Stewart Krentzman information

Stewart H. Krentzman (born March 30, 1951) is the founder of Hummingbird Enterprises,Inc., a private holding company involved in several entrepreneurial startups.

From 2003 until 2010, Krentzman was the president and chief executive officer of 1200 employee Oki Data Americas, Inc., headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. He served as a board director of Okidata Corporation in Tokyo, Japan. He was responsible for all company operations throughout North, Central, and South America. Its parent company, $6.2B Oki Electric Ltd., is based in Tokyo, Japan.^[1]

Computer Reseller News selected Krentzman as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Executives in Technology. He is credited with creating a team that revitalized the Oki Americas product line, expanding to new printing areas in healthcare and high-end graphics, and revamping the original equipment manufacturer sales strategy to include the company's light-emitting diode (LED) printing technology.^[2]

Krentzman helped found New Taste Dimensions Foods, Inc.; a company focused on using steam and heat to bond gluten. The company has worked for the McDonald's Corporation in the United States and Asia.^[3][4]

Krentzman and several doctors trained at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center consulted for Sheik Mohammed bin Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Eremites on a concierge medicine model in 2013.^[5]

He created the Business Plan with New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, to expand the Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health into additional areas of the United States.

Along with his son Jeffrey, they founded Ovenu North America, LLC., which does business as TheBBQCleaner.com, a home-based business opportunity company that began in April 2009 and has expanded to 286 locations across the United States.^[6]

In January 2023, he founded Survival+ for Schools, Inc. (https://www.SurvivalPlusforSchools.org), a not-for-profit committed to improving the chances of survival for children and teachers who are the victims of school shootings.^[7]

Hummingbird Enterprises,Inc. announced that in the Spring of 2024 it will launch an innovative tool for elementary teachers (Grades 4 - 6) to help them identify lonely children. By reaching out to these children early in their development, the hope is to ensure a healthy and safe learning environment for all students as they move through middle and high school.

Krentzman, an adjunct professor, teaches the Marketing Planning and Strategy course and the Social Media and Mobile Technology course at the New York University Stern School of Business to second-year MBA candidates in the executive (NYC and Washington, D.C.), full-time, and part-time MBA programs. He has been teaching at NYU since 2004.^[8]