Rob Eskridge
President and Principal Consulting Economist

In spite of 30 years' as a strategic management consultant and planning facilitator in more than 40 industries and 16 countries, Rob approaches each planning meeting and implementation assignment with a fresh look, designing agendas and management processes which are uniquely tailored to the business issues, industry trends and financial situation which the client faces. Rob lives and mountain bikes in Truckee, CA, just miles from our Tahoe planning center.

Ryan Stock
Director of Marketing and Industry Research

With a solid business education and golf skills to match his previous career in the golf industry, Ryan joined us as a Director of Marketing and Industry Research (we do a lot of that). He also serves as Registrar for our OK2x service, and as a graphic facilitator during clients' planning meetings. We've seen Ryan water skiing, wakeboarding and surfing enough to confirm his watersports addiction.

Cathy Halvorson-Rudolph
Client Services Coordinator

Cathy coordinates service delivery, keeps us in touch with clients, summons us off the ski hill for client crises and accesses process resources when clients need them. Through her incredible network of contacts, Cathy also manages to get great seats at San Francisco Giants games when bleacher seats or "sold out" are the only options for the rest of us.

Allen Hovious
Executive Vice-President and Principal Consultant

With a solid and enviable corporate career in strategic marketing, Allen has brought his southern accent and strategic insight to companies in financial services, music, entertainment, insurance, manufacturing and many other industries, in the US, and in Western and Eastern Europe. He partners closely with management teams to provide momentum for their growth strategies and plan implementation processes. Allen lives and plays near-scratch golf in Nashville, TN.

David Mesicek
Vice President, Director, Service Maketing Practice

With experience as a successful entrepreneur and marketer, David leads our Services Marketing and Entrepreneurship practices. He works with client organizations to develop and implement actionable and quantifiable growth strategies. With an MBA from Babson and a passion for skiing, sailing and the outdoors David brings excitement, out-of-the-box thinking, and analytical rigor to his work. You can catch up with him on his blog at: http://venturedefinite.com

Ivan Spingl
President of GMC Marketing, s.r.o. and Principal Consultant

As the bells of freedom began to ring in Eastern Europe in 1989, Ivan transitioned from a career in an eastern bloc export firm into a consulting practice focused on accelerating the transition of state-owned and entrepreneurial firms into a free market economy. With a passion for Czech beer and cross-cultural understanding, Ivan introduces management to business practices which lock customer-centered values into businesses which are emerging into the tough, intense world of global competition. Ivan lives with his family in Prague, CZ.