Steven A. Schultz
President
Steven A. Schultz joined Kreatek, Inc in January 2010 as President and Co-CEO. He is responsible for developing a strategic plan to advance the company's objectives and to ensure revenue, profitability and growth as an organization. He is also tasked with overseeing company operations to ensure production efficiency, quality, service, and cost-effective management of resources.
Mr. Schultz started his career as a sales representative in Atlanta, Georgia for Minnesota Life, (St Paul, Minnesota), selling group insurance products to financial institutions for use by their customers. He was named Representative of the Year and Runner Up Representative Year by Minnesota Life in his first two years, and qualifying for the top sales awards in each of his years in sales. He then was promoted to Director of Sales overseeing the development of new sales representatives.
Later he was recruited by Protective Life Insurance Company, (Birmingham, Alabama), as Vice President, Financial Institution Insurance Division. After a few years he was promoted to Senior Vice President, Asset Protection Division. He was responsible for the profit and loss and growth of this Division. Under his leadership, this Protective Life division grew from $25 million a year in revenue to over $520 million a year in revenue. It also grew from less than $1 million in pretax profit to almost $35 million during the same period. This growth in revenue and profits, were helped by the 9 acquisitions of companies and/or blocks of business completed by this Division under Mr. Schultz’s direction. The Division was composed of several satellite offices around the country and over 450 employees.
After his successful tenure at Protective Life, Mr. Schultz became the Chief Operating Officer of the second largest nonprofit in Birmingham. It was an opportunity for him to give back to the community and share in a larger purpose outside of business. He was able to bring his skills to this entity for a few years before moving on to become the COO of a real estate company. In each of these places, Mr. Schultz had the opportunity to use skills in strategic planning, focusing on results and the ability to motivate others.
George A. Barckley
Chief Technology Officer
George Barckley currently serves as Chief Technology Officer and Co-CEO of Kreatek, a software consulting firm located in Birmingham Alabama that has been serving the financial and education services community for over 8 years.
Mr. Barckley started his career in the information technology field while serving a 5 year enlistment in the United States Navy. As the first information security officer to his unit, he received a meritorious unit commendation for overseeing the migration of the Shore Intermediate Maintenance Activity’s information management systems. Mr. Barckley was recognized by Naval Administration in Washington D.C. for his Data Processing acumen where he placed 3rd highest amongst hundreds of information technology participants.
As a business owner Mr. Barckley is passionate about entrepreneurship and helps other new and existing small business owners navigate their challenging times. Mr. Barckley has served as a chairperson of one of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce’s Entrepreneur Round Table collaboration group, served as board member of TechBirmingham to help grow the local technology economy, a past member of the Alabama Information Technology Association, nominated as Entrepreneur of the Year by the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce as well as the Alabama Information Technology Association. Mr. Barckley is a proud alumnus of the Venture Club’s Entrepreneur Acceleration Program as well as an alumnus of Leadership Cullman County. He has served as the Chairperson for the North Jefferson Action Committee of the National Federation of Small Business (NFIB).
Aware and concerned about community needs, Mr. Barckley is serving his 2nd term as a board member of the local Rotary International club, his second term as board member of the Rotary Group Study Exchange and is President for the 2010-2011 Rotary Year. As a board member the local Rotary group was instrumental with development of a Miracle League Baseball Park as well as providing over 40 water purification units to a village in Nicaragua where much of their disease stricken water was carried miles on foot.