President: Tim Crawley, has been designing and building unique products since high school. In 1984, directly after high school, he went to work for J.M.C. Mechanical as motivated 18-year-old HVAC contractor. Within two years, Tim was Field Superintendent, in charge of three crews of seven men. In 1989, he took over the shop and all of the fabrication needs for J.M.C. In 1996, he had climbed the ladder to Vice-President, while continuing to do all fabrication.

In addition to his full-time commitments, Tim began the hobby of designing and building custom furniture. He was successfully producing custom work for high-end clientele by the age of 22.

In 2001, Tim founded and serves as CEO of Wonder Works Unlimited Inc., a product design, development, prototyping, and consulting company. Wonder Works has and continues to work for individuals as well as companies as large as Fortune 1000 companies. Mr. Crawley holds several utility patents and other intellectual properties.

Tim also serves as the President of the Inventors Association of Arizona (IAA), a non-profit organization that mentors new and experienced inventors. His focus is to continue the mutual support and sharing of “lessons learned” and “best practices” in the IAA. He is helping to build the IAA into the best inventors connection/resource available by bringing in experts to speak and to get other inventors involved. Through these efforts under his leadership, the IAA will continue assisting inventors in understanding how to get their products protected and move their products into the mainstream market.  tim@wonderworksunltd.com   www.snappygrip.com

Director:   Linda Anderson, President of LS Designs Inc., is the inventor and distributor of the KangaRing, a cell phone pouch. The patented cell phone holder is designed to work in the car and is sold on Amazon and in car washes and car dealerships and can be seen at her website, www.kangaring.com.

Ms. Anderson graduated Magna Cum Laude from Arizona State University with a bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science and holds an associate’s degree in Business Administration. She has 20 years experience as owner of two public accounting companies providing accounting, tax and business consulting services to small businesses and non-profit organizations. She also spent six years in the exercise and wellness field as Personal Trainer and Director of Service at a health club and Instructor at Phoenix College.

Ms. Anderson has been an active member of the Inventor’s Association of Arizona since 1997. She has "dabbled" in product development the past 12 years designing everything from clothing and jewelry to a foldable tote bag and an ID bracelet for those who exercise outdoors. As for other product ideas, Anderson says "I’ve got a million of them!"   linda@kangaring.com

  Executive Director:  Laura Myers, President of Attachables, LLC, is  the inventor of Pocket Change, a patented clip on decoration and self expression fashion accessory for the back pockets of little girls' jeans.  Laura licensed this product to Plaid Enterprises in 2009 and it launched in 3800 Rite Aid stores across the nation in August, 2011.  Pocket Change is also available on line at www.pocketchangestore.com.  A current video of Pocket Change can be accessed by clicking on www.theinterviewassistant.com/video/pocketchange2011C.wmv.

Laura is also the President of The Interview Assistant LLC (www.theinterviewassistant.com), a company that assists candidates in acing their first professional interviews with large corporations.  The keystone product of this company is the instructional DVD, "Secrets of the Pharmaceutical Sales Interview". 

Laura spent 13 years as a special education teacher and school psychological examiner in the Missouri school system before moving to the Phoenix area where she entered the pharmaceutical sales industry in 1997.  During her years in the school system and in pharmaceutical sales and training, Laura utilized her creative and entrepreneurial skills to create new educational programs and advance in her field.  Her creation of Pocket Change was her first entrepreneurial endeavor outside of these industries.  Laura's interests include helping others license their products and assisting in the production of professional videos for promotion of inventions.  laura@theinterviewassistant.com

Secretary: Dale Oxley - bio coming soon!                            daleoxley@cox.net

Treasurer: Wayne Carroll - bio coming soon!       wayne.d.carroll@gmail.com          

Director:  Marcy Maslov, CEO/Inventor of e-Factor® www.e-factorgame.com     Property of Empowerment Unlimited Coaching, LLC                   

Ms. Maslov earned her MBA from Duke and her BS in Accountancy from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and she is a registered CPA with the state of Illinois. Ms. Maslov earned certification as a professional co-active coach. She currently assists other business owners, executives and entrepreneurs to reduce risk by creating safe space to practice solving business and ethical dilemmas before they cost a valuable client, key employee or business reputation.  marcy@e-factorgame.com  

 Director:  Ted Rogers - bio coming soon!  ted@inspiredlivingsystems.com