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ABOUT US

Winters and Associates
has been providing business support and consulting services in the Portland/Vancouver area since 1989. We have extensive relationships with local banks, CPA firms, civic and community organizations.  We can offer a wide variety references to validate our qualifications and successes.

Our long-term relationships with Portland and Vancouver banks include:

 

·        Bank of Clark County

·        Banner Bank

·        Bay Bank

·        Columbia Credit Union

·        First Independent Bank

·        KeyBank

·        Regents Bank

·        Riverview Community Bank

·        Umpqua Bank

·        US Bank

·        Wells Fargo Bank

·        West Coast Bank

 

Please contact your commercial lending representative at any of the above institutions to verify our reputation in the community

 

 


Winters and Associates have consulted with a wide variety of organizations.  Our teachings on management principles, strategic thinking and structure have been applied to for-profit and non-profit organizations, small to medium size businesses and many different industry sectors.  A representative client list is available for viewing.


 

ABOUT OUR PRINCIPALS

 

Paul Winters

President of Winters & Associates, Inc., providing services in strategic and marketing planning, retreat facilitation, organizational restructuring, succession planning, and independent arbitration.

 

Former President of Brudi, Inc. He managed the evolution of the company from entrepreneurial engineering job shop to a marketing oriented company with state-of-the-art technology. During his tenure the company developed international markets and manufacturing sites in Australia, South Korea, Sweden and United Kingdom.

 

As a CPA with Deloitte & Touche, he worked in the Portland OR practice office and in the firm’s NYC Executive Offices in charge of audit software technology.  He was a guest lecturer in national and international forums.

 

Paul is very active in Civic Affairs.  Some of his activities include:

·   In 2007, Governor Gregoire appointed him to the Board of Trustee for Evergreen State College. 

·   He was Chair of the Columbia River Economic Development Council in 2006/07 and currently sits on their Executive Board.  During his tenure he created a plan to double their budget and influenced their focus on international opportunities.

·   Enhancing the quality of life in our region, he was Chair of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for 2005 to 2007.  He was instrumental in creating a strategic plan and increasing their revenues by 70% in two years. 

·   He was Chair of the Clark County Public Facility District leading to the development of the Convention Center in Vancouver and the Exhibit Center at the Clark County Fairgrounds.

·  As an active Rotarian, he created a strategic plan in 1996 to develop a stable, new fund raiser for the Vancouver Rotary Club.  From that process, he became the founder and chair for the first four years of the Vancouver Rotary Festival of Trees.  Now in its 2nd decade, the Festival has raised approximately $1.5 million and annually nets over $200,000.


 

 

  

 

 

Joe Cote

Joe has his PhD in business administration and is a full professor at Washington State University, where he has taught marketing analysis, planning, and strategy for 22 years.

 

Joe has extensive experience advising mid-level managers and small/medium business owners on market planning and analysis with emphasis on market entry and turnaround strategies.

 

He has also taught courses in creative decision-making and forecasting; and has co-created an improved method for developing marketing plans.

 

Professor Cote's research interests are quite broad, covering any topic that addresses improving consumer behavior and marketing theory.

 


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Phone: (360) 260-0275 or (800) 636-8514, Fax: (360) 694-4013
Winters & Associates, Inc., 810 E 22nd St., Vancouver, WA 98663