WORLD CLASS BENEFIT AUCTION PROFESSIONAL AUCTIONEERS
Professional Benefit Auction Specialist
Kenny Lindsay, CAI
Certified professional auctioneer Kenny Lindsay is a nationally recognized and multiple award winning auctioneer who was also awarded with the Michigan Auction of the Year honors.
Lindsay is a highly skilled and accomplished auctioneer who finished at the top of his class at the Continental School of Auctioneering in Mankato, Minnesota. Several years later, Lindsay was accepted to and ultimately graduated from The Certified Auctioneers Institute (CAI) at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. The CAI status is the most esteemed and highest possible designation in the auction industry which is equivalent to a PhD in the auction profession. Only approximately 1,100 auctioneers world-wide have achieved this pinnacle designation.
In 2007, Lindsay achieved another significant educational accomplishment in Cincinnati, Ohio as a certified ‘Benefit Auction Specialist.’ Only a few auctioneers in the entire State of Michigan are professionally recognized as a specialist in the 14.5 billion dollar nationwide benefit auction industry. Lindsay is a full-time professional consultant, educator and auctioneer for numerous non-profit organizations. Lindsay is a national columnist for several auction industry publications and has served on the National Auctioneers Association President’s Advisory Council. Lindsay is recognized by the State of Michigan as a ‘Subject Matter Expert’ for being a key contributor developing the Michigan Auctioneers registration examinations.
Lindsay was selected to the 2006, 2007 & 2008 MSAA ‘Michigan’s Best’ All-Star Auction. Lindsay was featured on the front page of the Detroit News & Free Press Newspapers on a benefit auction feature story along with other mentions and/or stories on WJR, WCAR, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, ESPN, Grosse Ile Camera, Monroe Evening News, Observer & Eccentric Newspapers, eBay Magazine, Bay City Times, Madonna Magazine, The Auction Exchange & Collectors News, Sports Collectors Digest, Orlando Sentinel, Tampa Tribune and other national trade publications.
In addition, Lindsay is the founder of one of the most respected and long-standing sports memorabilia firms in the country. Lindsay is a former show promotor and nationwide exhibitor with a niche specialty of autograph authentications and vintage sports memorabilia. Lindsay has conducted private and public public autograph appearances with multiple athletes which include but not limited to; Detroit Red Wings, Hockey Hall of Fame great, Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay, Sid Abel, Maurice Richard, Steve Yzerman, Sergei Fedorov along with several Major League Baseball greats.
Lindsay is still active in obtaining a wide selection of personally hand signed items of sports memorabilia and is considered by many to be the 'inside source' for many unique and premium items for live and silent auctions.
Lindsay is in good standing with the Michigan State Auctioneers Association, Livingston Conservation & Sports Association, Michigan Big Game Hunters Association (Lifetime) and the National Auctioneers Association.
Professional Benefit Auction Specialist
Scott Vander Kolk, BAS
Certified professional auctioneer, Scott Vander Kolk, Jr. CES was born and raised in the auction profession. The Vander Kolk family's auctioneering experiences date back several decades.
For years, Vander Kolk worked next to his father learning every aspect of the auction profession, and eventually went on to earn his auction school certification from the Brunswick School of Auctioneering.
Vander Kolk is the founder and President of Vander Kolk's Golden Gavel Auction Services, nestled in the city of Dorr, Michigan, near Grand Rapids.
Vander Kolk has also received one of the most esteemed educational designations in the auction industry, the CES designation, through the National Auctioneers Association.
Scott maintains the highly acclaimed Benefit Auctioneer specialist designation, which he earned in Cincinnati, Ohio. Less than one percent of auctioneers worldwide have secured this important designation.
In addition to his notable accolades as a professional auctioneer, Vander Kolk is highly acclaimed with his technological background, enabling fundraising organizations to implement 21st century auction technology with computerized registrations, clerking and check-out procedures which are instrumental to the fundraising auction process.
Vander Kolk's unmistakable rhythmic auction chant guided him to the MSAA Bid Calling Championships. He is also a member in good standing with the Michigan State Auctioneers Association and the National Auctioneers Association. He maintains the position as an online mentor with both association.
BENEFIT FROM OUR EXPERIENCE!
CLIENTS OF OURS INCLUDE BUT NOT LIMTED TO:
Muscular Dystrophy Association
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Junior League of Ann Arbor
Woodward Academy
Rick Larimore Memorial
Woodward Academy
Livingston County Child Abuse Prevention
Michigan Big Game Hunters Association
Safari Club International
DeLeon Annual Scholarship Fundraiser
Make- A- Difference (MAD)
4H
Betty Loher Leukemia Fundraiser
Northville Preschool
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Shiner's Hospital's of Michigan
Stepping Stone
American Cancer Society- Cattle Barons Ball at the Michigan State Fairgrounds
Habitat for Humanity
Douglas Kruszewski Memorial
Let the Children Play
The Great Lakes Coca~Cola Collectors Club
Camp Sancta Maria
Jewish Community Center- West Bloomfield, Michigan
Girlstown Foundation
St. Joseph Parish
Brighton Chamber of Commerce
Macomb Christian Schools
Coalition of Temporary Shelter (COTS) Detroit
Six Rivers Land Conservancy
POH Riley Foundation
STARS Kids
Wings Of Hope - Hospice
Endeavor Charter Academy
Allegan Rotary
Pheasants Forever
and many, many more non profit organizations and associations like yours.
WHAT IS CAI? CAI is the Certified Auctioneers Institute which is the most esteemed and highest designation possible in the auction industry. The CAI status is equivilent to a PHd in the profession. Approximately 1,100 auctioneers world wide have achieved this status.
The Lindsay & Vander Kolk Certified Fundraising Auctioneers benefit auction team won a benefit auction industry award through the Michigan State Auctioneers Association in Bay City, Michigan in Janurary 2008.
Lindsay & Vander Kolk Certified Fundraising Auctioneers is an award Michigan based auction firm specializing in non profit fundraisers for charity events to corporate galas. Headquarters near Detroit, Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor, Michigan
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