AOD Board of Advisors
Our Advisory Board constitutes industry veterans representing
diverse areas of expertise in healthcare, finance, entertainment, performance management and strategy.
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Mr. Clint Brauer has been part of the Internet industry for eleven years in executive roles for major consumer enterprises and consulting firms. Currently, Mr. Brauer serves as Vice President, Marketing at Flektor/ Fox Interactive Media division. He also serves as the General Manager of CyberRead, LLC, a digital content publisher and retailer. It is Mr. Brauer's core belief that we have arrived at the early stages of a new era of marketing that requires a new breed of marketers that can combine quantitative and creative methods. His past experience includes serving as Vice President of Marketing, Sony Connect, specializing in the areas of audio, video, books for North America. Mr. Brauer has a passion for assembling and utilizing customer centric technology platform solutions that connect customer support, analytics, data warehousing, direct marketing and business development activities.
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Ajit Patel’s colorful career spans 30 years, in diverse industries, entrepreneurial, senior management and leadership positions, strategic advisory and consulting work, challenging responsibilities and international locations. Over the past 18 years, he has been the Chief Information Officer at high profile, multi-national, multi-channel, and multi-brand companies with design, manufacture, wholesale and retail operations, including with Warnaco/Speedo Swimwear, Chico’s and BCBG MaxAzria Group.
Ajit Patel has successfully directed the overhaul of the entire Information systems infrastructures at each of the companies from concept to completion. He has also very successfully managed the integration of new domestic and international acquisitions at each of the companies and launched new retail divisions and/or concepts, and supported the companies through hyper growth stages.
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Mr. Niven is the CEO and Founder of The Senalosa Group, Inc., a consulting firm exclusively dedicated to helping organizations reach the breakthrough results that can be achieved using the Balanced Scorecard. Mr. Niven is a noted speaker on the subjects of Performance Management and the Balanced Scorecard. As a hands-on practitioner, Mr. Niven guides organizations large and small in a wide variety of organizations, including Fortune 1000 companies, public sector, and not-for-profit organizations, through the development of world-class Balanced Scorecard systems. Mr. Niven has written three books on the subject of Performance Measurement. His latest book "Balanced Scorecard Diagnostics: Maintaining Maximum Performance," was released in April, 2005. Previously he wrote, "Balanced Scorecard Step by Step for Governments and Nonprofits" released by John Wiley & Sons in June, 2003. It was a follow-up to his very popular book"Balanced Scorecard Step by Step: Maximizing Performance and Maintaining Results" which was released by John Wiley and Sons in March of 2002 and has subsequently been translated into 12 languages worldwide. Mr. Niven is also a highly sought after speaker, delivering keynote addresses at performance related conferences throughout North America and Europe. Most recently he was the keynote speaker at the "Nordic Balanced Scorecard Summit" in Stockholm.
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Frank Sparacino is a Vice President, First Analysis Securities Corporation specializing in research and investment in enterprise software and health care information technology. He provides research coverage of leading private and publicly traded companies in his sectors. Prior to joining First Analysis in 2000, he spent four years as a sell-side equity research analyst with Barrington Research Associates Inc., where he covered the enterprise and Internet infrastructure software market. Earlier, he was with Brinson Partners, a global money management firm, performing a wide range of duties from portfolio implementation and client service to developing derivative functionality for the firm's portfolio management accounting system. Before that, he worked for KPMG as a corporate tax specialist. Mr. Sparacino earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from Northern Illinois University. He is a certified public accountant and a CFA charter holder.
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Tom Sicola is a true visionary and strives to produce work that significantly impacts people. He is the founder and CEO of advertising and marketing agency SicolaMartin - a WPP, Young and Rubicam company, specializing in strategic marketing and branding for technology companies. Sicola helped build the company into one of the most well-known tech-focused marketing and advertising firms in the country. Sicola served such national brands as 3M, AMD, Citrix, HP and McLane Company (a Berkshire Hathaway company). He has been recognized as the Ernst & Young 2001 Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2006, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Austin Advertising Federation, affiliate of the American Advertising Federation. Sicola Carefully balancing work, family and community commitments, Sicola volunteers for a number of social, non-profit and professional organizations.
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Rajiv Gupta is widely recognized as a pioneer of web services. Currently he is a vice president/general manager of Cisco Systems' policy management business unit, and is founder and CEO of Securent, Inc., which offers application entitlement management solution (EMS) that enables organizations to secure sensitive applications and data. Securent was purchased by Cisco in 2007. Previously he was founder and CEO of Confluent Software, and before that he spent 11 years at Hewlett-Packard, most recently as the general manager of the E-speak Division. E-speak is the precursor to the web service offerings from many major IT companies, and has been inducted into the Smithsonian National Museum. Gupta is the inventor or co-inventor of some of the seminal concepts that underpin web services, and has more than 45 patents to his name.
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