The Associates
Supporting Diwa Ratnam are a core group of Associates that provide focused account and project management for our clients and will act to coordinate the required resources from the Associates group.
Diwa Ratnam
Driver
Diwa Ratnam is the “driver” whether concept, race car or a classic he has the passion, experience and appreciation for every aspect of a vehicles design and performance, that is his personal passion, one which has carried over into his professional career.
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Diwa will be the first to admit that many automotive analogies come out in strategic discussion for example “Every driver needs a great pit crew” That is where the associates he works with come in; understanding the pressure of competition, split second decisions and the skills required to win a race. It’s not just the technical capability, but the innate ability to know what needs to happen. They have been there and know the exhilaration of a high performance team, once you have had that experience the pursuit of that becomes central in all aspects of running a business.
Karen Calcaterra
Scribe
Karen Calcaterra, M.A., Grant Specialist, is an experienced professional grantwriter with a high rate of success (over 90%) in receiving funded proposals. In the past decade she has been awarded over 4 million dollars in grant funding for various projects, including top-ranked state and federal funding for multiyear programs.
Colleen Canning
Black Belt
An experienced Executive, Colleen is an Internationally-recognized resource on Distribution and Business Development in Industrial and Commerical Markets. She specializes in leading organizations in Distribution and Sales Transformation to help build significant sales growth. A Six-Sigma Black Belt, she lead 3M's Global Sales Excellence Initiative.
Bradley Childs
Equalizer
Speak softly and know every possible detail and issue that might occur. Brad possesses unique business acumen, the ability to see, communicate, and solve complex problems.
Brads presence in a room while physically imposing at 6'11" is nothing compared to his equalizing abilities, bringing around a team, negotiating a contract or preparing a company for an alliance, sale or acquisition.
Tatjana Hutnyak
Diplomat
With a MBA in International Business, Tatjana has combined her multi-lingual skills with deep and detailed research to help provide fact-based trend and market analysis for businesses to use both in the US and global markets.
Neale Kant
Architect
Neale builds things to evolve and last. He held senior (CIO) technology positions at Global and regional levels. Most recently with Pepper Financial Services in the transition from private to public and then private again.
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Neale architects complex technology solutions. He has led organization transformation in lending and payments across Digital Enterprise Architecture; Operating Model; Cloud Adoption; Information Security; Data and Advanced Analytics
Dave LaRue
EntrepreCoach
Dave is the CEO and owner of Baldwin Supply Company, an industrial distribution company that specializes in mechanical, electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic parts, and provides additional associated services. Under Dave's leadership adn entrepreneurial flair, Baldwin Supply Company has become recognized often as a leader in the distribution industry. In 1921, Baldwin began as a single location in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, and has grown to several locations throughout the Midwest.
Dave has served as Chairman of the Board for the Independent Distributors Cooperative (IDC-USA). IDC-USA is a national purchasing, marketing, and selling cooperative representing over 260 independent distribution locations coast-to-coast and that number continues to grow.
Pam Rusten
Arranger
Pam is visual and verbal, she likes to arrange things, in marketing she can see disparate parts of the organization and clarify an arrangement of strategies that become campaigns, brands and words teams live by and companies prosper from.
Think of music, rooms and flowers, when arranged properly they speak to order, design and emotion. She will always arrange around your customer and be sure you do too. Customer satisfaction is the cost of doing business; customer advocacy is the resonating sound of a great brand.
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