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TechPar Group Associates
Bjarne BergAssociate Advisor Bjarne Berg has over 13 years data warehousing and almost 20
years IT experience. He is a leading expert in SAP Business Intelligence. As
a senior manager and director in large consulting firms, he has extensive
experience in managing Fortune-500 implementations of SAP BW and traditional
data warehouses. Previously he was a senior manager at
PricewaterhouseCoopers' global data warehouse consulting group, and has
worked in the data warehouse groups of NationsBank, Bank of America and Bank
of Hawaii. Samuel DavidovicsAssociate Advisor Samuel Davidovics is a skillful hands-on business oriented executive with 30+ years of experience leading information management and technology resources in the healthcare, financial, legal, eBusiness, and publishing industries. As the CIO of several large corporations, he has proven his ability to provide strategic leadership, reduce capital and operating costs, improve performance, and strengthen customer service. As the President of a software company that developed one of the most successful online litigation software products, he demonstrated his customer focused project leadership and his in-depth technical expertise. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science specializing in database optimizations, he has a proven track record in developing and building new technology products in online databases, state of the art software, systems integration, multimedia and Internet products. Jeffrey FeldmanAssociate Advisor Jeffrey Feldman has over twenty years of experience as technology start-up operator and investor. He has core domain expertise in the areas of telecommunications, data communications and specialty materials. He offers a full range of senior executive operating skills encompassing all aspects of the company lifecycle, e.g. from the earliest stages of business planning, building senior operating teams, raising capital and growing businesses all the way to dealing with restructurings, cost containments and re-gearing during downturn periods. In terms of industry expertise, he has worked with specialty materials, including optical substrates, polymeric coatings and liquid crystals, and with telecommunications systems and services, including broadband data services, Voice-Over-IP services and TV delivery. Jeffrey was instrumental in driving the formation and operation of Everest Broadband Networks (aka EveresTV), and has run the firm as President & CEO since 2000. Prior to launching Everest he was a Senior Vice President at Pequot Capital Management and a member of the General Partner in Pequot’s initial venture fund. He has been active in early-stage investments in the communications sector, specifically those that target ISPs, telecommunications carriers and other broadband service providers. He has been involved in several of Pequot’s private equity investments including Alidian Networks, Arrowpoint Communications, Elastic Networks, Ennovate Networks, Millennium Optical Networks, Sycamore Networks and Tellium. Dr. Feldman joined the Pequot family of funds in 1998 coming from Digital Media Capital, LLC where he led investments in Critical Path and Sandpiper Networks. Dr. Feldman received his B.S. in Organic Chemistry from the Nestor FigueroaAssociate Advisor Mr. Figueroa brings over twelve years of management consulting experience in large engagements in Public and Private Sectors. As Principal of Nagnoi, Inc., Mr. Figueroa is responsible of management and development of the Consulting Practice. He has extensive project management experience, leading large projects in the areas of Data Warehousing, e-Business Intelligence and Analytics, Knowledge Management, Systems Integration, Process Improvement, and Change Integration. Mr. Figueroa serves as the Manager for the Development of the Public Health Statistical System for the Puerto Rico Department of Health. He has significant involvement in the educational sector (K-12) in Puerto Rico, as well as Energy (Electric and Gas), Financial Services (Retail, Investment, and Insurance), and Publishing Industry in the USA. Prior to Nagnoi, Inc., he worked for eight years as a Principal Consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he conducted extensive system development for various Fortune 500 clients providing business management and technical consulting. He has also experience in the Products Industry (Manufacturing/Supply Chain Management Processes) and relevant involvement in Research & Development (R&D) for a major research university. Nestor obtained his Project Management Professional (PMP) certification in 2005 from the Project Management Institute and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering from Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA. Stuart GlazerAssociate Advisor Mr. Glazer has twenty years leadership experience working with Corporate and Business Unit Executives focusing on process improvement and technology integration to solve critical business issues. As a Managing Partner