Jack Stack - CEO, SRC Holdings Corp

When: 3/1/2007

John P. (Jack) Stack is President and CEO of SRC Holdings Corporation. SRC has started, invested, and acquired forty-seven businesses over the past 23 years ranging from engine manufacturing to banking enterprises. SRC has sales of over $300,000,000/year and currently employs 1,200 people.

In 1983, Stack and the SRC employees bought the company from International Harvester and have turned it into what INC. magazine has proclaimed "one of America's most competitive small companies.” He is the author of the book, The Great Game of Business published in 1992, which was selected one of the thirty best business books of the year by Soundview Executive Book Summaries. SRC has received both the National Business Ethics Award and the Business Enterprise Trust Award. SRC was also selected as one of the Top 100 Companies to Work for in America. Jack’s second book, A Stake in the Outcome, was published in March, 2002.

Jack is a national and world judge and a past recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Institute and has served as an advisor for this group since 1998. INC. Magazine has called him the “smartest strategist in America” and named him one of twenty-five entrepreneurs selected to represent the 25 years INC. has been published. Jack was also listed among the “top 10 minds in small business” in Fortune Small Business Magazine.

Last Edited: 2/13/2007