Our Executives
The NCC Ventures Management Team is comprised of former partners of "Big 4" consulting firms and Fortune 500 senior executives, each of whom provides over 20 years of wisdom and experience gained from both domestic and international experiences. Our executive consultants include Fortune 500 CIO’s and technology leaders who have transformed the IT organizations of nationally and internationally visible organizations They have successful track records of using technology to drive business transformation and deliver higher ROI’s from IT investments.
Their past experiences have demonstrated that they are successful managers of large, complex programs. They bring with them the knowledge of best practices from virtually every industry. Throughout their careers they have demonstrated a balanced business and technology orientation.
This team provides our clients with innovative thinking combined with practical approaches to your business issues. They provide the deep experience necessary to deliver services ranging from strategic insight to tactical project delivery. NCC Ventures executive consultants work with leadership to assess IT strategy alignment with business objectives, assess the overall IT environment, and highlight critical risks and issues impacting the success of critical technology initiatives.
NCC Ventures executive consultants help insure the success of critical change initiatives by working with your leadership team to critically analyze and evaluate strategies and plans, assess key success factors, proactively identify key risks and issues, and provide innovative thinking and proven approaches that drive success.
NCC Ventures helps it clients drive higher returns on its technology investments by delivering practical wisdom from technology executives who have “been there, done that”. We bring proven skills, approaches and concepts that add value to your IT organization, making it a true enabler of business change.
Our clients choose NCC Ventures when the risk of complex change demands extraordinary leadership, business savvy, technical expertise, industry knowledge and the wisdom that comes from having previously grappled with these types of extraordinary challenges and succeeded.
What Capabilities Do You Buy?
What important characteristics do you consider in choosing a consulting partner?
Highly Experienced - the team on the field is experienced, you should not need to train their staff.
Expertise and Thought Leadership – they demonstrate deep industry, business and technology expertise.
Highly Skilled - they bring knowledge of proven approaches, methodologies and tools.
Cultural Awareness – they demonstrate both flexibility in approaches and an ability to “fit in”.
Leadership – They bring proven track records for success, have excellent people skills; are experienced in managing diverse teams, and are comfortable operating at the CXO-level.
Get in touch
We at NCC Ventures know that change can be intimidating, but with the right team beside you, we will give you all the confidence needed and more to push your business even farther. Please follow the link below to contact us about your Next Complex Change.
Executive Partners
The Executive Partners have established themselves as true captains of industry throughout their distinguished careers. This group provides NCC Ventures with a distinct network of eminent executives that can be sourced on our client's projects. Their deep experience, expertise and wisdom gained from highly successful leadership careers enhances the breadth and depth of skills we can deliver to our clients.
Our team of executive consultants provides our clients with decades of relevant experience. Each provides over 20 years of wisdom and experience gained from both domestic and international endeavors.
Like you, our executive consultants have been successful executives in world-class, growing and global organizations. We have been charged with structuring and leading many mission-critical, enterprise-wide business and technology change initiatives.
Our combination of consulting and operations leadership experience allows us to provide our clients with an unmatched level of skills and experience. We are able to provide a unique balance of consulting theory and rigor with practical, “real-life” perspectives of having been in our customer’s shoes.
Unlike many notable management consulting organizations, we provide a team of highly experienced executives on every engagement. We do not employ a “bait and switch” approach to staffing that provides a highly leveraged, and on average, a very inexperienced team performing project work. The depth and breadth of skills and experience of our people ensures that each of our client engagements receive the wisdom of experience not typically provided by competitor firms.
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Executive Partners
James Brennan - President
A former “Big 4” Consulting Partner, Fortune 100 Executive and Manufacturing President.
Herbert Dyer
Former Executive Director of State Teachers Retirement System, Executive Director of United Mine Workers Retirement and VP of Personnel for USAIR.
Robert Foley
Former Wall Street Attorney, Investment Banker and Fortune 100 Executive.
Lee Hess
Chairman of Spectrum Capital Enterprises which owns hotels, DIRECTV, broadband programming and INSTALLS Inc. Former Wendy’s SVP responsible for growth of their franchising network, real estate, finance and operations.
Jacqueline Hodge
Former Director of Strategy and Planning at Cardinal Health, Director of Investor Relations at Bank One and Process Systems Engineer in the Nuclear Division at Bechtel Power Corporation. Jackie is a registered member of the Jicarilla Apache Nation,one of the nation's largest, and serves as secretary/treasurer of their energy corporation.
Robert Lauer
Former “Big 4” Consulting Managing Partner and the worldwide head of the change management practice.
Eric Leininger
Former “Big 4” Consulting Partner with broad industry and technology experience.
Paul London
Former “Big 4” Strategy Consulting Partner; Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology.
Angelo Mazzocco
CIO for multi-industry conglomerate, consultant and adjunct professor.
Mark Meyers
A former “Big 4” Consulting Partner and Unisys Technology and Outsourcing Partner.
Craig Miller
Former Accenture Partner, CIO of Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation, EVP of Wells Fargo, Senior VP Wachovia.
Al Pappas
A nationally known technology veteran with over 40 years experience in the fields of information technology, development engineering and business management.
Thad Perry
Former “Big 4” Consulting Partner where he was Head of the Eastern European Practice; Worldwide head of both the Utility Industry and Telecommunications Industry. Entrepreneur & Investor.
Michelle Reese
Former “Big 4 “ Change Management Consulting Partner.
Rick Sellers
Former CIO, Huntington Banks; Former “Big 4” Consulting Partner, Technology Executive and Investor.
Susan Stanton, PhD
A senior executive who specializes in providing services for commercializing technology into marketable products.
Isidoros S. Tiano
Former “Big 4” Consulting Partner, Advisor, Entrepreneur and Investor.
Charles Vincent
Former executive from Alliance Data Systems and The Limited with deep process design and retail industry experience.
John Warner
Former “Big 4” Technology Consulting Partner and Senior Executive at Unisys where he managed the Microsoft relationships.
William Yeack
Former President, Tandem Computer; Former Executive VP, Exodus Communications Inc.; Noted IT industry entrepreneur, investor, author and speaker.