areas
such as Strategic Planning, Lean/Lean Sigma,
Risk Management, Manufacturing Operations,
and Sarbanes Oxley compliance.
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Dan
O'Donnell
 Dan
O’Donnell brings over sixteen years of
operational, sales and team leadership insight
to Accelerator Consulting Group. Upon graduation
from Old Dominion University with a Bachelors
degree in History, Mr. O’Donnell accepted
a commission in the United States Marine Corps
as an Infantry Officer. During his fourteen
year career with the Marines, he gained valuable
leadership skills, specifically in Combat operations
as a young 2nd Lieutenant, as head of operations
for the 8th Marine Regiment as a Major and
as a commander of a reconnaissance platoon
and four separate infantry companies.
Upon
leaving the Marine Corps in 1999, Mr. O’Donnell
became a Business Unit Director with Kforce
Professional Staffing. Mr. O’Donnell’s
initial responsibilities were to open a staffing
branch in St. Louis, Missouri, but in four
short years he was running the staffing operations
in the Midwest region for Kforce, including
St. Louis, Chicago and Detroit.
In 2005, Mr.
O’Donnell took an opportunity with Ultimate
Staffing and was named Regional Manager in
Houston, Texas. His duties with Ultimate included
operational and sales control over two staffing
offices, and a large on-site presence with
one of the leading cooler manufacturers in
the nation.
From late 2005 to November 2006,
Mr. O’Donnell worked with Allegiance
Staffing in Houston, Texas. While with Allegiance,
he was instrumental in a 45% year over year
growth for the company. His responsibilities
of both sales and operations expanded from
Houston to Dallas, Charlotte and Detroit.
Currently,
Mr. O’Donnell is a partner with ACG and
his strong executive focus is on the staffing
and problem-solving portion of the business.
Drawing upon his experience in all facets of
staffing, coupled with a strong operational/problem
solving background, he rounds out the partnership.
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James
Booth
 James
S. Booth has accumulated over 28 years of varied
business experience, including over 14 years
of Fortune 100 based financial, manufacturing,
distribution, and fleet management experience,
and 14 years of staffing industry experience.
In his work with several companies characterized
in their respective industries as high performing,
Mr. Booth has successfully implemented various
participative, management team based cultures
focused entirely on improvement of process
and execution. Each of these companies has
been a Malcolm Baldridge Award finalist, and
been named in the “Top Ten Manufacturing
Companies in the United States” by Industry
Week Magazine in the early 90’s.
Mr.
Booth grew up in Mississippi and earned a B.B.A.
from the University of Mississippi in Banking
and Finance. His experience in tactical, senior
leadership and partner roles brings a unique
depth of perspective to Accelerator Consulting
Group.
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Thomas
Landry
 Thomas
J. Landry grew up in New England and graduated
from the Stockbridge School of Agriculture
at The University of Massachusetts. After college
he moved to Texas to pursue a career in professional
golf. In 1986 Mr. Landry was introduced to
the staffing industry, starting a 20 year fascination.
During his career, Mr. Landry has served
as a Sales Consultant, Branch Manager, Regional
Manager and National Sales Manager before
starting his own staffing business in 1992.
Prior to opening his business, Mr. Landry
initiated several innovations in the Industrial
segment of the staffing industry that are
widely accepted as best practices today,
including holiday and vacation pay, three
day hire process, 100% pre-employment drug
screening and pre-hire background checks.
Each of these staffing processes revolutionized
the traditional contingent workforce model,
elevating the quality of temporary
employee and the level of staffing service
provided.
More recently, Mr. Landry successfully organized
the buyout of the Tandem Staffing franchise
system, reorganized the group and co-founded
the Allegiance Staffing brand. Today, Allegiance
Staffing is widely recognized as one of the
leaders in the contingency workforce space,
due in large part to Mr. Landry's incessant
focus on customer satisfaction and agency
performance efficiency.
Mr. Landry has served on the Board of Directors
for the Texas Association of Staffing for
over ten years. In that role he has helped
the association battle legislation that could
potentially harm both the staffing industry
and the end user client.
True to his passion for customer satisfaction,
the formation of Accelerator Consulting Group
is driven by his desire to help satisfy the
unfulfilled client needs and to change the
staffing industry by holding it accountable
for staffing performance.
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