Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
I am a senior international business development, marketing, client relationship and consulting leader with experience working in top professional services organizations, including Korn Ferry, PwC, UHY, Moss Adams, Bank Julius Baer and more. I have deep expertise in leading teams and programs to grow professional services business focused on management and talent consulting, wealth and financial management, accounting and tax services. I also am a co-founder and current senior advisor of The Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel (AMEC), the leading trade association for Media & Entertainment industry corporate legal and public affairs executives and the attorneys who serve them. Founded in 2005, AMEC has a network of over 14,000 executives and annually recognizes outstanding performance by media and entertainment attorneys. I have a great taste for traveling, living and working in various cities internationally. I have extended and sharpened this international business acumen by living in the UK, US, Russia, Czech Republic, Switzerland and working in those plus a wide range of European countries during the last 20+ years. I enjoy working with top international executives and helping my clients create innovative solutions to complex organizational and strategic challenges. My credentials include: --Senior business leader with high level of commercial acumen and C-suite leadership and business development experience. --20+ years of experience in major professional services organizations (human capital, accounting, consulting, legal and banking), with significant management, P&L, business development and operations expertise. --Expertise leading large international corporate client relationships and running programs for top international professional services firms. --Great international experience: have lived and worked in New York, London, Los Angeles, Moscow, Prague and Zurich. --Co-Founder of the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel, the leading trade association for the media and entertainment lawyers. Specialties: C-suite leadership, professional services firm management, international business development, management consulting, marketing, consulting and accounting business development, private banking, international brand management, digital technologies, entertainment and media, content privacy and protection, business services, US to European business development and marketing, digital transformation, business management, sales leadership
I lead business development activities in the Southern California area and beyond for UHY, a top-25, fast-growing audit/accounting/tax/advisory firm geared to serve growth to midsized clients. I am working with UHY's excellent group of professionals with strong accounting and consulting capabilities to grow and diversify our business in the dynamic Orange, LA, San Diego County and other key markets on the West coast. UHY's US firm is part of an impressive UHY International organization, a top-20 audit/accounting/tax/advisory network serving an impressive array of clients. On a national basis, I lead business development for UHY's Cybersecurity and IT Risk and Compliance practice. I am also working with my clients and connections internationally to give them access to the outstanding UHY global network.
I served as a senior partner leading global key account relationships with Korn Ferry top Technology and Life Sciences clients. I worked with these clients, all of which are leading multibillion-dollar international companies, delivering to them Korn Ferry's premium talent acquisition, talent development and other HR consulting services. I utilized my international leadership and business development, digital transformation and other consulting acumen in driving these relationships for Korn Ferry. Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm. KF helps clients synchronize strategy and talent to drive superior performance; works with organizations to design their structures, roles, and responsibilities; helps them hire the right people to bring their strategy to life; and advises them on how to reward, develop, and motivate their people. Visit kornferry.com for more information.
I worked with Board and C-suite senior executives to develop client relationships and new business for Moss Adams, a leading accounting, tax, consulting, investment banking and wealth management firm focused on growth and middle market companies. My role included introducing Moss Adams partners and services to my top industry rolodex including hundreds of C-suite executives, leading bankers, law firm partners, consultants and other key business relationships. Moss Adams has great strength in the Western US, strong industry focus, and a portfolio of services and approach focused on private companies and the middle market. We are uniquely positioned to serve these clients.
Managing Director and Central European Team Head for Bank Julius Baer, the top pure-play private banking group in Switzerland. I led a 15-person team of relationship managers and staff, driving a number of key client growth, marketing and VIP account management initiatives. In this role, I utilized my unique business knowledge and relationships in the Central & Eastern European region as well as my keen investment and business management skills. I employed my market knowledge of Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary and other key CEE markets, as well as my business connectivity and collaboration skills.
Marketing & Business Development & Priority Clients Leader for PwC’s Central & Eastern European firm, overseeing marketing, sales, client relationship, market targeting and new business growth initiatives across the PwC CEE region. I was also the European Client Relationship Director for PwC's largest US-based multinational client operating in the region. I worked across the spectrum of PwC’s audit, tax, legal and management consulting business units in the 29-country CEE region. I spearheaded PwC's partner sales/business development program, working across the 280-partner PwC CEE practice to implement the organization's global proprietary sales approach. Continued working as consultant to a range of entertainment, media and technology clients across the region.
Led a 25-person team responsible for account sales, targeting, management and marketing initiatives across the Pacific Southwest U.S. region. Led Priority Client program, large new business pursuits, and a team of ten key account client relationship directors. Continued working as a consultant and business development executive with Entertainment & Media clients in the region.