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Lawrence S. Maisel, Managing Partner
Mitchell H. Max, Managing Partner
Mitchell Blaser, Executive Advisor for Insurance Industries
Brad Anderson, Principal
Eileen Morrissey, Principal and Six Sigma Practice Leader
Robert Savage, Senior Manager
Steve Schuman, Managing Partner
Michael Daly, Senior Manager
Greg Garland, Senior Manager
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Lawrence S. Maisel
Managing Partner
Larry Maisel is a founding partner of DecisionVu. He is a seasoned business executive that has successfully demonstrated abilities to provide leadership in Strategy and Financial Management, and Information Technology with numerous experiences in Financial Services, Insurance, Communications and Media, Pharmaceuticals, and Consumer Products industries where he has developed business strategies, managed and improved business performance, implemented business systems, and designed solutions to increase operating performance and shareholder value.
He has assisted numerous clients and senior level executives including Citigroup, AIG, GE, Boeing, Honeywell, Ford, Motorola, NBC Universal, News Corp/Fox Entertainment, Viacom, RH Donnelley, and many other Global 1000 Industrial and Financial Service companies. He has held senior executive positions at Parson Consulting, PeopleSoft, Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, and as Executive Partner in Charge of KPMG Consulting's Strategy and Financial Management Consulting Practice. He has also held management positions including CEO and CFO.
Larry co-created with Drs. Kaplan and Norton, the Balanced Scorecard Approach, co-authored with Drs. Kaplan and Cooper " Implementing Activity-Based Cost Management 'Moving from Analysis to Action", authored "Performance Measurement: The Balanced Scorecard Approach", was former Editor-in-Chief of Warren Gorham & Lamont's Corporate Finance Network and Journal of Cost Management, and member of editorial advisory board of Journal of Strategic Performance Measures. He has spoken at numerous business and user conferences on a variety of topics and is one of the foremost leaders in the area of Corporate Performance Management.
He is currently an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's Graduate Business School, a guest lecturer at Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and is a member of Forrester Research's Senior Advisory Board. Larry is a CPA and holds a BA in Economics from New York University and an MBA in Corporate Financial Management from Pace University.
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Mitchell H. Max
Managing Partner
Mitch Max is a co-founder and Managing Partner of DecisionVu. He draws on over 20 years of experience both in
consulting and management positions in the Financial Services industry. Following on a number of financial management positions in
the banking industry, Mitch led the Activity-Based Cost Management practice for the North American Financial Services industry at
Arthur Andersen. In 2001, he founded The Performax Group, a Toronto-based specialist management consulting practice dedicated to
performance improvement in the Financial Services industry.
Mitch works with organizations to improve their performance through improved customer, product and channel profitability, focused cost
reduction using methods such as Shared Services, strategic analysis and the introduction of tools and processes to better monitor and
manage performance. He continually seeks for new and innovative ways to deliver value to his clients. He is a frequent speaker,
author and workshop leader in innovative financial management practices. In addition to this work, Mitch is a lead practioner and researcher for the Beyond Budgeting Round Table and directs its Financial
Services Interest Group. His clients include major banks and insurance organizations that are beginning to adopt this new and
innovative Performance Management process in place of traditional budgeting and control.
Mitch's clients include medium, large and global Financial Services organizations. He has worked with organizations such as ATB Finanical,
Bank of Montreal, Charles Schwab, CIBC, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Dun & Bradstreet, FirstData, HSBC, Manulife, MasterCard International,
PNC Bank, RBC Financial, Sun Life, TD Waterhouse, and Wachovia. He also partners with innovative software vendors to assist them in
developing tools that provide value to his client base.
Mitch graduated from the University of Toronto in 1982 and is a Chartered Accountant. He resides in Toronto.
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Brad Anderson
Principal
Brad Anderson is currently a Principal with DecisionVu specializing in corporate performance management,
profitability measurement and enhancement, strategic planning and budgeting/forecasting. Mr. Anderson has served as an Executive
manager with experience in the Retail Banking and Finance areas of several large and rapidly growing financial services companies.
This includes extensive experience in budgeting and forecasting, strategic planning, profitability analysis; risk adjusted
return/economic profit metrics and process optimization.
Mr. Anderson's leadership experience has focused on implementing Performance Management and Business Strategies.
Mr. Anderson has directed the efforts surrounding the transition to an economic based performance measurement
framework during his tenure at Bank One, Wachovia and Washington Mutual. Mr. Anderson was also the program manager
for the Basel II efforts at Washington Mutual and worked closely with industry groups and regulators in the early
efforts to refine the Basel Accord. Each of these roles required change leadership - assisting the organization to
gain ownership and acceptance to the change; identifying significant areas of improvement across major processes;
providing leadership, expertise and consultation to allow the organization to embrace new tools and methodologies;
and identifying and addressing the cultural, behavioral and leadership barriers to change.
Results include:
• Identified and drove resolution of several key strategic issues on business unit performance at several firms
using an economic profit framework. These actions resulted in the redeployment of capital to higher return businesses with a better strategic fit
for the organization.
• Drove the creation of an enterprise product review process enabling better pricing decisions and
portfolio optimization/diversification at several firms.
• Managed the strategic analysis of product and business opportunities at several firms using an economic value framework.
• Created a Capital Expenditure process and a new financial forecasting/strategic planning process that resulted
in the reduction of several hundred million dollars of expense annually at Washington Mutual.
• Led reengineering efforts of business processes which resulted in tens of millions of dollars in
annual savings at various firms.
• Coordinated the development and managed production of all performance measurement methodologies including funds transfer pricing;
activity based costing, capital attribution and economic measurement metrics at various firms.
