Managing Director at The Highland Group
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Managing Director at The Highland Group
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Seasoned and dynamic global executive with more than twenty-four (24) years of experience elevating organizational performance through expert orchestration of business strategies including start-up, expansion, turnaround and mergers for public and privately held enterprises. Public and private company CEO, President, CXO experience. Former Global Partner in Big 4 Consulting Firm. Extensive leadership and operational experience throughout Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas.
Enterprise Software; Services - Strategy, Management Consulting, Change Management & Systems Integration; Growth, Corporate Renewal, Mergers & Acquisitions including post-merger integration; International Operations Leadership; Corporate Governance
(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)
January 2009 — Present (7 months)
The Highland Group is a global business consulting firm founded in 1991. We provide business consulting with proven professionals who address each client and their particular needs as a unique situation.
Our senior professional consultants bring extensive business experience from a wide variety of industries and disciplines to help clients meet their goals and realize their potential. Each represents a minimum of 15 years of successful consulting experience often in addition to similar industry experience. Our focus is on delivering sustained results for our clients.
(Computer Software industry)
September 2008 — January 2009 (5 months)
rPath is the company that is pioneering the virtual appliance approach for application distribution and management. Virtual appliances are a key enabler of cloud computing.
rBuilder and the rPath Lifecycle Management Platform automate the creation, configuration, management and maintenance of application images for virtualized and cloud computing environments. By producing application images that are optimized for any hypervisor, rPath frees the application from the underlying hardware, and enables a better model for development, deployment and support.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
June 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 8 months)
Intersect Software's flagship product, CrossPoint, provides the leading Program, Resource & Portfolio management solution focused specifically on Product Development organizations - addressing Schedule Visibility, Schedule Predictability, Schedule Accountability.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2001 — December 2008 (7 years 10 months)
Strategic and advisory services to public and privately held software enterprises, including Interim CEO/CXO services.
(Internet industry)
June 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 2 months)
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; VSCN; Computer Software industry)
April 2001 — January 2007 (5 years 10 months)
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; BVSN; Computer Software industry)
May 2002 — July 2003 (1 year 3 months)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2000 — April 2001 (1 year 2 months)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2000 — January 2001 (1 year 1 month)
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 1998 — January 2000 (1 year 9 months)
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1997 — May 1998 (1 year 5 months)
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1995 — December 1996 (2 years)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)
June 1992 — December 1994 (2 years 7 months)
(Accounting industry)
September 1989 — May 1992 (2 years 9 months)
Graduate Diploma in Computing , Computer Science , 1984 — 1986
Bachelor of Commerce , (Accounting, Economics, Commercial Law) , 1981 — 1983