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Concorde Career Colleges
Jack Brozman
Chairman, President and
Chief Executive Officer
Interview conducted by:
Walter Banks
Co-Publisher
CEOCFOinterviews.com
November 2001
About Concorde Career Colleges,
Concorde Career Colleges, Inc. was formed in 1988, and owns and operates eleven
institutions that offer career vocational training programs. All eleven Concorde Career
Institutes have been providing educational training for at least thirty years. Concorde
has helped thousands of students prepare for successful careers.
Campus sites are: Garden Grove, CA, North Hollywood, CA, San Bernardino, CA, San Diego,
CA, Denver, CO, Jacksonville, FL, Lauderdale Lakes, FL, Tampa, FL, Kansas City, MO,
Portland, OR, Memphis, TN.
Concorde is dedicated to helping their students succeed. Their admissions process is
simple and easy to complete, and financial assistance is available to those who qualify.
At Concorde, preparing for a career doesn't take forever. Their focused programs provide
outstanding career training in a format designed to fit your schedule. Classes for all
programs are held during the day. Evening classes are also available for a number of
programs.
Their training programs are short, affordable and hands-on. Concorde offers training
programs in: Medical Assisting, Dental Assisting, Insurance Coding, Respiratory Therapy,
Surgical Technology, Vocational/Practical Nursing, Patient Care, and more.
Concorde students enjoy hands-on training from medical professionals both in the classroom
and in clinical sites. Their specialized Externship Program places students in area
hospitals and medical facilities where they work side by side with doctors and other
healthcare professionals.
Concorde's Graduate Services Department works closely with students and graduates,
preparing them for externships and assisting with job placement.
CEOCFOinterviews: Mr.
Brozman, please give us a brief history of Concorde Career Colleges.
Mr. Brozman: Concorde has been in the post secondary
education training business for thirty plus years, starting from the late sixties. We presently operate eleven campuses all providing
allied health education. Concorde has
suffered through some difficult times, like many institutions in the early nineties, with
a lack of lenders and regulatory pressure. I
became President of the company in the early nineties. We hired a new CEO in 1997 to run
the company and I became chairman of the board. It
didn't work out and Concorde began to lose money from 1998 to 2000, because enrollment had
gone down under his leadership. Once the new
CEO left, I assumed the position of CEO again and decided to remain in that position. I hired some experienced individuals that I knew
in the industry, as well as individuals I worked with at another company, our CFO and Vice
President of human resources. We have built a
very strong senior management team that has been in place for slightly over a year now. I believe we have been able to accomplish many
things that have just begun to reflect in our financial performance and student population
this year, as we have become profitable.
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