The team of Professional Vision Group is equipped with almost 100 years of combined experience in all aspects of the eye care industry - manufacturing, wholesaling, sales, retail and independent multiple location management.

   This experience gives the experts of PVG first hand knowledge of the challenges facing eye care providers today.  Knowledge that gives you the competitive advantage.

   Rick Omohundro founded Professional Vision Group in 1989 after a startling revelation. Rick had managed a small string of Pearle Vision Center franchises in West Virginia before joining Southern Optical. While at Southern he developed a practice enhancement program for key accounts of the wholesale lab. He quickly discovered that independent eye care practitioners did not have the kind of management and marketing support that chains stores provide, nor a "corporate structure" to which independents could count on for advice, support, and strength.

    Chris Morris joined Professional Vision Group in 1992 after spending two years as a Varilux Sales Consultant in Tennessee. Chris had a vision that entrepreneurial eye care practitioners could benefit from new management and marketing theory being applied in other industries. He wanted to be a part of a genuine management and marketing consulting firm that was dedicated to innovative and creative approaches to business.

    Rene Small joined the Professional Vision group team in 1993 after running a successful small business service and consulting center in Huntersville, NC. Rene saw that eye care providers face the same challenges that all small businesses do and was eager for the chance to apply her business and administrative skills to the group.

    Jennifer Ayres joined the Professional Vision Group team in 2000 after managing a multiple-location eye care practice in Northern Virginia.  Jennifer has a vision that learning and applying good principles of business and human resource management is the future of independent eye care practitioners.  Jennifer knows that eye care providers today can benefit from a "nuts and bolts" approach to practice management and profit building.