Gary Kitchen Launches New Vistage Group in Birmingham Market

San Diego, February 10, 2014— Vistage Chair Gary Kitchen has recently launched his second chief executive group in the Birmingham, AL market. The new Vistage group will meet monthly to discuss business issues, share expertise, and provide one another confidential help to achieve their goals. Kitchen is part of a community of more than 400 Vistage Chairs who lead local area groups, which total more than 45,000 members in 15 countries.

Gary Kitchen is a seasoned CEO with over three decades of business-turnaround and crisis management experience, in a broad range of industries, overcoming challenges experienced during startup, growth and downturn accompanied by the ever-present external and internal generated crises. He is a steady hand who understands and embraces the turmoil of managing effectively during these most critical times. In his last crisis assignment, he grew a floundering marketing and logistics franchising startup in the commercial furniture industry from nine locations in the southeastern U.S. to more than 180 locations nationwide and became the largest franchisor in the history of the industry. Kitchen holds a B.S. degree from Ohio University, an M.B.A. from Marshal University and is a CPA.

About Vistage Worldwide, Inc.
Vistage is the world’s largest CEO coaching and peer advisory organization for small and midsize businesses. For more than 65 years, we’ve been helping CEOs, business owners and key executives solve their greatest challenges through confidential peer groups and one-to-one executive coaching sessions. Today, more than 45,000 members in 35 countries rely on Vistage to help make better decisions for their companies, families and communities. The results prove it: Vistage CEO members grew their annual revenue on average by 4.6% in 2020, while nonmembers with comparable small and midsize businesses saw revenue decrease by 4.7%, according to a study of Dun and Bradstreet data. Learn more at vistage.com.

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