for PricewaterhouseCoopers Oracle Consulting Practice he focused the organization on client partnering, getting to know the business, working with the users to understand their issues, then working with the IT department to solve the critical problems. Mr. Glazer has built processes and controls around his clients' financial systems, ensuring separation of duties are clearly documented, implementing control procedures around the processing of legal entities, departmental processing of cash related transactions, review and analysis of account activity, etc. to help client reduce risk and meet audit standards. He has also designed, configured and implemented numerous ERP software packages, as well as led application development departments in custom building sales and marketing analytic systems, financial and operational data warehouses, Executive Information solutions, Business Intelligence Cubes and Executive Dashboards in order to improve user productivity and get users quick and easy access to reports and data while ensuring the reports and data are secure for accurate financial reporting. Prior to joining Price Waterhouse, Mr. Glazer organized and grew
the package application business for Cap Gemini Mr. Glazer has accomplished this significant practice building by partnering with the business, focusing teams on the users needs in order to solve their business and technology issues as well as mentoring staff to understand the value of solid project management and risk mitigation. As a lead Partner for PricewaterhouseCoopers, he was responsible for the strategic direction, practice management including skills mix/development and utilization, profitability/gross margin, performing quality assurance reviews on all practice engagements, as well as client and vendor relationship management. Throughout his career, Mr. Glazer has worked closely with his client's senior executives (CFO, CIO, COO), identifying and prioritizing critical business issues to be resolved during their fiscal year. He has then worked with these executives to set a vision for their implementation project teams by defining solutions, project scope, success criteria, project budgets and setting up project management offices to ensure effective project communications and successful implementations. Mr. Glazer holds a BBA degree in Economics from The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School with concentrations in Accounting, Finance and Computer Science. Andy GoletzAssociate Advisor Andy Goletz is an IT professional with over 30 years of consulting experience in a wide variety of industries, including: Pharmaceuticals, Telecommunications, Energy, and Manufacturing. Mr. Goletz has strong program/project management background as evidenced in client engagements such as: the establishment of a Project Management Office; the managing of system application development efforts [e.g., Order to Cash, Manufacturing (MRP), Billing, Procurement, HR/Payroll, and Financial (GL/AP/AR)]; and the direction of Customer Resource Management, Enterprise Systems Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, and Networking and Corporate Internet Portal practices. Andy has served his clients as Partner in Price Waterhouse and Managing Director at Business Edge where he served his clients in areas that included: ·
PMO Development & Management ·
Large Scale Project & Program Management ·
Strategic Information Systems Planning ·
Practice Management ·
Account Management ·
Vendor Management ·
Resource Management Mr. Goletz earned his Bachelor of Arts from Steven GrossmanAssociate Advisor Steven Grossman is a seasoned senior information technology executive and consultant with 20 years of experience as Chief Technology Officer, program/project manager and technical architect for a range of diverse information technology infrastructures and applications. Steven’s expertise is in architecting and implementing holistic solutions that satisfy both the competing business’ data/process needs in tandem with internal and regulatory objectives including information security, performance, cost and supportability. Most recently Steven served as Chief Technology Officer for Creative Cost Management, an expense management startup, responsible for all aspects of development and operation of corporate technology in support of rapid business growth. Prior to CCM, Steven consulted at major financial services institutions for 12 years, specializing in business intelligence, risk management, business continuity and security applications. As an independent consultant, he was instrumental in the successful implementation of the NYSE's backup trading floor and the design and implementation of physical and information security technical architectures protecting critical operational assets. Additional significant engagements include the design of an integrated e-commerce development platform for CSFB and co-management and hardware architecture design of Merrill Lynch’s global counterparty credit risk infrastructure. Prior to consulting independently, Steven was a senior manager and co-leader of PricewaterhouseCooper’s New York Data Warehousing practice, where he managed and architected many data warehouse and business intelligence implementations for Fortune 500 clientele. Steven has presented at industry conferences on data warehouse
