Shane M. Deverill, President/CEO, (Colonel U.S. Army, Retired)
Shane M. Deverill, a career Army officer for 27 years, retired in April, 2008, to serve as the President and CEO of ASSIST-U.S.℠ Mr. Deverill began his military journey in ROTC at Texas A&M in 1976 and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1981. He is rated in the AH-1, OH-58, UH-1 and UH-60 helicopters. His rich military background included a wide variety of staff and leadership positions, including his command of the 10th Mountain Aviation Brigade. Key staff assignments included: Joint Task Force-6's military liaison to all federal, state, and local (counter-drug) law enforcement agencies; Executive Officer to the Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (FORSCOM); and Executive Officer to the Multi-National Force-Iraq Commanding General in Iraq. Mr. Deverill was most recently the FORSCOM Inspector General. Mr. Deverill is a graduate of the Marine Amphibious Warfare School, the Armed Forces Staff College, and the Army Command and General Staff College, where he received a Masters of Military Arts and Science. Mr. Deverill is also a graduate of the U.S. Army War College, where he received a Masters in Strategic Studies and is a Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt.
Bruce A. Seibert, Founder/Executive Vice President
Mr. Seibert is a military veteran who was trained as an aircraft repairman and served on Active Duty with the U.S. Army from 1968-71, with duty stations at the Presidio of San Francisco; the Republic of Vietnam; and the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York. During 1969 in Vietnam, he served as an aircraft crew chief on a Dehavilland U-6A “Beaver” before assuming maintenance responsibility for a Grumman OV-1B “Mohawk” surveillance aircraft. He finished his military service as the crew chief on the Beechcraft U-8 Seminole liaison aircraft of the Superintendent and Commanding General at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY. Mr. Seibert has over 30 years in general aviation as a pilot, small business manager, and experimental aircraft builder. During that time, he has taken aerial photographs from Maine to California, and he documented a coast-to-coast flight in a Cessna 182 in 1994. He worked for the Department of Homeland Security with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Manchester Airport, Manchester, NH, from 2002-2008. Mr. Seibert conceived the original idea and vision for ASSIST-U.S.℠ and served initially as its CEO and President during the initial start-up phase, and continues to serve as Founder and Executive Vice President.
William D. Bedor, CPA, Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Bedor has been involved in the business world from an early age, starting as a teen-ager in the family business (CPA firm and the Mt. Washington Cog Railway in New Hampshire). After college, he gained invaluable business experience working with the international CPA firm of Ernst & Young. After several years, he left that firm to pursue an MBA and help the family business and a group of investors successfully win a bid to purchase the historic Mt. Washington Hotel, one of America’s premier resorts. Following in his father’s footsteps, Mr. Bedor founded a CPA and consulting firm in Hilton Head Island, S.C., growing it in just 10 years to the largest local firm in that area. Mr. Bedor’s CPA firm focused on helping entrepreneurs overcome all types of challenges-from the typical accounting and tax issues, to strategic planning, human resources, and financing. He sold that firm in order to move back to New Hampshire and take the role of General Partner and Director at the Mt. Washington Hotel, eventually helping to orchestrate its sale. Mr. Bedor continues to be active in the restaurant and hospitality business, as well as managing investments in real estate and equities. Mr. Bedor is an initial investor and serves as the company’s CFO.
Matthew T. Conway, Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Mr. Conway joined ASSIST-U.S.℠ after spending the last 11 years at Wilson Sporting Goods Company, bringing with him a broad range of over 25 years’ experience in sales and marketing positions. His experience at Wilson included his role as National Accounts Manager for the Eastern and Central United States, where he was responsible for Wilson’s sales to the largest national retailers throughout these areas, and, most recently, as National Sales Manager for a division of the company that he created for Wilson. As National Sales Manager for the Licensed Products Division, he more than tripled that portion of the company’s sales. Mr. Conway graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1983 with a BS in Business Administration. As VP of Sales and Marketing for ASSIST-U.S.℠, he has overall responsibility for the company’s sales, including commercial and government accounts.
Carolyn Abbott, Vice President, Business Development
Mrs. Abbott (Seibert) has spent over 30 years as a training and performance improvement specialist and editorial consultant in the high-tech industry supporting corporate and small business clients, as well clients in the academic and online publishing fields. During this time, she has successfully applied her B.A. in English and Masters in Education and Human Development across a wide spectrum of business activities. Mrs. Abbott began her professional career in 1971 as the sales newsletter editor at Digital Equipment Corporation, a global computer manufacturer, and left in 1992 as a Sales Training group manager. Upon leaving Digital, Mrs. Abbott established and has maintained a training and editorial consultancy, WordsWork Consulting Group while continuing her work in the high-tech industry. She is currently employed as a performance improvement consultant and training project manager for an international high-tech company that designs and manufactures video-on-demand solutions. Mrs. Abbott worked with her husband, Bruce Seibert, during the company’s pre-start-up phase, has overseen the development of its communications initiatives and documentation, and is responsible for the company’s business development initiatives.
