Key Personnel

David has spent more than 20 years in IT, management consulting, and business transformation, working with companies in B2B, B2C, and government markets, Fortune 500 firms among them. His specialty is finding gaps in a market and building profitable enterprise solutions to fill them.

That work has taken him into AI and machine learning, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, IoT, healthcare, and government. He designed a digital energy management platform for a global manufacturer and a Disease State Process Management and Personalized Medicine model for a healthcare provider. He wrote a data-protection white paper that was presented to then-Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and fed into the policy discussion around HR 8152, and he prepared a human rights policy for the Cabinet of Ukraine.

David holds a BBA in Marketing from Eastern Kentucky University and has done advanced study at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering, and the Illinois Institute of Technology's Stuart School of Business. He has served on the advisory board of George Washington University's business school, guest lectured at Chicago Booth, and was recently named a Top 100 Global Innovation Leader by Top 100 Magazine.

Howard has spent more than 40 years in sales, business development, and commercial strategy, in both B2B and B2C markets. In senior leadership roles he has set growth strategy, opened new markets, built partnerships, and strengthened the sales organizations behind them.

He has led major business development initiatives, negotiated complex strategic agreements, improved profitability, and built high-performing sales teams. A lot of that work came down to getting customers, partners, and salespeople to agree on where they were going.

Today Howard consults for emerging and established companies on growth strategy, go-to-market planning, business development, partnerships, and organizational effectiveness, including how to put AI and other new technology to work in sales. He holds a BS in Finance and Marketing from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

Tom has spent more than 25 years on the part of strategy most companies find hardest: getting it done. He works in the space between what the C-suite decides and what the organization actually delivers, and he has a reputation for bringing order to initiatives that are high-stakes, unclear, or off track.

He has led more than 100 complex business and technology initiatives, contributing to more than $1 billion in combined cost savings and revenue growth. His roles have covered transformation, program and engagement management, business operations, and divestitures, and he has set up and overhauled PMOs. His work has taken him to organizations across North America, Europe, and Asia.

Today Tom takes on executive advisory and transformation work: operating models, technology strategy, PMO leadership, governance, risk, and organizational change, as well as mergers, carve-outs, and divestitures. He holds an MBA in Finance and Marketing from DePaul University and a BBA in Management and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

John has more than 45 years in technology, consulting, and executive advisory work. He was Chief Technology Officer of Capgemini in North America, CTO and Chief Information Security Officer at TransUnion, and Head of Innovation and Strategy at Ernst & Young. He has also held senior roles at AXIS Capital Holdings and served as a CEO and advisor in technology, financial services, and consulting.

His specialty is new technology and what it means for a business in practice, particularly AI, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, and large technology transformations. He has advised senior executives, sat on corporate advisory boards, and is a named inventor on 15 patents.

Today John is Senior Director of Emerging Technologies at FreeClimb from Vail, Senior Advisor and Head of Research in AI for Language Systems (RAILS) at Vail Systems, and Partner and Managing Director of ParkWood Advisors LLC. He has written five books, was named one of the world's 25 most influential consultants in 2003 and one of Computerworld's 100 Leaders in IT in 2005, and is a Life Senior Member of IEEE and a member of ACM, CSCMP, and PMI.

Randall owns delivery at AMDAR AI. He takes the roadmaps that come out of strategy work and turns them into systems that are designed, engineered, and shipped at production quality and on schedule. He is involved in every engagement.

He founded Peakey Enterprise in 2003 and has run it since, building a U.S.-based software engineering firm that has served more than 150 clients and delivered more than 150,000 hours of production engineering work. Randall is a Purdue-trained engineer with more than 30 years of hands-on experience across more than 50 languages, frameworks, and platforms, from embedded systems to cloud SaaS, web, and mobile.

His projects have covered AI integration, machine learning, computer and machine vision, cloud architecture, robotics, drones, precision agriculture, and enterprise systems such as CRM, ERP, HRM, and SCM, for clients in manufacturing, healthcare, e-commerce, government, and food and beverage.