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Resources
We have no juniors. Our professionals are typically veterans of a decade or more in leadership roles performing the functions they will serve in an engagement. Generally, they have two or more decades of relevant line and/or staff experience following the completion of their undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Specialized capabilities include, but are not limited to:
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Actuaries M&A/Portfolio Valuers Cost Accountants System Network Designers Document Management Professionals Web Developers Marketing Specialists Database/Datamining Managers Communications Specialists Professional Skill Developers Organization Design Specialists |
Change Managers Complexity Reductions Analysts Business Planners General Management Specialists Operational Effectiveness Specialists Outsourcing Specialists Project Management Professionals Venture Capital/Mezzanine Finance/ Capital Market Specialists Human Resource Professionals |
Principals
Richard S. Hawkes
During the last decade, Richard has helped large and mid-sized organizations across a wide range of industries with strategy formulation and implementation.
Prior to joining Strategy Partners, Mr. Hawkes was a consultant in the worldwide strategy practice of Kepner-Tregoe Inc., where he helped reestablish their U.S. practice and redesign their strategy consulting process.
Earlier in his career, Richard was at Morgan Stanley and Company, where he managed information systems development in the investment bank's "margins" trading area, and served as an independent information systems and small business consultant.
Mr. Hawkes holds an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he received a dual degree in Marketing and Organizational Theory. He completed his BA in German Literature and Computer Science at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, before going to Germany for graduate study in psychology at the University of Freiburg.
Contact: rshawkes@strategypartners.net
Direct Phone: 973.543.8885
Robert R. D. Nickels
Bob Nickels, Strategy Partners' founder, has more than twenty years experience in the design and delivery of Strategy Formulation and Strategy Implementation services. In addition, he has structured and led the execution of a number of large-scale organizational change initiatives (such as Complexity Reduction and Process Re-Engineering). Finally, he has held product development and staff development responsibilities within these disciplines
Prior to founding SPG, Mr. Nickels was a Senior Consultant with Kepner-Tregoe, Inc. for twelve years. Before joining Kepner-Tregoe, he was Director of worldwide Ferrous Metals consulting at Chase Econometrics. Previously, he was Director of Market and Economic Analysis at Carpenter Technology Corporation, and Assistant to the Director of Marketing at USM Corporation. He also has served as an instructor in Business Policy at Albright College, Reading, PA.
Mr. Nickels has written extensively on the demand outlook for a variety of industrial products, both in the USA and worldwide. His forthcoming book, Charting A Strategic Course in Turbulent Times, is expected to be published late next year.
Mr. Nickels holds a B.A. in political science from Northwestern University and an MBA in marketing and finance from Harvard Business School. His postgraduate studies have focused on econometric methods, scenario construction, and on the diagnosis of organizational systems.
Contact: rrdnickels@strategypartners.net
Direct Phone: 570.424.7870
J. Samuel Ray
Sam Ray came to Strategy Partners from Nagdeman & Company, where he was managing director of the Wall Street marketing firm's strategic consulting practice. In that capacity, he has advised some of the most significant mergers and acquisitions of the last decade on both their corporate development and post-acquisition integration strategies. Previously, he was a Senior Strategy Consultant with Kepner-Tregoe's Financial Services Practice.
Before becoming a consultant, Mr. Ray spent a decade and half abroad, as Chief Financial Officer and General Manager of Armco's Asia Pacific Division; as Director of International Strategy and Corporate Development for the British National Group in Europe and the Far East; and as both an economist and an investment banker with the Citicorp International Group and its joint ventures in Europe, Asia and Australia.
Mr. Ray began his academic career in the Pre-Law Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and continued in Government and Economics at Lawrence. His interest in leadership and developmental economics took him to Stanford, The London School of Economics and Oxford, interspersed with both teaching and research under the auspices of the Thomas J. Watson Foundation and a Wingspread Fellowship from the S.C. Johnson Foundation. He has written and led numerous conferences and workshops on strategic marketing, planning and corporate development issues, and compiled/edited the three-volume series entitled Solving Asia-Pacific Business Problems.
Contact: jsray@strategypartners.net
Direct Phone: 973.442.0646
Richard J. Weiler
With over two decades as a senior operating executive with Carpenter Technology Corporation - a global producer and distributor of specialty materials and engineered products - Rich Weiler has logged unusually broad experience at the policy level. He has led the sales and marketing functions, been a member of general management, and participated directly in the development and execution of successful growth strategies.
As Vice President Corporate Development, Mr. Weiler played a pivotal role in the design and execution of a several hundred million-dollar growth strategy that resulted in the acquisition of more than10 companies over a four-year period. He has also played key leadership roles in intensive strategic analyses at both the corporate and business unit levels at critical times in the evolution of the company.
Mr. Weiler led the marketing and sales effort of the company through a successful period of improved market share in targeted segments - refocusing marketing initiatives, introducing and testing a new distribution model, and constructing and implementing a new paradigm in sales account coverage.
Earlier, he served as Vice President and General Manager of the company's Tube Division, a large operating division. In this turnaround situation, Mr. Weiler lead his team in a far-reaching performance improvement process that resulted in increased profit margins. Key components of this process were the formulation of a new marketing and distribution strategy built around higher margin proprietary products and cost reduction through a wide-ranging productivity improvement process that provided double-digit gains. To support this process he led the successful renegotiation of a major labor agreement to facilitate improved competitiveness.
Active in industry-wide activities, he was an organizer and later chairman of an industry-wide Market Development Committee charged with expanding the use of stainless steel. This work has contributed to greater professional and public awareness of the properties and advantages of stainless steel across a broad spectrum of applications, and has significantly increased the use of stainless steel at the fabrication level, as well as per capita end-user consumption.
Mr. Weiler holds BS in Business Administration from Thomas Edison State College and an MBA with emphasis on Marketing and Finance from Keller Graduate School of Management.
Contact: rjweiler@strategypartners.net
Direct Phone: 610.373.1735