Advisory Board
 

"Tell me who you walk with and I'll tell you who you are" - Argentine aphorism

Alan Hald

Alan Hald, M.B.A. is a strategic business consultant to the company. He was one of the founders of MicroAge Inc., a fortune 500 company. Alan has been referred to as "the single most influential advocate for high-tech industries in the state." This is reflected in Alan's roles as chair of the board of the Arizona Technology Incubator, leader of the Governor's New Economy Task Force, leader of the Governor's Strategic Partnership for Economic Development (GSPED), and chair of the public policy committee of the Computing Technology Industry Association.

As a business leader, Ernst & Young and Inc Magazine recognized Alan as the 1995 National Master Entrepreneur of the Year. For his commitment to improving Arizona‘s business climate for technology companies he was recognized as Arizona's "Entrepreneur of the Year" for supporting entrepreneurship. In 1998, Alan was inducted into the Arizona Business Hall of Fame. In the recently published Grassroots Leader For A New Economy, the author Doug Henton, described Alan as a classic example of business entrepreneur turned civic entrepreneur.

 
 
Steve Sullivan

Steve Sullivan began his career as an Army Ranger and served as a platoon leader, company commander and operations officer. After leaving the military, he entered the business world and spent twenty-one years in a variety of executive positions in corporate America. He is responsible for generating in excess of 1.2 billion in sales growth.

 

He is an internationally recognized authority on Sales, Leadership, and Performance issues. He is the author of seven books. Two of which, Selling At Mach 1 and Leading At Mach 2 were business bestsellers. Leading At Mach 2 was a Business Book of the Year Selection. His videos on Selling and Leadership are Vision Award winners. His most recent book Remember This Titan is the acclaimed biography of celebrated coach Bill Yoast. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of Florida and a Masters in Systems Management from the University of Southern California.

 
 
Giovanni Vescovo
President and CEO of Promostudio, Venice, Italy - a Management Consulting Company established by Giovanni Battista Vescovo in 1987, which now is the Italian Representative for leading international Business Economy personalities in its commitment to provide Customised Consultancy and Executive Management Training.

The Company's mission is to introduce the best international Management, Economics and Finance practices and develop innovative ideas, methodologies and management tools to support Operating Enterprises in implementing their own Corporate culture.  Among the world-renowned personalities represented by Promostudio are: Edward de Bono, Lateral Thinking creator, Renato Tagiuri, Emeritus Professor at the Harvard Business School and Michael J. Spendolini, Benchmarking guru.

PROMOSTUDIO is in touch with many leading speakers of the world of economics, including Nobel Laureates in Economics as a special category other than experts in Economics and Finance, and is unique in numbers and specialties. Another group includes international Management experts at the very top of their fields, such as Marketing, Benchmarking, Business Administration or Strategy.

 
 
Dudley Lynch

Dudley Lynch, president of Brain Technologies Corporation, is often viewed as the leading popular interpreter of Dr. Clare Graves and his Gravesian conceptual model of how the people work within the worlds of society, culture and technology. Mr. Lynch has written more books on Graves' ideas and models than anyone else, and no one's Gravesian books have enjoyed more marketplace success.

Three of Mr. Lynch's Graves-based titles are available both in English and German. One of these, Strategy of the Dolphin®: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World (with Paul Kordis), was a Literary Guild alternative selection in the U.S. It ranked as high as the No. 3 bestselling business book in French, the No. 5 bestselling business book in German and was a No. 1 bestseller in German, Swiss and Austrian self-help bookstores. His latest book is "The Mother of All Minds."

He also is the lead author of BTC's Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution, which was published in German in 1996 by Junfermann Verlag under the title of Der Schlüssel zur Globalierung. Handbuch für den Wandel (The Key to Globalization: A Handbook for Change). The work joined Marshall McLuhan’s The Global Village as the initial works published in Junfermann’s Medienanthropologie series.

