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Alex Bombeck

Chief Executive Officer

North Highland CEO Alex Bombeck has dedicated his career to helping enterprises transform their organizational and operational processes to support new ways of working, greater enterprise agility, and cultures rooted in collaboration and co-creation. He brings more than 25 years of experience including serving as Chief Digital Officer at Havas Worldwide, and playing pivotal roles in steering digital consulting practices at several agencies. Since joining North Highland in 2014, Bombeck has led a variety of areas, including digital and experience design, data and analytics, agile transformation, and the firm’s revenue and growth strategy. He has served on North Highland’s board since 2018, and the Metro Atlanta Chamber’s board of directors since 2022.

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Navid Ahdieh

Managing Director

Navid has over 20 years of expertise in designing and embedding new customer, workforce, and operational models for clients that drive growth and resilience through change and transformation. In addition to Navid's role as Managing Director, he serves as Global Lead of the firm’s Strategy and Management Consulting practices. Navid also serves on North Highland’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, and he guides the firm’s next-generation talent strategy program (The Academy).

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Tony Doocey

Managing Director, Energy & Utilities

Tony Doocey has spent the last 35 years leading the transformative changes required to thrive in today’s market. Across technology, sales, customer experience, and people and change management, Tony has helped companies design and execute transformation programs that reshape infrastructures and operating models to meet future business needs.

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Jeni Fitzpatrick

Managing Director and Chief People Officer

Jeni is an expert in HR transformation, modern HR, and HR technology. Over the past two decades, she has successfully led global HR organizations through significant change and transformation, using Workday and market-leading SaaS technology to enhance both employee experiences and business outcomes. Prior to North Highland, she served as a managing director in Accenture's Talent & Organization/Human Potential practice. She also held HR and executive leadership positions with Convergys, Workday, Chiquita, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Microsoft. Jeni holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and an MBA from the same university. She's an avid community builder, serving on the board of the Junior Achievement of OKI as the Vice Chair.

Anne Game

Managing Director

With more than 30 years of consulting experience, Anne Game’s transformative work in the manufacturing, consumer products and hospitality sectors has been both sustainably valuable and immediately impactful. She’s watched the stock of a struggling enterprise tick up real-time as the results of her three-month value creation project were presented, and she is equally inspired by the ongoing growth and long-term capabilities...

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Ben Grinnell FBCS

Managing Director

Ben is a Managing Director at North Highland. He has worked at the firm for 12 years, advising technology leaders on applying next-generation IT to transform the way organizations gain speed and agility. He is a recognized thought leader and driver in the DevOps movement, and an expert in applying DevOps to transform enterprise technology. He is also a fellow of the British computer society.

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Lia Keel

Managing Director

Lia is Managing Director at North Highland. She has more than 25 years of experience in large-scale transformation engagements in Fortune 100 organizations and deep expertise in the areas of strategy, performance improvement, solution design and development, process analysis, and digital in a number of different verticals and environments. Her industry experience spans the retail and CPG, financial services, and utilities sectors.

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Matthew Klein

Managing Director and Chief Marketing Officer

Matt leads North Highland’s Marketing, Communications, Sales Enablement, and Sales Operations functions. He is also responsible for the firm's platform for growth, serving as chief product owner of North Highland’s transformation value office. Matt brings over 25 years of experience pioneering go-to-market, voice-of-customer, customer experience, demand generation, and digital marketing programs that have resulted in sustained, top- and bottom-line growth.

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Wayne Messina

Managing Director, Global Public Sector Lead

Wayne leads the firm’s Public Sector Practice. He has over 25 years serving the public sector and helping clients through complex transformations. Specific areas of his expertise include strategy development, project and program management, financial planning, business case development, procurement, and cost analysis. <quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>

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Chris Miller

Managing Director and Cross-Industry Services Leader

Chris Miller has 20 years of proven success building and growing services businesses and teams. He is an expert at designing and leading large-scale business and technology transformations and brings comprehensive leadership experience across practice areas, industry sectors, account management, sales and business development, M&A/integration, and operations. He has served clients across 20 countries on 4 continents and has significant depth in consumer and industrial industries. At North Highland, Chris is addressing clients at a larger scale by leading and integrating our cross-industry services.

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Barbara Ray

Managing Director and President

Barbara has more than 25 years of experience leading profitable strategies for clients across industries. Her growth and leadership initiatives have been instrumental in generating greater client value and inspiring ingenuity and integrity within the firm and with clients.

