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"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."
- Desiderius Erasmus

Pierre Chao, Managing Partner

Pierre Chao is a co-founder and managing partner of Renaissance Strategic Advisors. He has over twenty-years of aerospace/defense management consulting, investment banking, equity analysis and policy analysis expertise.
 
Prior to establishing Renaissance Strategic Advisors, Mr. Chao was the Director of Defense-Industrial Initiatives at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington D.C.-based, non-partisan defense and foreign policy think tank from 2003-2007.
 
Before joining CSIS, Mr. Chao was a Managing Director and senior aerospace/defense analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) between 1999 and 2003, where he was responsible for following the U.S. and global aerospace/defense industry. He remained a CSFB independent senior adviser from 2003 to 2006. From 1995 to 1999, Mr. Chao was the senior aerospace/defense analyst at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. He served as the senior aerospace/defense industry analyst at Smith Barney in 1994 and as a director at JSA International, a Boston/Paris-based management-consulting firm that focused on the aerospace/defense industry from 1986 to 1988,  and 1990 to 1993. Mr. Chao was also a co-founder of JSA Research, an equity research boutique specializing in the aerospace/defense industry. Before signing on with JSA, he worked in the New York and London offices of Prudential-Bache Capital Funding as a mergers and acquisitions banker focusing on aerospace/defense from 1988 to 1990.

Over the course of his Wall Street career, Mr. Chao’s team was ranked #1 by Institutional Investor every year eligible and he was on the Institutional Investor All-America Research Team every year eligible. He participated in thirty-one landmark aerospace/defense equity offerings and IPOs, raising $11.7 billion, and dozens of buy-side and sell-side M&A assignments.

He is also a guest lecturer at the National Defense University and the Defense Acquisition University, and he has served on multiple Defense Science Board, Defense Business Board and National Academies of Science task forces.
 
Mr. Chao holds dual degrees in Political Science and Management Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
 
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John J. Kenkel, Managing Partner

John J. Kenkel is a co-founder and managing partner of Renaissance Strategic Advisors and has years of experience in due diligence support, corporate planning, customer and program analyses, opportunity identification, and other analytical services. He specializes in the U.S. and international defense industry and in strategic planning and business development processes.
 
Prior to establishing Renaissance Strategic Advisors, Mr. Kenkel was the senior director and global practice head at Jane’s Strategic Advisory Services (JSAS), the consulting division of Jane’s Information Group. He was a founding member of JSAS and managed a staff of over twenty consultants in three countries, and also managed dozens of consulting assignments for industry and governments on five continents and more than fifteen countries.
 
From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Kenkel was also a member of the Board of Directors for Jane’s Information Group, Inc., the U.S. arm of Jane’s global operations. As a senior executive in the Jane’s organization he assisted with corporate strategy and interacted with leaders across the organization.
 
Mr. Kenkel was an Associate with DFI International from 2000 to 2004, a boutique consulting firm specializing in strategic advice to the aerospace/defense industry. There, he led a team that established DFI’s international practice as well as its global network of analysts.
 
Prior to DFI, Mr. Kenkel was an analyst with The IBP Aerospace Group between 1998 and 2000, where he worked with former Soviet and Eastern European nations to market defense and aerospace systems to the U.S. and Western Europe. While with IBP, he worked in both a business development and operations capacity, as well as managed the ITAR related import and export work.
 
Mr. Kenkel is recognized as an expert in the aerospace/defense markets. He has contributed to Jane’s publications, Defense News, Worth Magazine, Canadian Broadcast Corporation, NPR, BBC and CBS’ 60 Minutes. Additionally, Mr. Kenkel has spoken at events worldwide on such topics as international defense market access, global defense budgets and the creation of corporate defense alliances. He is also an active advisor to the international financial community on issues related to global defense trends.
 
Mr. Kenkel holds degrees in Diplomacy & Foreign Affairs and Political Science from Miami University in Oxford, OH.
 