His work, Your High-Performance Business Brain—An Operator’s Manual, (Prentice-Hall), was a Macmillan Executive Book Club Alternate Selection. The content and title have since been revised. Your Dolphin High-Performance Business Brain: 21st Century Thinking Skills for Ambitious People Under Challenge or Under Fire was published by BTC. This work has been published in German as DelphinDenkin (DolphinThink) by Rudolf Haufe Verlag. Also, he is the lead author for Evergreen: Playing a Continuous Comeback Business Game, published by New Echelon Press.

Newport University of Newport Beach, Calif., awarded Mr. Lynch the title of Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters) in 1994 for his contributions to the fields of personal and business thinking skills development. The honor was bestowed at the university’s St. Gallen, Switzerland, campus.

 
 
Robert Mazzucchelli

Robert J. Mazzucchelli is a fast-track visionary leader with over 14 years of executive level business success and accomplishment. Since 1987, he has co-founded and run three successful companies. In each case, Mr. Mazzucchelli rapidly got operations up and running while leveraging his leadership skills and business development expertise.

Robert founded 141 USA, which evolved into 141 Worldwide. He grew the business from 11 offices producing $11 million to 40 offices generating $115 million within two years. He also transformed Clear Channel Entertainment’s marketing group into a globally focused multi-million dollar EBITDA contributor.

Mr. Mazzucchelli has demonstrated the ability to apply innovative and sound business and marketing principles in both product and service business models. Clients read like a "Who’s Who" of blue-chip corporations; Kodak, RJR Nabisco, Adolph Coors Company, Diageo, Dun & Bradstreet, Coca Cola, Perrier, Visa, BAT and Clear Channel Entertainment to name a few.

He created the industry standard from an innovative product idea in the colored gemstone industry. Robert expanded revenue opportunities for market leader Clear Channel Entertainment in Europe, producing over $15 million of revenue in 18 months. He paved the way for their expansion into Latin America. Into each business situation he brings "new thinking" and a love of "problems".

Consulting Areas: Turnarounds - Communications - Start-Ups - P&L - Global Marketing - Crisis Management - Market Entry Strategies - Joint Ventures - Strategic Alliances - Negotiations - Leadership

 
 
Philipp Johner

Professional activities:

Managing Partner of the Manres AG in Zollikon, Switzerland, the leading institution for assessments, coaching and training in the field of leadership and personality development

Coach of persons with outstanding achievements in the fields of economy, administration, sport and art

Culture & leadership development in renowned national and international enterprises

 

Methodology:

Solid basis in theology and philosophy

Working models and instruments from different branches of psychology, particularly: depth psychology, sport and business psychology

University degrees in psychology and philosophy from Zurich University

Further education in astrophysics at ETH Zurich; diploma in psychotherapy

 

Entrepreneurial background:

Since 1990 Founder and Partner of several leadership & coaching companies. Activities prior to founding the companies:

For 10 years in the Zurich stock exchange ring   

Swiss champion and on 5th place in the world championship in kick boxing

Swiss vice-champion in Taek Won Do

 
 
Hemanth Rao, MD

Dr Rao was born in Madras (Chennai), India and received his medical degree from Madras University.  He completed his post-graduate medicine from the Mt Sinai School of Medicine in NY, his Neurology/Epilepsy/Sleep training from LIJMC (Albert Einstein College of Medicine in NY) and his NeuroMuscular fellowship from Washington University in St Louis.  Dr Rao is board certified in Neurology and subspecialty board certified in ElectroDiagnostic medicine.  He became President and CEO of United Sleep Medicine in 2004 and is also president of Neurology Consultants of the Carolinas.  Dr Rao has extensive business experience working with corporations in various stages of development.

 
 
Bob Alexander
Bob Alexander is a senior project manager for Forsythe Solutions Group currently serving as a project executive for a disaster recovery infrastructure upgrade project for a global shipping conglomerate. Bob specializes in helping organizations realize business objectives through project implementations. Highlights of Bob's career include the management of the data processing aspects of the US Air Force's Strategic Air Command's Command Center Upgrade Project and of US Army Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Surveillance Systems supporting the soldiers in the field. Bob has led organizations focused on the advancement of systems from both the hardware infrastructure and software engineering perspectives.
 
 
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