Our Interim Management & Consulting Team
Interim Independent Consultants
Pete Stamper
Pete is a successful CEO and General Manager with a passion for leading manufacturing and services businesses to profitably compete in global markets. He has a proven track record of success in marketing, finance/M&A, and lean manufacturing.
Pete started his career in engineering and then transitioned to general management of B2B manufacturing companies. He draws from nearly a decade of leadership experience with the well-respected Danaher Business System at Danaher and Fortive (NYSE: DHR & FTV), where he had first-hand exposure to best-in-class lean manufacturing, M&A transactions, and global commercial leadership.
Recently Pete has found success implementing these practices to drive growth and turnarounds of independent companies with $10m to $50m in revenue. As the President of Seattle Safety, LLC, a global leader in crash-test equipment, he led the company through the retirement of a founder while driving over 20% growth. Recently, he leveraged both his General Management and M&A experience to lead the turnaround and carve-out of HydraMaster, a $25m cleaning machine manufacturer based in Mukilteo, WA.
Pete is recognized for setting strong company vision and values to create high-performing cultures that drive change. He has diverse international experience with dual citizenship and multiple languages, having lived and worked in USA, Europe, and Asia.
Pete holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and both a Masters and Bachelors in Engineering from the University of Michigan.
PERSONAL:
Pete and his family live in Seattle and enjoy spending their free time in the mountains – skiing, backpacking, and climbing. Pete has served on several local non-profit boards and is a volunteer climbing instructor for The Mountaineers.
Bob King
Bob King is a strong executive leader with over 30 years of experience leading organizations. The breadth of his experience ranges from Fortune 100 companies to $10M privately held concerns.
Prior to starting C.O.O. Services, LLC, Bob served as President of a national manufacturer of office supplies. During his nine years there, sales grew over 300%. In addition to two mergers and subsequent integrations, Bob developed the strategic plan that called for the company to move from a small west coast only player to become a major factor in the industry throughout North America. Major clients included 3M, Costco and Staples.
In the 1990’s, Bob served in several capacities, for Georgia-Pacific and Unisource Worldwide (or predecessor companies), a then New York Stock Exchange listed, $9B, distribution and logistics company.
Bob also serves as Vice-Chair of the Board of Seametrics, a Kent, WA based manufacturer of magnetic metering systems.
EDUCATION:
BA in Economics and Political Science (double major) from Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
M.B.A. from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
Certified Management Consultant (CMC), Institute of Management Consultants.
Certified Exit Planning Advisor, (CEPA) from the Exit Planning Institute.
Certified Executive Coach.
Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst (CPBA).
Certified Professional Values Analyst (CPVA).
Bob King
PERSONAL:
Married for over 35 years, Bob and his wife, Jeannie, have three adult children; boy, girl twins and a younger daughter, all who are working professionals in Washington State.
Community Service: Currently sits on the Board of C3 Leaders. Bob also serves as Vice Chair of the Board at Warm Beach Christian Camp and Conference Center. He is an avid sportsman who enjoys fly fishing, skiing, hiking, trap shooting, and golf.
He tries to live his life by his 7-F Mission Statement: Faith, Family, Friends, Fun, Fluency, Fitness and Finances.
Paul Abdalla
Paul Abdalla is a strong and passionate leader with over 34 years of experience leading and managing manufacturing operations. Previous experiences include a wide range of manufacturing such as semiconductor fabrication and assembly, electro-mechanical products, electronic devices, metal fabrication, woodworking, and glass/mirror processing.
Paul has had the opportunity to train in Japan while working for Panasonic Corporation of America where he gained a disciplined focus of lean manufacturing including waste reduction, 5S, flow manufacturing, and continuous improvement. With this in mind, Paul is a
hands-on, results oriented management professional that can efficiently blend good business sense and years of proven, practical experience to quickly eliminate unnecessary processes and identify practical improvements in the work area.
Paul’s passion is to put production areas into order and fix what is not working properly using proven Lean methodologies. Typical approaches have been work area transformations by the establishment of flow manufacturing, one-piece builds, value stream mapping, and the incorporation of 5S, which are essential components to decreasing waste and increasing
value to the customer.
A proven record of working effectively with a team; successes include increased production output, defect reduction, transfer and integration of work groups into Operations, systems development, and training production leaders.
EDUCATION:
Paul earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Business Management from the University of Phoenix.
