About The Author... JACK KOENIG... ...is president of Jack Koenig & Associates, a successful consultancy specializing in restructuring distressed companies, fine tuning others, and solving “unsolvable” computer network challenges. Jack is a Senior Industrial Engineer, a Senior Systems Analyst, financial analyst, researcher, inventor, and entrepreneur. After serving four years in the U.S. Navy, Jack attended DePaul University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science. Due to financial concerns, Jack could not continue with his formal education and instead, continued his passion for scientific studies through self study. While attending DePaul, Jack worked as an independent investigator with a primary focus of uncovering insurance fraud and a secondary specialty of locating missing witnesses. His numerous successes in these two arenas brought countless accolades from insurance underwriters for constantly achieving where others had failed. Jack’s business career was mainly confined to information technology where he served as industrial engineer/systems analyst at the leading personal products manufacturer; systems and procedures manager at the world’s most automated food processing plant; consultant with a “Big 3” consulting firm; manager of information technology at a multi-plant steel company; founder and president of an information technology security company; cofounder and president of an electronics research and manufacturing firm, and finally as president of an information technology consulting firm bearing his name. Jack’s community involvement included serving for nineteen years as a part time volunteer at a home for the handicapped. During this period he performed a variety of duties including computer training, computer maintenance, electrical, carpentry, janitorial services, and anything else necessitated by the moment. Throughout life, Jack has excelled in ferreting out the root cause of problems vexing commerce and industry, so it came as no surprise when he was drawn to the climate change issue in the very early 1980’s. His continued engagement in this area has earned him respect throughout the world for his ability to translate scientific lexicon into ordinary language as author and editor of “The Mysterious Climate Project.” Jack didn’t confine his investigatory capabilities to climate change. His in-depth research also earned him expert status on such issues as media abuses, polling manipulations, and traditional values. With respect to the media and pollsters, Jack authored “The Hosing of America,” a White Paper which has been viewed by over 2.5 million visitors as of January 2008. Jack has been listed in Who’s Who Worldwide, Kensington’s Who’s Who, Sterling’s Who’s Who, and The Executive Guild. He has appeared on CNN’s Inside Politics, several PBS shows, ABC and NBC (local), and 100+ radio shows. His articles on various subjects have appeared in Op-ed pieces and letters to the editors throughout the United States while his research and White Papers are quoted extensively on and off the Internet. Jack served as the elected Illinois State Chair and President of Perot’s organization, United We Stand, America, and later became a key figure in the formation of a successor organization, The Impact Voters of America. Under his guidance, the Impact Voters became the Nation’s largest grassroots political network with members and member organizations in all 50 States. In his capacity as an officer of the Impact Voters and as an individual, he has successfully organized efforts to remove errant politicians from office, assisted others with the same challenge, and lectured extensively on the subject. Jack, recipient of the 1998 Illinois Citizen’s Initiative Award, publishes Grassroots America, a leading publication in the grassroots community. His speaking engagements have taken him before numerous groups including chambers of commerce, business group meetings, political gatherings, and groups of students at or associated with various universities including Northwestern, Trinity, and the University of Illinois (Urbana, DeKalb, and Carbondale). His topics are as varied as his audiences. Koenig, along with former presidential candidates Eugene McCarthy and John Anderson, was selected as a member of a four person panel discussion on third party politics held at the Massachusetts School of Law in Boston. The taped program was later distributed to PBS stations throughout the Nation. To return to the HOME page, click HERE To leave a comment, click HERE