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DAVID FOOTE, Co-Founder, CEO and
Chief Research Officer
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David Foote has
long been one of the nation’s leading industry analysts tracking,
analyzing, and reporting on IT workforce management and compensation
practices, trends and issues. His
columns, articles and contributions appear regularly in dozens of
publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times,
BusinessWeek and Forbes, to CIO Magazine, Computerworld,
Information Week, Information Security Magazine and World at Work(HR),
in appearances on television and National Public Radio, and on podcasts
and webcasts. David has been a popular featured opinion columnist
with several publications covering a variety of IT management topics, most recently
with Computerworld, SC Magazine, Network World, and CIO
Insight.
As
Foote Partners' CEO and Chief Research Officer since 1997, David leads a
senior team of experienced former McKinsey & Company, Gartner, META
Group, and Towers Perrin analysts and consultants, and former HR, IT, and
business executives, in advising governments and corporations worldwide on
increasing performance and managing IT's impact on their businesses and
customers.
Prior
to co-founding Foote Partners in 1997, David was an analyst and consultant
with Gartner and META Group, co-founding and directing META's executive
service for Chief Information Officers and leading the firm’s IT Human
Capital Management and Compensation research practices. Before this he
held executive and management positions with technology and consumer
products companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. There he also founded
and managed a successful management consulting firm for six years,
advising fast-growing technology companies on corporate strategy and
business development, organizational development, and managing under
conditions of rapid change.
An IT
compensation research innovator, David created in 1994 the first
survey-based IT compensation research in the U.S. that defined and
benchmarked emerging “new breed" information management positions
in Unix and NT engineering, Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence, Web
and e-Commerce operations, Business Technology, and Enterprise
Applications development.
As
Chief Research Officer at Foote Partners, he directs a research team that interviews and
continuously monitors the compensation and attitudes of 78,000 U.S. and
Canadian IT workers. The firm publishes the IT Insider
research series, the industry’s most comprehensive IT salary and skills
pay surveys and IT workforce trend research that serves more than 1,400
subscribers. Included in this
quarterly series are: IT Professional Salary Survey; IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index; IT Salary+Skills Pay Survey Reports; and
IT Insider Workforce Trends Series.
David
received his BA from Vassar College and MBA from Cornell University’s
Graduate School of Management (with coursework in the Graduate School of
Industrial and Labor Relations). He completed post-graduate studies in
business innovation and business creativity at
Stanford University's Graduate School of Management.
GEORGE
FOOTE, Co-Founder and Senior Partner |
In
his 24-year career with McKinsey & Company, George served as the
firm’s senior partner in charge of the firm’s Worldwide Executive
Compensation practice.
A distinguished expert on corporate compensation and tax practices,
he served the Financial
Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in an ex
officio advisory capacity for several years.
An
acclaimed pioneer in the compensation field, George conceived and globally
developed the executive performance share pay plan concept which has been the
centerpiece of Global 3000 executive compensation programs (with
stock options) for more than 30 years.
George
serves on several Boards of Directors and has for been active for more
than a decade in creating college curricula in business ethics. He
established the Foote Chair in Ethics at Hiram College in 2000. He is a
graduate of Harvard University.
Associate
Biographies
LAWRENCE
SHEEHAN, Associate Senior Partner |
With over
thirty years in high technology and human resources, Larry Sheehan is
best known for his contributions in organizational behavior and
assessment. As the author of
such tools as Soft Factors Analysisä
and The Cambridge Assessment Methodä,
his work has been reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, The New York
Times, Computer World, CIO Magazine and PC Week.