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David Scruggs, Managing Partner

David Scruggs is a co-founder, managing partner and chief operating officer of Renaissance Strategic Advisors and has over twenty-five years of experience in management consulting, strategic due diligence and market assessments. Prior to establishing Renaissance Strategic Advisors, Mr. Scruggs was a Senior Fellow in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington, D.C.-based, non-partisan defense and foreign policy think tank.
 
Prior to CSIS, from 1999 to 2003, Mr. Scruggs was the Director of Washington D.C. Operations for JSA Partners where he advised Global 500 companies on market and competitive strategies at the division, group and corporate levels. He was the senior advisor for all investment due-diligence projects during his tenure at JSA. He also worked closely with the Department of Defense's Office of the Secretary of Defense.
 
Before joining JSA, he was a manager with A.T. Kearney's Global Aerospace and Telecommunications Practices from 1994 to 1999, based in Boston and Washington D.C. There, Mr. Scruggs managed over two dozen consulting assignments in the U.S. and Europe covering supply-chain improvement, strategic positioning, market assessment, technical and investment due-diligence.
 
Positions prior to A.T. Kearney include: Vice President of Security Pacific Realty Ventures (1990-1992), Vice President of Security Pacific National Bank (1986-1990) and Assistant Vice President of Lloyd's Bank California (1982-1986).
 
Mr. Scruggs is a recognized expert on defense industry and trade issues. He speaks at industry and policy conferences in the U.S. and Europe. He has also been quoted in the major trade and general press on various defense industry topics.
 
Mr. Scruggs holds a Master of Arts in International Law & Diplomacy from the Fletcher School, Tufts University, and BA degrees in Economics and History from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
 
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Pete Roney, Managing Principal

Pete Roney is a Managing Principal with Renaissance Strategic Advisors, where he specializes in assisting clients with strategic management processes, corporate portfolio management and long-range enterprise planning.
 
Prior to joining Renaissance Strategic Advisors in 2008, Mr. Roney was the enterprise strategic planning manager at General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products in Charlotte, North Carolina from 2006 to 2007. During his tenure at General Dynamics, Mr. Roney advised senior management on strategic matters including business unit portfolio management; market identification, entry, and exit; resource needs and capabilities analysis; capital budgeting; and, mergers and acquisitions. Notably, he led the company’s annual strategic planning process, working with senior, business unit, and staff management to deliver both enterprise and business unit strategic plans.
 
Before joining General Dynamics, Mr. Roney was Director of Operations for the 35th Signal Brigade, XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, North Carolina from 2004 to 2006. On active duty for over six years, Mr. Roney deployed on two major combat tours to Southwest Asia, leading planning and operations activities in U.S. and coalition enterprises. During his final tour to Operation Iraqi Freedom III, Mr. Roney and his team were responsible for all short and long-range planning including logistics, administration, personnel, force modernization and combat operations for the multi-national telecommunications task-force deployed throughout the country.

Mr. Roney holds a Master of Business Administration Degree from the Babcock School of Management at Wake Forest University and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics from the United States Military Academy at West Point.

 
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Matthew Mejía, Managing Principal

Matthew Mejía is a Managing Principal with Renaissance Strategic Advisors.  With over ten years of aerospace & defense experience in management consulting, strategic due diligence, and investment banking, Mr. Mejía focuses on Mergers & Acquisitions and related advisory services for industry clients and financial sponsors

Prior to joining Renaissance Strategic Advisors in 2009, Mr. Mejía held leadership positions with the aerospace & defense practices at Booz & Company (formerly Booz Allen Hamilton) and Charles River Associates International.  His responsibilities included business development, client relations, and project management.  Specific results included the successful management of numerous engagements with major strategic and financial clients involving transaction support, due diligence, and corporate strategy.

Mr. Mejía also spent eight years as an investment banker at First Equity Development, a boutique investment bank focused on aerospace & defense advisory and merchant banking activities.  As Vice President, Matthew had direct responsibility for new business generation, transaction execution, and client development and relations.  Specific transaction experience included numerous international and domestic advisory assignments including sell side, buy side, M&A strategy, due diligence, and capital raising as well as extensive support for several portfolio companies owned by First Equity’s merchant bank.

