Umbrex is pleased to welcome David Gilmour with Gilmour & Associates. David is a CEO, Management Consultant, Company Director and Investor in a number of companies. In 2019, David founded his own strategy consulting firm Gilmour & Associates which works with CEOs, Senior Executives and Boards on their most critical business challenges including setting corporate […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Dean Czuma with D.M. Czuma & Associates. Dean spent 4 years at McKinsey & Company as a consultant in the Operations Practice focusing on supply chain, procurement, turnarounds, and M&A, and 10 years as the builder and leader of the firm’s internal global shared services organization. Dean also has extensive […]
Segolene Reille shares a short post and introduction to the benefits of Inc. 5000 for entrepreneurs. Do you know what the Inc. 5000 is? I didn’t really until a few weeks ago when Fabien Reille and Steady Solutions made the honoree list for the fastest growing company in the US. Attending the Inc 5000 Conference […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Iman Farah. Iman spent two years at BCG’s Dubai office working across Education, Employment and Welfare as well as Technology and Healthcare, prior to her work at BCG, she worked to help develop the Sharjah Private Education Authority as an entity focusing on helping create their School Improvement frameworks and […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Scott Hollis Spencer with Contrary Consulting. Scott is a fractional COO who specializes in helping professional services firms understand their financials, operate more efficiently, and deploy replicable systems to scale. He excels at translating owners’ vision into actionable strategies and building the infrastructure and high-performance teams to make them a […]
David Gilmour shares an article on how to make inflation work for your business. When I remember back to the late 1980s, I was doing my MBA and learning about economics for the first time. To that point I had lived much of my adult life in a high interest rate, high inflation environment and […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Mohamed Alsinnawi with Sinterra Group. A summary of Mohamed’s experience follows. “I am an ex-Bain Consultant and PE-Backed Firm Executive offering value creation, technology transformation and productivity/cost improvement services to my clients. I have extensive experience with Tech-enabled and SaaS firms both as a PE budget owner and as a […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Istvan Ajtony Majoros with S.T.I.L. Consulting. People Strategist, whose 23+ year professional career subdivides into 7 years at McKinsey (strategy consultant with Organization focus, later one of the Firm’s three global Senior Learning Managers), 7 years with Egon Zehnder International (Executive Search Consultant as well as Leadership Strategy Services (i.e. […]
Dean Czuma shares a short post and insightful podcast on the potential of genAI from AI experts. To my network colleagues serving on boards. Here’s a quick essential listening piece from a lineup of board and AI experts, helpful as you engage with management to ensure they fully explore the potential of genAI, and even […]
Michele L. Ross shares a post on the reality of hitting targets Did you hit your annual targets in 2024? If the answer is “not quite,” you’re in good company. It’s been a tough market. Complexity. Inflation. Consumer shifts. No shortage of reasons to miss the mark. But here’s the reality: Head into 2025 doing […]
Barry Saunders highlights the costs of poor risk management and identifies where to look for what often goes wrong. At MXA, we are often called in to conduct project rescues. One of the first places we look to find out what went wrong is the risk register. More often than not, we can identify the […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Natalia Podvoyskaya. A summary of Natalia’s experience follows “I’m Natalia Podvoyskaya. During the last three years, I was an Associate Partner in the experience hired track at McKinsey US, EMEA, and APAC regions. I’ve just finished my McKinsey. I worked at KPMG for many years as a Director in the […]