Don Mattingly – Founder
Don will take an active role in promoting the company and its products on a time-permitting basis. He is currently the bench coach for the New York Yankees and remains one of the most popular Yankees players of all time. Don will provide overall guidance on new product introduction using his own experience as well as his network of other major league professionals.

Jim Wells – Founder
Jim was the driver behind patenting the V-Grip™ handle and will use his deep experience in the lumber business to provide guidance and strategy for our wood bats and the wood bat market.

Skip Shaw – Founder / President
Skip recently retired from Accenture, the global consulting and outsourcing firm in which he was responsible for its global Aerospace and Defense practice, as well as its High Tech practice in the Eastern U.S. He has experience in start-ups and in 2000 and 2001 served as the acting COO of Exostar, a global B2B exchange for the Aerospace industry founded by Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and BAESystems. He holds a BBA and an MBA from the University of North Texas.

Jim Falco – CFO and VP of Back Office operations
Jim recently retired from a 29-year career with Sikorsky Aircraft rising from an accountant in the Cost Accounting department up to the role of Chief Financial Officer for the $ 2.5B corporation. Jim's expertise is in cost accounting, eBusiness, business analysis, and financial reporting. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Quinnipiac University and an MS degree in Management from MIT's Sloan School of Management.

Jim Larry – Director of Supply Chain
During a lengthy career with a leading Baseball company, Jim's experience included “hands on” floor supervision, high level budgeting, and scheduling and costing for domestic and foreign operations including company owned and contract work. His background also includes negotiating cost for finished goods and value added goods both domestically and internationally. Jim is certified by APICS.

Chuck Smith – Director of Research and Development
For a leading Baseball company Chuck served as the lead Engineering Manager. His responsibilities included support of all baseball/softball bat product design activity through process development, manufacture of prototypes, and design of components. He led numerous baseball/softball bat development projects for the 2004, 2005, and 2006 seasons and implemented production process in China manufacturing facility. Chuck holds a BS, Industrial Engineering and an MBA from Tennessee Technological University

Philip T. Dooley - Vice President of Sales
Phil brings over 15 years of multi channel retail experience, including brrick & mortar, electronic, e-commerce and catalog to the team. Including roles with increasing responsibility at Macy’s West/Federated Department Store, HSN, and supply side experience with VF Imagewear/Vanity Fair Corporation. While at VF, Phil managed all facets of the NFL branded fanwear apparel business of over $100M. While at HSN Phil pioneered and was Director of the “NFL Shop only on HSN” and Sports, his last position held at HSN was Vice President of Cornerstone Brands, facilitating the $760M HSN acquisition of five remote brand operations, including eleven catalog titles and e-commerce retail web sites. Phil has a BS degree in Management and Marketing from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Jo-Anne Dressendofer - Director of Marketing
A leader in the launching of top Fortune 500 products and services with an emphasis on taking companies with little to no market share to market leaders, Dressendofer has successfully launched numerous companies, products and services for B-to-B and consumer markets. Her unfailing strategic approach to branding and grabbing market-share has led to large shareholder gains for companies such as AT&T, IBM, Nabisco, Sony and Sharp. On a personal note, baseball has deep roots in her family with cousin Kirk Dressendorfer a former pitcher for the Oakland A's.