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Consultants
Every associate of Productive Enterprises has years of
corporate real world experience and demonstrates the highest ethical
standards and interpersonal and technical skills in working with
clients.
John Holton
Supply chain optimization and inventory cost reduction
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John has
more than 18 years of experience in strategic procurement, materials,
and supply chain management. He started his career at Hewlett-Packard,
where he spent eight years in a variety of management positions,
affecting much of HP’s supply chain activity. He joined Trimble
Navigation Ltd. in 1995, where he held two senior roles in supply chain
management. John holds a BS in Operations Management and an MBA from the
University of Arizona, Tucson. |
Francine Gordon, Ph.D.
Leadership development,
executive coaching, strategic HR alignment
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Immediately after earning
her Ph.D. from Yale University, Francine joined the faculty of the
Stanford Graduate School of Business as Assistant Professor of
Organizational Behavior. Since then, she held a variety of positions
including Director of Marketing at Pacific Bell, General Manager of
California Actors Theatre, Director of Human Resources at UB Networks
and Manager in the Organization Practice Group at Boston Consulting
Group. She is a certified integral coach. |
Kathleen Robinson
Training programs for executives, managers and professionals
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Katherine aligns management team on effective leadership practices so
the team is much more productive in determining the best path forward
and executing on it.
Through a pool of talented training consultants, Kathleen
provides an integrated training programs that link learning with the execution of business goals and strategies.
In her last corporate position, she was a Founder's team member at
Discovery Toys where her leadership helped to grow the company to $25M
revenue in five years. Kathleen earned an MBA from St. Mary's College
Executive MBA Program and a BA degree in human development from the
University of California, Davis.
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Patrice Reid
Client services launch and transformation
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Patrice helps
executives build strong client/customer services organizations. Though
an insightful analytical approach, she determines the most efficient and
effective way to deliver support, training and professional services.
Patrice's focus is on performance turnarounds in areas such as customer
satisfaction, first contact resolution and billable utilization. She has
created several support, training and professional services
organizations and led them to sustainable, world-class service delivery.
Extensive recommendations can be found at her LinkedIn profile. |
Vic Fischer
IT for strategic advantage and outperforming competitors
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For over 20 years, Vic has served in
senior IT and software R&D leadership positions for ground-breaking
companies producing commercial ERP systems, microcomputers and e-commerce.
He specializes in dramatically improving the productivity of the IT function
through intense focus on business processes, effective union of technology
and business objectives and strong governance to ensure continued alignment.
Vic has demonstrated success as the top IT executive in companies as diverse
as fabless semiconductor (Xilinx), financial services (Leasing Solutions,
Inc.), startup manufacturing (Halo Data Devices) and commercial real estate
(Colliers International). |
Larry Lang
Engineering and product development operations and
processes
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Over 15
years of leadership in improving and managing product quality, development
tools, product operations, life cycle management and process repeatability.
Extensive expertise in embedded software, carrier grade telecommunications
technology and consumer electronics R&D. Skilled in driving change and
applying best practices. |
Dave Henderson
Large scale IT system deployment and installation
Dave has over 15 years of experience meeting aggressive
cost, time, and scope goals for IT technology implementation, deployment and
maintenance projects, some of which involved 1,000 locations and $100M in
assets. He has produced results for several Fortune 500 clients, including
Cisco, Hewlett-Packard and American Honda Motor Corporation. Dave holds the
Project Management Professional certification and the Information Technology
Infrastructure Library Foundation certification.
Thomas Smith
Sales generation, sales effectiveness, penetrating new
markets
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Tom has delivered rapid growth in sales generation for over 15
years. He has led transformations of U.S. and global business units
selling IT services, software and hardware solutions. Tom's record
of superior year-on-year growth includes revenue (+60%), profit
(+95%), and contract bookings (+171%) while leading $140M P&L IT
services and consulting business. His strengths include sales
generation, leading entry into new markets, turnaround management,
strategic planning and business development. Tom's corporate
experience includes VP Marketing & Strategy at Ascent Business
Solutions, Managing Director at Silicon Valley Bank, and multiple
leadership roles at IBM and IBM Global Services. |
Mary Benek
Optimized new market entry,
expansion and re-launches
Mary Benek has over 20 years of strategic marketing management and
execution experience, including operating experience in general management,
marketing, sales, and product management. Her experience spans the data
networking, communications, enterprise software, IT infrastructure, business
intelligence, professional services, wireless and consumer industry
segments. Mary's background includes a five-year engagement with The Gartner
Group as lead consultant for new market entry engagements for their clients,
consulting with more than 50 venture-backed technology companies and
executive positions in several F500 companies.
Kimberly Wiefling
Business leadership and project management excellence
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Kimberly's high energy approach enables organizations to cross the gap from "knowing how" to
actually doing what is required to achieve critical business results.
She was VP of Program
Management at Outride, Inc. At Omix, Inc. Kimberly was VP of Process
Excellence. At ReplayTV, Inc. she was senior Program Manager, she led
the entire cross-functional product development team. As program manager
at Candescent Technologies, Kimberly led a joint development team with
Sony. At HP, she held positions in R&D, manufacturing engineering,
product development reliability engineering and field service. Kimberly
earned an MS in Physics from Case Institute and a BS Physics & Chemistry
from Wright State University. |
Bruce Pittman
Advanced project and risk management of aerospace and
high tech system development
Bruce Pittman has been involved in high technology product
development, aerospace project management and system engineering for over 20
years. He spent 11 years working for NASA managing breakthrough projects in
the areas of planetary exploration and infrared astronomy. At New Focus, a
Phase III start up, he was Director of Product Development and then Director
of Manufacturing Operations. Clients have included Behring Diagnostic, Lockheed Martin,
Northrop Grumman, Westinghouse, Varian and numerous government agencies.
International experience includes Europe and Saudi Arabia. As an adjunct
professor, Bruce teaches advanced engineering management courses at Santa
Clara University in Silicon Valley, California.
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