An author of cross-cultural case studies, change management
methodologies, and human resource seminars, Lawrence
is a frequent speaker in industry and academia. As CEO of The Cambridge Assessment Centre, the
assessment and consultancy firm he founded in 1994, Larry helped numerous
organizations and major corporations to understand the aptitudes and
attitudes of their IT workforce through self-report and objective
assessment. In 1996, he and the Centre developed the only known Object
Oriented assessment model (used to evaluate candidates for OO programming
and design training) and marketed this instrument at the request of
IBM’s OO Training Institute in Chicago. Prior to this he was International Director of Human Resources for
the Information Services Division of The Chase Manhattan Bank and the
founder and past president of Corporate Development Systems (CDS), an
international OD consulting firm. At both CDS and Chase, he lived and
worked 50% of the time in Europe. Larry
received his undergraduate business degree from Boston College and a
master’s degree in psychology from Harvard University.
He is also a graduate of the Chase Institute and has taught
programs in The Chase Manhattan Bank Executive Management School.
LESLIE
JANOE, PMP, Associate Senior Partner |
Leslie
Janoe
combines seasoned organizational transformation skills with 20 years of e-Business
and Information Technology management, Telecommunications management and
global project management experience. She
excels in facilitating clients in synthesizing the important triad of
people, process and technology to innovate solutions that are accepted and
produce results.
Leslie
specializes in strategic planning/visioning and change management
strategies; business process development and redesign; collaborative
communications; leadership development; team-based organizational
processes and skills; and coaching/mentoring programs. She
has
provided training and
consulting focusing on system-wide change and organizational effectiveness
for numerous clients. Leslie
includes
among her recent clients: Advanced Micro Devices, 3Com, Adaptec,
California Department of Health Services, California Energy Commission,
Advance Paradigm, Airgas, AOL Time Warner, BroadVision, NeuStar,
Raychem(Tyco), and Robert Mondavi Winery.
Leslie
held several top management positions in Raychem Corporation’s
Information Technology Division over a 12 year period, reporting to the
CIO. Her work there centered on
promoting collaborative work environments, introducing new technologies
and processes, and leading cross functional and multinational teams operating in
distributed environments and multiple geographies and cultures.
As the company's Internet Program Manager, she championed, created, and
managed all enterprise Internet and intranet programs.
Leslie served as an internal organizational change
agent for many Raychem groups outside of IT, particularly in facilitator
and team process coach roles; she led team building and transition
management activities for Raychem’s SAP Human Resources module deployment, and
managed strategic visioning and process
optimization for Inside Sales. As
a consultant to the company, she managed various Customer
Relationship Management activities for Field Sales in the
Electronics Division.
As
3Com's Intranet Program Manager,
Leslie managed development and launch of that company’s company-wide
intranet. Prior employment has included Vice President,
Telecommunications Manager, Sales Engineer, Systems Engineer, Project
Manager positions in predominantly telecommunications companies.
Leslie
earned her BA degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara and
MA degree in Management from JFK University, with a focus on Organizational
Transformation and Leadership.
KATHY
CHIARAVALLI, Associate Senior
Partner |
Kathy is
a leader authority and specialist in global
human resources including compensation, HR strategy/systems/service
delivery, global total rewards, and leadership.
She has been an international
human resource executive and consultant for 20 years with extensive accomplishments
in
domestic and expatriate program management, compensation, benefits, human
resource planning, staffing and leadership development, organizational
development, outsourcing and change management in Fortune 250
organizations.
Kathy has lead a wide range of HR activities for global companies
including HR service
delivery; executive compensation and total compensation planning; global sales and variable compensation;
benefits/medical cost containment; international benefits; human resource planning; global staffing and leadership development;
international expansion strategy; foreign national compensation; assessment and coaching.
She has been
responsible for international human resource programs in more than 50 countries for four different multinational companies.
As
as former Vice President of Total Reward Systems for Allied Domecq, she was one of
the company's five highest ranking women.
Kathy
has a Masters degree in Human Resources from Cornell University, a
Bachelors degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
and has completed extensive executive education at INSEAD in Fontainebleau
France and the Global Leadership program at Babson.
She
taught International Benefits for the International Employee Benefits
Foundation and has been a board member and editor for the New England
Chapter of the Human Resource Planning Society. Kathy
has
published numerous articles relating to human resource practices in
publications including the Journal of International Compensation and
Benefits.
