Current Position

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• Founder of The Executive Leadership Forum as well as New Amsterdam, LLC., an investment research and wealth management firm.

Corporate Training Experience

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• Emil is a highly trained program facilitator with over ten years of experience. He has worked with over seven thousand professionals from over 100 industries across North America. Over ninety-nine percent of participants have stated that his programs met or exceeded expectations.

Training Philosophy

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• Emil’s facilitation philosophy is simple. He seeks to engage participants in interactive opportunities enabling individuals to identify and solve timely business issues; learn valuable skills and techniques required to be efficient and effective; practice new skills and techniques to be empowered and successful; tap into the innovative thinking of other professionals to problem solve difficult challenges; and achieve greater focused to accomplish goals.  Participants learn and put into action innovative skills and strategies that allow them to address their most important business concerns.

• Emil’s research and insight of economic and political realities allows him to position individuals to capitalize on emerging opportunities.

Business Experience

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• As president of New Amsterdam, LLC, Emil is known for his investment research and is frequently sought out for commentary on the equity markets. Emil’s comments have been published in Barron’s and The Wall Street Journal.

• Prior to founding The Executive Leadership Forum and New Amsterdam, LLC, Emil was President of the Kratzer Company, an insurance firm, for twelve years. Emil’s other business experience includes working for UBS Financial Services, Royal Bank of Canada, and HSBC.

Unique Facts

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• Candidate for the United States House of Representatives at the age of twenty-six.

• Attended the Buffalo Bills training camp as a place-kicker.

Education

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• Wittenberg University, BA

• Northeastern University, MBA

• University at Buffalo, Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership

• Harvard University, Study in Economics