PERSONAL:
Married for 32 years, Paul and his wife, Monika, have three sons. The oldest is an electrician, the middle son is a software engineer, and the youngest is a recent college graduate working in finance. Paul is a competitive runner who has set several age group records and has competed in national level running competitions for the past 18 years – achieving two national championships and numerous second place finishes. He also enjoys hiking, skiing, cycling, and is an avid woodworker.
Ron Higgs
Ron Higgs is an Executive and veteran with more than 20 years of experience in the aerospace and defense industry in operations, engineering management, and program management. Ron’s experience ranges from startups to large corporations.
Ron served in the Navy as a Naval Flight Officer, Aerospace Engineer, and Program Manager. In his post-Navy career he has worked as a Business Development Manager, Sales Director, Engineering Manager, Management Consultant, and COO. While in a senior leadership position at a major aircraft manufacturer, Ron served as aircraft delivery operations manager for a $200M military aircraft. He instituted process improvements that reduced aircraft delivery time by 50% in a period of 3 months. In his work as an independent management consultant, he has helped local startups to established global brands. He brings high emotional intelligence and is able to quickly assess situations, identify problems, and drive issues to closure. He has a balanced mix of people, technical, analytical and operations skills and is adept at building and maintaining strong relationships and rapidly gaining influence with stakeholders.
EDUCATION:
BA in Mathematics (Operations Analysis) from United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
MS in Systems Engineering from Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA
Graduate Certificate in Engineering Flight Test from United States Naval Test Pilot School, Patuxent River, MD
PERSONAL:
Ron and his partner Gina live in Kirkland, WA and enjoy spending time with family and friends.
Ron considers himself a servant leader and is active in the local community; he is a former president of a local resident’s association and a graduate of the community citizens police academy. He currently serves as the President of the King County Library System (KCLS) Board of Trustees. KCLS is one of the largest library systems in the US with an annual budget in excess of $130M. He also serves as a member of the board of directors for Seafair, which is a multi-week festival in Seattle featuring over 30 sanctioned events that reach more than two-million people.
He enjoys traveling, staying fit, and outdoor activities such as snowboarding and mountain biking. He enjoys good food, wine, and craft beer.
In his daily life Ron focuses on service above self, self-improvement, and making a difference in the lives of others.
Jennifer Hinds
Jennifer Hinds is an expert in blending technology solutions with business processes to bring valuable management insight to improve financial, functional and team performance. She has over 30 years of experience in building, auditing, implementing, analyzing and ensuring success of business software solutions. She has designed software and managed team building solutions ranging from a supply chain distribution ERP system, expense management systems, security solutions, revenue analytics, business intelligence and customer success solutions. She has integrated those solutions with other leading accounting, banking, marketing, sales, payment and ERP software systems. Her knowledge of how business software is designed provides a unique insight into how businesses can get the most out of the technology they implement for the lowest cost. It also enables her to quickly identify issues with existing systems and find solutions. Jennifer is a self-proclaimed data junkie who digs up trends and patterns to identify metrics that are early indicators for business success or potential issues. This provides tools to companies that they can utilize in the future to keep tabs on key business processes and act quickly when opportunities arise. Examples include finding bottlenecks in manufacturing and distribution processes, flagging cross-sales opportunities, identifying patterns that indicate fraudulent expenses and key statistics that point out customers who were most likely to renew services.
She recently stepped into the CFO role at Hinds-Bock Corp. to lead them through an ERP implementation, and eventually the sale of the company to a publicly traded corporation, including all the due diligence data
collection.
EDUCATION:
She has an accounting degree from the University of Washington Foster School of Business, a background in auditing, and CPA-inactive certification.
PERSONAL:
Jennifer and her husband Gary live in Woodinville with their large Golden-Doodle, Baloo. In her spare time, Jennifer loves to travel, work in her garden and walk/hike with the dog. She has been married for over 25 years and is very proud of her two children who are attending college at Pacific University and Champlain College.
Donald J. Jacques
Hands on, entrepreneurial C-level executive with a track record in general management, operations, durable goods and manufacturing, electronics and industrial products/markets, business & technology development, and finance for industrial and technology-based companies. Charismatic, detail oriented team builder, strategic visionary and tactical leader.