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ROCHELLE
FURTAH, PMP,
Associate Senior
Partner
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Rochelle
specializes in project and process management, emphasizing cross-functional,
enterprise integration. She holds the Project Management
Professional certification from the Project Management Institute and is an instructor at University of California Davis in its Project
Management Certificate Program. Miss Furtah has twenty years of
experience in process and project management, strategic planning, team building,
meeting facilitation, and training, including the functions of planning
and scheduling, risk analysis, performance analysis, progress reporting,
maintaining stakeholder relations, project and cost trend analysis, logistics
management, cost control, organization and resource planning, maintaining
technical/business interface, contract administration, communications and
negotiation. Rochelle is currently a designated Independent Project
Oversight Contractor (IPOC) for the state of California's Department of
Information Technology, providing independent assessment of project/process
management practices for several state-level departments. She has
extensive process and project management experience in most areas of voice and data
communications technologies including international voice and data T-1
networks, PBX systems, ACD systems, telemanagement systems, and integrated
cabling systems. She has also overseen project management of data
center relocations and disaster recovery operations.
ERIC
CRAVEN, PMP, Associate Senior Partner
Eric
has worked for more than 27 years in organization development (OD)
and managing organizational change (MOC).
In that time he has consulted to educational enterprises, companies
and government entities and worked with diverse cultural backgrounds
in many areas, among them planning, coaching, and inter-group issue
resolution.
Eric
focuses on facilitation, process improvement and culture change.
His clients have included IBM, Levi Strauss, Wells Fargo Bank, Apple
Computer, AT&T Global IS, Cisco, Advanced Micro Devices, NEC
Electronics, Chevron, NCR, Pacific Bell, NASA, Bell Atlantic, Inland
Steel, Dow Chemical, Kaiser Permanente, National Guard, Transportation
Security Administration, Bell Atlantic, Inland Steel, The Smithsonian
Institution, United Cerebral Palsy Affiliates, Bell of Pennsylvania,
Sacramento World Trade Center, the Chancellor’s Office of the California
Community Colleges, Stanford University, and the city and county of San
Francisco.
Eric
spent several years at Hewlett Packard as a Senior Consultant with
Hewlett Packard Consulting in OD and Management of Organization Change.
While there, he had responsibility for a CEO initiative
to improve the technology access for low-income communities in East Palo
Alto and Baltimore, Maryland. He
also served for four years as a Senior Manager with DHL Airways as the
Manager of Organization and Management Development.
In that capacity, he developed processes for VP-level initiatives
to conduct planning, reorganize departments and improve the facilitation
skills of first level managers.
Eric
earned a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from
Stanford University’s Graduate
School of Business, focusing his studies on organization behavior and
strategy. He holds the PMP certification. For two years he
produced and served as co-host of the National Public Radio program The
Organization Doctors. He
is the co-author of the book Creating Outstanding Two-Way
Videoconferences.
THOMAS JAHN,
Associate Senior Partner
Thomas
is an independent consultant specializing in international operations and
general management issues. Recent
work includes corporate development for AIC; improving sales operations at
Sanmina-SCI; assisting Siemens with a spin-off in Germany; founding a fuel
cell company in San Jose, CA.
Thomas
has a long history of executive IT and business employment.
He was previously a corporate executive with broad experience in
general management, international operations, finance and systems. He is a
recognized driver of change with a strong demonstrated track record in
transforming business functions. A
powerful motivator of people, Thomas has consistently won the confidence
of the internal organization as well as the trust of global business
partners in producing strong business results.
As
President of Tyco Electronics Power Systems and Printed Circuit
Group, Thomas was responsible for all aspects of the division’s $1.2
billion / 6,000 employee operations encompassing Sales/Marketing,
Manufacturing, R&D and Administration.
