Meet Our Founding Partners
Executive Team
Bruce Quade, CEO
Over the past 25 years, Bruce has worked in the consulting industry as both a practitioner and as an executive of consulting companies. Throughout his career, Bruce has worked with clients to develop strategies to create highly efficient and effective operations in customer care, sales and marketing and back-office functions. In more recent years, Bruce has worked with his clients in the application of analytic tools and techniques to create greater insights and competitive advantages in these areas. His industry expertise includes healthcare, insurance and telecommunications.
Prior to Sagence Group, Bruce worked for Andersen Consulting, Booz Allen & Hamilton, Diamond Technology Partners and Catalyst Capital Management. Bruce was a founding partner for Diamond Technology Partners and was responsible for the North American practice. During Bruce's 10-year career at Diamond, he was instrumental in growing the company from 27 employees to over 1200 employees worldwide. Bruce received a BS in microbiology from the University of Iowa and an MBA from Northern Illinois University. He has served as a director for Pinnacle Care and Advanced ICU Care.
Alan Matsumura
Alan has more than 30 years of IT experience, with particular focus on enterprise architectures, databases, and data analysis. He has extensive experience designing technical architecture strategies for market-leading firms. Alan has architected, designed, and developed a large number of business intelligence systems and marketing databases and has worked in a wide variety of industries, including financial services, insurance, consumer products and services, retail, and healthcare.
Alan was a founder of Diamond Technology Partners and a Partner in the Enterprise Practice and was previously a Senior Principal with Technology Solutions Company.
Chris Moffitt
Chris brings to Sagence 35 years of experience in the management consulting, IT consulting, and the high tech manufacturing sectors. His consulting industry experience includes Banking, Retail, and Consumer Products and Services. As a consultant Chris has specialized in the design and management of large, complex IT and business process change programs that have resulted in significant revenue growth and cost reduction for his clients. He holds a BS degree in Industrial Engineering.
Prior to joining Sagence Chris first held engineering, program management, partner and executive level positions with Electronic Data Systems (EDS), Neiman Marcus and Arthur Young. Chris then co-founded Technology Solutions Company (TSC) and served as the firm’s Consumer Products and Services Practice Leader. He was instrumental in growing the firm to over 700 consultants in it's first five years of operation. Chris then left TSC and co-founded Diamond Technology Partners, a leading management and information technology consulting firm. He again served as the Consumer Sector Practice Leader and was instrumental in growing the firm to over 900 consultants in its first 5 years. Chris then left Diamond in 1999 to found Rubicon Technology and served as the companies Chairman and CEO. Under Chris' leadership Rubicon became an industry leading, international, high tech materials manufacturer serving the high growth solid state lighting industry (LED's). Chris was instrumental in completing IPO's at all three of these firms.
Management Team
CJ Cadwell
CJ has over 17 years of industry and consulting experience. The focus of his expertise includes enterprise architectures, enterprise application integration/service-oriented architectures, application architecture, and program and operations management. CJ's industry knowledge includes retail, technology, telecommunications, and transportation.
Before Sagence Group, CJ was CIO of a logistics firm that successfully launched a software-as-a-service strategic business unit. CJ has an MBA from the University of Michigan.
Jace Frey
Jace works with clients to discern needs and opportunities for improving data and its application to business problems. His client work at Sagence Group spans a wide range of data management topics. These include helping industrial and distribution clients prepare for (and measure success of) ERP data conversions, providing direction and QA on preparing large sets of data for pricing and order analytics, and guiding a major financial services client on a firm-wide strategy for Reference Data.
Before joining Sagence Group, Jace was a Principal with Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, where he served clients within the Travel & Transportation and the Retail, Distribution & Manufacturing industry verticals. Jace holds a BA from Rice University in Computer Science.
Larry Kolek
Larry has over 30 years of progressive experience in both consulting and corporate environments. He has extensive experience leading high-profile, business-driven IT initiatives for diverse industries, including financial services, insurance, healthcare, and telecommunications. Larry combines exceptional business experience and deep technical knowledge to ensure the client's objectives are achieved.
Prior to Sagence Group, Larry served as Vice President and Account Partner for eLoyalty, where he was responsible for many of the company's largest accounts. He has designed and developed several large information management systems to allow companies to move to a customer-centric model and improve business performance.
Marisela Rosales Lawson
Marisela brings over 15 years of management consulting and industry experience to Sagence Group. The focus of her business and technical expertise includes data management and business intelligence implementations, marketing, and project management for both offline and online businesses in a variety of industries, including retail and financial services. She works with her clients to develop new approaches and techniques in increasing the value of information to improve their business.
Before joining Sagence Group, Marisela served as Director of Business Intelligence for Forsythe Solutions Group working with different functions (sales, marketing, operations, product groups) to increase sales. Marisela was also a Principal at Diamond Management & Technology Consultants and a senior consultant at Accenture. Marisela holds a BA from DePaul University in Computer Science.
Rajan Maskay
Rajan has over 30 years of consulting and industry experience, focusing on the strategic use of information primarily for marketing and growth strategies. He has a deep background in business analysis and marketing research for traditional and direct marketing. Rajan has significant experience in customer and prospect segmentation, data warehousing, data mining, and marketing database programs. He has extensive retail exposure and expertise in project management, systems design, analytic methods, and research techniques.
Prior to Sagence Group, Rajan worked for a number of agencies, consulting companies and firms. Rajan has an MBA from Southern Illinois University as well as a B. Tech. with Honors in Aeronautical Engineering and Design from Loughborough University, England.
Joy Masterson Weir
Joy is dedicated to helping her clients realize new opportunities and transform their businesses through the strategic management and use of information. Her 18 years of experience working for consulting firms, in industry and at software companies give her a unique ability to understand and analyze challenges and opportunities from multiple perspectives, ask the right questions and drive strategic change in many industries and across many functions including operations, finance, sales and marketing.
Before joining Sagence Group, Joy led strategic initiatives and managed organizations with particular emphasis on sales, marketing, operations and in corporate functions at MassMutual Financial Group. She also served clients driving strategic change initiatives in a variety of industries including financial services, retail and hospitality while at Diamond Technology Partners. Joy holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Tom Mech
Tom has over 17 years of business and technology experience, with particular expertise in program management, marketing analysis, and operational and organizational analysis. He has significant experience in creating and implementing far-reaching initiatives, including new product/service launch, market entry, operational and process improvement, and restructuring. Tom's industry knowledge includes telecommunications, transportation, insurance, financial services, and technology.
Before Sagence Group, Tom was a principal at Diamond Technology Partners. He has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern and majored in Electrical Engineering and Economics at Duke University.
Alex Wu
Alex has over 10 years of experience in IT consulting with industry expertise in Financial Services and Insurance. His expertise encompasses Information Management, Data Strategy and Business Process Re-engineering. In addition, Alex has extensive background in delivering enterprise level IT projects for Fortune 500 companies in fast-paced and exacting project environments.
Prior to Sagence Group, Alex was a consultant at Accenture and Diamond Technology Partners. Alex is a PMI certified Project Management Professional (PMP). He has multiple bachelor's degrees from the University of Connecticut in mechanical/materials engineering, Economics, and German.
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