ABOUT PASTOR BARRY

I am pleased to be involved as a staff member and serving on the board of directors of the Team Up organization.

Team Up gives the unique opportunity for me to utilize my 40 years experience as a businessman as well as 12 years as a senior pastor to counsel and mentor people who want to change their lives. Our program  is distinctive in that it is faith based giving great importance to building character while teaching trade skills.

All of the Team Up staff are dedicated to accomplish the blessing of lives moving from passive to productive by graduating from our training program.

ABOUT Michael Relph

40+ Year Technologist and Education Development Engineer, Inventing, Coding, Building, Integrating, Configuring various technologies, processes, academics, and quality systems for Industrial, Energy, Automotive, Aeronautical,  K-12, Sports, and Technical Education Industries.

’81 BS Graduate from Lawrence Tech for Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, minors in Chemistry and Physics started college as Junior in High School.

A proponent for Small Business has assisted over 300 small businesses obtain POS, Warehouse, and e-commerce systems, and using a Masters Program in Network Marketing helped to expand those businesses.  Helping to train local help for these businesses, even to assist multi-generational family owned businesses has been a great pleasure to experience, in writing business plans, quality systems, helping to find financing and grants, helping to obtain certifications for minority, native American, woman-owned, 8(a), and SBA qualified companies.

ABOUT Tom Elkins

Tom Elkins is a retired attorney, who practiced law for 46 years, both in Minnesota and Michigan. During his legal career, he served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Minnesota; legal counsel for the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, which certifies medical practitioners who are specialist in the field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; an associate with the Minneapolis based firm, Dorsey Law Office, in its real estate division; and as a solo practitioner. He has sat on boards of numerous non-profit corporations, and prepared the articles of corporation for Team-Up Academy. His law practice is best described as a general practice, which included litigation (medical malpractice, personal injury, and business disputes); real estate contract law; appellate practice (including appeals in the Minnesota and Michigan appellate courts, as well as the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals) and bankruptcy litigation. A memorable high-light of his early career in the practice of law was to have Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun and his wife for dinner at his home twice, while living in Rochester. In retirement, he continues to consult clients regarding the structuring of business opportunities as well as assisting clients in litigation matters by collaborating with clients’ attorneys in identifying and assembling discovery documents and witness statements as directed by outside legal counsels.

Born and raised in Rochester, Minnesota, where he graduated from John Marshall High School in 1960, Mr. Elkins attended and is a 1964 graduate from Dartmouth College where he received his AB degree in liberal arts; and is a 1967 graduate from the University of Minnesota Law School, where he obtained his JD degree. He has been and remains active in the “Arts”, as a past member of the Rochester Symphony Orchestra, in the first violin section; as a member of the Dartmouth Glee Club, and as a tenor in church choirs in his home town as well as in Michigan. He has served as board member on various art organizations.

Mr. Elkins has six children ranging in age from 54 year to 18 years. He is married to Beth Gillies Elkins for the past thirty years, and currently resides in White Lake, Michigan.

ABOUT Barbara Pollard

Currently retired but self-employed as an accountant, I have 35 years in the accounting world from CPA firms to cost accounting to controller in various service and manufacturing settings including Tier 1.

I completed a Bachelor of Accountancy earned at Walsh College (1979) and an MBA with a concentration in Accounting from the University of Phoenix (2007). I earn 18 credits yearly in continuing education seminars and classes and pass a yearly exam to remain tax law current and be registered as an Annual Tax Preparer by the IRS.

My clients are individuals and the small business entrepreneur and has grown to 300 since 2011. I enjoy seeing and helping the small businesses of various fields continue to grow.

ABOUT Patrick Thompson

Patrick J. Thompson is a retired banker who has served in many senior management positions.  I obtained a Bachelor of Science degree with a concentration in Business/Finance and Management from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan (1978).  During my 50-year banking career, the bulk of my responsibilities were in the commercial construction lending arena.  The final chapter of my formal employment history was with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).  As a Federal Bank Examiner, I examined financial institutions for safety and soundness relative to depositor investments. In 2018, I retired from Federal Service and I am actively seeking to participate in community service development.

In addition to my formal banking/educational training, I obtained a Journeyman Electrical License that I have renewed and maintained to date.  To that end, I have accepted a Directorship with Team Up Academy.  My responsibility will be to manage all project build-outs of both the Recruiting/Intake Office and Church.

ABOUT Joe Yamin

Joseph F. Yamin serves on the Board of Directors of Team Up Academy. Joe is a partner and owner of the Troy, Michigan law firm Lambert Leser and an attorney with over 30 years of experience representing a diverse range of corporate and individual clients helping them achieve their goals and obtain favorable outcomes for their legal objectives and challenges relating to a wide array of legal circumstances including business creation, contract negotiation, dispute resolution, business mergers and acquisitions, commercial purchase and sale of real estate, government compliance, litigation and trial practice as well as a wide variety of other legal matters.

His clientele includes both local, national and international persons and entities. Joe has been named to numerous prestigious lists some of which include Super Lawyers, Crain’s Detroit Business Top Lawyers in Michigan and America’s Most Honored Professionals.

Joe skills will be used to enhance and guide the Team Up Academy agenda and goal achievement. Joe attended the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) for his undergraduate studies and Michigan State University College of Law and the London School of Economics for his legal studies.

ABOUT Paul Reschke

Paul is a seasoned Real Estate professional with more than 25 years of experience in the Commercial Real Estate Industry. A master at developing long term relationships, he brings a unique skill set to every client he works with. Much of these skills come from having spent the first 13 years of his career in the Organizational Development and Human Performance field, where he’s had the good fortune of working with numerous executive level individuals in many Fortune 500 companies.

In the Real Estate Industry, he is at his best when he’s able to consult with his clients to provide customized strategies and solutions to reduce the company’s overall facility expense, while producing an increase in value to the corporate balance sheet.

ABOUT Zach Hartmann

I am honored and grateful to be a part of Landmark Church and Team Up Academy. My heart and passion is for people. Hurting, broken, lost, and hopeless, is where we all find ourselves at one point or another and what we do from there and the direction we take in response to that makes the difference. If it wasn’t for the grace given to me and the ones to lend a hand, shoulder, or care along the way, who knows where I’d be myself. I love that Team Up Academy seeks to empower, come alongside, and provide the tools and help needed for life change in one’s family, career, and relationships.

I have spent the majority of my career in ministry seeking to share the same hope, joy, and assurance that’s been given to me with others. My wife, Kadie, and I have recently welcomed our first born daughter, Blakely, into this world and she is our greatest gift and responsibility we could ever ask for. I was raised in the small town of Dexter, MI and continued my college years in Ypsilanti at Eastern Michigan University where I met Kadie. From there we have spent the last 3 years of our lives out on the Western Slope of Colorado in service before being called back here to be a part of what is happening at Landmark and Team Up. Along with this, I am currently enrolled and pursuing my Master of Divinity at Asbury Theological Seminary as I seek to be the best husband, father, friend, and servant I can be to all that I come into contact with.

One of my greatest motivators in life is seeking to honor and make proud the people in life who have invested their time, care, resources, and love into me by acting out those same qualities and commitments to others.