Tom Burke
CEO
Tom is a forward-thinking, strategic leader with diverse management experience leading a global organization across multiple disciplines, including corporate leadership, operations (manufacturing/supply chain), business development (M&A, licensing), portfolio management, project management, P&L, sales and marketing. Particular strengths include insightful analytical thinking, creative business problem solving, team-oriented leadership approach and persuasive oral and written communication.
Tom has enjoyed success leading and managing a high function organization in the pharmaceutical sector including brands, branded generics, generics and consumer products. He is energized by developing and leading strategic initiatives to expand and grow the future of an organization.
Guiding values: integrity, honesty, persistence, respect, commitment, inquisitiveness, and learning.
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Andy Burrows
Corporate Finance Advisor and Founder of Supercharged Finance
Andy qualified as a Chartered Accountant in England in 1995, and has worked in business Finance since 1996, with the likes of Barclays, Centrica, Logica, and Zurich Insurance.
Having experienced a wide variety of Finance roles, including Finance Director, and having played key roles in both Finance and business transformation programs, Andy increasingly spends his time passing on the benefit of his wealth of experience as an advisor on projects to specific companies or to the broader finance community through Supercharged Finance - the company he founded to provide a multitude of online resources to Finance professionals
Andy is a sought-after corporate finance advisor, popular writer, empowering coach and a motivating online trainer.
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Solange Charas
Founder and CEO at HCMoneyball
Human Capital expert with 25+ years experience as Consultant, Practice Leader, Top Corporate Executive, and Board Director across all industry sectors. Adept at the strategic C-Suite/Board level, as well as “roll-up-your-sleeves” tactical level. M&A Due Diligence expert with 70+ completed transactions.
PhD research proves a direct and statistically significant relationship between Boards (4% impact) and C-Suite teams (20% impact) and corporate profitability. Developed proprietary products to effectively create and manage high-performing work teams (PhD focus); and identify organizational effectiveness and ROI of human capital investment.
Creative and innovative HR leadership, program design and culture/climate change agent. Experience in leading large and diverse programs and staffs. Extensive international experience including competency in five languages. Certified Team Coach.
Distinguished Principal Research Fellow at the Conference Board, and on the Advisory Board of the Human Capital Center
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Peter Chisambara
Founder & EPM Specialist at ERPM Insights
Peter is an Enterprise Performance Management specialist and the Founder of ERPM Insights. With over a decade experience working in finance, he helps business leaders implement strategy more effectively, make informed risk decisions and improve strategic/enterprise performance. Peter is passionate about the integration of strategy, risk and performance functions of the organization and ensure all work together towards the achievement of business objectives, resulting in effective decision-making and improved enterprise performance. His areas of expertise include strategy management, budgeting & forecasting, cost transformation, process improvement, reporting & analytics, and enterprise risk management.
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Contributed by John Cochran
President - Executive Forum
John Cochran, President of Executive Forum, has helped thousands of people in the Pacific Northwest build the skills needed to function as successful leaders at every leadership stage, from the frontline to the C-suite. As a CEO, corporate director and entrepreneur at several start-ups, John has personally experienced the issues and challenges facing companies today. His decades in business management convinced him of the key role leadership development plays in building and leading successful organizations.
Working in a variety of business sectors, John honed his own leadership skills as he led companies through mergers and successfully addressed productivity challenges in both domestic and international settings. John is an active participant in the community, supporting local development organizations and lending his leadership and team-building skills to his church and to youth athletic programs.
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Andrew Codd
Founder and Lead Producer at The Strengths in the Numbers Show
Andrew has 18 years experience in finance leadership and business partnering – developing accounting & finance talent to add value on the commercials and the numbers at recognizable brands like Pepsi, Virgin, Dell and a track record of driving sustainable profitable growth for local SMEs.
He is managing director and founder of an accounting and finance staffing company who match part-time top level talent, such as finance directors and controllers with SMEs, and keep his skills up to date by continuing to work as a part-time finance director for selected clients. As well as supporting SMEs he continues to consult with Dell Technologies on their recurring revenue and as-a-service lines of business.
He has also authored and published a category best selling book (Amazon US and UK) on Finance Business Partnering called “The Audacious Finance Partner: Reveals The Key Factors and Skills for Business Partnering Success”!
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Gary Cokins
Founder and CEO: Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC
Gary Cokins is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in enterprise and corporate performance management (EPM/CPM) methods and systems. He is the founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC. He began his career in industry with a Fortune 100 company in CFO and operations roles. Followed by 15 years in consulting with Deloitte, KPMG, and EDS (now part of HP). From 1997 until 2013 Gary was a Principal Consultant with SAS, a business analytics software vendor.
