Strategy

Aimee Rodrigues is a Planisware Director of Customer Success and Best Practices. Aimee has more than 15 years of experience within the animal pharmaceutical industry. Her knowledge spans R&D, supply chain, process improvement and technical solutions. Aimee has helped launch some of the biggest products within the animal health world. She was instrumental in creating a best of both model for project, portfolio and resource management within R&D during a large M&A creating the largest animal health company to date. Aimee holds a BS in Molecular Biology from Stetson University and a Masters of Business Administration from Troy University. She is certified by the Project Management Institute as a Project Management Professional (PMP).

Matthew McCreight is a Senior Partner at Schaffer Consulting. His time with the firm includes a ten-year term as the firm’s Managing Partner, He has been with the firm since the late 1980s, consulting with a wide variety of organizations, such as: AIG, J&J, Southern California Edison, General Electric, Givaudan, Helen of Troy, Service Wire, World Fuel, Zurich Insurance and Say Yes to Education. Matthew has helped many organisations carry out large-scale change in ways that achieve significant results rapidly while building the leadership, strategic insights and broad-based involvement that are essential for long-term success. In this context, he works with senior leaders and their teams to orchestrate the strategy and transformation of their organizations. Over the years, Matthew has helped to build strong, sustained operational transformation; to create robust organic growth on an international scale; to integrate major mergers successfully; and to create effective new business innovation in long-established organizations. In keeping with Schaffer’s focus on building the capabilities of our clients, Matthew has created and led development programs for global leaders in the firm’s distinctive “Results-Fueled” approach. He also coaches and develops internal groups – human resources, finance, consulting, information technology, and others – in Schaffer’s “High Impact Consulting” skills and experience to support transformation and change. Matthew earned a MPPM (Masters in Public and Private Management) from Yale University School of Management and a BA in Economics from Wesleyan University.

Philip Martin is CEO of Cora Systems. Philip worked for a decade in engineering and management roles, primarily for the telecommunications industry, before founding Cora Systems in 1999. Drawing on 30 years’ experience in the portfolio and project management industry, he has built a global client base across Europe, the Middle East and USA. He previously held positions with major US multinationals, including 3Com, Tellabs, DSC and Pulse Engineering. Philip is an electronic systems engineering graduate of Ulster University.

Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez is a leading expert in project management and strategy implementation, recognized by Thinkers50 with the prestigious award “Ideas into Practice.” He is the author of the “HBR Project Management Handbook”, “Lead Successful Projects”, “The Project Revolution” and “The Focused Organization”, and has been teaching project management for almost two decades to senior executives through Duke CE, Skolkovo, Solvay Business School, and Vlerick. Former Chairman of the Project Management Institute, he is the founder of Projects & Co, and co-founder of the Strategy Implementation Institute and the global movement Brightline. Antonio has held executive positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers, BNP Paribas, and GlaxoSmithKline.

Donna Fitzgerald managed her first IT program more than a decade before the 1996 version of the PMBoK was published. In the mid-90s, she became active in the nascent agile development community and later wrote for Tech Republic as the Nimble PM. In 2007, she joined Gartner’s equally nascent PPM research group, where she spent ten years. She’s the founder of Nimble PM and probably the most opinionated person when it comes to project management! While she’s occasionally accused of being an iconoclast, her commitment to helping PMs deliver successful projects and programs has never wavered.