Business Strategy & Management Consultants
ClearSky Climate Solutions
Stephen Handler
Expertise: Carbon Offset Project Develpment
www.clearskyclimatesolutions.com
Stephen Handler is a Project Developer with ClearSky. Stephen completed his MS at the University of Montana in 2007, focusing on Resource Conservation with a special emphasis in International Conservation and Development. Mr. Handler’s expertise in carbon offset project development includes scoping project eligibility, identifying appropriate project methodologies and carbon standards, performing emissions reductions calculations, completing full Project Design Document analyses, and identifying options for project developing financing. Stephen also performs customized Greenhouse Gas Assessments for companies interested to measure their carbon footprint, and develops Climate Action Plans for companies interested in reducing their emissions and reaching climate-neutral status. Mr. Handler has worked with federal and non-governmental organizations in the United States and overseas, as well as local community groups and universities. Stephen is fluent in English and Spanish, and dabbles in Pidgin.
Jeff Ross
Expertise: Management
Jeff has worked in big box retail management for 25 years, 8 years in newspaper management and 4 years owning a flooring company. He developed the ability to learn from successes and mistakes which made it easier to succeed in each new career field. General business management has basics that flow from business to business like; developing and following business plans and budgets, learning to work with your employees in today’s work environment, time management, physical plant maintenance, advertising, and merchandising. One of the best things he learned through the years is that there are other people that may know more than you do in fields like accounting, legal issues and human resources. He is currently working in residential real estate and enjoys mentoring others regarding management issues.
Miriam Gilbert, MS, MA.
MiriamGroup Executive Advisors
Expertise: Executive Coaching
www.miriamgroup.com
Miriam Gilbert is founder and Chief Executive of MiriamGroup Executive Advisors, an executive business consulting and coaching firm specializing in technology industries. The focus – guiding leaders and leadership teams through the challenges and complexities of growth, change and transformation. The results – a highly focused and aligned executive team effectively growing their business with clear intention, methods and purpose. MiriamGroup was founded in 1998.
Miriam’s professional career has included 18+ years experience in executive, management, and engineering positions with several technology corporations including Texas Instruments, Digital Equipment Corporation (Hewlett-Packard) and AT&T. With those organizations, her focus was in forming and leading high-performance leadership teams in technology and systems, strategic planning, business design and development, and information technology outsourcing. Miriam’s role with each of these companies was that of “change agent” as the organizations moved into new business arenas.
In 2003, Miriam authored a report for the United Nations – Geneva on Business Process Outsourcing and eCommerce. The report was published as Chpt. 5 in the annual report to the leaders of United Nations member countries. Publication maybe viewed or downloaded online: http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/ecdr2003ch5_en.pdf .
On Target Consultants
Chuck Bolotin
Expertise: “Go to market” strategy and execution, revenue acceleration, due diligence, partnering and asset sales.
www.OnTargetConsultants.com
Chuck founded, funded, ran and sold two companies. In addition, he has led close to a dozen other product introductions. Chuck is an expert in defining product specifications, early market introduction and penetration strategies, marketing and sales, and in working with investors. Additional information can be found on Chuck at the web sites of On Target Consultants (http://www.ontargetconsultants.com/) and Arch Partners (http://www.archpartnersllc.com/).
Polaris
Gary Enzweiler,MBA, MHA
Expertise: Medical technologies
Gary J. Enzweiler is founder and President of Polaris Health Care Solutions, LLC., an information technology consulting firm specializing in the health care industry and serving clients nation-wide. Gary founded 3X HealthCare Solutions Group, a health care specific information technology firm serving providers, payors, and other health care related organizations primarily in the mid-west. In 1996, Gary co-founded PatientCare Dynamics, a provider of technology-based patient care support systems and services that assisted health care professionals in the delivery of timely, high quality, and cost-efficient care and information to health care consumers. Gary began his business career in 1988 with IBM as a Marketing Representative, advancing to Senior Health Industry Client Specialist responsible for the marketing and sales of IBM related hardware, software, and services throughout the Northern Kentucky, Cincinnati, and Dayton areas.
In addition to his extensive healthcare and information technology experience, Gary was founder and Managing Partner of Northern Kentucky Professional Baseball, LTD., and organization dedicated to establishing professional minor league baseball in the greater Northern Kentucky area. Gary earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics, Finance, and Mathematics from Northern Kentucky University and a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Health Services Administration degree.
R. Scott Newth, MBA, CFA
Expertise: Business Management
Scott is the founder and CEO of Efficient Frontier Advisory, an advisory firm specializing in working with early stage and small businesses to maximize their value and develop paths to liquidity. Scott previously worked as CEO, President and CFO of technology-based businesses in San Francisco and Salt Lake City. As the CEO and CFO, Scott led an early stage information technology company to a successful sale to a publicly-held company for $58M. Prior to his senior management experience, Scott worked in the corporate and structured finance groups of large, international banks in Atlanta and New York where he led and managed investments of over $500M in Fortune 500 and middle market companies. As an independent consultant, Scott has mentored over a dozen small companies and was the lead mentor to a team of MBA students starting a distributed media content business that won the Utah Entrepreneurial Challenge. Scott earned a B.S. in Finance and a M.B.A. with concentration in Finance from The Florida State University. Scott also holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Smartway Advisors
Sheldon Harris
www.smartwayadvisors.com
Sheldon Harris is founder and CEO of Smartway Advisors, licensee of Trust Funding, a company that Sheldon launched which features an innovative and proprietary loan underwriting model which is not based on traditional criteria such as credit scores. The Trust Funding program is licensed to participating credit unions under the name Smartway Advisors, and it enables these not-for-profit lenders to extend loans to people they could not otherwise serve.
Harris became involved with Cold Stone Creamery when the company was virtually unknown, and helped lead the growth and development of this highly respected brand for nearly a decade. Upon departing in 2006 from his role as President, there were over 1400 stores operating both domestically and internationally, and Cold Stone Creamery was ranked by Entrepreneur Magazine as the 11th fastest-growing franchise in the nation with an industry-leading average unit sales volume, and annual revenue in excess of $500M.
Prior to Cold Stone Creamery, Sheldon spent 13 years with Costco where he rose from an entry-level position to become one of the youngest Warehouse Managers in company history. With a market area that encompassed the entire state of Alaska, he was responsible for over 350 employees and $160M in annual sales volume. While at Costco, Sheldon also led a variety of diverse projects which included opening several new warehouse locations in the Northwest, spearheading Costco’s entry into the Russian market, and launching a new athletic club subsidiary known as SportsNation.
Sheldon enjoys sharing his business knowledge with other business owners and has a passion for networking and collaborating.
