AAK Investigations Inc.

AAK Investigations Incorporated is a detective agency based in Boston, MA, with a reputation for handling unusual cases.

Stockholders

The Company is a privately owned stock company with the following distribution of stock:

• Mr Charles Kowalski - 51%

• Mr Bartholomew Steel - 20%

• Mrs Penelope Steel - 20%

• Mrs Patrycja Adamczyk - 9%

Sale or other transfer of stock to any other party may only be conducted with the consent of at least 50% of the existing stockholders.

Company Employees

In addition to the four stockholders the company also employs the following:

Joe Hall (licensed Private Investigator) – formerly of New York, resettled in Boston in Spring 1925.

Ralph Faslane (Attorney At Law) – company lawyer for AAK Investigations since October 1918.

A secretarial assistant is yet to be appointed following the move to the new premises.

Various other (non-salaried) associates may also be employed for a limited time with appropriate recompense for their professional services.

Board of Directors

• Mr Charles Kowalski - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

• Mr Bartholomew Steel - Executive Vice-President (EVP)

• Mrs Penelope Steel - Chief Finance Officer (CFO)

• Mrs Patrycja Adamczyk - Operations Director (OD)

• Mr Ralph Faslane - Non-voting director and Legal Counsel (LC)

The above mentioned directors will have voting rights in direct proportion to their stockholdings.

Registered Office

4th Floor, 112 Water Street, Boston MA (Telephone LIBerty 2317)

The floorplan of the office can be found here.

Operations

Day-to-day running of the office is supervised by the Operations Director, who is able to authorise expenditure up to a limit of $700 p.a. on their own authority. Amounts in excess of this sum must have the approval of the Board.

Remuneration and Expense rates for Directors and employees will be agreed by the Board at an Annual General Meeting.

In the event of death or permanent incapacity of any voting Member of the Board that prevents them exercising their voting rights, their stock (and associated voting rights) will be distributed in accordance with their legal instructions (in the form of Last Will and Testament and/or Powers of Attorney).

In the event of temporary incapacity, voting rights may be temporarily transferred in line with an appropriate Power of Attorney for the duration of the incapacity.

In the event of death or incapacity where no legal instructions exist, then the voting member’s rights will be distributed amongst the surviving voting members. Such distribution will be apportioned pro-rata in accordance with the surviving members’ stock/rights holdings.

Company History

The original AAK Investigations was formed in 1917 by former naval colleagues Karel Aponowicz and Charles "Chuck" Kowalski (AAK = Aponowicz And Kowalski), and was originally based at 195 West Brookline Street, South End, Boston.

Karel Aponowicz died in a road traffic accident on June 24th, 1919. Following this, Chuck Kowalski operated the company alone as sole proprietor.

In November 1924, Chuck took on a Secretary, Patricja Adamczyk, for the day-to-day administration of the office, and to allow him more time for actual detective work.

In early 1925, Bartholomew and Penelope Steel approached Chuck with an offer of investment in the company, As a result of this, on June 29th 1925, a new expanded company was formed, subsuming the assets of the existing company, with the addition of financial investment from the Steels.

At this point the company moved to their current offices on the fourth floor of 112 Water Street.