Biography for Jerry L. VanGombos

IHM President and Chief Operations Officer Jerry L. VanGombos has a wide variety of experience in the facility services and warehousing business segments.  His background in chemistry, biology, physics, mentoring and teaching compliment his vast abilities in working in both large and small environments and facilities such as hospitals, school systems, and warehouses.  With over 25 years of consulting expertise in industry, he has demonstrated a strong history of integrity which has enabled him to confidently function in numerous facility settings.  These include large manufacturing and industrial complexes (with six sigma, SPC parameters), to sophisticated military facilities and power plants (with safety and security issues) and enables him to successfully function in a variety of facility settings.

This experience is coupled with attributes of “mentor” to those in his employ.  He has utilized this teacher/coaching ability to observe and assess a variety of work environments and develop training and teaching programs for a wide range of personnel from executive managers to hourly minimum wage employees.

After several years of teaching and coaching, Mr. VanGombos joined ServiceMaster as a manager in their hospital division.  Soon afterwards, he was promoted to the corporate office.  There he developed corporate and field training programs, and developed what became know as the ServiceMaster’s “Continuous Leadership Education and Development Program.”  He also co-authored their in-house equivalent to an MBA taught by professionals from Northwestern and the University of Chicago.  Within ServiceMaster Mr. VanGombos was promoted into field industrial engineering and while there developed ServiceMaster programs for over 200 hospitals and medical complexes nationwide.  As a sales and operational field manager, Mr. VanGombos’s  territory included Illinois, Michigan and Indiana with accounts in revenue well over $20,000,000.  Always building as he went, he greatly impacted every new position with systems, procedures and a blueprint that could be easily followed.

His expertise in marketing won him the attention of Stewart-Carey, a wholesale contract glazing and retail chain in Indianapolis as their Marketing Manager.  Proficient in his endeavors he soon was promoted to Vice President of Operations.  Under his direction Stewart-Carey successfully added revenue, reduced warehouse costs by increasing turns and successfully negotiated five union contracts with glazers and teamsters. 

Over the past 23 years Mr. VanGombos has been involved with the development of IHM Facility Services as part owner and President.  This company has served the facility needs of many of the Fortune 500 companies with consulting, chemical and equipment evaluations, staffing and productivity studies, quality control initiatives, needs assessments and strategic facility planning.  The growth of this business has now been in the area of providing contract facility services. 

Having IHM management processes be recognized by ISO 9001:2000 certification in 2003 qualifies IHM to begin new customer initiatives and opens a variety of new market opportunities.