Stephen Lautenschlager

Expert Family Trust Management Services to Protect the Gerald L. Lautenschlager Trust and Gerald L. Lautenschlager Legacy.

Genuine Holdings was founded in 2020 by leaders from global engineered industrial, commerce, and applied technology businesses with decades of operational, marketing, business development, mergers, and acquisitions experience. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, we have operations and investment portfolio projects in Australia, the USA and emerging in the Middle East. Genuine Holdings seeks and explores promising investment opportunities as opposed to specific business sectors. We seek to deploy investment and acquisition capital in the domestic and international markets to enable the strategic goals and objectives of our investment partners and business leaders. We view our investment, acquisition and strategic partnerships as trust-based, long-term relationships that hold to the highest global business standards and are guided by overarching principles of professional ethics. We look for mutually beneficial opportunities to do well while doing good and where our involvement helps create meaningful value and very long-term competitive advantages. We draw on our strong team experience and a network of investors to generate superior returns for our stakeholders.

UpCycled Products© develops, sources and markets sustainable and upcycled materials, processes, products, and systems. In addition to the many proven environmental advantages of sustainable materials and processes, UpCycled Products© is committed to promote energy and other utilities efficiencies, developing and building a better quality of life for all, and helping to solve the global scrap and end-of-life waste problem. UpCycled Products© mission and objectives aim at “doing more and better with less,” by reducing resource use, degradation and pollution along the entire product life cycle. Significant focus is on sustainable, upcycled and “Cradle-to-Cradle” product solutions and applications. This includes consumption, sourcing and marketing of sustainable upcycled products and procurement investments. UpCycled Products© (www.UpCycledProducts.com). "Circular Economy is a generic term for a restorative industrial economic model." "This framework takes insight from living systems and draws from a number of more specific approaches including biomimicry (mimicking nature), industrial ecology and cradle to cradle." -- Circular Economy Club 2018

Mitchell Rubber Arabia, LLC is a newly established KSA Vision 2030 USA SME Rubber Downstream Conversion Company. The Company is an offshoot of the Mitchell Family of Global Rubber Companies which brings over 90 years of combined rubber industry experience. Driven by Saudi Arabia's "Vision 2030" Mitchell Rubber Arabia's mission is to transfer, develop and expand expertise in the local KSA and regional MENA rubber industry specializing in rubber compounding, Calendered sheet, molded and extruded rubber products.

The Circular Economy Club (CEC) is the international network of circular economy professionals and organizations. CEC is non-profit, global and open.

Austin Rubber Company, LLC manufactures a de-vulcanized rubber compound substitute; APX®, using a patented environmentally friendly process. Austin Rubber Company's sustainable solution converts waste tires and other vulcanized scrap rubber into APX®; a less expensive substitute for virgin rubber, which can be used in a wide variety of new rubber products.

Custom rubber supplier of engineered elastomeric mixed compounds and Calender service for the U.S. and worldwide market. Cross-Functional Operational management responsibility over two custom rubber mixing plants and one rubber compression molding and distribution plant. Functional responsibilities included manufacturing, purchasing, plant engineering, customer service, sales, and human resources.

$90 million global-leader in the design, development and manufacturing of Silicone and Organic-rubber Aerospace, Defense, Industrial and Commercial sealing systems and LO/EMI products.  Key customers included Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop, ATK, Aerojet, Airbus, US DoD, GE, Goodrich, Mitsubishi, Fuji, and 3M. Reported to the President/CEO and VP GM. Chief Operations and Director responsibility for Space, Defense, Commercial Aircraft and Industrial product manufacturing; including mixing, extrusion, Calendered rolls, roto-cured and inflatable seal molding. Responsible for operating functions including Laboratory, Engineering, Customer Service, Manufacturing, Quality, Lean and Logistics.  Supervised three SBU VPs/Directors and four functional Managers.

Global leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of proprietary telecommunication and broadband connectors and enclosures. Reported to the President & CEO, responsible for all global HR functions. Supervised 3 HR Directors/Managers supporting 1,100 employees at 3 international manufacturing plants and field sales offices.

$1.3 billion division of an $8 billion Fortune 500 Corporation. A Global leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of educational and gaming software (Division was sold). Reported to the Direct Marketing Vice President. Supervised 9 HR and Facilities Directors/Managers supporting a 1,000-employee call center.