Home expert: Michael Holtzman

Michael Holtzman, chairman of SCORE, is a retired executive. Initially “growing up” within a large U.S. Corporation, Container Corporation of America. He left the organization as West Coast divisional Marketing Manager, to become president of a Graphic Arts division of McGraw Hill. In 1968 he founded and became Director of an offshore private investment company and spent the next 10 years living and traveling throughout Latin America and Europe.

He established his U.S. Offices in 78, living in Coral Gabled Florida until his retirement and move to St. Anne Illinois in 1994. During these periods he became a trustee to The College of Rome, a member of the Executive Committee of Fondation Educative Pro Deo, and in the U.S. a certified member of the American Arbitration Association.

Locally, in addition to his work with SCORE, Holtzman has served as President of the Kankakee Valley Symphony Orchestra Board and Chairman of the Kankakee Valley steering committee for a drug free county.

SCORE is a national organization, sponsored by the Small Business Administration. It is comprised of volunteers who use their experience and expertise to encourage and cultivate local economic growth by counseling new entrepreneurial efforts and/or expanding established businesses. The Chapter is assigned to cover the counties of Kankakee, Iroquois, Grundy and LaSalle.