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The TPG Team
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Bernard Plagman
Chairman
bplagman@techpargroup.com
(201) 457-0957
Bernard K. Plagman is co-founder and Chairman of TechPar Group (TPG), a technology advisory services company that consults on all facets of the Information Technology (IT) industry. TPG focuses on delivering strategic and tactical advisory services to Technology Investors, Technology Vendors, and Technology Users. In its first five years, TPG has grown to a team of more than 55 Advisors, delivering services to 100 clients. Mr. Plagman has over thirty years of experience as an expert in Data Management and in applying technology to solve business problems.
Prior to founding TPG, he served his clients as a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for the past 18 years. During the course of his career at PwC, Mr. Plagman was responsible for managing relationships with some of the Firm’s most prestigious clients, including FleetBoston Financial, Phillip Morris Cos., Nomura Securities International and AXA. At PwC, Mr. Plagman successfully founded new consulting businesses for the firm in three new markets: Data Warehousing, Customer Relationship Management and Enterprise Application Integration.
Previously he founded and operated The PLAGMAN Group, which specialized in “Technology Knowledge Transfer”, assisting clients with the selection, acquisition and integration of new technologies into their organizations. The Group delivered a calendar of over 500 public seminar days a year, thereby establishing its reputation and attracting a steady stream of new clients. The Group grew to approximately 50 people when it was successfully sold to Price Waterhouse as PW’s first Management Consulting acquisition. Prior to establishing his own firm, Mr. Plagman was an Executive VP at DBD Systems, Inc., a firm that specialized in Data Base Technology.
He has published and lectured widely in the field of Information Technology and its successful management. His John Wiley & Sons book, Data Dictionary/Directory Systems: Administration, Implementation and Control, is widely recognized as the pioneering text on Metadata Management. Mr. Plagman co-authored two books published by The Institute of Internal Auditors on topics of Audit and Control of Technology: one on Systems Programming and the other on Telecommunications. He has served on the CODASYL Systems Committee, contributing to the early development of technology architectures for distributed database computing. Mr. Plagman served for over ten years on The Institute of Internal Auditors’ Advanced Technology Committee and was the Chairman of the ACM’s Special Interest Group on Management of Data. Mr. Plagman holds a BBA degree in Applied Statistics from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA in Operations Research from City University of NY, Bernard Baruch Graduate School of Business.
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Charles Popper
CEO
cpopper@techpargroup.com
(201) 457-0954
Charles Popper joined TPG from
his most recent role as Vice Chairman and Chief Technologist for Orama
Partners, a boutique investment bank servicing and investing in high-tech
start-ups, with a strong focus upon Israeli companies. Previously, he was
Vice President -- Corporate Computer Resources and CIO at Merck & Co.,
Inc. from October, 1991 until January, 1999. He was responsible for all
areas of computer and telecommunications technology at Merck, including
application development, technical support, and operations. The scope of
his responsibility was worldwide and included support for all segments of
the company: research, manufacturing, marketing, and corporate
administration, in the areas of mainframe computers, minicomputers,
personal computers; voice and data communications, and videoconferencing.
Prior to joining Merck in October, 1991, Dr. Popper was a Partner in the
Management Consulting practice of Deloitte & Touche, where he
specialized in Information Technology consulting to clients in a wide
variety of industries, including banking, brokerage, insurance, retail,
public sector, health care, transportation, and law. His specific interests
included strategic information systems planning, advanced technology,
software development (CASE, object orientation, etc.), and image processing.
Dr. Popper received his B.A. (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa)
and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard, in Applied Mathematics and Computer
Science. He has worked as a mathematician for the National Security Agency,
a research scientist at Bell Laboratories, Director of Advanced Technology
for American Express, and Vice President of Advanced Technology at Lehman
Brothers Kuhn Loeb. Among his accomplishments are: leadership in the
application of microprocessors at Bell Labs, design of the first Bell Labs
8-bit microprocessor chip architecture, design of American Express'
image-based cardmember billing system, and introduction of Unix technology
to Lehman Brothers. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the New York
University MS in Information Systems program, a joint degree program
offered by the Stern School of Business and the Courant Institute Computer
Science Department; the Advisory Board of the MIS program of Yeshiva University’s Sy Syms School of
Business; and the Editorial Advisory Board of Computerworld. His paper,
“A Holistic Framework for IT Governance,” was published by the
Harvard Program on Information Resource Policy.
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Alex Berson
Co-founder – Inactive
aberson@techpargroup.com
(201) 457-0956
Alex Berson came to TPG from his
executive position as a Chief Technology Officer of Vertical Market
Solutions for Entrust, a global leader in Internet and Enterprise Security
solutions. Dr. Berson holds a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences and M.S. in
Applied Mathematics, and is an internationally recognized expert, author,
educator and practitioner with over 20 years of experience in information
technologies. Throughout his career Dr. Berson held key technology and
management positions in companies like Merrill Lynch, Dun & Bradstreet,
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Solomon Smith Barney and other, focusing on
e-Business technologies, Internet security, PKI and PMI, eCRM, data
management, data warehousing and data mining; transaction processing;
enterprise application integration and middleware, client/server
distributed computing; and object technologies. Dr. Berson is actively
engaged in the technical due diligence activities for a variety of VC and
investment companies, including management of the technical due diligence
department for Merrill Lynch technology Investment Banking group, and was
instrumental in bringing to market several high visibility IPO and M&A
transactions.
Alex Berson sits on advisory boards of several technology and
financial services companies including Bank of Nova Scotia, Cohera Corp.,
Enterprise Engineering Inc., Evincible Inc., SoftLabs Inc., Avesta
Technologies, Arxan Technologies and UDICo. Dr. Berson an advisory editor
for the McGraw-Hill Professional Books division. He has published numerous
technical articles in trade magazines, and is a best-selling author and
co-author of a number of professional books including “Building data Mining Applications for CRM”,
"Data Warehousing, Data Mining and OLAP"; "Client/Server Architecture"; "SYBASE and Client/Server Computing"; and "APPC: Introduction to LU6.2"; he is also a
contributing author of the PricewaterhouseCoopers 2003-2004 Technology
Forecast on Information Security
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