security and high volume data warehouse architecture tuning. He holds an
undergraduate degree from Lee GruenfeldAssociate Advisor Lee Gruenfeld has twenty years of experience in both the direct management of systems development organizations and consulting to clients in the areas of strategic information systems and technology planning, general business strategy and organization, computer-related law and litigation, contact center operations and systems, and general application specification and design. Andrew GyenesAssociate Advisor Andrew has over 30 years experience in technology based strategic and operations consulting, global IT management, CEO and COO level software company management, and successful company turnarounds. Andrew’s career started with almost a decade at IBM, which culminated running the scientific and large commercial systems business for the Eastern region of the SBC division. This formed the foundation of Andrew’s technical and managerial expertise, including projects as diverse as nuclear reactor simulators, satellite tracking and large scale commercial systems development. At Warner Communications, (now Time/Warner) Andrew was responsible for global IT during the era of Atari and Qube, the first interactive Cable TV. Responsibilities included architecting the company’s IT strategy and executing its global deployment. In subsequent years Andrew leveraged his extensive experience helping companies to formulate strategies for short and long term growth as well as the implementation of operational tactics for profitability. As an entrepreneur, Andrew further honed his management skills as the founder and CEO of a B2B web based competitive marketplace for the Restaurant industry. Most recently, Andrew was responsible for the turnaround to profitability of FatWire Software, a web content management company. As COO and ultimately as CEO, Andrew turned the company’s multimillion dollar loss in 2004 into growing revenues and profitability in each year from 2005 to 2007. He continues to be a Director on the Board of Fatwire Corporation. Andrew has a Masters Degree in Mathematics from the Courant Institute at NYU. Sigmund HandelmanAssociate Advisor Sig has served more than 27 years in the IBM Research Division. He worked as a Special Research Associate to Dr. Benoit Mandelbrot, and created Fractal programs starting in 1974. Sig contributed to technical projects in graphics and systems programming, and received an IBM Outstanding Achievement Award for printer development (1982). IBM sponsored Sig for a Sabbatical at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Turning to Open Systems, Sig led projects in UNIX, TCP/IP, Network Management, creating program products for IBM in these areas. He participated in POSIX and IETF work. From 1996 to 2003 Sig led efforts in Research on XML, ebXML and Business Services in the Auto Industry and participated in the development of ANX, the Automotive Network Exchange. He was the chairman of the XML Work Group of the Auto Industry Action Group (AIAG) and has received three Outstanding Achievements awards from the AIAG (2000, 2002 and 2003). He did undergraduate and graduate work at Yeshiva University in NYC, and is currently an Adjunct Instructor in the School of Continuing and Professional Education of New York University. He has recently taught courses on Application Servers (J2EE, .NET and PHP) and the Semantic Web and Autonomic Computing. Sig has participated in a team to create a large ASP.NET website and has worked on SharePoint 2007 projects. Carl HartmanAssociate Advisor Carl has over 25 years of experience in IT in a variety of roles from marketing and sales to development, support, and training. He has worked with a number of start-up technology companies to create and implement marketing and business development strategies designed to gain market recognition, secure funding, and drive revenue growth. Carl spent nearly 18 years at Computer Associates, where he held
executive positions in marketing, sales, business development and strategic
alliances. Among the roles CA, several
are notable: ·
VP Marketing for Information Management Solutions, a $200 million
business covering database, application development, and business
intelligence technologies, including the launch of several new brands and a
leadership position in the nascent Enterprise Information Portal market; ·
VP Field Marketing, in which he started and built an 80-person team
which delivered corporate marketing resources to local sales geographies
throughout ·
VP Partner Programs, where ·
VP Sales Operations, in which Carl hand-picked a small
“commando-style” team and created an eLearning solution from
scratch to deliver over 100 hours of interactive industry and product
training content deployed to over 8,000 customer-facing employees in less
than one year.