Under his leadership, several factories were transferred out of the
US to Mexico; seven factories in the US and Europe were closed; R&D
was streamlined and product development cycles accelerated, enabling
better customer focus and response; expenses were reduced 40%.
Prior to this, Thomas held senior management positions at pre-Tyco
acquisition Raychem Corporation, including Vice President of the
Power & Utility Division, Chief Information Officer and Worldwide
Supply Chain Manager, various controller positions and Managing Director
of Raychem GmbH. With Raychem
he implemented a mid-size, Unix-based ERP system in 23 locations in Asia
and Latin America, and installed SAP/R3 in Raychem's major locations in
North America and Europe. He
standardized the network infrastructure, and systems and hardware
throughout Raychem Corporation.
Thomas
received his B.S. in Information Systems Engineering and M.S. in
Mathematics from University Dortmund, Germany as
well as his SEP from the Stanford Graduate Business School at Stanford
University.
RICHARD
DENTON,
Associate Senior Partner
Richard
has more than 25 years experience in senior corporate IT positions and as
an independent consultant, with a rich history of Applications Development
innovation, International Program Management, and Business Process
Re-engineering. He specializes in enterprise software system
implementation and rollout planning; global business process
centralization; organizational impact analysis, redesign, and change
management; communication planning and management; and e-Commerce systems
management. Richard is experienced in
leading vendor selection teams for application systems, and in
establishing regional and global systems strategies.
Richard
was previously Vice President of Marketplace Technologies at Ventro
Corporation, first-mover in the field of B2B e-Commerce and JV partner
with companies such as Dupont and American Express. In this role, he led
the PMO, Database Engineering and Administration, Quality Assurance, and
Release Management teams through the marketplace implementation process.
Prior to
Ventro, Richard worked at Raychem Corporation for many years, where he
held a number of senior IT management positions. As
Enterprise Systems Director, he managed a 50+ member global implementation
team reengineering Raychem’s worldwide order attainment to order
fulfillment process, including the design and implementation of standard
manufacturing and logistics processes,
and successful SAP R/3 system implementations and support. Richard also managed
all process redesign and IT-related activities in re-engineering
Raychem’s worldwide finance function, reporting jointly to the Corporate
Controller and CIO. In this capacity, he led the design
and implementation of a pan-European and a North American Finance Shared
Service Center, enabling Raychem to reduce finance personnel costs for
transaction processing activities by 50%.
Other
notable innovations include design and implementation of an intercompany
Service Center to manage $800M of global intercompany sales annually; a
centralized intercompany Transfer Pricing system, which automated transfer
price calculation and established an arm’s-length distributor
relationship between all Raychem entities worldwide.
During
the prior 10 years of his career, Richard was an independent IT consultant
working and living in the UK, France, Germany and Belgium.
RONALD
E. LEBLEU, Ph.D.,
Associate Senior Partner
Ron
has had a distinguished career in the areas of IT, HR and business
change. As president of
Strategic People Concepts, Inc. (SPC) for more than a decade, he has
worked with executive management at dozens of Fortune 500 companies in
change management focusing on improving the skill base and management
processes required to deliver on sound information technology initiatives.
Over this period SPC created and continues to co-sponsor the
acclaimed Annual Symposium for Human Resource Executives in IT, now in its
sixteenth year. Prior to
this, Ron was Corporate Manager of Technical Personnel Development
Programs at ITT; Corporate Manager of Organization Planning and Employee
Development at Digital Equipment Corp.; and Manager of Consulting Services
at DuPont. He is quoted in
the popular press, has been published in numerous journals, including Harvard
Business Review, is a reviewer for the Journal
of the Information Management Association, and was formerly co-editor
of the international newsletter Managing
MIS Personnel. He
currently serves on the Advisory Council of The International School of
Information Management and the Steering Committee of the Institute of
Industrial and Engineering Technology at Central Connecticut State
University, and has earned recognition and awards for his dedication to
community service in southern Connecticut.
Dr. LeBleu earned his doctorate from Duke University.
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