John Schock, CEO
John Schock has over 30 years experience in the food distribution industry, as well as several years experience in the finance-banking industry. He founded FMS, Financial Management Solutions, in 1974 to provide retail and accounting services for independent retailers and wholesalers.
Mr. Schock leads the FMS team in their efforts to help independent retail grocers succeed by transforming historic accounting activities into timely, accurate decision support tools.
In addition to his work with FMS, Mr. Schock has been a speaker and author for NGA, as well as other regional food distribution associations. He is frequently employed as an industry expert by consultants and developers of software and hardware systems specific to the retail grocery industry. Mr. Schock also currently serves on the board of directors for RDSI, an outsourced data processing firm serving over 50 banks in the Midwest.
Robert Graybill, President
Robert Graybill, CPA, joined FMS in 2000, and has over 20 years of experience in the retail grocery industry. Currently, Mr. Graybill leads the FMS operations team in meeting their goal of helping retailers to succeed thru benchmarking, best practices, and decision support.
Mr. Graybill spent 9 years working with A&P serving in various positions including, Director of Pricing, Group Accounting Manager, Inventory Control Manager and store operations. Prior to joining A&P, Mr. Graybill worked for a local independent grocer in the Baltimore market. He has authored the FMS/N.G.A. Independent Grocers Survey and FMI's Annual Financial Review for the past four years. He has also served as a speaker at the N.G.A. Financial Symposium, N.G.A.'s annual conferences, FMI's International Food Show, and various state association food shows. In addition, he has taught at the IGA Coca-Cola Institutes Supermarket Management Program which serves both domestic and international retailers. Mr. Graybill holds an MBA from the Executive Program at Loyola University Maryland and has completed the N.G.A. Executive Management Program at Cornell University.
Rick McPartlin
Rick McPartlin the co-founder of The Revenue Game and TEC Canada 2008 US Speaker of the Year has spent more than 20 years applying "Revenue Generation" as a science in organizations as small as startups and as large as giants like Johnson & Johnson, ATT, Siemens, SAIC, E&Y, and Sun Microsystems. During that time Rick has learned that the science of "Revenue Generation" is the same regardless of size or industry. In addition to running The Revenue Game consulting practice with his partner Jane Adamson, Rick has also been a professor, spoken to thousands of CEOs and business leaders and spearheaded major product launches, while developing trademarked sales tools and systems models.
Today Rick is totally committed to driving out the waste and chaos that has been inherit in sales and marketing by applying the science of "Revenue Generation" - which produces more results for less resource investment.
Rick’s goal is to bring the power, the speed and the efficiencies of "Revenue Generation" as a science to every business that will commit to “Winning The Revenue Game”.
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