Bill Gauld has held senior level positions, in multiple industries over the past 25 years and 5 years ago founded Management Partners consulting firm which has been engaged in a broad range of businesses. Bill’s experience base began in Manufacturing, shop operations and logistics. His experience ranges from shop floor union member, to Manufacturing Manager, Logistics and Shipping Forman to IT Project manager for Manufacturing and Engineering and then into senior management. Over the years he has been CIO for multiple fortune 100 companies including GE divisions, Textron, and Sony.  At Sony Bill also had responsibility for global supply chain and logistics. During his time at Sony, SonyStyle eCommerce was launched including the full distribution organization to support eCommerce sales. In addition to this global experience, he was also CIO and SVP of Shared Services (including Sourcing, Supply Chain and distribution logistic) for Pearson PLC (London). From 2005 to 2011, Bill was SVP of Enterprise Services for Ingersoll Rand and responsible for the global operations of the Financial, Employee and IT services, global Engineering and Technology Centers, Corporate Information Technology, Corporate Real Estate, Aviation and the Ingersoll Rand Business Operating system. Bill has also been a member of the board of a NYSE company Interactive Data Corporation (IDC) which provided investment pricing for mutual funds and illiquid investment instruments.  He has also been a member of the Board for Tavant Technologies, a privately held firm in the Software Development, Integration and Support. Tavant focuses on Financial Services, Warranty, Ecommerce and Analytics.  Bill has also been an advisor to Predictive Analytics firm, Guavus. In 2011, Bill founded Management Partners, a unique boutique Technology and Business consulting firm. Over the 5 years of consulting, Bill has help businesses in Retail, Building Supply and Distribution, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Education, Consumer Packaged Goods, Oil and Gas, and Quick Serve Food.  These assignments range from Due Diligence for Private Equity firms, IT assessments, major software and platform selections (ERP, CRM, BI, etc.) and Implementation, to IT strategy for Digital future and ongoing advisor to C suite and Board of directors. Much of this word has relied upon extensive experience in Business Transformation.  Many of the engagements have required quick response to resolve operating issues, project delays and overruns, and staffing shortfalls.  These engagements have required bringing in the necessary detailed expertise at the right times to speed results and reduce risk. Having a network of proven resources that are expert is key to success in partnering with businesses to solve problems and build strategies.  With Management Partners team’s deep-rooted background in Technology and Business Transformation, the firm can quickly assemble a team of know people with a proven track record of success.

Don Davis offers over 30 years of information technology, business development, and operations experience in a wide range of industries that includes ITO and BPO – retail – manufacturing –  warehousing, distribution and logistics – travel – healthcare and biotech – media and publishing – cellular and satellite communications – AIA commercial construction, and audio/video. Don recognizes that technology, data center facilities and IT operations must be agile, and adapt to business demands. Business development and growth should not be impacted by IT, but rather IT should support all current, and facilitate future business. Through Don’s leadership, Management Partners helps its clients by assessing their current technology, business initiatives, and future business strategies, and develops a program to ensure alignment. Don has held Vice President of Technology positions at multiple publishing properties of Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., followed by a Vice President of Technology position at Resource Print Management, where Don raised sales revenues by over $10M within two years by implementing online sales, streamlining warehousing and distribution operations, and integrating systems with UPS, FedEx and freight carriers. At Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) Don rapidly progressed through several senior positions, and established a new Global Service Delivery organization to manage and execute large data center migrations. Under Don’s leadership, this group significantly improved the quality of service to ACS clients by bridging the gaps between Sales, Service Delivery, and the PMO. Global projects throughout North and South America, and Europe, were managed by this group. Following ACS, Don was engaged as an independent consultant by The E. W. Scripps Company to assess the IT Department for one of their most successful publishing and media divisions. That led to a lead management role in the construction of a new $95 million, 186,000 sq. ft. multimedia production and office facility, where Don also designed and implemented a fully redundant technology infrastructure and data center. Through Don’s leadership that project completed on schedule with over $13 million in savings. Don continued consulting with Dell’s Business and Technology Consulting division, where he completed an IT in-sourcing project for Amgen, a global biotechnology company. Early completion of migrating over 50 applications within multiple environments, had no impact upon business operations, and significantly contributed to Dell receiving Amgen’s CIO 2011 Supplier of the Year Award for service excellence. Prior to joining Management Partners, Don has been collaborating with WGroup Consulting to provide clients with sound IT strategic plans – infrastructure and data center assessments – data center design/build and relocations – sourcing advisory, RFP development and negotiations – DR strategies, and interim IT executive roles. Recent engagements include a major U.S. Airline, a large manufacturing company, and a large retailer.

