OUR TEAMS —

Regardless of the market sector, BBA brings in experts who have the knowledge and contacts to obtain up-to-date insights on specific industry opportunities and target companies.
BBA’s network includes highly qualified experts in most industry segments. The list below includes core team members.

Meet the BBA TEAM and Associates (presented by industry):

Agriculture

Glen Stith

Experience: Monsanto
Area of Expertise: Crop Protection, Seeds, Ag Dealer Distribution

Robert Young

Experience: Former Chief Economist - American Farm Bureau Federation, U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Faculty - University of Missouri
Area of Expertise: Farm Economics

Greg Crutsinger

Experience: 3d Robotics, Parrot
Area of Expertise: Drone Photography

Kim Polizotto, PHD, CCA

Experience: Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan
Area of Expertise: Fertilizer Agronomy

Automation

Mike Kunkle

Experience: Harley-Davidson, RIA Certified Robot Integrator Program Auditor
Area of Expertise: Industrial Robot Safety, Robot Integration Certification

Jim Pfister

Experience: Minute Maid, Hershey Chocolate
Area of Expertise: Packaging and Packaging Automation

Loren Shaum

Experience: Comprehensive Technologies
Area of Expertise: Machine Vision, Factory Automation including Cobots

Construction

Glenn Singer

Experience: Certain Teed, Owens Corning
Area of Expertise: Building Materials & Energy Saving Construction

Colette Daney

Experience: Dupont Titanium Technologies
Area of Expertise: Titanium Dioxide Supply/ Coatings

John Cleary

Experience: United Rentals
Area of Expertise: Construction Equipment Rental

Consumer Packaged Goods

Grant Ferrier

Experience: Founder Nutrition Capital Network
Area of Expertise: Nutritional Supplements

Antonio Pedro Alves

Experience: Reckitt Benckiser, Avon, Newell Rubbermaid
Area of Expertise: Brazil & Other LATAM Consumer Packaged Goods

Don Frey

Experience: Procter & Gamble, Avon, Jafra Cosmetics, The Honest Company
Area of Expertise: Consumer Packaged Goods Product Development, Innovation

Aurea Cristina Lacerda

Experience: Oxiteno, Solvay, Stepan Company, Health Surveillance Center Sao Paulo
Area of Expertise: Brazil surfactant and other CPG chemical specialties development & regulatory affairs

Cross Industry

Jim Grosvenor

Experience: McKinsey, HP, Bearingpoint
Area of Expertise: BBA CEO

Michael Guthammar

Experience: Crédit Agricole, Crédit Lyonnais, Windeye Partners
Area of Expertise: Valuation, Life Sciences

Morio Alexander

Experience: Mitchell Madison, MMG Partners
Area of Expertise: BBA Director, Financial Services

Richard Miller

Experience: H-P, Sun Microsytems, Covad, USEC, CACI
Area of Expertise: BBA Director, High Tech

Safora Ray

Experience: Bearingpoint, PwC
Area of Expertise: BBA Senior Analyst

Toshi Tanaka

Experience: McKinsey, Hewlett-Packard
Area of Expertise: BBA COO

Marcy Strauss Axelrod

Experience: Bearingpoint, Gartner Group, HP (Enterprise & Consumer)
Area of Expertise: Journey Mapping, Strategy Consulting

Chel Cavallon

Experience: IBM, Oliver Wyman, Corporate Executive Board
Area of Expertise: New Market Entry, Strategy Consulting

Peter Han

Experience: J.P. Morgan, Mitchell Madison, HSBC, Datamyne
Area of Expertise: Startups, Business & Operational Strategy, Turnarounds, Import/Export

Machinery

Fred Clingman

Experience: Greenberry, Sunsteel
Area of Expertise: Large Component Fabrication & Erection

Harry Moser

Experience: GF Machining Solutions, Founder Reshoring Initiative, Industry Week Mfg. Hall of Fame Member
Area of Expertise: U.S. Reshoring, i.e. reevaluating domestic vs. offshore sourcing

Mark Stevens

Experience: General Motors, Center for Automotive Research
Area of Expertise: From press automation & equipment to Class A die production

Medical

Adrian Gropper, MD

Experience: Privacy Engineering, CEO/CTO
Area of Expertise: Healthcare Services Technology

Arthur Klein, MD

Experience: President, Mt Sinai Health System
Area of Expertise: Healthcare Services

David Toung

Experience: McDonald Investment, Argus Research
Area of Expertise: Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices

Atul Kumar, MD

Experience: Gastroenterologist, Interim CEO Healthcare AI
Area of Expertise: Healthcare Services AI, Urgent Care Marketplaces

Keith Batchelder MD DMD MS

Experience: Former Dentist, Serial Entrepreneur in Imaging/Healthcare
Area of Expertise: Dentistry, Healthcare Imaging, Genomics

Julie Kim

Experience: Booz Allen, Mitchell Madison, Tenet
Area of Expertise: Healthcare management, including ACO operations

Oil & Gas

David O'Dell

Experience: TexStar, Junction Pipeline, Engineering/Operations
Area of Expertise: Oil & Gas Midstream

Stephen Noon

Experience: Weir Frac Pumps
Area of Expertise: Oil & Gas Drilling

Stephen Traicoff

Experience: Enron, Bearingpoint
Area of Expertise: Energy, Petrochemicals, Midstream, Refining

Tech/Imaging

Kenneth Michel

Experience: Disney/ABC
Area of Expertise: Advanced Television Technologies, including Broadcast Cameras & Lenses

Matt Kosel

Experience: Spinitar, Biamp
Area of Expertise: Audio Visual Integration

Izumi Ota

Experience: Arthur Andersen, Bearingpoint
Area of Expertise: BBA EVP, Organizational Change Management, IT Strategy/Transformation

Tom Vogelsong

Experience: SRI International, Narragansett Imaging
Area of Expertise: Image Sensor, Photonics, and Embedded Vision Cameras

Ivan Batanov

Experience: Yahoo!, Rackspace, Microsoft
Area of Expertise: High Performance Network & Data Center Technology, Software Development

John Harwell

Experience: H-P, Numerous High Tech/Imaging Companies
Area of Expertise: Mid-size High Tech Executive Mgmt, Europe

Utilities

Doug Houseman

Experience: Capgemini, Burns & McDonnell
Area of Expertise: Power Generation & Transmission

Andrew Slauenwhite

Experience: Henkels& McCoy, Barnard Construction
Area of Expertise: Transmission Electrical Contracting

Aaron Quick

Experience: Henkels & McCoy, Southeast Power, Duke Energy
Area of Expertise: Electrical Construction & Maintenance

Waste Management

Frederick De Raedt

Experience: Holcim, Geocycle
Area of Expertise: Cement Manufacture, alternative fuels and raw materials

Mary Sikora

Experience: Recycling Research Institute, Scrap Tire News
Area of Expertise: Tire Recycling, Pyrolysis

Andy Hill

Experience: Market Development Director, Suez R&R Trading
Area of Expertise: Plastic Waste Recycling, SRF, alternative fuels

Balanced Business Advisors