Partners:

Umar Salahuddin:
Umar Salahuddin is a client partner within our Operations Strategy Practice with several years of experience in business process reengineering, manufacturing technology and flow redesign, Lean Manufacturing implementation, and inventory optimization. He has spent several years reengineering business process for the manufacturing and financial services industries across North America, Europe, and Asia, leading client teams through complex transitions across functions and geographies.

Umar has strong experience in strategic alliance development, market analysis and market entry. He is a former Senior Manager in Cadence Design Systems’ Collaborative Product Development group, responsible for analyzing competitive landscapes and developing strategic alliance strategies. At Cadence, Umar was part of the Program Management Office for the global Siebel rollout across North America, Europe, Japan, and Asia Pacific, focusing on both internal and external marketing and sales. Prior to Cadence, he worked in the telecommunications and wireless space in the strategic planning area. Umar was part of the strategy group at Nortel Networks focusing on competitive strategy and strategic alliance development.

Umar has a strong background in world-class technology development from concept to implementation. Umar was a Project Manager with Ballard Power Systems, and Forintek Canada, spear-heading the development of leading-edge technology for the Fuel Cell and Forestry industries. He holds an MBA from the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and is a graduate in mechanical engineering from the University of British Columbia.

Raghu Nathan:
Raghu Nathan is a senior Consultant with Barris Lotterer Management Consulting, and is a results driven IT professional with extensive experience leading people and project teams; implementing and overseeing technology programs; and administering multimillion-dollar budgets. Mr. Nathan posses an in-depth understanding of emerging technologies and their commercial applications. He has nearly twenty years of IT experience with Large Systems Integration, Solution and Customer Service Systems and Knowledge Management.

Mr. Nathan has expertise in Multi-site Technology Operations, Relationship and Team Building, Strategic Planning and Operations, Decision Making, Quality and Performance Improvement, Project Management, Budgeting and Financial Planning, Processes Reengineering, Turnaround and Crisis Management, Presentation and Deal closing, Enterprise Integration, Business Intelligence, and is a Technology Enabler.

Mr. Nathan has managed engagements for various clients in the service industry for both the Front Office solution and the back end enterprise integration areas using Clarify, Siebel and e-Gain as premier Front Office products. Partial clients include ADP, Natural Micro Systems, Sprint PCS and Benefit America. The core expertise includes CRM, B2B solutions and enterprise integration.

Mr. Nathan managed the web based benefit administration package implementation for a large N.Y. based Insurance company. The project included onsite coordination, off-site and offshore development components in multiple locations. Responsibilities included project management, architecture and design verifications, client coordination and delivery activities. In addition, he focuses on business development activities leading to Enterprise Integration and Business Intelligence projects in specific industries such as the Energy Sector and the Financial Services Sector.

George Raniuk:
George Raniuk specializes in the MEMS and Data Storage market segments for BLMC. He is also President of StorBurst Technologies Inc., which specializes in MEMS and Data Storage start-up companies.

Mr. Raniuk brings executive-level technology and operations leadership, from product definition, business development, marketing, sales to P&L management, with over 25 years in technology transfer together with startup of high-volume, high-technology manufacturing operations throughout the US, Asia and the Pacific Rim. He has extensive turn-around and revitalization experience. His international business experience has been in Mexico, Brazil, Spain, United Kingdom, Germany and France. He is the founder of a company developing solutions for NAS/SAN applications, and a former President and COO of a MEMS start-up company.

Mr. Raniuk is a graduate of Northeastern University in Boston with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, a Masters degree in Material Science and a Masters degree in Business Administration.