Over 35 years, Jon Strong has been in numerous roles in IT from developer and architect through CIO and CTO, and has built and run consulting organizations for some of the largest professional services firms. Supporting Fortune 100 and 500 firms, he has led mission critical initiatives in IT Strategy, Organization and Process Improvement, IT and Business Operations Transformation, Governance and Compliance, Product Development, Online Gaming, User Experience, Application Lifecycle Management, Enterprise Information Management, and Service and Program Management. Jon has worked across multiple industries including financial services (both corporate and consumer-facing), social media and customer engagement, broadcast media, retail, health care, pharma and manufacturing. His background in each case spans hands-on work through strategic and leadership roles. As CIO / CTO for MRU Holdings, Jon built and led the IT operation enabling a customer-facing student loan business serving hundreds of thousands of online customers to build a billion-dollar portfolio. He established real-time marketing analytics to assess the effectiveness of multiple concurrent versions of ad campaigns as well as alternate versions of online user experience, model future activity via predictive analytics and learning models, and enable the company to optimize marketing spend and user experience in real time to establish, secure and grow market share. Jon’s expertise in online customer experience, user engagement and system reliability was demonstrated when he created a million-member online game site (IonThunder) and community ranked among the top 10 by Comscore, while maintaining a 99.999% uptime. While directing an internal consulting team for RCA’s CFO, Jon led numerous programs for NBC Network Staff, News, Sports, Radio and TV, ranging from finance through consumer engagement, advertising analytics and day- part optimization for radio and TV advertising, modeling, predictive analytics and BI. Jon led key programs in manufacturing reporting, forecasting and analytics for Banquet Foods, Random House Books and Coronet Carpets. Jon also led creation of RCA’s global analytics and BI platform, spanning all 31 global operating units. The platform was adopted by GE, spun off as a company, with the product eventually being marketed as IBM Cognos Finance. As consulting lead supporting Sears and Eye Care Centers of America, Jon’s teams implemented the financial and retail (both in-store and back-office) platforms that enabled ECCA’s growth from a dozen locations to hundreds. As consulting Principal supporting the CIO and CFO, Jon led multiple initiatives at Serta Simmons Bedding, including creation of the enterprise data management, analytics and BI platform, establishment of the firm’s first comprehensive analytics platform supporting intra-day profitability analysis across hundreds of products and hundreds of thousands of customers. Jon supported the President of Sales to lead the analysis and redesign of all systems and processes impacted by the internal merger of the entire Serta and Simmons sales organizations, including all product lines and customers. As Global Consulting Director at TEKsystems Global Services, Jon led multiple teams and initiatives from back office through e-commerce and fulfillment, including numerous initiatives for clients such as Ally / GMAC, Comcast, Constellation Energy, Covance, Geisinger Health Plan, GSI Commerce, iCongo, Markel Insurance, Medifast, Time Warner Cable, Tyco Electronics, and Travelers Insurance. As consulting principal, Jon advised on IT service management optimization supporting approximately 1000 retail grocery locations for Delhaize America. Jon was also tapped by Standard & Poor’s to advise on global equity index computation (S&P 500 and others), advised on integration of Citibank’s Salomon Smith-Barney Global Equity Indices, and helped S&P’s Chief Compliance Officer plan and run implementation of SEC compliance rules impacting all offices, globally. Working with clients on Wall Street and in Tokyo, London, Canada and Hong Kong, Jon has created new operations, turned around failing projects, programs and companies, created new commercial products and services, and saved clients hundreds of millions of dollars.