Results Driven Strategists. Growth Catalysts.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Rafe Banks III, a former elected District Attorney, is a Managing Partner of Banks & Stubbs LLP in greater Atlanta primarily practicing Civil and Criminal Litigation. He received his Bachelor’s degree in History from Emory University and his J.D. from Emory University School of Law.

Baylor Banks, an Employment Law Attorney in Atlanta, has extensive experience in Labor Employment Law and has assisted Thompson, Mann and Hutson in Greenville, South Carolina, Fisher and Phillips in Atlanta, Georgia, and Arnold and Anderson in Atlanta, Georgia. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia, completed his J.D. from the University of Georgia, and also holds an MBA from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

S. Jagan Mohan Rao is the Managing Partner of Jayem Exports, and has extensive entrepreneurial experience in company laws and compliance issues. His earlier experiences include general management, sales and marketing stints at AutoFilters (Tata-Bosch collaboration), Britannia, and the Indian Oil Corporation. Jagan Mohan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Science from Madras University, India.

Maheshwar Tiruchinapalli is a seasoned global business management, marketing and business development (JVs, alliances and channels) executive with 20+ years experience with stellar results in strategy, business consulting, telecommunications, high technology and business/knowledge process solutions arenas across four continents. An innovative and results driven strategist, he has served as growth catalyst, generator of shareholder value, and turnaround architect for a variety of businesses engaged in enterprise solutions (ICT) development and delivery, business and professional services (including BPO/KPO), and global outsourcing initiatives.

Companies ranging from start-ups to global brands such as Nortel Networks, Cisco Systems, and AT&T have benefited from his strategic planning and tactical execution abilities, and enjoyed many hundreds of millions of dollars in increased revenues as a result. As President and CEO of Advantedge Global Services, Inc., he is leading a rapid realignment and turnaround, accelerating sales with new software business alliances.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from Bangalore University, India, a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Florida, and an MBA from Goizueta School of Business, Emory University. He is actively involved on the Board of Directors of Leader Prospects India Limited and Evaluationz India Limited.

ADVISORY TEAM

For over 25 years, Sam has helped organizations find new ways to identify, attract and sustain profitable customer relationships. He has significant international experience with engagements in Europe, South Africa, Asia/Pacific, Latin America and North America. Consulting engagements target three key areas: customer relationship management, sales strategy implementation, and sales organization transformation.

Prior to consulting, his career included executive positions at Texas Instruments and Price Waterhouse. He co-founded Barcus-Nugent Group in 1985 and Barcus McCracken International (BMI) in 1994. In 1998, Sam co-founded NewLeaf Partners, his current consulting company.

Sam is a Certified Management Consultant and Certified Public Accountant. He has held leadership positions in several professional and community organizations, including the Tennessee Society of CPA’s, the Planning Forum, the United Way’s Management Development Center, the WPLN (Public Radio) Educational Foundation and the Vanderbilt University Center for Clinical and Research Ethics.

The author of numerous articles, Sam has also published three books: The Relationship Advantage, published by Dearborn Trade Publishing; Handbook of Management Consulting, published by McGraw-Hill; and Financial Information Systems Manual, published by Warren, Gorham and Lamont. Sam has also served on the faculty of Belmont University’s Jack Massey Graduate School of Business.

Mike Greenlee has represented emerging growth companies since 1994 on corporate, financing, and technology transactional legal matters in the fields of financial services, communications, and Internet/Web-enabled services. From 1990 to 1994, Mike Greenlee held various positions at BellSouth in the engineering and legislative affairs group. Mike is a partner with Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC (www.lavagrouplaw.com) and Lava Group, Inc. (www.lavagroup.net). Mike is a licensed patent attorney and holds a J.D. from Georgia State University College of Law and a Civil Engineering degree from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Anir Pradhan has a solid reputation in the M&A Investment Industry. His experience spans all facets of M&A deals: acquisition strategy formulation, target identification and screening, valuation and synergy modeling, deal structuring, negotiations, and merger integration.  Anir’s passion for deal making was seeded at Deloitte Consulting’s Strategy and M&A practice where he worked on numerous M&A deals in the energy, telecom, and automotive sectors. At SunTrust Banks, Anir led a large merger integration project as VP, Internal Consulting. As Global M&A Director at Recall Corporation in Norcross, GA, he was responsible for executing more than 50 global acquisitions in the document management industry.  With P&L responsibilities for running a digital document management division of Recall North America, Anir tripled the size of the business in two years.  In his current position as VP of Business Development at ADP National Account Services, Anir is also responsible for development and execution of their acquisition plans. Because of his distinguished career across a broad and diverse spectrum, he is frequently asked for his assessment and opinions on deals by VC’s, bankers, entrepreneurs and the investment communities. 

Anir received his M.B.A. in Corporate Strategy & Finance from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; M.S. in Computer Science; and B.S. in Electrical Engineering (cum laude) from McNeese University, Lake Charles, LA.

Richard Valentine has over 30 years of varied experience functioning in the capacities of President, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Controller. Industry experience includes department store and specialty retailing, restaurants, manufacturing, business brokerage, and public accounting. His work with national companies includes KPMG Peat Markwick, May Department Stores, Associated Dry Goods and as a franchisee Blockbuster and Denny’s. Richard has broad exposure to all areas of control and finance, operations, merchandise information systems, human resources, marketing, loss prevention, and store development. He has a proven track record in both established organizations where improvement of financial performance was foremost and less established fast-paced growing companies with a need for leadership in establishing structure and controls. He has obtained results and managed change through strong problem solving abilities and sound decision making that have contributed to both organizational and personal success.

Hamp has extensive general management, consulting, market development, and program management experience. After a short two-year retirement, he embarked on a new career as Marketing Principal for the family owned insurance business based in Raleigh, NC. He oversees the program management for a nation-wide life insurance conservation initiative for Fidelity and Guaranty Life Insurance. The program was recognized by F&G Life as the most successful such effort in their history. Prior to retirement, he worked for AT&T Wireless as an Operations Specialist directly supporting the VP Operations and Engineering for the Southeast region.

He co-founded W&H Integrated Technologies to provide telecommunications consulting and optimization services. He served as Director Telecommunications for the State of Tennessee where he was responsible for all voice and data communications. Before the move to Tennessee, he was Manager of Data Communications for Carolina Power and Light Company. He came to CP&L from Wachovia Services where he was Communications Manager for their correspondent bank division. His professional career began with NCR where his technical training focused on data communications. He served in the Air Force after leaving East Carolina University. Hamp is a 59 year old Viet Nam era veteran currently living in Pinehurst, NC.