Recently worked with Empower Retirement as a Retirement Consultant and enjoyed every minute. Great company, excellent leadership, and rapid growth. Love it!As President and Managing Consultant at Fast Forward Solutions, Jack is advising Financial and Technology firms in Business Development, IT Strategy, Product Development, Resource Planning, and Digital Transformation. For Centric Consulting, he is helping to build their CIO Services Practice in the Boston area.As a Referral Partner for New Value Solutions, he is helping to build Near Shore Development services in Canada for US firms. As Senior Consultant for Gecko Solutions, Jack is providing offshore systems development services for clients in the US Banking, Financial Services, and Healthcare sectors.As an EVP at Fidelity Investments, Jack first ran all Technology as CTO and then ran all Systems Development. He created the Professional Productivity division which delivered IT and Business Training as well as Business Analysis Consulting in the US, Europe and Japan. After the decentralization, he became CIO for the Brokerage Group of companies supporting seven business units and over 200 outside correspondent brokerage firms. As a Managing Director at Putnam Investments, Jack first ran all Technology as CTO and then moved into Systems Development. He held assignments overseeing systems for the Mutual Fund, Retirement, International, ERP, and Investment areas. As a Partner at Global Collateral Management Solutions, Jack worked with a senior team of experts to develop a Collateral Management Strategy for one of the industry’s largest Custodial Banks. This team also collaborated with many of the world's largest clearing banks and depositories to build a knowledge base in Collateral and Derivative processing to support its advisory work.