As an independent consultant, with degrees in engineering and business, Bart is an accomplished corporate strategist with a 35 year history of fueling business growth in the U.S., Europe, and Southeast Asia. He’s proficient in crafting robust strategies, enhancing performance, and broadening portfolios. He is an expert facilitator, accomplished executive for strategic planning, with skills in organizational development and culture transformation.Services• Facilitation of workshops of all types, leadership off-sites, Board meetings• Organization development – culture* identification and change• Client satisfaction and insight programs• Leadership development programs• Mentoring and coaching programs *Accredited with Human Synergistics, Inc. Organizational Culture Inventory® and Organizational Effectiveness Inventory®

Recruited to newly created role, reporting to the CEOSTRATEGY DEVELOPMENTo Created and rolled out company’s first Strategic Direction and Strategic Plano Lead strategy formation and facilitated annual strategic planning cycle that improved the consistency and quality of strategic planning and thinking throughout CRB’s networko Provided market and competitor research, analysis, and insights including competitive threats, verticals, and regulatory/compliance to develop analysis around growth and investment opportunitieso Engaged regional design and construction operations to highlight CRB’s culture, skillsets and differentiatorso Co-developed and implemented merger and reorganization plano Led the development of company’s first leadership development programo RESULT: All time high revenues, profits and share prices in 2019, 2020, and 2021INNOVATION & GROWTH INITIATIVESo Nurtured innovation and opportunities by creating the company’s first company-wide growth incubator for new geographies, services, industries, technologies, business models and acquisition candidates.o Managed annual processes (portfolio, stage-gate, capex, budgeting) to drive selected innovations and strategic initiatives to readiness or timely sunseto Guided ideation process by facilitating innovation teams across the organizationo RESULT: new sources of revenues and profitsBOARD PLANNING & FACILITATIONo Planned, managed, and facilitated CRB board meetings each quarter. o Conducted follow-up conversations with 3 Independent Board Directors to assess the effectiveness and gather insights for future improvements.

▪ Recruited to newly created role and charged by the President/CEO to define strategy and provide discipline, rigor, and leadership to business development and marketing communications in 12 markets across North America and Australia.▪ Designed and implemented a disciplined approach to new growth initiatives by implementing a growth incubator and Stage-Gate™ process to identify and track project stages, schedules, and deliverables; one new initiative achieved $4.2 million in sales in 2016.▪ Launched Client Insight & Satisfaction program that encouraged clients to share issues while projects were on-going, enabling the firm to address/resolve problems before project completion; received 44% response rate, dramatically increased customer satisfaction, and turned around at-risk projects; successful program has been rolled out across 60+ US offices.▪ Implemented key business development strategies, accountability standards, specific targets, and performance goals to improve regional sales management, increase awareness of key analytics, and expand sales of multiple services.▪ Created focus on highly prioritized, strategic clients, set sales objectives and drove 23% increase in sales with those clients; funded at the corporate level, sold additional services and strengthened profitability; model is being replicated at the regional level.▪ Reduced YOY spending 18% by streamlining operations, monitoring spend/overruns, and restructuring to reduce headcount.▪ Improved immediate and long-term strategic and business planning; created a task force to define core business/investment priorities and influenced creation of the company's 2020 Strategic Direction.▪ Developed program to more effectively manage strategic partnerships with national contractors; assigned partner oversight to senior-level staff which has led to stronger partner relationships and higher customer satisfaction.▪ Record sales in FY17, ending 3/31/17 -- $405M gross, $298M net; share price up 35%.

▪ Recruited to rejoin Black & Veatch in a specially created position reporting to the Chairman, President, and CEO; manage multiple, diverse priorities for the Chairman, including oversight of growth platforms and strategic initiatives.▪ Plan, execute, and host the annual Board of Directors Strategic Planning Retreat; oversee all aspects of the event and present on global aspects of the business (megatrends, global competitors, macroeconomic/industry projections, etc.); Board feedback has consistently pointed to the retreat as a catalyst for improved strategic thinking, revenue/EBT growth, and successful global diversification.▪ Work with cross-divisional leadership to drive development of new growth platforms expected to drive new revenue of $200+ million in 2013, with projections to more than double revenue by 2015. ▪ Heavily involved in the development of emerging global market expansion initiatives in India, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Brazil, and South Africa, with many of these efforts resulting in significant new revenue and portfolio diversification.▪ Evaluate potential investment in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, project development (equity interest), and intellectual property; make investment recommendations to the board. Most recent acquisition internal rate of return was 33%.▪ Serve on a variety of committees and councils including Investment Review Board, Enterprise Risk Management Council, Steering Committees (for growth platforms), and the Business-Technology Council.▪ Accompanied U.S. Secretary of Commerce, John Bryson, on business development trade mission to India; met with high-level officials of the Indian Government, including the Ministers of Water and Energy, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, and Adviser to the Prime Minister.

▪ Recruited to join consulting firm and work with 2 other partners; developed new business and managed engagements; provided clients with business growth enablers that included exclusive, licensed tools.▪ Improved customer satisfaction scores 18% in 6 months for regional bank by creating a program which measured and provided automated feedback on the customer experience.▪ Provided regional construction company with talent assessment model to identify emerging leaders and define competencies by utilizing a variety of succession planning tools and techniques.▪ Generated record response rate in 6 regions for employee engagement survey distributed in 6 languages to 9,000 employees of a global services company; provided statistical analysis.

▪ Recruited as first full-time person in the Business Development function for CRB Consulting Engineers.▪ Propelled annual revenue from $8 million to $44 million over 8 years (24% CAGR) by developing and implementing strategies and tactics to drive organic growth through sales of engineering, consulting, and construction services to advanced technology industries.▪ Leveraged differentiated business model to open doors in the biopharmaceutical space.▪ Successfully negotiated master services agreement with major biopharmaceutical company (the firm’s largest MSA at the time), leading to $14 million in new annual revenue with 30% profit margins in the first 2 years.▪ Won agreements with other industry leaders in pharma, semiconductor and other advanced technology industries.▪ Co-led expansion into European markets; identified and formed strategic alliance with company in Ireland. ▪ Key role in negotiating and completing a virtual acquisition, resulting in co-founding and becoming 1 of 5 original shareholders in CRB Builders; grew share value 10-fold in 3 years.▪ Managed manufacturing line capacity optimization projects and client decision-process workshops which led to additional incremental revenue through additional engagements.

▪ Directed 13-member team providing proposal and presentation support to the business development function, as well as development of marketing, communications, and brand management programs and collateral.▪ Differentiated B&V with potential clients by developing innovative presentations using leading-edge, 3-D animation software. ▪ Supported 27 offices throughout the United States and the U.K. Managed multi-million dollar budget.▪ Following acquisition of global company based in the U.K., created and personally conducted comprehensive marketing and sales training programs for senior-level and mid-management leadership teams in the U.S. and U.K.▪ Assisted in the creation of new, diversified revenue streams by developing strategic alliances with specialty technology firms and others.

▪ Recruited to the Technical Marketing Program, one of GE's signature training and development programs, and completed rotational assignments in various functional areas and geographies across the U.S. Accepted Sales Engineer role following program completion.▪ Successfully marketed and sold GE engineering, automation, and power system products and services to utilities and process intensive industries, including cement, food, refining, rubber, and steel. ▪ Identified opportunities, gathered requirements, and worked with internal subject matter experts to develop and present proposals to potential clients. Negotiated multi-million dollar contracts and consistently exceeded sales goals.▪ Increased revenue by identifying and analyzing client business challenges and collaborating with industry experts and cross-functional teams across GE to provide solutions that achieved client objectives.