Beyond Satisfaction
  Clinton Rubin’s clients have been successful because the value provided by our organization extends beyond the development of a strategic plan. Our bias toward action has resulted in a proven track record of high-value engagements with quantifiable results to a long list of satisfied clients.
Consulting Excellence
  Clinton Rubin partners provide keen insight into industry and competitive dynamics and translate market information into winning growth strategies. Our track record is impressive, having helped numerous businesses better understand how to leverage strengths and market conditions to chart a course for success.
   
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chuck Burns, Managing Partner
Scott Smith, Managing Partner
Mark Breton, Partner
Brad King, Partner
Jim Molloy, Partner

Scott Pickens, Partner
Paul Pipenberg, Director
John Shaver, Partner
Kathleen DeLawrence, Business Advisor
Will Chatham, Director

Chuck Burns, Managing Partner

Phone: 610-256-0441
Email: chuck.burns@clintonrubin.com

Prior to starting Clinton Rubin, Mr. Burns was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Business Process Outsourcing for the NCO Group. He had chief operating responsibility for the Customer Management operating units. He had direct involvement in acquisition turnarounds and the privatization of the company. Mr. Burns has over 25 years' experience in technology consulting, eight of which he served as KPMG Consulting's Partner-in-Charge of the SAP Implementation Practice, and Senior Vice President responsible for initiatives in the areas of business process outsourcing (BPO), service chain optimization, workforce management, human capital development, and workforce procurement for their Global Managed Services organization. Serving many Fortune 50 clients in a broad range of industries, he focused on developing and integrating service chain and workforce optimization solutions to address clients' human  capital challenges.

Scott Smith, Managing Partner

Phone: 215-208-0375
Email: scott.smith@clintonrubin.com

With over 25 years' experience working for global management consulting firms, Mr. Smith is a seasoned executive consultant with a proven track record of reducing costs and achieving bottom line results for Fortune 500 clients. Mr. Smith's experience includes long term tenures at Price Waterhouse, IBM, KPMG/Bearing Point.  He has recently applied his consulting experience as the Chief Administrative Officer of an Amlaw 100 Law Firm of Blank Rome. Examples of clients include Campbell Soup Company, General Motors, Burger King, Allstate, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Uniroyal Chemical, Deutsche Bank, American Express, SmithKline Beecham and the IRS. Through out his career, he has demonstrated the ability to lead business process and policy re-engineering efforts, organizational re-design, ERP implementations, and business systems design and integration in the legal, financial, insurance, chemical, transportation, manufacturing, retail, and healthcare industries.

Mark Breton, Partner

Phone: 302-463-7410
Email: mark.breton@clintonrubin.com

Mr. Breton is a senior executive with significant experience of managing large-scale, complex projects in the commercial and public sectors. During his career he has been involved in strategic planning, merger & acquisitions, corporate finance, international system implementations, operational improvement and business process re-design. Before joining Clinton Rubin he was responsible for BearingPoint’s SAP State & Local practice. Mr. Breton has a strong history of building strong teams focused at delivering results that achieve the client’s goals. He has successfully partnered with clients to maximize their ability to reach measurable improvements. During his 13 years at BearingPoint his clients included Hoechst, Armstrong Flooring, USAMMA, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University and Health Systems, Purdue University and the State of Florida.

Brad King, Partner

Phone: 610-761-2919
Email: brad.king@clintonrubin.com

Mr. King is a senior executive with significant experience in Defense and government outsourcing services markets. After more than 25 years in the professional services industry he has accrued considerable industry knowledge as well as M&A experience. Mr. King’s expertise includes strategic planning, business development, public/private partnerships, government services, and information technology. Prior to joining Clinton Rubin, he was CEO of the Serco Group Inc., an outsourcing services company with contracts servicing national and local governments in the U.S. and Canada. Prior to that, Mr. King held numerous positions at the Day & Zimmermann Group, a professional services company specializing in building and operating government installations. His roles included Chief Information Officer, VP of Planning and Analysis, and Director of Finance and Administration.

Jim Molloy, Partner

Phone: 781-820-6330
Email: jim.molloy@clintonrubin.com

Mr. Molloy is a senior executive with significant and diverse management experience. He has over 15 years of complex program management to go along with 15+ years of international finance expertise. During his career Mr. Molloy has been involved in International Controllership, ERP program design and implementation, mergers and acquisitions, operational improvement, shared service centers, business process redesign and global account leadership. His personal specialty is providing guidance, mentoring and governance to clients for large complex solutions. His unique background of finance, program management and extensive international experience brings a dimension that makes him highly successful in assisting clients in their change initiatives. Throughout his career Mr. Molloy has demonstrated the ability to analyze situations, understand client cultures, assimilate client’s goals/needs, and deliver to schedule and budget. Mr. Molloy’s ability to adapt his expertise is confirmed in numerous successful engagements across industries such as automotive, aerospace and defense, discrete manufacturing, and truck manufacturing. Some of his clients have been Nissan, Daimler Chrysler, Mercedes Benz, Freightliner, Honeywell Aerospace, SAIC.


