Stewart Krentzman

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rdf:langString Stewart H. Krentzman (born March 30, 1951) is the founder of Hummingbird Enterprises, Inc., a private holding company involved in several entrepreneurial startups. From 2003 until 2010, Krentzman was the president and chief executive officer of 1200 employee Oki Data Americas, Inc., headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. He served as a board director of Okidata Corporation in Tokyo, Japan. He was responsible for all company operations throughout North, Central, and South America. Its parent company, $6.2B Oki Electric Ltd., is based in Tokyo, Japan. Computer Reseller News selected Krentzman as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Executives in Technology. He is credited with creating a team that revitalized the Oki Americas product line, expanding to new printing areas in healthcare, high-end graphics, and revamping the original equipment manufacturer sales strategy to include the company's light-emitting diode (LED) printing technology. Krentzman helped found New Taste Dimensions Foods, Inc.; a company focused on using steam and heat to bond gluten. The company has done work for the McDonald's Corporation in the United States and throughout Asia. Krentzman, and several doctors trained at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center consulted for Sheik Mohammed bin Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Eremites on a concierge medicine model in 2013. He created the Business Plan with New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, to expand the Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health into additional areas of the United States. Along with his son Jeffrey, they founded Ovenu North America, LLC. that does business as TheBBQCleaner.com, a home-based business opportunity company that began in April 2009 and has expanded to 262 locations across the United States. In 2018 Hummingbird Enterprises launched biodegradable Scentanicals, a scented, 100% natural botanicals alternative for adding aroma in small spaces. The business was featured in the June 2019 edition of Real Simple Magazine. In May 2014, he was nominated to serve as one of three consumer representatives to the State of New Jersey Medical Practitioner Review Panel. The panel is responsible for reviewing medical malpractice and health care facility or health maintenance organization privilege cases. Krentzman, an adjunct professor, teaches marketing planning and strategy and, along with the director of strategic partnerships at Facebook, co-teaches social media and mobile technology at the New York University Stern School of Business to second-year MBA candidates in the executive (NYC and Washington, D.C.), full-time, and part-time MBA programs. He has been teaching at NYU since 2004.