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Colonel Bartlow is an experienced senior non-profit association executive, business professional, and management consultant. He is currently writing full time in his home office and working as a volunteer consultant with various non-profit organizations and local government entities.  For two years, he was the Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer of the Association of Old Crows, a $2.4M, 11 staff, a professional electronics trade association. Previously, he was the Executive Vice President of the Painting and Decorating Contractors of America, a national $2.2M trade association.  Earlier, he was the President & CEO, American Wood Preservers Institute, a $1.2M industrial manufacturing trade association; and in this role, he was a registered congressional lobbyist and Political Action Committee (PAC) Director. For over three years, he was the Deputy Executive Director, International Association for Dental Research, a $2.5M professional healthcare association. Before that he was Assistant Executive Director & Chief Financial Officer of a large 501(c)(3) $9.7M philanthropic organization.

Colonel Bartlow’s last military assignment before retirement in 1990 was as the Dean of Administration & Resources, Professor of Systems Acquisition Management, and Chief of Staff of the US Air Force Chair with the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Washington, DC.  Prior to his ICAF assignment, he was the Chief, Congressional Activities Division, with the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition in the Pentagon.  Colonel Bartlow was qualified as a Systems Acquisition Management Officer, a Senior Logistician, a Deputy Commander for Resource Management, an ICBM Wing Missile Training Officer, and as a Postal Courier Staff Officer.

He is an ex-high school teacher and a professor in four universities. He has a bachelor’s degree (BA Ed.) in Communications and Education, two masters’ degrees, one in Public Administration (MPA) and a second in Computer Resources and Information Systems Management (MS). He has been widely published (with 15 articles published in professional journals) and he is recognized as a Certified Association Executive (CAE) thru the American Society for Association Executives, Washington, DC.  He is married with three children, an amateur photographer, is exceptionally well traveled having visited 29 countries, and he is a decorated Vietnam Vet and served 27+ years in the USAF retiring as a Colonel (O-6) in 1990. 

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Gene S. Bartlow

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