Ryan Chernick

At 9 p.m. one night with a house full of guests, Camera Corner co-founder Norman Chernick got a phone call from a client, who had rented projection equipment and was now having trouble with it. Chernick left the guests behind, drove to the presentation site and got the projector going again.

His son, Camera Corner / Connecting Point CEO Rick Chernick, kept that level of customer service paramount, while aggressively growing the firm.

Rick's son, Ryan, grew up immersed in the family business which he is now vice president of. So it is no surprise that at age 32, old-school commitment to family, customer service, and the larger community are well ingrained. Along with serving on a number of civic and educational boards, Ryan leads his family's annual Christmas-Day volunteer efforts at a local shelter.

Ryan's actual CC/CP employment began with pulling weeds at age 12. He worked on the camera retail floor through his days at Notre Dame Academy and broadened his repertoire to include computers while attending UW-Green Bay (majoring in Business and Accounting; with minors in urban/regional studies and psychology).

Today, in addition to being vice president, Ryan finds himself intimately involved in the convergence of photo, video, voice and data which the family business -- now more than 100 employees strong -- has evolved into. He works on providing sophisticated integrations which allow other businesses to do more, more efficiently. Hosted solutions, virtualization, mega-storage, IP telephony, managed solutions; and business continuity and disaster recovery planning are all in a day's work. Ryan guides school districts and businesses of all sizes through today's technology, positioning them for tomorrow.

Ryan traded his boyhood desire to be an FBI agent in favor of keeping not only clients, but also employees happy, because he sensed "something special" in the family business. He endeavors daily to extend and enhance the uniqueness of his family's business, a fixture in Downtown Green Bay since 1953.

His nuclear family includes wife Tracy, two daughters, and another child due this winter. Away from work, you're likely to find Ryan in his deer stand or working out.