Roger Wildermuth Bio

“After over 30 years of acquiring businesses, starting new ones, and fixing old ones, helping people realize their business ownership goals is truly my dream job.”

With Roger Wildermuth as your business ownership coach, you tap into a wealth of business experience, knowledge, and insight. Someone who has owned and managed small, as well as medium-sized businesses. But best of all, you have someone who is absolutely dedicated to helping people, perhaps like yourself, to fulfill the American dream of owning their own business.

• CMYK Graphix Inc. and its predecessor, Speedcolor Inc.
  • President and owner of these two small commercial printing firms and related e-commerce websites.
• Rand McNally & Company
  • President: Publishing Group, the Company’s most well-known business with its world-renowned maps, atlases, travel directories, and globes for the consumer, business, and education markets.
  • President: DocuSystems Group, the Company’s specialty printing and publishing activity, including airline and surface transportation tickets, MICR and OCR encoded payment system documents, checks, and financial institution directories.
  • Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of the Company
• Arthur Andersen & Co.: Responsibility for major public and private client company audits, including R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Foote, Cone & Belding, Leo Burnett, and Container Corporation of America. Involved in numerous public stock and debt offerings, acquisition investigations, and other special studies.

B.S. Accountancy, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, CPA, Illinois

• American Institute of CPA
• Elmhurst YMCA, Director and Chairman of the Board, Illinois Society of CPA
• Financial Executive Institute
• Medinah Country Club, Director and Chairman of Human Resources Committee
• The Economic Club of Chicago
• Opera Illinois, Director
• Peoria Area Chamber of Commerce, Director
• Executive Club of Chicago