Peter F. DiGiammarino, is Chairman and CEO of Compusearch, the leading provider of packaged software and services that automate mandated business rules for public sector organizations that spend, grant, or move funds. He has more than 30 years of experience building software and services organizations that target public and private markets around the world.
Prior to joining Compusearch, Peter consulted to CEOs, founders, and investors in high-tech and professional services businesses to help them get on track to long-term growth and performance. In five years, he guided Touchstone Consulting Group, Inc. from 20 people and $6 million in annual sales to 130 people and $30 million. He also led the successful spinout of Aquilent, Inc. (a $20 million professional services unit) from Commerce One (a $250 million software firm). He served as senior vice president of several consulting and systems development firms including American Management Systems (now CGI), BTG (now Titan), and SAIC, and served as president and COO of Hyperion Software (now Hyperion Solutions acquired by Oracle), a $700 million worldwide provider of business intelligence software.
Peter also serves on the University of Massachusetts at Amherst Foundation Board of Advisors to the Chancellor, where he chairs the Committee on Directors, and on the Board of Advisors to the Commonwealth College of Massachusetts, an honors college. He also provides advice and counsel to many non-profit organizations including Kids-Acting-Out and Teardrops-To-Rainbows. Previously, he was a founding member of the committee to launch the United States Government Accounting Office Key National Indicators Initiative, served as senior advisor to the CEO of the Council for Excellence in Government, and as a board director at the Langley Elementary and Middle School, McLean, VA where he founded and chaired the Diversity and Technology committees and co-chaired the Capital Campaign to raise $4 million for the athletic facility.
Peter earned a BS in Computer Science, Economics, and Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Stephen C.
Messner, has over 25 years of experience in finance, general management, operations, and strategy.
Until recently, he was CEO of KAI Research, an $8 MM contract research organization (CRO) that serves pharmaceutical/biotech companies and NIH. While there, he grew revenues 19% and EBITDA 38% over the previous year; hired the firm's first business developer and created its business development process; revamped compensation to be more merit-based and in line with market; and implemented the first regular financial reporting system. He left after he was outbid when KAI's owners put it up for sale.
Previously, he was COO of the Ambit Group, a $5 MM change management and organizational development consulting firm focused on the federal government and growing at 100% per year. At Ambit, he created its infrastructure; managed cash flow in a cash-constrained situation; selected and managed the firm's outsourced IT and outsourced HR/benefits/payroll vendors ; handled all contract and legal matters; and obtained a GSA IT Schedule 70.
Before that, he was CFO of the Touchstone Consulting Group, a $24 MM change management and organizational development management consulting firm focused on the federal government that was sold to SRA International in April 2005.
At Touchstone, he built its financial infrastructure, put the funding in place to support the company's 100% annual growth; redesigned the billing and collections process to cut days sales outstanding from 110 to 75; and established a blanket purchase agreement through which the company ran over 50% of its business.
Before that, he was a senior vice president at Aquilent, a $20 MM government IT systems development firm, where he led its biggest project, the design of the U.S. Postal Service Web site, growing project revenues 20% and motivating a demoralized team.
He also served as a financial advisor to Aquilent's management during its buyout of the company from Commerce One and created the firm's post-buyout incentive compensation and stock option plans.
Before that, he co-founded two management consulting firms, IntelliVen, which serves high tech firms and their investors, and New World Ventures, which served the Fortune 100. Earlier, Steve worked for Mercer Management Consulting; IDC; high tech start-ups in engineering, marketing, and sales; Lehman Brothers; and Bain & Company.
Steve received a BA and an MS in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University, an MS in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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