HUMAN RESOURCES BY SUMMIT
Managing employees is often a difficult and time‐intensive aspect of running your business. An effective Human Resources program will not only ensure that your company meets employment regulations but also will help you hire and retain productive employees. Your Human Resources plan needs to support your company’s overall vision and not consume time needed for business operations
Team Building
Finding, training, and keeping effective employees can be an expensive and time‐consuming process. We can help with each step in the employment process so that you can attract and keep great team members. Summit can help support your organization’s team building plans with strategies for:
- Staffing Management
- Hiring Processes
- Employee Retention







Performance Management
The biggest investment that most organizations make is in their employees. For most companies, compensation expense makes up around two-thirds of their entire budget. Businesses today cannot afford not to get a strong return for that investment. Summit can help you prepare your employees to be productive with strategies for:
- Job Training
- Resource Management
- Improvement Programs
Human Resources Compliance
The ever-increasing number employment laws and payroll regulations can pose a formidable challenge as you seek to maintain and grow your workforce. We can help you avoid costly penalties, fines, and lawsuits while providing a consistent approach to employee concerns. Summit can help your company stay compliant and effective with strategies for:
- Time and Labor Management
- Policy Compliance
- Incident Response

Dick Brabham
Dick Brabham has over 35 years professional HR leadership experience in industry, plus several years consulting experience. Dick brings an extensive background in HR strategy and execution, including job selections,recruitment and retention, staff development,…

Curt Henry
Curt Henry is a seasoned business executive with seven years general management experience and over 20 years in domestic and international marketing and sales. In 2000, Curt was chosen to lead the turnaround of a local manufacturing company with struggling product lines.

Ted Ellis
Ted Ellis, although a native of North Carolina, has lived in Bristol, Virginia for the last 30 years. Ted’s HR experience includes employee and community relations, developing employee handbooks, wage and benefits development and installation, employee and…

Scott McPhail
Scott comes to The Summit Companies after a long career in the restaurant and hospitality industry, where he served in various operational and supervisory management positions. His leadership and skills propelled his unit to a company “Restaurant of the Year”…

Eric Fields
Eric brings many years of experience working with businesses and not-for-profit organizations to Summit. After working in cost accounting for a manufacturing company throughout college, Eric began his career after graduation in commercial risk management.

John Sanslow
John comes to Summit with over 30 years of experience in sales, marketing, management and business development with 27 of those being in various sales and management positions with an international Fortune 100 company.