Mr. Anderson served as the editor of the Journal of Performance Management and has also spoken frequently on various Finance and Risk
Management topics for business groups. Mr. Anderson has also served as a board member of AMIfs and Oracle Application User Group.
Mr. Anderson has a B.S. in Finance from Arizona State University and holds a level two certification of Bank Cost and Management Accounting from AMIfs.
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Eileen Morrissey
Principal and Six Sigma Practice Leader
Eileen Morrissey is currently a Principal with DecisionVu specializing in corporate performance management,
profitability measurement and enhancement, operational performance, and six sigma for revenue enhancement. Her industry experiences
are Pharmaceutical, Industrial, and Consumer Products. Her consulting capabilities combine her senior leadership experiences within
Fortune 100 companies with her process and change management expertises.
Ms. Morrissey's leadership experiences within companies focused on implementing Process Change Strategies. Most notably as Vice
President, Global Operational Excellence at Merck & Co., 7 years with AlliedSignal's (now Honeywell) Six Sigma Change strategy,
and most recently as Vice President of Enterprise Service Management Transition at EDS. Each of these roles required change
leadership - assisting the organization to gain ownership and acceptance to the change; identifying significant areas of improvement
across major functional/divisional/geographic processes; providing leadership, expertise and consultation to allow the organization
to embrace new tools and methodologies; and identifying and addressing the cultural, behavioral and leadership barriers to change.
Results include:
• reducing 1 year off the cycle time for clinical development;
• 1st in the industry for eliminating forward buying;
• embracing a balanced scorecard tied to the company's new strategic direction;
• achieving 20% reduction in capital spending without reducing requirements;
• increasing cash flow by $100M in one year;
• identifying and achieving over $700MM in integration savings;
• 90% reduction in time between last patient out to frozen file.
As a consultant, Ms. Morrissey assisted a wide range of industries, mainly in the area of financial management, activity based costing,
balanced scorecard, six sigma for revenue enhancement, and process improvement. Client included Novartis, Pfizer, Merial, Arco,
Everyready, BMW, GE and Anheuser Busch. Ms. Morrissey began her consulting career with KPMG Peat Marwick (now Bearings Point) and
Price Waterhouse (now IBM). While at AlliedSignal/Honeywell, she led the business development for commercializing its core competency,
Six Sigma. As the VP and General Manager, she led a team of Master Black Belts to create a successful revenue generating,
six sigma external consulting capability within Honeywell.
In 2007, Ms. Morrissey authored Variability in Non-Manufacturing Functions, a chapter in the book Confronting Variability with
Richard Prince. In 1991, Ms. Morrissey co-authored the book Implementing Activity Based Cost Management; Moving from Analysis to
Action with Harvard Professors, Robert Kaplan and Robin Cooper, and Larry Maisel of KPMG. The book was based on the case study
learning's of eight companies and received the 1991's Management Accounting Award for Most Notable Contribution to Management.
Ms. Morrissey has a B.S. in Accounting from SUNY Binghamton and attended NYU for post-graduate studies in Information Systems.
She is a CPA and a Six Sigma Master Black Belt.
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Robert Savage
Senior Manager
Bob Savage has more than twenty-five years experience in both consulting and operations management
with deep experience in the design, implementation and usage of profitability systems and information. Prior to joining DecisionVu,
Bob served as Director of Profitability Modeling and Analysis at Dun & Bradstreet Corporation where he led the development of a
multi-dimensional profitability model for D&B's US business. Bob worked with D&B senior leadership leveraging model output to
drive margin improvements across D&B's sales channels and solution segments.
Prior to joining D&B, Mr. Savage was affiliated with The Performax Group (now part of DecisionVu) in the provision of cost management
guidance and consulting services to clients. Mr. Savage worked as a Senior Manager with Arthur Andersen's Business Consulting Practice,
where he provided an array of cost and performance management solutions across a variety of industry verticals including Electric
and Gas Utilities, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Financial Services and Consumer Goods. Additionally Mr. Savage has extensive
experience with all of the major ABC software solutions including Acorn EPS. While at Arthur Andersen, Mr. Savage collaborated on the
development and delivery of solutions that coupled ABC model output from several ABC software solutions with various reporting and
analytical solutions.
Mr. Savage is a contributing author to several books and management journals on the subject of Cost Management and has over 15 years of
experience in leading and delivering performance management implementations. He has spoken at numerous conferences relative to this topic
and has developed and delivered training curricula both in the US and abroad.
Mr. Savage received an MBA in Finance and Economics from Seton Hall University in 1980 and a BA in Psychology and Political Science
from Montclair State University in 1976. He resides in New Jersey.
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Steve Schuman
Managing Partner
Steve Schuman has over 25 years of extensive corporate and entrepreneurial experience. As the senior
executive in charge of corporate and divisional purchasing and operations, he has had overall responsibility for defining and implementing
strategic sourcing decisions and built a worldwide business strategy for strategic sourcing and supply chain management. He has created an
eBusiness strategy that enables a B2B virtual marketplace for buyers and suppliers to leverage resources, enhance services and integrate
key information and data. Steve has also built detailed metrics and advanced process management systems to track performance against
best practice baselines.
Prior to DecisionVu, Steve was Senior Vice President of Strategic Sourcing and Operations for Global Sourcing Services, Director of Worldwide Logistics
for Bristol-Myers Squibb and has held several key management positions for Clairol. He is certified by APICS in production and inventory management and
has served on their Board of Directors. He is certified by APICS in production and inventory management and has served on their Board of Directors.
Steve holds an MBA from Iona College (1976), and a BS in Industrial Engineering (1974) from Northeastern University.
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