Meet Our Staff
Rick Crowder
President/CEO
Mr. Crowder serves on the Board of Directors for Help Americans Inc. as the President/ CEO and will oversee all three Help Americans Inc.’s core programs.
Rick Crowder has over 25 years of executive management experience with companies having high balance portfolios. Currently Mr. Crowder is the Chairman for Mega Petroleum Group an International Petroleum Company.
Mr. Crowder has extensive experience in the real estate industry and was the creator of the Home Buyer’s Down Payment Assistance Program that provides assistance through Government and private Programs as well as Down Payment Assistance to Buyers who complete a Lender approved Home Buyer’s course to assure the Buyers receiving help are fiscally responsible.
Mr. Crowder graduated from Florida State University in 1992 with a degree in Finance and Economics.
Cirilo Gil
Vice President
Cirilo is a banker by trade. Before coming to the United States he worked for Banco Popular in his home country the Dominican Republic. Cirilo came to the United States to study Business Management in New York City in the early 90’s. Upon finishing with his Academics, Cirilo began his career in America in sales and sales management in the Auto Industry. cirilo serves on our board as Vice President and heads up our VIP Program that will establish a network of Corporate and Private Donors Nationwide.
Brian Bajorski & Ilias Lekakos
Director of Veterans Housing
Brian & Ilias has over 50 years in combined Construction experience. American Strong Homes is heading up the construction of Help Americans Veterans Housing Community that will be built in Palm Beach County in close proximity to the Veterans Hospital in West Palm Beach. American Strong Impact Windows, Doors, & Roofs, a subsidiary to American Strong Homes, donates a portion of every Impact Window, Door, & Roof contract to Help Americans Inc. to help secure the funds needed to build Veterans community
John Bown
Director of Information Technology
John has a degree in computer science. He went to work in IT design and management and was one of the first Certified Novell Engineers in the United States. He was a managing trainer for the US Navy in the late 80’s at Naval Facility San Diego teaching multi user programming. He developed and installed the quality assurance network for General Dynamics on the Phalanx Missile production plant and duplicated it, for management and redundancy, in Pomona California. He designed and built one of the first backbone networks in the central valley of California that grew to include San Jose, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York with peering connections to over 700 networks. He developed one of the first “POP in a box” systems resulting in the build of 47 US based ISP’s and 4 international. He pioneered the early internet peering and growth in the US and designed and built a data center in Jakarta, Indonesia for the original APJII group that is still run today as a new entity providing the internet access for the country of Indonesia. In the late 90’s he became heavily involved in the development and management of VOIP systems and implemented mutt-platform VOIP systems in the Dominican Republic, Mexico City, Indonesia, and Hong Kong. By 2002 developed the 5th fastest network in the world rated by Board Watch magazine. As a design engineer he has specialized in the automation of management processes converting 100’s of companies’ manual processes into automated management systems.
He has 28 years of entrepreneurial experience as an automation specialist and management consultant. He is a respected leader of creative teams and corporate communications with the ability to conceptualize and implement management campaigns that effectively reinforce and build brand, efficiency, and image across training, instruction, application design and deployment. He specializes in logistics management and time scheduling in an automated fashion
Bill Tyler
Corporate Accountant