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Ford B Cauffiel Sr, Master Entrepreneur of Ohio, Inventor, Engineer, Business, Education
EXPERIENCE - 1989 thru 2000
E2 | 1989 Founded Students For Other Students (SOS), a non-profit organization that pays students up to $8/hour to tutor other students, which is in 21 school districts throughout Northwest Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and New York. SOS expanded in Ohio through a partnership with Rotary International. Personally funded over $2,000,000 since 1989. Over 20,000 children have experienced the benefits of peer tutoring due to the SOS program.
B | 1990 Purchased office building, 3171 N. Republic Blvd., Toledo, “Cauffiel Building” to develop many companies.
I | 1992 Invented the “EZ-Table” to replace TV-tables for recliner chairs - sold to Am Fab, Inc., A Bissell Healthcare Company, on a guaranteed royalty basis of $13,000/month.
E1 | 1994 Sold and built equipment for Chinese company for making advance aluminum tin alloy for bearing material as used in internal combustion and diesel engines, the largest automobile bearing producing plant in the world with a 25% ownership.
B | 1996 Purchased 80 acres of industrial property near I-75, the Ohio Turnpike and Rt. 795 known as the “Golden Triangle” and developed and sold to many small companies, including Walgreen’s Drug Company. Donated remaining land to Nature’s Nursery for bird migration observation.
B | 1997 Sold industrial buildings to Banner Mattress, Toledo, Ohio, to expand their mattress manufacturing facilities.
E2 | 1998 With a $750,000 grant from the Cleveland Foundation, helped start an Executive Masters of Business Administration (EMBA) program at the University of Toledo. The EMBA program brought in over $10 million to the University of Toledo. Also served as Director of the Advisory Board for the EMBA program.
E1, B | 1998 Sold First Solar, Toledo, Ohio, their first sputtering machine for applying cadmium telluride to glass, later became a billion dollar company.
E1, I, B | 2000 Founded Lithium Innovations, Company, LLC, to make battery material and other lithium products. Perform extrusion and pressing of lithium sheets in a state-of-the-art dry room inside of the largest U.S. glovebox. Supply lithium sputter targets to the dynamic glass (electrochromics) industry and isotopically enriched lithium sheets to universities designing neutron detectors.

Key: I – Inventor | E1 – Engineer | B – Business | E2 - Education
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