Management Team...

Gary M. Jacobs
Consulting Services Partner and President, JEM Consulting, Inc.

Gary has over 20 years of experience as a business and technology professional. He has held senior management level positions with top tier Audit, Accounting & Consulting firms, and executive level financial, operational and technical positions within the media, entertainment and consumer goods industries. Gary’s background includes, but is not limited to:

• Restructuring, M&A Integration, Divestitures and Carveouts
• Business Performance Improvement (BPR, BPO)
• ERP and Financial Systems (FIN, DIST, & MFG - with Oracle, Hyperion & JD Edwards)
• Business Intelligence, Executive Dashboards and KPI’s (with Cognos, Business Objects, Essbase & SQL)
• Financial Planning, Analysis, Reporting and Compliance
• Accounting Operations - GL, AR, AP, FA
• Supply Chain Management & Procure-to-Pay
• Sales and Operations Planning & Order-to-Cash
• Warehousing & Logistics
• Agile Project Management with Scrum

Gary started consulting to small businesses in 1989, part time, while he was a corporate VP and Controller in industry. He started consulting full time in 1994, and in 1996 lead a NYC Solutions Delivery Practice for Coopers & Lybrand Consulting / PriceWaterhouseCoopers. In 1998, Gary left PriceWaterhouseCoopers to form JEM (Jacobs Enterprise Management) Consulting. Gary has a BS in Accounting from the State University of New York and an MBA from Adelphi University. He also studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, and continues to study New Media Management at New York University.

Anthony Cioffoletti
Client Services Partner and President, BTAG

Anthony has over 20 years of experience as a business and technology professional. He has held executive level positions within the technology and insurance industries. Anthony’s business background includes, financial management, sales management and technology management. Anthony’s technical background includes experience with IBM AS/400 and e-Series hardware, operating systems and database; Microsoft and Cisco network architecture; Microsoft Office Suite; and a wide variety of database and business intelligence tools. Anthony has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Air Force Academy and a MS in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).

Alexander Velinov
Technology Services Partner and President, System Fusion

Alexander has over 18 years of experience as a technology professional, predominately in the insurance industry. His background includes substantial technical achievements in the area of new development. Alexander’s technical background includes experience with Microsoft’s SQL/Server database, and a host of programming languages and tools. He is an IBM AS/400 Certified Specialist and a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer. Alexander has a BA from New York University and a MS from the New York Institute of Technology.