EDUCATION
MBA - General Management/EMBA from University of Washington
M.S. - Engineering & Solid Mechanics from Colorado State University
B.S. - Civil & Environ. Engineering from University of Rhode Island
SKILLS
Individual & Team Development, Process Improvement, Strategic Planning, Product & Business Development, Budgeting & Financial Modeling, Life Cycle Cost Analysis & Value Selling, Executive & Technical Sales, Lean Manufacturing, Domestic/International Supply Chain, Contract Management & Negotiation, Fundraising & Investor Relations.
Sandy King
Sandy King brings 14 years’ experience in Operations and IT management and 13 years of Consulting in Process Development and Project Management. Sandy specializes in strategy, planning, design and implementation of business processes and systems. Her focus is in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and related applications such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Business Intelligence (BI), and their alignment with the strategic goals of her clients. Sandy also has hands-on experience in managing process integration between functional roles such as sales to estimating and engineering, engineering to manufacturing, and through to finance management. Sandy has experience in implementation of support applications such as Barcoding, EDI and CAD. Sandy has completed 60 ERP implementations with a variety of ERP systems such as MS Dynamics AX, MS Dynamics GP, Syteline, Epicor, Fourth Shift, Syspro, Macola, Sage, Abas, 20/20 Technologies and many others. Through management of process and system implementation needs, data migration has been a focus for Sandy’s support of her clients. This includes management of Item master and BOM/Routing structure and cleaning as well as Customer/Vendor structure setup and cleaning.
Sandy has assisted many companies in their application system selection process by identifying requirements through process analysis and documentation of business requirements for use in communication with application solution providers. This focus on business process has resulted in improved and faster implementations. One site implementing an ERP system successfully implemented 6 sites within 5 months. Sandy has worked with many industries including electronics, equipment (large and small), food, medical device, wood products, chemical manufacturing, plastic injection molding, machine shops, composite manufacturers, wood products and service organizations. Sandy is knowledgeable in lean manufacturing, lean accounting principles, Theory of Constraints (TOC) as well as demand planning. Throughout her career in IT and Operations management and in her role as an advisor to many companies, Sandy has participated in streamlining operational and administrative activities. The results of these activities were increased throughput, reduction of cycle times, improvement in product quality, increased customer responsiveness and satisfaction and visibility to key business metrics and trends.
Sandy earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in e-Business from the University of Phoenix
Originally from Illinois, Sandy spent most of her life in Colorado and Washington State. Sandy and her husband enjoy traveling, hiking, biking, scuba diving, riding ATV’s and golf.
Mike Montgomery
Mike Montgomery is an accomplished C-level executive (CEO, COO, CFO). Recognized for outstanding leadership in a broad spectrum of businesses, spanning from small entrepreneurial growth companies to $100 Million revenue operational turnarounds. He has a solid track record of building, recruiting, galvanizing and leading high performance teams that are intensely focused on maximizing revenue and profitability. Rather than accepting the status quo, Mike focuses on figuring out what needs improvement and fixes it.
With an early career background in Investment Banking - Mergers & Acquisitions, Mike is a numbers person who interprets data to assess reality and determine solutions. He builds an operating culture with a palpable sense of urgency for results. Mike has a “Head Coach” management style and his teams know what success means for their roles.
Most recently, Mike was COO/CFO of the largest provider of workspace solutions and office furniture in the Northwest. He had full P&L responsibility for approx. $125 million in revenue and 500 FTE’s. He increased revenue 52% over two years and created a new operations model to scale with growth. The company was recognized as one of the highest performing Steelcase Dealers in the world. He hired, developed and mentored the next two generations of leadership.
During a previous two-year period, he was President and CEO of a well-known, branded consumer products company with a 25-year history selling into specialty markets. He worked with various Asian suppliers to streamline sourcing of unfinished product and created a procurement protocol for all imported products. Mike successfully sold the company for 28 shareholders and negotiated a 35% increase over the expected valuation.
Earlier, Mike was COO of a Seattle based manufacturing company where he successfully created a sustainable infrastructure and grew revenues from $18 Million to $38 Million. He restructured most departments (including production, engineering, purchasing, scheduling, marketing and accounting) and built a business development-sales function that was capable of generating over $100 Million in revenues. As COO of a $100 Million service company, Mike restructured operations, built a business development function and successfully grew the company 41% over two years.
EDUCATION:
MBA Studies with a Finance Emphasis, Seattle University, Seattle, WA
BA Hospitality Management, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
PERSONAL:
Mike is an avid sailor and outdoorsman.
