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THIS IS THE EXECUTIVE TEAM AT EFC
The four executive team members have credentials in the martial arts field and have owned, managed, consulted and been on the board of schools. They have helped develop and cultivate hundreds upon hundreds of prominent schools. Having been in the business of consulting martial arts schools for more than 40 years, EFC can proudly claim to be the most time-tested organization of its kind in the field.
DAILY FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD MEETING
Every day the four executives have a standing lunch meeting from 12:15-1:30 EST. These meetings are utilized to go over the operations of international offices and the headquarters. The executives discuss and strategize on a multiple of subjects: fine-tuning EFC’s operations and procedures for running schools, methods for school owners to secure their financial futures, training methods for staff, etc.
Upon working with EFC and associating with these executives and their life work, it is likely that your own very life will begin to change. You will begin to not only see your role as an instructor differently, but you will actually begin to process your world differently. Many school owners become truly happier with their lives, more inspired and more progressive in their outlook.
The Chairman
Nick Cokinos
Mr.C, as he is affectionately known to everyone once said - "It is okay to build castles in the air so long as you are working on the foundation". That's preciously what he did with EFC. He had a dream and he made it a reality with absolute hardwork and supreme dedication. Forty four years later we have this dependable, trutworthy and honest company who is serving quarter of a million students and grossing over 200 million US dollars annnually. A graduate of Gearoge Washington University, Mr. C has founded EFC back in 1968 as a billing company for dancing schools and pioneered it to be the most time tested martial arts billing company in the field.
The President
John Cokinos
Following his fathers footsteps learning it from the best in the industry, John has joined the company immediately after graduating from North Carolina State University. And during past 30 plus years with the company, he surely has strengthen the foundation of EFC enabling it to become the dream that his father wanted to realize. A devoted father of three beautiful children and an attentive husband to a pillar of strength gorgeous smart lady, John C. has the hybrid capacity to blend the time tested knowledge he acquired over three decades together with the latest technological advances in the industry and the refined theories of management. EFC would be going from strengths to strenths with the able guidence of John Cokinos for many more years to come.
The Vice President
Mark Cokinos
Mark is the brain behind EFC's Legal and Marketing Departments. He has consulted hundreds of clients to help them run their businesses more efficiently, and has incorporated the resulting knowledge and learning into all of the products and services EFC provides. As a result, Mark is known as “the man behind the curtain”, and his influence, value, and experience provide comfort and benefit to the entire client base. Mark Cokinos is a die hard Elvis Presly fan and sings and plays the guiatar to those favorite ever greens from the legenad when ever time permits him to do so.
The General Manager
CDR Ned Muffley
A retired commander of the US Navy, CDR Ned is the live wire at EFC. He is a man with a super high energy and attention to detail organizational skills. He has over 30 years experience been around the best in the industry including the experience of being a martial arts school owner himself. A super dicipline fitness fanatic and dedicated marathon runner with over 20 plus completed marathons under his belt, CDR Ned gets things done with his own super charged ways. He is the man behind all these successful EFC summits over many years and takes pride in guiding and grooming the youngsters to become succesful in whatever they do in life.