About Excell
What we do:
For over two decades, Excell has been the premier business Leader to Leader™ forum for Northwest business owners, presidents, and chief executives. Excell offers several types of groups for executives who have the desire and readiness to achieve and sustain growth and profitability with peer-to-peer mentoring.
Our groups are:
- Focused on family-owned and closely-held companies
- Concentrated in the Pacific Northwest
- Managed by a professional leader
- Usually comprised of 5 to 15 executives
- Composed of companies that share similar characteristics such as size, business stage and experience/qualifications of the executive. Company revenues range from small start-ups to companies with annual revenues of >$300 million
- Comprised of companies from a wide-range of industries such as: high technology, transportation, food and beverage, insurance, finance, professional services, printing, chemicals, construction, manufacturing, fabrication, product imports
We invite you to get to know our group leaders and find out more about our program options and membership requirements.

CFBS, CSP, CMC
Eugene has invested more than 15 years of his life working in the field of education, as a faculty member,
What his clients are saying
“Eugene really helped us save our business. We moved from challenging family dynamics and struggling to manage growth that threatened to pull us apart to a dynamic and successful company with growing pains”
“We have worked with consultants who were ‘experts’, yet Eugene, as an experienced business leader and adviser, helped us discover and pursue our goals and to achieve the transformation that we had wanted for a long time.”
“I have been continually amazed at his powers of observation and ability to help my family and I understand what we want, where we really are and how we can move the family and business ahead in achieving our goals.”
Eugene is currently the Board Chair for the YMCA of Columbia-Willamette Board of Trustees, is a current board member for the International Succession Planning Association and is a former Board Member of the Austin Family Business Program. He is a Certified Succession Planner, a Certified Family Business