Kansas City MO – Appleton Greene & Co

Mr Harper MBA BA – Senior Consultant

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Mr Harper is an approved Senior Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in management; human resources and finance. He has achieved a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Manufacturing; Healthcare; Utilities; Aerospace and Defense. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America and Canada, or more specifically within the following cities: San Francisco CA; Los Angeles CA; Oakland CA; Des Moines IA and Toronto. His personal achievements include led shared services organization and provided leadership to over 1,500 employees and was responsible for an annual operating budget in excess of $500 million; directed over $3.5 billion of annual spend, which included corporate and utility operations. Drove overall savings of 15%; developed and led implementation of company’s Diversity and Inclusion program; centralized the procurement group into customer-focused teams to align with engineering research group. This allowed to team to have much quicker response time, which shortened the engineering turnaround time and launched a Workforce Planning and Aspirational Hiring goal-setting benchmarked to the Labor Market and successfully achieved goals for past two years. His service skills incorporate: talent acquisition; supply chain management; operations management; human resource management and strategic planning.

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Ms Ceppi MBA BA – Executive Consultant

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Ms Ceppi is an approved Executive Consultant at Appleton Greene and she has experience in marketing, management and human resources. She has achieved a Master of Business Administration from and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. She has industry experience within the following sectors: Entertainment; Insurance; Pharmaceutical; Healthcare and Media & Marketing. She has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America, or more specifically within the following cities: Los Angeles CA; San Diego CA; New York NY; Philadelphia PA and Chicago IL. Her personal achievements include: projects under my purview generated nearly $120M gross revenue and gained 3.5 market share points in FY 2011, despite year-over-year industry losses at Warner Bros.; I created a full strategic plan to assist agents in retaining clients via local marketing tactics at Farmers Insurance; I implemented a social media marketing campaign which exponentially increased likes, reach, engagement and follows at FocusedRx; I drove increased shelf presence at retail through account specific promotions and events at leading accounts including Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and Target and I successfully launched Martha Stewart and Lifetime DVD brands at retail, achieving strong presence in major outlets and media awareness at launch at Warner Bros. Her service skills incorporate: traditional and new media marketing; quantitative, strategic and competitive analysis; negotiation project management and cross-functional team leadership.

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Ms Asensio MBA BA – Senior Consultant

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Ms Asensio is an approved Senior Consultant at Appleton Greene and she has experience in human resources, management and marketing. She has achieved a Master in Business Administration in Marketing, a Master in Business Administration in Human Resources and a Bachelor in Arts. She has industry experience within the following sectors: Aviation; Consumer Goods; Education; Healthcare and Manufacturing. She has had commercial experience within the following countries: Puerto Rico; Mexico and United States of America, or more specifically within the following cities: San Juan; Mexico City; Kansas City MO; Orlando FL and Oklahoma City OK. Her personal achievements include: eliminated barriers to project implementation; facilitated internal relationships for continued success; tripled program revenue in 18 months; defined reporting parameters for accurate tracking and led team to record breaking sales for 3 years. Her service skills incorporate: organizational development; management consulting; project management; workforce development and strategic planning.

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Mr Metz BA – Executive Consultant

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Mr Metz is an approved Executive Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in management, human resources and information technology. He has achieved a Bachelor of Arts. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Manufacturing; Retail; Consultancy; Advertising and Technology. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America and Mexico, or more specifically within the following cities: New York NY; Los Angeles CA; Chicago IL; Atlanta GA and Honolulu HI. His personal achievements include: successfully created first licensed jewelry program for Shop At Home, Scripps Media; implemented complete guild inventory program for Signet; retooled and refined inventory assortment for Lenox; negotiated successful licensing program for Helzberg and created merchandising and marketing departments for retailer in Cancun, Mexico. His service skills incorporate: project management; personnel training; business analysis and agreements negotiations.

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Mr Erickson MBHRM BSEE – Senior Consultant

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Mr Erickson is an approved Senior Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in management, human resources and production. He has achieved a Master in Business Human Resource Management and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Construction; Consultancy; Consumer Goods; Food & Beverage and Manufacturing. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America and Canada, or more specifically within the following cities: Minneapolis MN; Kansas City MO; Denver CO Salt Lake City UT and Edmonton AB. His personal achievements include: grew $12M business to $40M; implemented financial management control processes; trained founder to be CEO; reorganized operating departments improving throughput and established performance improvement processes. His service skills incorporate: business strategy; organizational development; business systems; leadership development and financial management.

