Jim Dicke

Jim Dicke is the Chairman and CEO of Crown Equipment Corporation, a private manufacturer of forklift trucks and materials handling products. Through his career, Jim has remained involved with government services, serving the Smithsonian, the Kennedy Center, the Export Council in the Commerce Department, as a Congressional Assistant and as a member of the Republican National Committee from Ohio. He currently chairs the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, one of the nation’s largest college scholarship programs, whose mission includes focusing on the American dream through freedom, mutual respect and equality of opportunity. Jim and his wife Janet have two married adult children and five grandchildren.