George Cloutier, a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School , founded American Management Services in 1986.  The firm specializes in financial turnarounds and profit development for small and mid-sized companies across the nation.

Cloutier, using just $42,000 in seed capital, built his company into an organization of over 150 employees, and tens of millions in annual revenue.  Cloutier and American Management have worked with 6000 clients in 400 industries and have implemented over One Billion dollars in profits and savings.  American Management Services has brought hundreds of businesses back from the brink of bankruptcy to top tier profitability.

Today, Cloutier is well known as the nation’s leading small business expert.  Leading economic, media, and political professionals from around the world frequently solicit his advice on profit issues faced by small and mid-cap companies.  He has become a regular on national television programs such as, Fox News, Fox Business News, ABC’s 20/20, MSNBC’s Squawk Box, CNBC and Bloomberg Television.  He developed his views over the last 25 years on small and midsize business, profits, and the failure of government to assist them.  Cloutier is often quoted by the national media – AP, Fortune, Forbes.com, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneur.com, Washington Business Journal, Market Watch, Yahoo News, The Kiplinger Letter, MSN Money, Crain’s New York Business,  Reuters, Business Week, Wall Street Journal, Boston Business Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Business Week, Long Island Business News, Austin Business Journal, Orlando Business Journal, The Times-Picayune, The South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Worth,  Miami Herald, and the LA Times, among others.  His commentary reaches listeners in hundreds of cities in radio broadcasts from the Wall Street Journal and Legends of Success programming.

A nationally recognized speaker, Cloutier lectures at dozens of conferences and seminars on the path to real business profitability.  Recently, Harper Collins, purchased his first book, “Profits Aren’t Everything, They’re the Only Thing”, was published in September, 2009 and hit all the nation's major best seller lists including The New York Times, Amazon, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal (available now, on Amazon.com).

Cloutier co-founded and serves as Co-Chairman of Partner America™ , a unique, public/ private partnership between the United States Conference of Mayors and American Management Services that is dedicated to small and midsized business growth in the nation’s metro economies.  Formed in 2000, the program is the nation’s first small business resource initiative, providing management expertise, technical assistance, education and government procurement opportunities to help grow small businesses across the country.

Cloutier’s business expertise has also been tapped by large publicly traded companies.  He served as Vice Chairman on Circon Corporation’s board of directors, and in 1999 was called upon to serve as lead director and interim CEO to navigate its turnaround during the highly publicized and what was considered to be, the longest running hostile takeover bid in American business.  After taking over as CEO, he managed to negotiate a successful deal with Maxxim Medical and produced nearly 200% profit for Circon shareholders.  This hostile takeover attempt and Cloutier’s quick successful resolution has become a landmark subject of the Corporate Governance course at Harvard Business School .

In recognition for his dedication to small and midsized business, Cloutier was awarded the first ever Small Business Advocate Award and The Small Business Leadership Award by the US Conference of Mayors in recognition of his tireless efforts on behalf of small business owners on a local, state, and federal level.  He also was awarded The Minority Business Development Agency Award, for being a critical partner in America ’s economic success.  In 2007, Cloutier was given The Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award by the Tulane University A. B. Freeman School of Business for his contribution and fundraising assistance in developing a student based ‘Peace Corps’ style ‘Small Business Corps’ to assist businesses affected by Hurricane Katrina.  Dozen of cities across the nation have also awarded him small business achievement awards.

Mr. Cloutier is an active philanthropist whose donations to a myriad of charities total millions of dollars.  Cloutier is a trustee of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and is a former director of the Wellness Community.  He frequently donates his time, efforts, and money to a full roster of national and local charities, including organizations such as Achilles Track Club, which helps disabled Iraqi War Veterans, the American Cancer Society, the American Red Cross, Boys and Girls Club of Boston, Palm Beach, and Nantucket, Easter Seals, United Cerebral Palsy, The Ally Foundation, National Museum of Washington, National Museum of Women, Nantucket Hospital Endowment, AUA Education and Research and the Alzheimer’s Community West Palm Beach Charitable Organization.

He established the Lucille C. Scholarship Fund at Harvard College which is awarded annually to four students from Maine public schools.

Married to Tiffany Cloutier, he resides in Palm Beach, Florida and Nantucket, Massachusetts, which are a long way from his ‘Maine’ Street roots in Portland, Maine, where he attended local public schools, and won acclaim as a national debate champion as a high school sophomore.

George A. Cloutier

 

American
Management
Services, Inc.

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Co-Chairman

Partner America™

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Author

"Profits Aren't Everything, They're the Only Thing"