Dr. Sherrie Ford is Power Partners' chairman and executive vice president of culture. In 2006, she was acknowledged as being at the helm of the 13th largest woman majority-owned business in America by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (view certificate here). In 1996. Ford founded Change Partners, L.L.P., an organizational consulting company specializing in cultural change, a natural progression for the Center for Continuous Improvement she created for the Athens Area Technical Institute. Ford, who continues to lead Change Partners, is a judge for Industry Week magazine’s Best Plant competition, an examiner for Georgia Oglethorpe Award (modeled after the national Malcolm Baldrige Award), past Southeast Regional President for the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, and an acclaimed author and presenter on work-culture, and economic and workforce development.

Steve Hollis is the chief executive officer of Power Partners. He is an expert on lean manufacturing and work culture. After more than 20 years of sales, marketing and manufacturing assignments at Georgia-Pacific and other companies, in 1996 Hollis became a principal at Change Partners, L.L.P., an organizational consulting company specializing in culture change, primarily in manufacturing companies. Asset ownership had long been a personal goal for both Hollis and Sherrie Ford, his partner at Change Partners, as well as a strategy for contribution to the industrial base and their community. After working with the management and staff of the ABB Athens plant to improve their processes between 2000 and 2003, Hollis and Ford bought the company in May 2003. Hollis continues to be a principal of Change Partners.

Tom Lopp is vice president of marketing for Power Partners. During his 29-year career, much of which was with ABB’s Distribution Transformer business, he has been involved in marketing, sales and business planning.

Mike Stonecipher is vice president of technical resources for Power Partners and has responsbility for plant engineering, maintenance, and quality. Mike came to Power Partners from Honeywell International, where he was director of operations. Before Honeywell's acquisition of AlliedSignal, Mike handled a variety of assignments for AlliedSignal.

Kim Knotts is chief financial officer of Power Partners. Previously she was with Commonwealth Aluminum, where she held senior positions in accounting, audit, tax and investor relations. She has also led the remelt function in an aluminum processing plant.