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Mark Satisky

Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer

Mark is a seasoned executive with over 25 years experience leading and helping expand high-growth technology and services organizations. He brings a wealth of experience in corporate strategy, capital markets, M&A, and corporate finance. Satisky began his career at PwC. He then spent a decade as an investment banker, and he later held executive roles at Momnt, Stord, OSG and NCR. Outside of work, Mark has served on numerous non-profit Boards. Mark received his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis and received his MBA from Duke University.

Anthony Shaw

Managing Director and EMEA Business Lead

Anthony has significant experience in both management consulting and industry. With a focus on driving growth, his expertise includes new business-building by leveraging digital technologies, innovative partnerships and products, and workforce transformation.

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Rob Sherrell

Managing Director, Global Transformation Lead

Rob has over 20 years of customer strategy and customer-driven transformation expertise. He has led hundreds of successful customer and employee-centered engagements for B2B and B2C clients across industries. Rob specializes in helping our clients expand their market presence via experience-based differentiation.

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Paul Falor

Chief Information Officer and Head of Technology Strategic Alliances

As North Highland’s chief information officer and head of technology strategic alliances, Paul Falor is driven by a passion to enable efficiency and innovation through technology. Paul has spent more than two decades leading information technology and information security initiatives for companies in the financial services and consulting industries.

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Board of Managers

Dan Reardon

Chair

Dan joined North Highland in 1997 and served as CEO from 2005 to 2021; transitioning to Chair in 2022. He led the growth of the firm from its Atlanta headquarters to become the leading change and transformation firm. Dan also serves on the board of directors for ICR, Coastal Cloud and the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and he is a member of the Truist Member Advisory Board for Atlanta. <quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>

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Geoff Bird

Board of Managers

Geoff Bird is Managing Director, Head of Business Services for OMERS Private Equity. He has over 15 years of private equity experience, before which he worked for several years with Ernst & Young’s Corporate Finance group in Toronto, where he was involved in a variety of transaction-related advisory services. Geoff has been actively involved with, or on the board of, several companies including Medical Knowledge Group, Paradigm, Inmar, Epiq, CHG Healthcare, Nordco, and Marketwired. Geoff has a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University, is a CPA and a CFA® charterholder.

Alex Bombeck

Chief Executive Officer

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Joseph Conte

Board of Managers

Joseph Conte is Chief Operating Officer at Standish. Prior to joining Standish, Joe spent over twenty years as a Managing Director at Lazard in New York focused on financial, business and tech-enabled services. Before Lazard, Joe was a partner of a middle-market focused investment bank which he and his partners grew to 130 people and sold to Lazard. Early in his career, Joe was a corporate attorney and represented public companies and private companies in public and private market transactions. Throughout his professional life Joe has advised privately owned companies, venture capital and buyout firms across a broad range of financing, public markets, buyout and corporate finance transactions.

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Eric Haley

Board of Managers

Eric is Senior Managing Director, Head of North America for OMERS Private Equity. Eric currently serves on the boards of AMS, Community Veterinary Partners, EPIQ (formerly DTI), Inmar, Paradigm Outcomes, and TurnPoint. Eric received a BA from Bowdoin College in Mathematics and Economics, and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Natalie McCullough

Board of Managers

Natalie is a seasoned operating executive with deep expertise in enterprise go-to-market strategy, category creation, and operational scaling. She has worked with CEOs for over 25 years, first as a consultant at McKinsey & Co. specializing in growth strategy and organizational design, then as an operating executive partnering with four 1st- time CEOs of technology companies. Natalie holds a Bachelors of Science degree from Stanford University and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard University.

Barbara Ray

Managing Director and President

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Keith Wetmore

Board of Managers

Keith currently serves as Managing Director for Major, Lindsey & Africa, the world’s largest legal search firm.  He retired from his former role as Chair Emeritus of the law firm Morrison & Foerster, LLP at the close of 2017.  Previously, while at Morrison & Foerster, Keith served as Chair of the Firm and Chief Executive Partner from 2000 to 2012. Elected to four successive terms as CEO of the global firm, Keith is credited with doubling the revenue of the firm and tripling profitability within his 12-year tenure as CEO. Before his current role, Keith led the firm's 50-lawyer Finance and Infrastructure practice, bringing to his engagements 20 years' experience in debt and lease finance, both domestic and international. Keith has represented money center banks as agent in syndicated credit facilities, including multi-billion dollar working capital and acquisition financings, as well as smaller transactions, with particular emphasis in the technology and forest products sectors. While at the University of Michigan Law School, Keith served as Articles Editor for the Michigan Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.