At First Equity, Mr. Mejía also created and managed a business unit to advise presidential appointees at the Departments of Defense and Justice on industrial base issues.   Specific assignments included reviews of the Transformation of the Defense Industrial Base, International Support of the Joint Strike Fighter, the Military
Helicopter Industry, and extensive reviews and analyses of major mergers & acquisitions involving companies such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, and Honeywell.

Mr. Mejía is a graduate of the Jerome Fisher Management & Technology dual degree program at the University of Pennsylvania, earning a B.S., Economics from Wharton with a concentration in International Law & Policy and a B.A.S., Systems Engineering from the School of Engineering & Applied Science.  In addition, he is a past fellow at the NASA Glenn Research Center and was a student private pilot.


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The Honorable Kenneth J. Krieg, Executive in Residence

Ken Krieg is an Executive in Residence with Renaissance Strategic Advisors.  He was the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics from 2005-2007.  He was responsible for advising the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense on all matters relating to the DoD Acquisition System, research and development, advanced technology, developmental test and evaluation, production, logistics, installation management, military construction, procurement and environmental security matters.

Before his appointment to USD (AT&L), Mr. Krieg served at the Department of Defense as Special Assistant to the Secretary and Director for Program Analysis & Evaluation.   He joined the Department of Defense in July 2001 to serve as the Executive Secretary of the Senior Executive Council.

Prior to joining the Department of Defense, Mr. Krieg worked for International Paper, most recently as Vice President and General Manager of the Office and Consumer Papers Division. He had responsibility for the company's $1.4 billion retail, commercial office, and consumer papers businesses. During his 11 years with the Memphis, TN-based company, Mr. Krieg held marketing and sales positions and was actively involved in the merger of three major paper companies into International Paper.    Before moving to industry, Mr. Krieg worked in a number of defense and foreign policy assignments in Washington, DC, including positions at the White House, on the National Security Council Staff, and in Office of the Secretary of Defense.

 

Mr. Krieg received his BA degree in history from Davidson College and his Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Aurora Flight Sciences, Twisted Pair Solutions and White Electronics.  He is a member of the Board of Trustees of LMI and is a member of the SSA Board of DRS Technologies.

 

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LTG (Ret.) Charles E. Franklin, Senior Advisor

LTG (Ret.) Charles E. Franklin is a Senior Advisor to Renaissance Strategic Advisors.
 
General Franklin was Vice President of the Raytheon Company Evaluation Team, to which he was appointed in 2003. Previously, he was President of the Integrated Defense Systems business, and Vice President and General Manager of the Raytheon Electronic Systems’ Air and Missile Defense Systems business unit.
 
Prior to joining Raytheon, General Franklin worked for Lockheed Martin-Sanders in Nashua, N.H., as Vice President for Programs and Mission Success and Vice President for Quality and Mission Success.
 
General Franklin held the rank of Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force and was commander of the Electronic Systems Center, Air Force Materiel Command, Hanscom Air Force Base. He was responsible for the Air Force’s Center of Excellence, with more than 500 command and control, communications and intelligence systems. He also oversaw more than $3 billion in programs annually. There, he also served as Deputy Commander, Tactical Systems, and Deputy Commander for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System.
 
Before transferring to Hanscom Air Force Base, General Franklin held the position of Program Executive Officer, Tactical and Airlift Programs, Air Force Executive Office Organization in Washington, D.C. His earlier assignments included system program director, Advanced Medium- Range Air-to-Air Missiles, at Eglin Air Force Base and commander, Rome Air Development Center, at Griffiss Air Force Base.
 
General Franklin earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech University and a Master of Science in Aeronautical-Mechanical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.

 
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General David M. Maddox (ret.), Senior Advisor

General Maddox is a Senior Advisor to Renaissance Strategic Advisors.

