Automotive Management Institute (AMI)

Mark Claypool
Select Tech Professional Services

Mark Claypool is the Vice President of Operations for VeriFacts Automotive and the President and CEO of Select Tech Professional Services. Mr. Claypool has worked in occupational mentoring, training, workforce development and business/education partnerships for over 25 years. After receiving his degree in Education from the University of Illinois, Mr. Claypool began his career with the co-ed Career Exploring Division of the Boy Scouts of America. He was Director of Development and led the Business/Education Partnerships team of SkillsUSA/VICA. While at SkillsUSA, Mr. Claypool was honored with a special commission by the Governor of Kentucky for exceptional service to youth in America, one of few non-Kentucky residents to be so honored.

Later, Mr. Claypool was Executive Director of the I-CAR Education Foundation where he worked closely with the education sector in teaching students up-to-date automotive curricula. During that time, Mr. Claypool was twice asked by the Automotive Service Association (ASA), and once by the Equipment and Tool Institute (ETI), to lead panel discussions at the National Automotive Congress and Exposition on where future technicians will be coming from for the auto industry.

Through Select Tech (www.select-techpro.com), an association and project management company, Mark Claypool was the Executive Director of the National Auto Body Council, an organization focused on enhancing the image of the collision repair industry; co-founded the Collision Industry Foundation, where he helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Camp Mak-A-Dream and for Habitat for Humanity. Through Select Tech, Mr. Claypool is also leading the development and delivery of standard operating procedures (SOP's) for various businesses.

Mr. Claypool is a contributing editor for Body Shop Business magazine and has numerous cover stories to his credit. Through Select Tech, Mr. Claypool also consults in areas such as human resources, organizational development, marketing, fundraising, web site development as well as management and strategic planning.

Mr. Claypool is the Team USA Leader for the World Skills Competition. Every other year Mr. Claypool leads a group of nationally selected students to compete against the best in the world in occupational trades of all kinds in this Olympics of occupational trade's competition.

On a volunteer basis, Mr. Claypool served as chairman of the Human Resource Committee for the Collision Industry Conference (CIC), as director of the Collision Industry Foundation. He also serves as coach of his daughter's softball team and has served as the career transition group leader with Christ Community Church.