Jim Grew
The Grew Company
Since 1993, Jim Grew has been assisting mid-size organizations to improve effectiveness and performance, delivering these building blocks for success:
Strategic company plans that inform daily operations
Goals-driven team cultures that hang on to improvements
Effective Key Executive Teams
Systematic process improvement
Consistent sustained performance growth
Jim, a Stanford MBA works closely with you and your key executives to give you a competitive edge. Together you will:
Clarify current problems and opportunities company-wide
Build an improvement plan that the business can afford
Mentor your executives to assure execution of the plan
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Paul Gundersen
Vice President North American Sales and Partnerships at Attain Insight
Paul has worked in a variety of strategy, analytics, corporate, and entrepreneurial roles. He has a broad background, is an excellent communicator, has directed complex efforts, and enjoys bridging the gap between business and technical communities. He adds value in many aspects of running a business/operation.
Seasoned business leader:
- Career Focus | Most of my career has focused on aligning people on strategic priorities
- Complex Challenges | Expert at bringing order to chaos and driving managed change
- Compliments | Business background is complimented by a deep background in technology
- Company exposure | Startup to Enterprise
- Aligning Stakeholders | Skilled at interfacing at all levels of the organization
- Subject Matter Expertise | Subject matter expert in Business Intelligence and Planning
Paul has:
- driven sales and strategy in various entrepreneurial ventures
- worked with Accenture in delivery and deal shaping
- built/sold FirstQuarter (an entrepreneurial startup)
- served as CIO for Right Management Consultants and Strategic Distribution
- worked in various leadership capacities for Cognos, Microsoft, and Du Pont
- performed extensive research on the US Stock Market and built a real-time trading system
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Katharine Halpin
Katharine is a former CPA who spent her accounting career in tax, audit and internal consulting. In 1995 she formed The Halpin Companies to address the issues she observed everyday in transitions and transactions; the people issues. Since 1995 she has helped leadership teams accelerate the growth of their companies - often by 2-3x - simply by getting the right people in the right roles, focused on the right priorities and building team and organizational-wide alignment. Her tools and methods are simple, practical and provide immediate relief from challenges related to people and processes.
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Eric Hart
CEO of NPI Technology Management
Eric is NPI’s chief executive and owner, and brings to the position more than 25 years in technology management with the company. Having designed, implemented and supported over 1,000 separate networks in his career, Eric has seen how excellence in technology investment and operations can be the fuel that powers business growth and success. He has particular experience in data communications and application performance, and extensive knowledge of security standards and infrastructure management.
Eric holds several advanced certifications, and he consults about intellectual property protection and conducts security audits for IPC — the Association Connecting Electronics Industries®, a global trade organization. He contributes articles to CFO.University and various publications, and speaks regularly about current security issues on television and at industry events.
Eric is an active member of various community organizations, and is past president of the Board of Directors of Local Motion, a non-profit that promotes people-powered transportation. He is a sailor and enjoys the outdoors with his wife and two sons.
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Brian Higgins
Principal: Management Resource Technologies Ltd
Extensive experience, skills in Lean-based financial analysis as well as operational, quality and overall performance management. Original developer of Activity Value Management® (AVM®) that integrates advanced Activity Based Costing with Value Management, customer loyalty, and employee engagement to improve financial and operational performance - awarded “Best Practice by the American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC). FP&A projects for prior employers and clients consistently produced average financial improvements exceeding $8M per 1,000 employees - equivalent to 8% to 15% of revenues while enhancing the customer/employee experience. Skilled in all facets of Sarbanes-Oxley, including narration, control documentation, test script development, and auditing. Certified Six Sigma Black Belt by the American Society for Quality (ASQ). Value Management practitioner producing an average reduction of over 35% of product costs without sacrificing quality or customer satisfaction. Documented success developing unique solutions that exceed financial/operational objectives by selectively combining proven methods from a number of disciplines (financial analysis, risk assessment/control, Six Sigma, survey assessment, process management, etc.). Extensive experience as both an internal/external consultant has afforded the opportunity of working with many improvement techniques across a number of diverse organizations - specific results and success in improving revenue generation while optimizing internal costs to achieve significant gains in performance.
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Glenn Hopper
Managing Director, Head of AI
Glenn Hopper is Managing Director, Head of AI at VAI Consulting and the author of Deep Finance: Corporate Finance in the Information Age. VAI focuses on four crucial areas—Data, Analytics, AI, and Cloud Services; designed specifically from the perspective of CFO’s and CTO’s. Let’s work together to position your finance team at the forefront of digital transformation and future growth. Glenn recently opened RoboCFO.ai to help finance and operations leaders design and implement intelligent systems that automate up to 80% of routine analysis. Contact him to learn more about how he can help you achieve your organization’s goals through strategic innovation.
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Jackson Lewis P.C.
Jackson Lewis P.C. is a law firm with more than 800 attorneys in major cities nationwide serving clients across a wide range of practices and industries. Having built its reputation on providing premier workplace law representation to management, the firm has grown to include leading practices in the areas of government relations, healthcare and sports law. The firm’s commitment to client service, depth of expertise and innovation draws clients to Jackson Lewis for excellent value-driven legal advice.