General Maddox is an independent consultant to civilian corporations, government agencies, and the defense industry on concepts, systems requirements, program strategies, operations and systems effectiveness and analytic techniques and analyses. 

He served on numerous Defense Science Board (DSB), Army Science Board (ASB) and National Academy of Sciences (NAS) task forces, including: Tactics and Technology for 21st Century Military Superiority and Joint Operations Superiority in the 21st Century: Integrating Capabilities Underwriting Joint Vision 2010, and Integrated Fire Support (DSB); Strategic Maneuver, Technical and Tactical Opportunities for Revolutionary Advances in Rapidly Deployable Joint Ground Forces in the 2015-2025 Era, Ensuring the Financial Viability of the Objective Force, and Intra-theater Logistic Distribution (ASB); and studies on C4ISR and Defense Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (NAS).  

General Maddox retired from the U.S. Army after serving as Commander in Chief, U.S. Army in Europe.  While on active duty, he served extensively overseas with four tours in Germany during which he commanded at every level, from platoon through NATO’s Central Army Group, 7th U.S. Army and Theater.
  
His last six years of active duty were in Europe transitioning from the Cold War, through Desert Storm, to the total reengineering of U.S. presence and mission in Europe. General Maddox downsized from over 200 thousand military and civilian employees to fewer than 100 thousand, closed 450 installations, and repositioned one million tons of equipment, significantly reducing payroll, operations, and infrastructure costs while, through demonstrated concern for employee quality of life, increased both productivity and morale.  Concurrently, he transitioned an organization which had conducted 29 deployments involving 11 thousand people in 44 years,  to one which successfully conducted over 50 deployments involving 20 thousand people in 3½ years responding to unanticipated, diverse political/military crises throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Other assignments include: Commanding General of TRADOC's Combined Arms Operations Research Activity (the predecessor of  TRADOC's  Analysis Command (TRAC))  at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Deputy Chief of Staff for Combat Developments, TRADOC.

General Maddox holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics from the Virginia Military Institute and a Master of Science Degree in Operations Research/Systems Analysis with an Engineering Specialty from Southern Illinois University.  His military education culminated in graduation from the Army War College.  He is the recipient of numerous awards, including: the Army’s Commander’s Award for Public Service, the Secretary of the Army’s Public Service Award, the Military Operations Research Society’s Wanner Award, the Institute for Operations Research Award and the Management Sciences’ J. Steinhardt Award.

 
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Martin Meth, Senior Advisor

Martin Meth is a Senior Advisor with Renaissance Strategic Advisors and specializes in the aerospace/defense industrial base, defense acquisition policies and practices, and mergers & acquisitions.
 
In his previous position, Mr. Meth led Thales SA’s strategic business planning activities for its U.S. Operations. His activities involved facilitating strategic relationships with US companies, developing merger and acquisitions strategies, and improving Thales U.S. business units’ positions in their market segments.
 
For over ten years, Mr. Meth held senior executive positions in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics, first as Director of Weapon System Improvement Group and then as Director of Industrial Capabilities and Assessments.
 
Mr. Meth’s professional activities have included U.S. Department of Defense Representative to IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee for automatic test languages and member of the Board of Advisors for Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium. Mr. Meth is also the author of numerous papers on reliability and maintainability.
 
Mr. Meth received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from City College of New York and Juris Doctor Degree from George Washington University. He is a member District of Columbia Bar Association.
 
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George "Chip" Pickett, Senior Advisor

George "Chip" Pickett is a Senior Advisor to Renaissance Strategic Advisors and specializes in corporate strategy and planning, C4ISR, public policy, defense budgets, and industry and market analysis.
 
Currently, Mr. Pickett supports the Office of the Secretary of Defense in analyses of strategy formulation and innovation and is an instructor in business strategy in defense firms at the University of Maryland. He is writing a book on the application of competitive strategies by firms in the industry, and in 2008 he completed a study of the consolidation of the industry since the mid-1980s and its potential future directions.
 