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Mr Birch PhD MS BS – Senior Consultant

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Mr Birch is an approved Senior Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in marketing, management and finance. He has achieved a PhD Business in Organization and Management, a Master of Science in Technology Management and a Bachelor of Science in Technology Management. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Banking & Financial Services; Healthcare; Manufacturing; Aviation and Technology. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America, or more specifically within the following cities: Atlanta GA; Dallas TX; Los Angeles CA; Chicago IL and Detroit IL. His personal achievements include: pioneered the operational and financial analysis for the managed services and communications, media & entertainment business units; conducted research and analysis of historical operational performance, critical performance indices and future work; conducted customer utilization research, product reliability research, and competitive analyses; led the strategic planning team of senior managers that conducted the research, planning, and forecasting of maintenance operations along with creating the model for new business and add-on sales for existing clients; conducted research and analysis of historical operational performance, critical performance indices, and clients’ feedback; conducted time studies of employees’ utilization and efficiency based on skill sets and experience levels; worked with senior leaders to identify critical transformational activities; conducted transformational training, identified critical subject matter experts and change agents and launched all transformational activities. His service skills incorporate: strategic corporate planning; mergers & acquisitions; business intelligence & analytics; disaster recovery & infrastructure stabilization and process planning & development.

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Mr Valentini BS Dip – Executive Consultant

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Mr Valentini is an approved Executive Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in marketing, management and production. He has achieved a Degree in Civil Engineering and a Diploma in Maturità Scientifica. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Manufacturing; Hypermarkets & Supermarkets; Food & Beverages; Consumer Goods and Franchise. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America; Italy and France, or more specifically within the following cities: Atlanta GA; Charlotte NC; Parma; Le Havre and Conegliano. His service skills incorporate: project management; lean management; business restructuring; performance improvement and business planning.

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Ms Wilson BS – Senior Consultant

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Ms Wilson is an approved Senior Consultant at Appleton Greene and she has experience in information technology, management and globalization. She has achieved a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. She has industry experience within the following sectors: Consultancy; Technology; Construction; Government and Education. She has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America; Canada; United Kingdom and Italy, or more specifically within the following cities: Denver CO; Kansas City MO; Toronto; London and Rome. Her personal achievements include: transformed $3.6B IT organization; successfully integrated numerous acquisitions simultaneously; built profitable cloud business unit; automated seasonal 100,000-person recruiting and streamlined back-office $3MM savings annually. Her service skills incorporate: IT strategy; IT transformation; systems assessment; process improvement and acquisition integration.

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Ms Kensok MBA BS – Executive Consultant

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Ms Kensok is an approved Executive Consultant at Appleton Greene and she has experience in management and information technology. She has achieved an Master of Business Administration in Marketing and Strategic Management and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. She has industry experience within the following sectors: Healthcare; Pharmaceutical; Defense; Technology and Manufacturing. She has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America; Mexico; Sweden and Italy, or more specifically within the following cities: Minneapolis MN; San Diego CA; Tijuana; Uppsala and Milan. Her personal achievements include: led the R&D of a new and innovative renal therapy product while at St Jude Medical and launched the first generation system at a major European conference in May 2012; built a global engineering development team and initiated processes and improvements to ensure compliance under medical device regulations such as FDA GMP, ISO, IEC, UL, and CE; attained exceptional rating for the post-acquisition merger of product development and operations for a synergistic portfolio while at ACIST Medical Systems which – accelerated integration effort resulted in $0.5 million operating profit, plus realized yearly operational savings of over $1M through consolidation of workforce and technologies; spearheaded a large-scale second generation product development effort for ACIST Medical Systems which was subsequently launched in Europe and delivered custom solutions for Datacard global finance, healthcare, government, and ID security markets, achieving 20% Solutions growth in 2002-2003.. Her service skills incorporate: project management; product and software development; mergers and acquisitions; offshore management and organizational design.

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Mr Mapp MS BS – Executive Consultant

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Mr Mapp is an approved Executive Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in management and information technology. He has achieved a Master’s in Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Manufacturing; Consumer Goods; Technology; Healthcare and Real Estate. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America; Canada; United Kingdom; China and Mexico, or more specifically within the following cities: Atlanta GA; Cincinnati OH; St. Louis MO; Chicago IL and Memphis TN. His service skills incorporate: ISO auditor; quality management systems; process validations; quality vision strategy deployment and procedure documentation.