Carl is well-known in the software industry as a speaker on technology strategy at client gatherings, industry events and conferences, and is noted for his ability to quickly understand technologies and develop innovative ways to bring integrated solutions to market. He holds a degree in specialized business with a major in computer management. Neal HillAssociate Advisor Neal Hill is a Corporate Development Executive with over 30 years of experience in the software, telecommunications, media and entertainments markets. Neal brings a clear and insightful approach to every project he is involved in, with a long record of successful investments, acquisitions and strategic development projects to his credit. Mr. Hill appears regularly as a speaker at industry events and has been widely published in trade and business journals. He attended Washington University in St. Louis, majoring in physics and political science. Lew KammanAssociate Advisor Lew Kamman has over 25 years of experience as an IT executive and consultant to CIO's/CTO's, guiding and developing IT organizations through infrastructure and operations maturity, applications development and integration, eBusiness development, strategy and architecture, and leadership development. His expertise includes orchestrating people, processes, vendors, and technologies to achieve business and IT objectives; defining large programs and projects and leading them from beginning to end; executing transformations/migrations from a current state to a target future state; performing process and technology current state assessments/evaluations, future state definitions, gap analyses, and creating the roadmap and plans to get from the current state to the future state; designing high-level technical architectures at the enterprise or line of business level, particularly Internet-based architectures integrating legacy systems. Prior to joining TPG, Mr. Kamman founded and directed Groupware Integration Services and Lew Kamman Consulting, Inc. Through those firms he served as Enterprise Portal Architect for New York Life, led the development of the Customer Experience Architecture for JPMorganChase Treasury Operations, developed the 3-year Operations and Infrastructure Roadmap for Lord Abbett, and consulted to IBM for collaborative computing architecture and deployment. In these roles, Lew operated both as a strategic counselor/advisor and a hands-on implementation project manager. As an IT executive, Mr. Kamman was Vice President of Sales and Marketing Technologies at OppenheimerFunds, where he created the Firm's eBusiness capabilities. He served as consultant to Oppenheimer's CIO for IT strategy, best practices, and leadership development. He also served as consultant to Goldman Sachs' CIO for planning and strategy. As Vice President at JPMorganChase, Mr. Kamman established and led the Collaborative Computing Development and Infrastructure group moving the Firm from email and Lotus Notes technologies into transaction-based Web/Internet services, including the deployment of the first Internet-based Investment Research publishing facility on Wall Street. At DeutscheBank, Mr. Kamman established and led the Global
Trading Information Architecture and Applications Integration, creating
essentially a portal for Traders using ‘green-screen' technology 15 years
before Internet portals were invented. There he also established the Firm's
first globally decentralized, standards-based computing group spanning Mr. Kamman graduated with honors from John KneilingAssociate Advisor John Kneiling has 20 years of experience guiding companies, governments, and other institutions throughout the world as an IT executive, consultant, author, and lecturer. Prior to joining TPG, Mr. Kneiling was a Director of WebEAI, where he created the XML and Web Services strategy for Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Global Strategic Sourcing Group to decrease costs, increase the speed of supply management, and enhance competitiveness. As Vice President at MetLife, Mr. Kneiling established and led the Information Architecture group in developing Information Channels, MetLife's program to leverage technology, information architecture and governance to provide businesses and application developers rapid access to accurate, relevant enterprise data, information and knowledge. By connecting enterprise data to new web and traditional applications, the ability of diverse business units to easily translate business vocabularies and use existing data and systems across business lines was significantly enhanced. He also co-established an Enterprise Architecture Council for MetLife’s CTO to discover common business requirements, and to reach consensus on a uniform architectural framework and implementation technology. This allowed senior management to eliminate redundant application projects and infrastructure technology. Mr. Kneiling was a Principal at DataBase Associates, where he
planned, designed, and implemented Enterprise Architecture Frameworks and
Middleware Infrastructures, for Swiss Bank Corporation, leading a team to
design and implement a comprehensive customer-focused data model and
information distribution framework. He developed and implemented a
comprehensive Global Data Standards Program for Overseas-Chinese Banking
