Metis, Inc.

Mary Louise possesses 26 years of experience in working with Fortune 100 companies along with entrepreneurial start-ups in the areas of organizational structure & performance, business planning, process improvement, organizational change management, technology strategy, national and international public affairs, product management, and internal culture development. Mary Louise consulted for companies such as: Ford Motor Company, Seagate, Thomson Financial, Brush Wellman, Ford Division National Dealer Council, United States Navy-FMSO, Redemption Ridge, Inc., Marlaina Stone, BioMed Diagnostics, Inc. and Entechcreative. She provides leadership and vision and project managed over $100 million in capital projects, $25 million in operating budgets, $10 million marketing/communication campaigns, and approximately $73 million in financial management of philanthropic funds, loan and public funding management. Her extensive expertise encompasses technology, manufacturing and eCommerce companies. Mary Louise developed expertise in start-up companies and coaching entrepreneurs in launching over 10 companies in her career. Mary Louise maintains deep experience in facilitating exchange of goods and services in the B-2-B and B-2-C marketplace. She is comfortable in rolling up her sleeves in small organizations, as well as, managing hundreds in large companies. Mary Louise helped small companies maintain financial stability and steady growth, and she assisted companies on a fast growth track to acquire, integrate and launch new technology products rapidly. As a case in point, Mary Louise served as a Head of Product Management & Marketing at C-bridge, Inc. leading the launch of 15 concurrent software applications, while project managing customer requirements in software application development and commercialization. More here. Picture Michael Clingan Michael Clingan has over 30 years of management and consulting experience in operational process analysis and systematic innovation in operations, engineering, project management, sales, and marketing. Michael holds a terminal certification from the Theory of Constraints (TOC) International Certification Organization encompassing process analysis, process improvement and organizational change management. Michael, a contemporary and mentored by Dr. Eli Goldratt, the Founder of TOC, has himself become a thought leader in the TOC field. Michael was the founder and Chancellor of the acclaimed C-bridge Institute on the MIT campus, which was cited by Giga, Forrester and Gartner for the quality of its executive IT programs. The Institute, which ultimately had 52 faculty and staff, delivered targeted training on the technologies, methodologies and management skills needed for successful IT projects. Clients included HP, Oracle, the US Navy, Chase, EIG, MEMC, The Hartford, USAA, Thomson Financial, Seagate, Ford, Companion, and Air Liquide. Michael also developed and led the Theory Of Constraints, Organizational Change Management, and Product Lifecycle Management groups at C-bridge. Michael began his career in manufacturing and product engineering before moving to sales and marketing. He served at the VP level in three international technology firms experiencing rapid growth or turnaround situations. More information here. Picture Dr Tyrone Grandison Dr. Tyrone Grandison has over 20 years of strategic technologies, change and project management and consulting experience; working in Fortune 50 companies, governments, startups and Small-and-Medium sized. He has been a technical expert witness in software engineering for over a decade and has been guiding companies to smarter decisions and profitability over that time. In his career worked for and with General Motors, Citibank, Bank Leumi, Kaiser Permanente, Blue Cross Blue Shield, IBM, Deutsch Bank, Karolinska Institute, the governments of India and Jamaica. He has managed portfolios up to $10 million and has generated revenue companies in excess of $200 million, He is a Fellow of a member of technical organizations, which is the highest technical honor that one can receive from these groups, and has received awards for his pioneering work in several fields of software engineering, privacy and security. More information at www.tyronegrandison.org