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About

Information about GRPMAX® and Chief Innovation Officer and CEO Phillip A. Covington appears directly on the Homepage. Additional information is provided here.

Business

GRPMAX is a polymath research, development, and solutions company able to apply decades of highly proprietary experience found nowhere else to solve problems, deliver solutions, and help you achive performance that no one else can.

To learn more about what GRPMAX does visit the “What We Do” page.

To learn more about services we offer visit the “Expertise” page.

And the “Mission and Vision Statements” page.

Community

Starting in Grand Rapids, MI where the first office was located, continuing to Jackson, MI, GRPMAX CIO and CEO Phillip A. Covington has a long track record of contributing to the local community.

Mr. Covington’s involvements have included assisting First Nation Native Americans, migrant farm workers, inner-city and downtown revitalization, and contributing time and resources to a number of local schools and churches.

Contributing incrementally to the revitalization of downtown Jackson GRPMAX renovated two downtown offices, starting at the Jackson Small Business Development Center and Incubator and more extensively when we moved to larger offices and warehouse space on Mechanic Street in the Armory Court Building, next to the historic National Guard Armory. Subsequently a redevelopment project spearheaded by others, including the Enterprise Group of Jackson, aimed to further transform the Armory buildings into a vibrant arts and cultural hub known as the “Armory Park Arts Project.”

GRPMAX CIO and CEO Phillip A. Covington was the driving force behind a major initiative to improve the largest inner-city revitalization zone within the city of Jackson. Starting in the early 1990s Mr. Covington worked closely with the Jackson Police and Community Development Departments to reduce crime and improve living standards. He spearhead the initiative that resulted in two Resident Police Officers being placed within the area, and was instrumental in assisting the Jackson Police Department with its efforts to develop a pilot Community Policing program.

During the 1990s Jackson, MI was one of the first cities in the country to install Resident Officers (who live in a Police Department owned home/office within, and patrol, largely on foot, the targeted area). Jackson was also at the forefront in implementing its Community Policing program, which engages officers, largely on foot or on bicycle, on a much more personal basis with residents of the local community. These programs result in substantially reduced crime, improve perceptions about police officers and the role they play, and proactively prevent many of the problems that can arise if problems are only dealt with reactively.

Great city management and efforts like those above helped maintain Jackson’s quaint family friendly atmosphere, numerous parks and recreation areas, and quiet tree lined streets. So much so that Jackson is a magnet for workers who commute from larger surrounding cities like Lansing, Ann Arbor, and Detroit, but prefer a town like Jackson as a place to live and raise their children.

Grand Rapids, despite being Michigan’s second largest city is still small enough so that it not only shares many of the same positives (family friendly atmosphere, numerous parks and recreation areas, quiet tree lined streets, minutes from countless beautiful rivers (including the city’s namesake, the Grand River) and lakes, including Lake Michigan, but has been frequently cited and/or rated one of the best places to live for those same reasons.

Mr. Covington has over the years served on a number of local boards and committees.