Corporation in As founder and CTO of SDLC Technologies (Canada) and as Senior Manager at Price Waterhouse, Mr. Kneiling managed the product development for Distributed Data Integration software, organized marketing programs with IBM, negotiated VAR agreements with other partners, and provided IT architecture, strategic planning, and project management consulting services for Amdahl Computers, The Government of Canada, The Bank of Montreal, AT&T, the US Army, Bell Canada, Chase Bank, Viacom, The Limited, The Thompson group and other US and Canadian clients. Mr. Kneiling has participated as a speaker in numerous user and
professional groups, and has authored a number of publications on Information
Technology in the Gerald M. LeBowAssociate Advisor Gerald LeBow has over 30 years experience developing, implementing and marketing technology in a number of business areas including Broadcasting, Telecommunications, Emergency Alert and Warning, IT systems integration, Data Networking and Wireless systems. Mr. LeBow was Co-founder of 3 public companies including Sage Broadcasting Corporation, Sage Alerting Systems, Inc. and Ameridata Technologies, Inc, a $ 2.2 billion IT company which was sold to General Electric. He was also a Co-founder and Co-chairman of Vytek Wireless, a wireless systems integration company. He is currently a Founder and CTO of Convergence Technologies, Inc, the parent company of Core Business Technology Services (Core BTS), a $100M computer systems integration company that focuses on the convergence of Voice, Video and Data. For more than two decades, Mr. LeBow has also been President of
Technical Marketing Consultants, Inc., a firm that has served companies such
as Lucent Technologies, Robert Bosch GmbH, Data Speed, Freeplay Energy,
MusicGremlin and others. He has been instrumental in supporting
technology companies with their financing, developing marketing strategies
and with market implementation. Mr. LeBow has presented numerous technical
papers at the IEEE, NAB, CEA and introduced a number of
Communications technologies to Mr. LeBow holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical
Engineering from the David E. LevineAssociate Advisor David Levine is a seasoned international sales executive with
over 10 years experience in the telecommunications industry. As one of IDT's
first employees, he initially worked as an international sales manager in the
Callback Department, where he built and managed a network of more than 100
overseas agents selling discounted international long distance services. He
then served as the director of the department, during which time he
established it as the most profitable division within the company and helped
to promote IDT as the industry leader. He later worked as a manager of
gateway services for ITXC, a wholesaler of international VOIP services in Dr. Zvi LoewyAssociate Advisor Dr. Zvi Loewy has over eighteen years experience in technology and business development primarily focused in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostics and engineering industries. Dr. Loewy has been a significant contributor, inventor and business strategist for four new biotechnology start-up companies. Most recently, Dr. Loewy invented and led development of several genomics / proteomics technology platforms, and directed a strategic initiative that resulted in the acquisition of a biotechnology company. A subset of his patented twenty-three inventions have given rise to the formation of Rosedale Medical, Inc. a glucose monitoring company, and the transition of Orchid Biosciences, Inc. from a drug discovery – combinatorial chemistry company into a leading micro-fluidic biochip producer for drug discovery, identity testing and diagnostic applications. Dr. Loewy is highly experienced in managing complex technology and business development programs for government as well as commercial clients. To create value for several start up and mid-size companies he has focused on internal inventions, licensing, acquisitions and creating and implementing a vision. Dr. Loewy’s unique experience with start-up companies is complemented with his tenure at large companies including Roche and Sarnoff Corporation. Dr. Loewy received his B.A. from Michael McCabeAssociate Advisor Michael McCabe is a former IBM Executive and PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting Partner with more than twenty five years of experience in the development and implementation of technical solutions for business problems. In his consulting career his business focus has been the capital markets and investment management industries where he has significant expertise in operations and technology, strategy, merger / integration, process improvement, compliance, controls, project and program management. Over the course of his career he has conducted numerous assessments of organizations (strategic and tactical), developed alternatives and strategy (organizational, buy vs. build) as well as related implementation plans. He has led the selection, development and implementation of information and technology systems (internal as well as outsource). Much of this work has been focused on the use of technology for trading, surveillance and portfolio management; front, middle, and back office operations; and organizational design and controls.. He has extensive experience in the development of custom trading systems and bond analytic / quant trading applications. Prior to IBM / PwC Mr. McCabe worked in a number of capacities for Wall Street firms in the front and middle