About the Author

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Pete Kornafel and his wife Lorraine owned Hatch Grinding Company. Hatch had two distribution centers supplying a full range of auto parts to 100+ CARQUEST Auto Parts Stores, 8 company stores, and 200+ employees. Both served as Chairman of the Automotive Warehouse Distributors Association. He received AWDA's Leader of the Year Award. Hatch was Small Business of the Year in Denver in 1984, and he was Small Business Person of the Year in Colorado in 1985. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering (MIT) and an MBA (Harvard Business School). With others, he instructs AWDA's Inventory Management Workshop, and has worked with 200+ automotive companies. He was President of CARQUEST Corporation, and one of two founding partners of E3 Associates.