Convention – Featured Speakers
FEATURED SPEAKERS
David Rutherford, Former Navy S.E.A.L.
Keynote Speaker
David is living out his dream as an internationally known motivational personality. His goal is to reach 10 million people in 10 years with his Navy SEAL Motivational Training concepts titled Froglogic. David has quickly risen to become one of the most exciting and impactful keynote speakers in the world averaging over 60 events a year with the world’s top companies. His high energy, entertaining approach for inspiring individuals and teams to Forge Self-Confidence, Live The Team Life, Embrace Fear and Live With Purpose ignites audiences to live life to its fullest and begin performing at an elite level.
David served honorably for 8 years in the Naval Special Warfare community as a SEAL Student, Combat Paramedic, Operator, and Instructor. He participated in thousands of high-risk training evolutions and conducted clandestine operations in South East Asia, the Middle East, and South Asia. After leaving the SEAL Teams David continued to hone his skills by serving as an International Training Expert for one of the country’s largest private security companies and for the US Government as a Security Protection Specialist. David has trained commandos and government employees around the world to push themselves past all limitations. David’s masterful ability to motivate inspires people from all walks of life to defeat the Negative Insurgency and achieve success in every environment imaginable.
David motivates people around the world as a top motivational speaker, author for kids and adults, radio show host, behavioral training specialist, YouTube personality, private performance coach, social media presence, charity volunteer and mentor for young men. His uniquely high-impact and emotional style of speaking, writing, and coaching helps all types of people gain a Navy SEAL style focus towards higher performance physically, mentally and spiritually. He combines his 20 years of exploring the human condition with over 70 years of UDT/SEAL operations, training doctrine and elite performance to create the Froglogic Concepts. In the past 9 years, David has reached almost 4 million people and is well on his way to reaching his personal goals.
Chris Kuehl a frequent commentator for local and national media, a conference speaker, author for various trade publications and is a founding partner of Armada Corporate Intelligence. Founded in 2000 Armada is half think tank and half strategy office. Armada provides economic forecasts, industry analysis, corporate intelligence and market assessment for clients in a variety of industries.Clients include YRC Freight, TranSystems, Echo Logistics, C-Biz, Rubin Brown, Fabricators and Manufacturers Association, National Association of Credit Management, BKD, Missouri Society of CPAs, Kentucky Society of CPAs, Tennessee Society of CPAs and a variety of others.
Mr. Kuehl gives on average 150 presentations a year in the U.S. and internationally on economic issues and the UTA is proud to have him for our attendees.
After receiving his B.S. from Indiana University, Mr. Stephen Tam spent seven years in various accounting positions at two Fortune 500 companies before joining ACT Research in 2000. Mr. Tam has been involved in the commercial vehicle industry since 1993. Since being promoted to his current position in October 2008, he was appointed to the Board of Directors and became a Managing Member of ACT Research in September 2016.He is one of ACT’s two principal commercial vehicle market analysts. He also leads the used truck market efforts for ACT. Some of his other responsibilities include project and database management; and collection, analysis, and reporting of specialty data series. In addition to being frequently sought after as a guest speaker at industry events and giving presentations to private companies, you will often see him quoted in industry publications, newspapers and business periodicals.