offices focusing on mortgage backed securities and corporate bond trading as well as risk management for capital markets organizations. He has deep knowledge and experience in front, middle and back office. He was responsible for the development of a variety of MBS, CMO and CDO modeling and structuring applications. Mr. McCabe graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Chemical Engineering and additionally received both a BS and MS in Computer Science from Boston University. He has authored and presented numerous papers on a range of topics (AML, Surveillance, Document Management, Emerging Trends in the Industry). Marilee McTigueAssociate Advisor Marilee McTigue is an information technology executive with over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. She has experience in all aspects of pharmaceutical operations including discovery research, pre-clinical and clinical development, sales and marketing, manufacturing, finance, and administration within large pharmaceutical companies, virtual pharmaceutical companies and contract research and sales organizations (CROs and CSOs). She has extensive knowledge of the pre-clinical and clinical development functions. Marilee has been responsible for IT strategy and operational planning, IT governance, program and project management, information architecture, applications implementation and technical operations. As a senior IT executive with worldwide responsibilities, Ms. McTigue has:
Most recently, Marilee was the vice president of Global IT Strategy and Program Management at Quintiles Transnational. She has also held executive positions with AAIPharma and GlaxoSmithKline where she implemented transformational IT capabilities and delivered innovative solutions that improved business performance. In addition, she has many years of consulting experience with Ernst & Young where she worked with fortune 100 companies in financial services, publishing, and life sciences. Ms. McTigue has a BS in medical technology and an MBA in management information systems from the State University of NY at Albany. She is a certified medical technologist with the American Society of Clinical Pathologists (MT/ASCP) and has experience in clinical chemistry, hematology, and microbiology. Alejandro MimóAssociate Advisor Alex Mimo has 19 years of experience in various aspects of Information Technology. He has advised companies from around the world on new technologies, powerful architectures, effective software development methods, and best practices. He has given numerous technical presentations and seminars at clients, user groups, and national conferences. His clients have included companies from the Consumer Credit, Brokerage, Insurance, and Software Development industries. As President of Strategic Information Management, Mr. Mimo
managed several software development efforts and provided consulting services
to the firm’s clients. He has a proven track record as a Software
Architect for highly complex, large-scale business applications. He
evaluated, recommended and selected key technologies for large projects. At
Wells Fargo Financial, Mr. Mimo was a lead Architect and As an Associate at DataBase Associates, Mr. Mimo advised clients on Database Design, Client/Server and N-Tier Distributed Architectures, and Object-Oriented Analysis and Design methods. His seminars covered topics such as Enterprise Client/Server technology, Object Frameworks, and Object-to-Relational Mapping. He was a regular speaker at the DB/Expo and IT Forum conferences, and participated in Data Administration and Meta Data standards committees. He also provided litigation support that lead to a winning verdict. Prior to his consulting career, Mr. Mimo held technical positions at Charles Schwab and Bachman Information Systems. He designed and developed several artificial intelligence systems, software development tools, and business applications. While at Charles Schwab, he provided guidance on the effective use of CASE tools and became the President of the Bay Area Bachman User Group. Stewart S. MorickAssociate Advisor Stewart Morick joined TechPar Group after over 33 years of in depth hands on experience in solving complex business issues through successful implementations of technology and organization change. Mr. Morick provides the requisite reviews, directions, and hands on work to achieve the customer goals. Mr. Morick’s cross industry experiences provides a source of best practices, approaches, and enablers in meeting each customer’s challenges and to exceed their expectations. Stewart has project managed an array of large scale multi-year implementations that span across departments, business function, and organization boundaries. He has numerous successful custom and package implementation projects including:
Mr. Morick actively participates in project and organization quality and risk reviews. He provides the requisite “third party” reviews for all aspects of systems development life cycle proposal development, to vendor selection assistance, project startup, project development, and post implementation deployment. A selection of his risk oriented projects include:
Mr. Morick performs technology and organization reviews that will assist companies to effectively manage and leverage their technology and organization investments to maximize return. The following are selected samples of projects Mr. Morick participated in:
