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Hal
has 20+ years of strategically focused,
operationally guided and tactically driven global business experience. His advisory and consulting
services background, which focus on the convergence
of infrastructure and business intelligence software
and hardware with telecom products and services
applications, associated with both business and
consumer enterprises. This experience has resulted
in him consulting to two different Chairmen of
AT&T, early in his career, to turnaround and
plateau companies’, through the advising/fund
raising of startups. Hal has done so wearing all of
the C level hats. His expertise is a twofold melding
of skill sets; that is in creating a new strategic
vision for companies and/or refocusing of an
existing vision, then successfully executing and
decisively implementing on that plan. He has
started-up several software, healthcare and
financial services software companies that have
successful gone to exit to private groups or
publicly traded companies. In addition, he has done
turnarounds taken others to the “next level,”
that have subsequently propelled those companies
financially and/or in the marketplace attractive to
the point of acquisition by major corporations.
Hal
was most recently the COO of a telecom firm that has
been rolled up into another organization.
Previously, the President and CEO of MBE qualified,
financial services technologies e/mcommerce firm
addressing the trading needs of the
Broker/Dealer/Financial Institutions. As the founder
of Network City, a data mining/data warehousing
mcommerce ASP, he developed a model for navigating
through Supply Chain Management and ERP maze for
corporations. They were both subsequently acquired.
Hal
was previously a senior executive with various
major, global corporations including ATT, IMAX and
CellularOne. There he reengineered their business
strategies and competitive marketing to develop new
business opportunities. He accepted the State of
Israel’s Trade Stimulation Award, on behalf of
AT&T, for success in creating and managing a
$100M+, two-year, countrywide network software
infrastructure upgrade/expansion project.
He used existing intellectual property of
Bell Labs as the basis of a new, highly profitable,
revenue stream for the corporation that was
introduced to other countries globally.
He then moved into entrepreneurial oriented
companies, including IMAX, where the Chairman
challenged him to create a new vision and P & L
for their Audio Division; On to Digicom, a mini RBOC/CLEC;
he got them profitable for the first time, in their
eight year history, as its’ top executive, getting
them acquired; COB Clearinghouse, a healthcare ASP,
where he reengineered the strategic vision while
raising new capital; and Claremont Technology Group,
a software integrator, where he tripled the value of
the stock, in two years, then got them acquired. While at Diamond Shamrock, he created the business linkages
to create a cohesive integrated supply chain
management system for their Biotech and Nutrition
business.
Hal
holds and MBA, in Management, from Case-Western
Reserve University, and a BA, in
Sociology/Chemistry, from Ohio State University.
PhD level work has been conducted and
published in Organizational Behavior. He has
participated in numerous management seminars that
have included Wharton and University of Chicago.
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