The DC Chapter of the National Marine Corps Business Network invites you to view the following videos from our last Business Luncheon, held at the Army & Navy Club in Washington DC.
Lt.Gen. (Ret.) Jack Klimp, USMC, was our featured speaker and his talk is featured in the videos below. In the following clips, you’ll see how his 33 year Marine Corps career contributed to his overall business philosophy and successful track record.
His post-Marine Corps career accomplishments include serving as Senior Vice President of Phoenix House, and CEO of AHRI, one of the nation’s largest trade associations.
Currently, Jack Klimp is President and CEO of Second Genesis. For more information on the Second Genesis program, click here. To donate to Second Genesis, click here.
Information about our speaker from the USNA website:
LtGen Jack Klimp, USMC (Ret.) ’68
Hometown: Utica, Michigan.
After graduation from USNA and completion of The Basic School (TBS), went to Vietnam as a rifle platoon commander, company XO, then company commander.
Command tours included:
2 recon companies;
Recruit training company;
Recruiting station;
Infantry battalion
Task Force Mogadishu and Marine Forces Somalia during Operation Restore Hope
Staff assignments include
USNA company officer
Tactics instructor
Staff platoon commander at TBS
Assistant provost marshal
Aide-de-camp
Recruit training battalion XO
Recruit training regiment S-3
Amphibious unit S-4
Plans officer for Korea’s Combined Forces Command and Assistant G-3, 1st Marine Division.
At Central Command, served as Chief, Field Training Exercise Branch then Chief, Exercise Division and finally as Director of General Schwarzkopf’s JOC during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
In 1993, while serving as Commander, Task Force Mogadishu, during Operation Restore Hope in Somalia, Klimp was selected for promotion to brigadier general and then commanded the Recruit Depot and Eastern Recruiting Region at Parris Island.
Final command assignment was CG, Marine Corps Recruiting Command.
Upon retirement, he joined Phoenix House as Senior VP and director of its New York region. Responsible for 40+ drug rehab programs, he supervised the treatment of about 2700 addicts daily.
In 2005 he returned to Arlington as the President of GAMA, an association of space and water heating appliance and equipment manufacturers.
In January Klimp led a merger of GAMA with ARI (Air-conditioning and Refrigeration Institute) creating AHRI (Air-conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute) where he was the CEO. In May 2009 he was asked by its board of directors to take on the leadership of Second Genesis, a substance abuse recovery program similar to Phoenix House. He has been the President and CEO since then.
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