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The mission of Better Boards is to create better boards. We unlock the power of evidence-based, data-driven board evaluations to increase each board member’s impact on the board and the overall collective performance and effectiveness.

Spearheaded corporate governance practice. Directed audit committee chair programs in Europe and North America, US cyber risk director program and European high-growth director program.• Led and scaled highest quality programs for directors of largest US and European companies. Net Promoter Score exceeded 80 for 3 years. Directors reported quality and value exceeds best director or executive education program. Doubled program size while maintaining highest levels of participant and client satisfaction. Top US and European regulators regularly engaged in dialogues with directors.• Grew or maintained recurring revenues from largest client for ten consecutive years. Grew baseline recurring European revenues by 34% during a period of significant client budget constraints.• Sold and delivered major projects to existing and new clients. Conceived and led delivery of a large-scale client-sponsored research project on realities of leading European audit committees, praised by policymakers and regulators. Devised and cowrote client-sponsored research submitted to an international standard setting and US market regulator.• Initiated new director programs in the US and Europe, targeting cyber risk and high growth companies. Conducted market assessment of director programs in Germany yielding recommendations executed by client.• Co-developed with UC Berkeley breakthrough framework for enhancing board capacity for cybersecurity oversight yielding board assessment and related service opportunities.• Trusted advisor to directors, clients, regulators, and policymakers on corporate governance issues. Invited to present to Europe's leading audit regulatory body on multiple occasions. Frequent contributor to client's external webinars and internal broadcasts.

World's leading provider of medical assistance, international healthcare and security services (appx $900M rev). Promoted to this position to accelerate market share penetration across key markets. Led sales, marketing and consulting services across the US, Canada, South America, UK and Scandinavia.

Turned around an underperforming sales organization after several prior years of single-digit revenue growth. Created market potential model to drive segmentation and allocate investment of distribution resources. Restructured sales organization, recruited new sales leadership team, released 25% of existing sales force. Sustained 25% annual gross margin growth for three years; doubled new account acquisition rate.

Led all aspects of sales, distribution, product and marketing strategy for $6 billion segment. Successfully developed, implemented massive sales force redeployment and retraining. Streamlined management and back office processes, consolidated offices to reduce headcount by 16%. Deployed proactive service model, improved annual satisfaction results by 10%.

Reengineered 6000 sales associates and processes to capture higher revenue share from the most valuable customers while reducing overall sales expense. Identified most valuable customer segments through quantitative model of current and potential telecom spending, product contribution margin and variable sales, service costs. Resulted in major shift in corporate strategy to focus on key customer segments. Negotiated and launched joint sales and services alliances with BearingPoint, Accenture and HP.

Led agent sales channel organization for networking services that grew revenues by 75%. Recruited new agents through relationships with Cisco, HP and IBM reseller programs. Created new business development team focused on complimentary product and distribution alliances targeting “hypergrowth” companies. Evaluated strategic investment opportunities leveraging services in exchange for equity. Publicly announced development, sales and marketing partnerships with USinternetworking, i2 Technologies and SAP.

Developed VAR channel strategy, sales program for new media and consulting start-up. Evaluated subscription-based business model and recommended adoption of industry focused services model based on competitive and financial analysis.

Team leader for EDS global sales team, Amdahl's largest account.

Champion for UNIX workstation product line. Developed, executed programs driving market segmentation, promotion, channel development and pricing. Conceived, implemented two-year study of unconventional computing techniques for oil exploration resulting in a $11 million supercomputer sale. Team leader for 12 member state and local government sales team.