Barbara A. NicholsAssociate Advisor Barbara Nichols is an accomplished Information Technology professional with 30 years of experience assisting clients and software vendors to develop IT solutions and products to leverage data and information to their strategic advantage. Barbara has specialized experience in metadata modeling and management with a focus on integration in repository-based environments. She founded the consulting company Metaview360 in 2002 and has focused her business in the areas of data and information management. She has assisted dozens of international companies including a number of Financial Services institutions to implement their 'best practice' data management through her consulting in the areas of data integration, data warehousing, metadata management, and information systems architecture. Barbara has articulated and implemented metadata architectures for Fortune 500 clients which have included data quality assessment, data analysis, data modeling, ETL processes and business intelligence implementation via an integrated meta data repository. She has developed detailed processes to analyze and map data for ETL implementation of Data Warehouses and defined the organizational roles and responsibilities for data governance to facilitate corporate compliance with current government regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley. Barbara is a frequent
speaker at DAMA and the Wilshire Conferences on the topics of integrated
metadata life-cycles, data governance, data architecture, and information
management. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Michel RenardAssociate Advisor Michel Renard has over 30 years experience in applying
technology and business process improvement to help companies create business
value through process re-engineering, enabled by information technology. He
has a varied background working with firms in the Pharmaceutical, Chemical,
Food, Aerospace, Automotive and Process Controls industries, where he led the
development and application of technologies that changed the game in
Manufacturing, Supply Chain, R & D, Engineering and Operations. Michel
has extensive experience in working in culturally diverse settings, having
managed projects in North America, Western and Eastern Europe and Before joining TPG in 2004, Michel was Director, Business Process Solutions at Merck & Co., Inc., where he was responsible for a team of internal consultants, charged with improving business impact, business cases, project management and governance in the delivery of projects by the Corporate Information Systems organization. He contributed to the Portfolio Management, Electronic Notebook, CFR Part 11 Task Force, Document Management, IS Architecture, Recruiting Process and Balanced Scorecard initiatives. At AlliedSignal, Michel created the vision, value proposition and program to select and roll-out a family of standard Manufacturing Execution Systems technologies, applied to the varied production environments there: continuous, batch, discrete and designed to order. He participated in the integration of the Honeywell Corporation with AlliedSignal after the merger. He conceived a program to increase market penetration of Honeywell in the pharmaceutical industry for their building climate control and process control products. This was accomplished by defining and applying product development and project delivery processes and documentation that follows the FDA requirements in Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and 21 CFR Part 11. At General Electric, Michel was first responsible for a team of
scientists, engineers and technicians responsible to develop advanced
automated machines to manufacture new product prototypes in the lighting
business. After GE purchased Tungsram, a Hungarian manufacturing
conglomerate, he volunteered to transform and westernize their machine
building business. He had a chance to utilize his facilitation and team
building skills in reaching consensus and commitment to apply western
processes in costing, estimating, and project management. Subsequently, he
pioneered the use of Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma techniques, applied to
transforming old production facilities in the Midwest and At Nabisco, as Director of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Michel developed or adapted sensor systems to measure the physical and chemical properties of the materials characteristics, processes and equipment conditions, needed for the automation of manufacturing processes in baked products, canned fruits and vegetables, and frozen foods. During his first tenure at Merck, he developed process control technology to automate the production of drugs: chemical synthesis, fermentation and biotechnology, the finishing and sterile processes. He also pioneered the use of computers to automate research by applying them to operate or control analytical instruments, or to operate “lights out facilities” using robots, machine vision and automated analyses. During his first Honeywell service, Michel developed climate control systems for large building complexes like the World Trade Center, NY and the Seattle Tacoma airport, WA. He developed a climate modeling program to predict savings in energy by using Honeywell climate control technology and initiated after hours education of engineers in process control automation. As a Re | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
