Mr. Skinner has over 30 years of business experience.  At the age of 12 he started his own lawn service in Bucks County, PA.  After graduating with a finance degree, he sold the landscape company and moved to Chicago to trade commodities at The Board of Trade.  Three years later he helped start a Merchandising company serving The Home Depot (THD) in 7 Midwest States with over 300 employees.  The company was responsible for merchandising (physically placing) all indoor and outdoor live plants in over 140 stores.  His merchandising company was directly involved with The Home Depot Executives including Midwest VPs, District Mgrs., Store Mgrs. and Human Resource department.  Five years later Mr. Skinner was recruited to join Northwest Horticulture LLC in the Pacific Northwest as Director of Sales & Marketing for the Retail Division.  During his tenor they grew the sales 5 fold increasing their customer base from Kmart and Lowe’s to include The Home Depot, Costco, Menards, Wal-Mart, Haggen Food & Grocery, Fred Meyer, Wilco Food Mart and several large Independent Garden Centers.  5 years later he was recruited back to Chicago area to join Hampshire Farms LLC as the General Manager.  He managed the company through a complete reorganization and turned the company into a unified efficient team that became profitable within a year.  During his 4-year tenure, they increased their top-line sales from $12M to over $20M with the same store count at THD and Costco.  Mr. Skinner then started Skinner Enterprises Inc. as a client representation and consulting firm offering expertise in Sales & Marketing; Business Management; Budgeting & Finance; Staff Training, Development & Conflict Resolution; Operational, logistics & IT Continuity.

BS Finance Degree and minor in Management from Philadelphia University