In 2007, Mr. Pickett retired from Northrop Grumman as a Vice President, having held V.P. positions in marketing, strategy and long range planning. In his twenty-one years with the corporation he focused on issues of business strategy development and implementation. He led analyses of markets and acquisition targets for Northrop. He conducted geo-political, military, and defense budget analyses to defend programs and shape business development activities. He re-organized and led the marketing operations of a newly acquired electronics division. He led proposal evaluation teams. He established new practices for determining IRAD and B&P levels. Finally, he developed strategic options for expanding the corporation's portfolio, and established strategy development and long range planning processes that were considered "best practices" and borrowed by consulting firms for use in other industries.
 
During his career at Northrop Grumman Mr. Pickett also supported the Defense Department in areas involving strategy formulation. He led teams and participated in war games in the JCS and Army examining the future of warfare. He led studies of subjects such as the Revolution in Military Affairs, implementing major innovations in large organizations, and applying business strategy to defense planning. Within intelligence agencies he taught graduate level courses in defense budgeting and the funding of intelligence programs.
 
From 1980 to 1986, while at Booz Allen Hamilton and the MITRE Corporation, Mr. Pickett developed systems architectures for DoD intelligence and communication systems. At Booz Allen he also studied competitive strategies for use against the Soviet Union and conducted market and company analyses to assist the M&A activities of Fortune 500 companies.
 
In 1976, Mr. Pickett was selected to be the first staff member to conduct analyses of defense intelligence budgets in the newly formed Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. For four years he was solely responsible for evaluating all DoD tactical intelligence programs, the GDIP, the CCP and certain special budgets. He focused on sigint, airborne collection systems, ISR processing systems and intelligence manpower.
 
From 1964 to 1976, Mr. Pickett was an officer in the United States Army, first in the Infantry and then in Military Intelligence. He attended Ranger, Airborne and Heavy Mortar courses, and served in combat units in Korea and Ft Bragg. In Vietnam in 1968 he targeted enemy units north of Saigon for an infantry division, and in 1969 was the DIA/DoD lead analyst on enemy forces in South Vietnam. The Army sent him to Harvard Business School in 1970-1972, and he was subsequently assigned to the White House NSC to conduct assessments of intelligence support to the President. He completed his active duty as the first staff officer in the newly formed Office of Net Assessment, where he conducted comparative assessments of U.S. and Soviet military forces.
 
Mr. Pickett graduated from Yale University with a BA in Political Science in 1964 and from Harvard Business School with an MBA in 1972. At Harvard he focused on issues in business strategy and organizational structure and systems.
 
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Sylvia Sze, Senior Advisor

Sylvia Sze is a Senior Advisor with Renaissance Strategic Advisors. For the past twenty-five years, she has provided strategic counsel to clients in the aerospace, defense and telecommunications industries in North America, Europe and Asia.
 
In the late-1990s, Ms. Sze began to work with start-up companies, helping to grow and sell one company to Cisco Systems and another to Lucent Technologies. Most recently, she assisted with capital-raising and strategic alliances for a semiconductor company that is taking chips into the third dimension on a standard commercial production line, thus producing denser, faster, more reliable, and less power hungry chips.
 
In the mid-1980s, Ms. Sze applied knowledge gained from the transition of fly-by-wire to fly-by-light to the telecommunications industry, assisting clients with the development of technology roadmaps and their acquisition strategies.
 
Very early in her career, Ms. Sze consulted to Airbus Industrie, grappling with issues that arise from cross-border development and production. While at Arthur D. Little, she worked within the practice area of Strategic Management of Technology, but remained focused on the aerospace and defense industries. She also assisted two Fortune 100 companies with the integration of two major acquisitions. As a senior consultant at JSA Partners, Ms. Sze co-led a strategic realignment for a major European electronics firm.
 
