Company "V" Business Group
A
'virtual' company of independent business men & women
who 'company together' for professional growth, and
to promote each other's businesses,
to give better 'value' to clients
Ike Sweesy (Thomas I) co-founder of Company "V" Business Group (www.CompanyV.Biz), is the retired VP of Accounting, Administration, and Human Resources at PayrollAmerica, Inc., a third-party payroll provider to small to medium sized businesses throughout the US. The company provides valuable services so that the client company can focus on their core business. www.PayrollAmerica.com
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Ike Sweesy retired in 2008 as the VP of Accounting, Administration, and Human Resources
at PayrollAmerica headquartered in Boise, Idaho, where he particularly develops
processes extending to all aspects of the business including sticking his nose
into all of Operations.
His varied career spans service in the military, the public, private, and
non-profit sectors, and includes executive management experience with small to
mid-sized businesses. He has built buildings, demolished buildings, taught
fighter pilots, taught airline pilots, and taught college students; run a
nation-wide Internet service, dug ditches, manufactured computers, sold
computers, produced TV commercials, directed large public events, and pushed
many electrons for many businesses needing ‘trouble-shooting’ – having
been a Top Gun ‘Shooter’ in the Air Force.
Ike is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he was a boxer and an
aggressive Rugby player (too aggressive - but that’s a long story), and where
he bought his first Corvette to win a beautiful wife. Ike was the top graduate
of the 1971 USAFA Aviation Training program and also the Captain of the
Collegiate Flying Team. He was a Distinguished Graduate of his Jet Pilot
Training class and winner of multiple “Top Gun” fighter gunnery awards and
the Fighter Pilot of the Year at Mountain Home AFB in 1988. Ike had earned his
first flying certification at 16 years old, had his Commercial Pilot Rating by the
time he was 18, also flying Civil Air Patrol missions in the T-34 military
trainer/utility aircraft, and winning a spot at the C.A.P. Jet Orientation
Course at 19 years old. He’s flown Piper Cubs & corporate Jets around the US, and supersonic
fighters around the world.
A combat veteran, having flown combat missions in the Southeast Asia War and 34
combat missions during Operation Desert Storm, Ike was in the first wave attack
on January 17, 1991 - “the rockets red glare .. the bombs bursting in air.”
He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and many other awards during his
career as a Fighter Pilot and Operational Test Pilot before retiring in 1992.
A former corporate pilot also in LearJets & the Falcon 900, Ike holds the
Air Transport Pilot rating and now flies light aircraft around the skies of
Idaho – besides his, and his beautiful wife’s, Corvettes around the streets
of Boise. Ike's love for his wife and 5 children extends to his 10 grandkids who
always want to ride in the Corvette with “Major Dad” or to see him racing at
the drag strip.
Ike earned a Master's Degree from the College of Idaho while in the Air Force
focusing on Psychology & Counseling – a balance of his ‘hard science’,
technology, and ‘hard-charging military’ orientation. And, he later taught
college courses as a college Instructor. His time at Dallas Theological Seminary
under many popular professors taught him sound Bible study methods, and he is an
engaging Bible teacher himself, and even hosts a Bible doctrine web site.
Ike has a joy for ‘order’ (besides his ‘need for speed’), and every
company he is engaged with experiences his systematic, documented approach to ferreting out and
re-engineering those inefficient, error-prone, and hence ‘costly’ processes and
practices – “it’s not the poor employee’s fault, it’s the process”.
Friendly and fun-loving, but passionate and ‘no nonsense’ with business, he’s
a strange fit for Human Resources & especially Accounting – who would have
thought that a fighter pilot …..
But regardless, Ike pushes what’s required; and the insightful
leaders, managers, & employees will always get onboard to enhance the effectiveness,
survivability, and profitability of an enterprise.