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Ms Savage MA BA – Executive Consultant

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Ms Savage is an approved Executive Consultant at Appleton Greene and she has experience in management and human resources. She has achieved a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. She has industry experience within the following sectors: Healthcare; Non-Profit & Charities; Education and Retail. She has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America, or more specifically within the following cities: Minneapolis MN; Dallas TX, Pittsburgh PA; Phoenix AZ and St Louis MO. Her personal achievements include: trained several hundred people in customer-engagement and behavior change; 200 people in change leadership and organizational transition; supported leaders in an organization of over 1000 to more readily apply change management techniques in day to day operations and training an audience of over 300, I was requested to create, develop and deliver a new training for external partners in collaborative accountable care organizations. Her service skills incorporate: behavior change coaching; leadership coaching; curriculum development; program development and facilitation.

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Mr Baker BS – Executive Consultant

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Mr Baker is an approved Executive Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in management, human resources and finance. He has achieved a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with Minor in Military & Computer Science. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Logistics; Aviation; Manufacturing; Banking & Financial Services and Electronics. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America and Ecuador, or more specifically within the following cities: Atlanta GA; Charlotte NC; St Louis MO; Cleveland OH and Columbus MO. His personal achievements include: lead change agent responsible for improving all aspects of the NCR continuous Improvement certification and training programs globally; CI community to achieve $140 million annually in benefits by defining and maintaining project management policies, processes and methods and projects include development of strategy deployment processes to align policy with execution, and architecture of business management systems and dashboards. His service skills incorporate: strategic planning; change management; continuous improvement; curriculum development and instructor and business process improvement.

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Mr Lee MS BS – Executive Consultant

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Mr Lee is an approved Executive Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in management and human resources. He has achieved a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Social Work and Public Administration. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Retail; Insurance; Technology; Manufacturing and Healthcare. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America, or more specifically within the following cities: Los Angeles CA; Chicago IL; Atlanta GA; Philadelphia PA and Minneapolis MN. His personal achievements include: implemented succession planning – The GE Philosophy of the “9 Box Grid” for Home Depot and Cigna; facilitated the merger and acquisition for NDC Health and McKesson; created a mentoring program for sales professionals at Nike called “Future All Star Mentoring Program” and for sales professionals at Cigna called B.L.A.S.T. – Business Leadership And Sales Training and created a strategic staffing plan for 85 FTE’s after being awarded the State of New Mexico’s EAP/Medicare and Medicaid program. His service skills incorporate: talent management; change management; organizational design; succession planning and performance management.

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Ms Basarab MBA BSHA – Executive Consultant

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Ms Basarab is an approved Executive Consultant at Appleton Greene and she has experience in management, customer service and human resources. She has achieved a Master of Business Administration in Project Management and a Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Administration. She has industry experience within the following sectors: Healthcare; Media & Marketing; Government; Insurance and Advertising. She has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America and United Kingdom, or more specifically within the following cities: Chicago IL; New York NYC; Tampa FL; Washington DC and Seattle WA. Her personal achievements include: increased revenue, visibility and vision development and execute plans & strategy identification for growth. Her service skills incorporate: strategic planning; customer service; project management; human resources & recruitment and marketing.

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Mr. Black MBA BSIE – Senior Consultant

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Mr. Black is an approved Senior Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in customer service, management, and production. He has achieved a Master of Business Administration and a BSIE in Science-Industrial Engineering. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Construction; Logistics; Transport; Retail and Non-Profit & Charities. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America and Canada, or more specifically within the following cities: Des Moines IA; Omaha NE; Kansas City MO; Orlando FL and Toronto ON. His personal achievements include: reduced work orders in process; implemented inside sales team; improved customer service quality; implemented Voice of the Customer and increased first call resolution. His service skills incorporate: customer experience; process improvement; project management; P&L management and team leadership.

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Mr Landa MBA BEng – Senior Consultant

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Mr Landa is an approved Senior Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in marketing, management and customer service. He has achieved a Master of Business Administration and a Degree in Industrial Engineering. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Manufacturing; Hotel; Media & Marketing; Retail and Utilities. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America and Mexico, or more specifically within the following cities: Miami FL; Mexico City; Monterrey; Querétaro and Appleton WI. His personal achievements include: designed and implemented operational footprint for LATAM operations at Milacron Aftermarket; managed 3 major AC installations for hotels & resorts with Carrier at the Mayan Riviera; led the sales and marketing effort that resulted in a 32% revenue growth for Milacron Aftermarket in Mexico; developed turn-key projects at Carrier for a 40% growth of the business unit and implemented a customer support platform for Viacom Outdoor. His service skills incorporate: continuous improvement; strategic planning; business development; negotiation and operations management.

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