Ms. Sze has a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences from Johns Hopkins University with a concentration in Economics. She was a case researcher and writer at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Business and Administration, and a guest lecturer on entrepreneurship, innovation, and management of R&D at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Engineering. She currently serves on the panel of judges for the University of California’s Haas Business School’s Annual Business Case Competition and an emeritus member of Johns Hopkins University’s Advisory Council.
 
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Anthony M. Valletta, Senior Advisor

Anthony M. Valletta is a Senior Advisor to Renaissance Strategic Advisors and has spent forty years in the C3/C4ISR/and IT Business areas. He is presently an Independent Consultant and sits on a number of Boards assisting companies in the DOD Business area.
 
Mr. Valletta was the Senior Vice President and Director of the Defense Sector at SRA International (1998-2007). Previously, he was the Director of the Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Systems business unit where he was responsible for thought leadership and strategic direction for the Government Sector, with concentration on the Department of Defense.
 
Prior to joining SRA, Mr. Valletta was Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (1997-1998). In this capacity he served as the principal staff assistant and advisor to the Secretary of Defense for command, control, communications and intelligence, information management, counterintelligence, security countermeasures and information warfare matters, including warning reconnaissance and intelligence related activities conducted by the Department of Defense. Mr. Valletta was also the designated Acting Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the U.S. Department of Defense, and was responsible for ensuring the implementation of the Clinger-Cohen Act, formerly known as the Information Technology Management Reform Act.
 
Prior to his designation as the Acting ASD(C3I), Mr. Valletta served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence Acquisition. In his position as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense he served as Chairman of the C3I Overarching Integrated Process Team (OIPT), one of the three OIPTs supporting the Defense Acquisition Board, and acting Chairman of the Major Automated Information Systems Review Committee (MAISRC).
 
Mr. Valletta served as the Vice Director of Information Systems for Command, Control, Communications and Computers and the senior civilian in the Army dealing with information technology (1992-1994).
 
Mr. Valletta is a graduate of the University of New Haven and Yale University ROTC.
 
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G. Kim Wincup, Senior Advisor

G. Kim Wincup a Senior Advisor to Renaissance Strategic Advisors.  Presently, he is Senior Vice President on the Corporate Development staff, reporting to the Executive Vice President of Science Applications International Corporation, and responsible for contract management, mergers and acquisitions, internal and external communications and general senior management activities. Mr. Wincup also serves as Chairman of the Reserve Forces Policy Board and Chairman of the Board of Advisors, Naval Postgraduate School.

In 1994, Mr. Wincup was a visiting professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School.  He was staff director for the Joint Committee in 1993, during which time he was mandated to conduct a bi-partisan, bicameral “full and complete study” of the U.S. Congress.

Mr. Wincup has received appointments to serve as the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition in 1992; Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs from 1989 to 1992.  He served as counsel to the Committee on Armed Services in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1974 to 1989, where he was responsible for all legislative and management activities.

From 1970 to 1973, Mr. Wincup served in the U.S. Air Froce as a judge advocate and was involved in extensive trial and administrative law activities.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from DePauw University and a Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Illinois School of Law.


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LTG (Ret.) Joseph L. Yakovac, Senior Advisor

LTG (Ret.) Joseph L. Yakovac is a Senior Advisor to Renaissance Strategic Advisors.
 
Lt. General Yakovac retired from the U.S. Army in 2007. His last assignment was Director of the Army Acquisition Corp and Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics.
 
From 1997 to 2003, Lt. General Yakovac held several posts, working in systems acquisitions for the U.S. Army. He served as the Deputy for Systems Acquisition at the United States Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command from 1997 to 1998; Assistant Deputy and then as Deputy for Systems Management and Horizontal Technology Integration within ASA(ALT) from 1998 to 2000; and, Program Executive Officer of Ground Combat Systems in Warren, Michigan from 2000 to 2003.
 
Lt. General Yakovac was commissioned in the infantry upon graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1971. He also earned a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is currently a senior lecturer in Acquisition Naval Post-Graduate School in Monterrey, California, and the head of independent consulting firm JVM LLC.

 
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