OUR CONTRIBUTORS
MEET PAUL KHANTON
Paul Khanton is the founder of three successful and unique consulting firms that have been helping government and companies since 1985. Prior to founding his firms, he was a successful manufacturing and general management executive in the consumer products industry. His entire professional career has been immersed in eliminating paradigms - whether financial, strategic or technical. His true forte is enabling clients to realize the undreamt - enabling clients to embrace a new vision no longer hindered by barriers previously thought insurmountable. As a result, he has vast, successful experience negotiating significant financial benefits for both private and public sector clients - billions and billions of dollars. His skills and knowledge were forged throughout his adult life. Mr. Khanton began his career as a manufacturing executive with Fortune 500 companies, rising to full general management P&L responsibility for a multi billion dollar unit of a Fortune 100 company before he was 40 years old. During the course of his career, he has functioned as both internal and external consultant to icons of international business, and has negotiated and delivered significant discretionary financial benefits to Honeywell, Frito-Lay, Sun-Chemical, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Wang, SmithKline Beecham, American Hospital Supply, the Dial Corporation, Nestle, Nabisco, Hunt-Wesson (ConAgra), Del Monte and others. Additionally, he has served as an ad hoc advisor to various state and local governments as well as universities and local school districts, helping them secure unconventional funding (and as regards government - retain or attract major employers as well). He has always embraced a simple principle: terms of a negotiation must be fair for all parties. As a result, non-adversarial negotiations steeped in research, raison d'état and raison d’être characterize the negotiations and have resulted in record benefits being secured for his clients – some of which have been clients for over 20 years. Mr. Khanton holds an MBA with Highest Distinction (summa cum laude) from Pepperdine University and a BA from Northwestern University. A native of Chicago, he currently resides on a ranch outside Dallas and is a member of the Petroleum Club of Midland (Texas) and MENSA. His donations are the principal funding source for several charities.
MEET MARTIN D. TOPPER, PH.D.
Dr. Martin D. Topper is a consultant at US Consults and the owner of Martin D. Topper, Ph.D. Consulting, LLC. in Daytona Beach, FL. Previously he spent twenty years at the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. While at EPA he served in the Office of Criminal Enforcement and Training where he was the Quality Manager and conducted training and had responsibilities in the areas of media relations, Indian Affairs and firearms, ammunition and tactics. Prior positions at EPA included service as a Federal Agency Liaison and as the National Coordinator of the EPA American Indian Program. Prior to working at EPA he was the Assistant Director of Mental Health Services for the Navajo Area of the U.S. Indian Health Service and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. His awards include two EPA Silver Medals and five EPA Bronze Medals. He has co-edited two Special Issues of scientific Journals, approximately twenty scientific articles on American Indian Mental Health and on Media Relations and over three hundred articles on hunting and firearms related issues.