Scott Pickens, Partner

Phone: 703-887-6615
Email: scott.pickens@clintonrubin.com

With over 30 years of broad operational experience across the healthcare industry, Mr. Pickens is a senior healthcare executive and consultant with extensive experience leading healthcare enterprise strategic planning/policy, operations, information technology, and program/product management functions. He has held numerous "C" level senior executive positions in commercial and publicly funded managed care organizations, healthcare consulting & services firms, and software, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing companies. His broad and deep operational and systems experience offers clients a unique, comprehensive, and visionary understanding of how the multiple players and stakeholders in the healthcare industry operate, interoperate, collaborate, and compete. His executive and industry expertise has enabled him to build several successful new businesses and lead payers, providers, and healthcare product and services vendors to achieve the next level of value, performance, and growth. Among other assignments he has served the Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Plan Consortium, Amerigroup Corporation, Union Labor Life Insurance Company, District of Columbia Primary Care Association, DC Chartered Health Plan, AmeriHealth Mercy, and Abbott Laboratories. Scott is an informative speaker, educator, researcher, and published author on a variety of healthcare, information management, and executive management related topics.


Paul Pipenberg, Director

Phone: 727-534-4137
Email: paul.pipenberg@clintonrubin.com

Paul is a senior-level consulting professional with over 12 years of consulting experience focused on the implementation of SAP financials. He has cost accounting and product costing experience in manufacturing, A&D, and MRO areas. He has lead finance teams (FI/CO) implementing SAP for commercial and public sector clients. He has deep experience in business process design and the configuration of SAP. He understands the integrated nature of business processes and works to take advantage of that integration to develop effective and efficient solutions for his clients. Prior to consulting, Paul held various financial and supervisory positions with DuPont. He worked on the development and implementation SAP R/2, SAP R/3, as well as other financial related systems.

John Shaver, Partner

Phone: 610-458-9117
Email: john.shaver@clintonrubin.com

Mr. Shaver has over 30 years' experience across multiple industries. The first 15 years were focused on corporate sales with international computer companies. He held positions with many prestigious companies such as Hewlett Packard, Wang and Sequent.  The second 15 years were started by founding the executive search firm, GLOBALNET, and has continued to serve as President. Mr. Shaver specializes in placement of management consulting and C-level executives. Examples of clients include Deloitte, KPMG, BearingPoint, CapGemini, Oracle, SAP, IBM, Microsoft, DuPont, United Nations, Chase, Wyeth, and many others. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated the ability to set high expectations with clients and then exceed those expectations. Mr. Shaver has become one of the most networked executives in the United States and this strength allows him to find the best talent from a CEO to a Partner running a global consulting company. This experience brings the best and brightest expertise not only to Clinton Rubin but to our clients.

Kathleen DeLawrence, Business Advisor

Ms. DeLawrence is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Prism Pharmaceuticals, Inc. a near-term commercial stage acute care pharmaceutical company. She brings over 15 years of pharmaceutical industry experience that includes general management, product launch management, marketing and sales operations management, and merger integration. Immediately prior to Prism she was VP and General Manager for a medical communications agency where she assumed operational responsibility for this business when it was privately held and was directly responsible for leading it through two consecutive acquisitions by publicly-held firms. Ms. DeLawrence spent the prior 8 years at AstraMerck (now AstraZeneca PLC) in Commercial Operations, acquiring increased responsibility in roles including product launch management, commercial operations director, and leading merger integration for marketing and sales during the Astra and Zeneca merger. Ms. DeLawrence has enjoyed a successful career over 20 years working for several of the top Fortune 500 companies: CardinalHealth, AstraZeneca, Price Waterhouse, and General Electric. Her cross-industry experiences include a range of management consulting and corporate assignments where her skills were applied in information systems integration, business process reengineering, organizational design, and change management.

Will Chatham, Director

Phone: 202-262-0017
Email: will.chatham@clintonrubin.com

Mr. Chatham has spent the last 20 years of his career dedicated to managing large-scale software solution development and package implementation projects. His forte is managing large-scale software development projects that require extensive client interaction to collect functional business requirements. He brings a breadth and depth of ERP software development and implementation knowledge to Clinton Rubin and is very familiar with the entire software development life cycle process. He came to Clinton Rubin from BearingPoint’s Public Services practice, where he served as their RFP Capture Team Lead. Mr. Chatham has also served as software Product Manager and Implementation Manager for a number of large companies including PeopleSoft and SAP. His specialty was K-12 and higher education student administrative systems, curriculum software applications including learning management systems, and education financial and human resources. Prior to entering the Private Sector Mr. Chatham spent over 15 years in the Public Sector as a college administrator, having served as a Director of Admissions, Registrar, Director of Financial Aid, Director of Grants and Alumni Affairs. His Public Sector experience focused on transitioning to technology solutions for business process reengineering and constituent service improvements.

 

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