Ord Elliott, Founder and CEO
Change Companion founder, Dr. Ord Elliott, is a 40-year industry veteran, specializing in change management, strategy implementation and organizational design. He has advised numerous corporations including Apple, GE, Intel, Pacific Gas & Electric, Philips Semiconductor, Procter & Gamble, Allied Signal and Shell. Ord envisions a new wave of more agile and dynamic organizations, which he describes in his book The Future is Fluid Form: Practical Steps for Designing Flat, Flexible Organizations. He is also the author of Change Portfolio: Five Comprehensive Change Methodologies from Strategic Planning to Reengineering.

Roland Cavanagh, Co-Founder
Roland has more than 30 years experience as an engineer and management consultant. He has worked extensively in areas of technical problem-solving, systems improvements and total quality management with industries ranging from energy, utilities and consumer products to financial services and medical devices, including companies such as American Express, GE Capital and Shell. Roland is co-author of Building Engaged Team Performance: Align Your Processes and People to AchieveGame-Changing Business Results and The Six Sigma Way: How GE,Motorola and Other Top Companies are Honing Their Performance.

Bruce Stouffer, Vice President Sales & Marketing
Bruce has been a senior executive in sales, marketing and product development for a range of technology driven industries from investment banking to computer and telecommunications. As Vice-President with the Perreault Birmingham Group he has capitalized on his broad experience with both Fortune 500 companies and start-ups to earn a reputation generating revenue for clients.

Hobart Birmingham, CFO
As co-founder and Managing Director of The Perreault Birmingham Group, Hobey has provided value-driven business consulting and investment banking services to firms in technology-focused businesses. Previously, he was the CAO/General Counsel of Borland Software and Associate General Counsel of Apple. He also spent a number of years in private practice in San Francisco and Tokyo.

Deborah Lewis, Chief Engineer
Deborah is a software designer, architect and development team leader with 30 years of experience in the software industry. Her work has included developing innovative products in information systems, graphical user interfaces and object-oriented programming systems and libraries. She combines expert skills in object-oriented technology and software design with experience in user interfaces and all phases of software development. She has held positions at TRW, Xerox, Parcplace-Digitalk and Seagull Software.

Stephen Bartlett, Chief Architect
Stephen is a software engineer, manager and architect with 25 years of professional experience with OOP techniques in leading-edge environments ranging from workstations to PDA's. He has in-depth experience in designing and implementing large-scale client/server and web-based systems and is an expert on cross-platform development, utilizing major SQL databases and many languages/specifications. He has held positions at Xerox, GO Corp., NeXT, and eBay.

Advisory Board

Robert Perreault, Technology
Bob has extensive business and technology experience across multiple sectors of the high-technology industry. As co-founder of The Perreault Birmingham Group he specializes in providing operational and strategic advice to software and other high-technology companies. Bob is the founder of two consulting start-ups that were later acquired and has held executive positions at Borland and Hewlett-Packard

Bruce Gates, Analysis & Decision Support
Bruce has 40 years experience as an engineer, business school professor and software developer. Dr. Gates specializes in providing managers with practical data-driven solutions to organizational decision problems and has consulted with a diverse array of organizations including the World Health Organization and the Oregon Lottery. He developed one of the first microcomputer-based statistical analysis and forecasting packages that could be readily used by managers.

Keith Lawrence, Organization Design & Transition
Keith brings 40 years of business experience in building high performing organizations around the world in multiple industries. He has been a key architect for a number of successful, large scale change efforts that recognize the importance of technology in enabling success. Keith was a Director of Human Resources at Procter & Gamble spanning a 32 year career. He is Co-Author of Your Retirement Quest: Ten Secrets to Creating and Living A Fulfilling Retirement.

Rosalie Pryor Escamilla, Training
Rosalie has spent 30 years in the field of training and organization development. She has consulted with many Fortune 500 organizations in problem solving, decision making, project management and process improvement. She has also worked extensively in designing and implementing software development lifecycle training for IT groups in organizations like Cisco Systems.

Peg Maddocks, Technology Integration
Dr. Maddocks has 30 years experience as a multi-talented consultant for numerous Fortune 100 companies, most recently serving as a Director at Cisco Systems. Applying principles from psychology, instructional design, process design, and multi-media, she is especially regarded for leveraging technology to optimize work processes and accelerate organizational results.