Counselors

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John A.

John brings a wealth of experience in management, consulting, financial services and software development across multiple industries in both domestic and international operations. He provides advisory services to startup and evolving technology companies and advice to Presidents and Chief Executives about the business of managing Information Technology so that the company gains competitive advantage from its investments.

John served as President and CEO of Cayenne Software, Inc. and managed the sale of Cayenne to Sterling Software. He also served as President of FJA-US, a subsidiary of FJA AG. He converted the firm to a product development and sales organization - selling the "Product Machine" to MassMutual, US Healthcare and other major carriers.

For 25 years, John served as the most senior Information Systems executive with Unum Corporation, MCI, Citibank, New York Stock Exchange, Reynolds Metals and the Midwest Stock Exchange. The readers of InformationWeek selected John as CIO-of-the-Year in 1990.

John organized his consulting company to provide management, marketing and technology expertise to startup and emerging firms. Clients included Sun Life of Canada who reengineered its US operations based on John’s recommendations; CleverSoft, which was founded by Unum employees to exploit technology developed there to manage distributed networks. CleverSoft grew quickly in its first two years, was sold to Candle Corporation and its investors received 3-fold returns. BTC also fostered the formation of Common Census, Inc., which is growing, profitable and delivering employee benefit management solutions for group insurance and worksite products.

John has extensive experience as a CEO. In 1999, John was recruited as President of FJA-US, Inc. the American subsidiary of FJA AG, an actuarial consulting and software development firm based in Munich, Germany. He developed the strategy and converted the software development subsidiary into a product development firm with Java-based solutions for insurance companies.

Gerald H.

Gerald is a consultant, an educator, and an author. He consults with senior executives on issues of strategy, organization, operations management and controls. His field of expertise is the management of information technology. He consults with senior executives on all aspects of information technology management, always with the goal of making information technology effective and profitable for its users. His clients have included IBM Global Services, Ameritech, Journal Sentinel Company, AFLAC, Foote Cone and Belding, and other well known companies.
His wide and varied background provides him with an almost unique perspective on the issues facing all organizations in the rapidly evolving information age.
· He has been Executive Vice President and General Manager of Amoco Computer Services Company, Manager of Operations Research at Amoco Corporation, and President of Panoramic Builders
· He has been an entrepreneur three times and an intrapreneur once. He has worked in multi-billion dollar enterprises and in start-ups.

Gerald is a member of the Board of Directors of Sinai Health System (in Chicago) , and has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital and Care Network in Chicago. He serves on advisory boards at the Stuart School of Management of Illinois Institute of Technology, and at SSTDigital Communications.

He is the author of important works on the productive uses of information technology, including "The Technology Payoff: How to Profit from Information Technology with Empowered Workers" (iUniverse, 2001), as well as many technical and professional papers.
Gerald holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in physics from Purdue University, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences from Northwestern University.