Tom Walter
Tasty CateringTom Walter, CEO of Chicago area based Tasty Catering, has been a food service and real estate entrepreneur for more than 40 years.
He has started 28 businesses and acquired three. He is still active as a principal in seven of those corporations.
Five of those companies are start-ups by Tasty Catering staff who are shareholders. Three staff are the CEO’s of those companies.
Tom has given presentations about corporate culture, leadership, brand image and corporate sustainability.
Some recent awards follow:
Inc. Magazine and Winning Workplaces Top 20 Small Workplaces
Better Business Bureau’s Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics
CaterSource Magazine’s Midwest Catering Excellence Award
Illinois Caterer of the Year by Illinois Meeting and Events Magazine.
Catering Magazine's Caterer of the Year
Best Places to Work in Illinois - top five finishes in the past four years, taking #1 in 2008 and 2009.
Wall Street Journal and Winning Workplaces Top Small Workplaces in 2008 and 2009.
Tom serves on: DePaul Univeristy's Marketing Advisory Board and the University of Illinois-Chicago's Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies
Tom is a member of the Academy of Management’s Entrepreneur Division and the Chicago Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame.When should a growing company start diverting a percentage of profits to the founders instead of reinvesting every cent back into the business to grow it?
Addictive entrepreneurial drive incessantly pursues growth. Some entrepreneurs become powerless over that drive. The solution is to have a strong board of advisors that understand the dynamics of the company, the leader’s personal life and the depth of the addiction. Then the leader(s) have to trust their advisors and establish personal financial security separate from the growing company.
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