Our Consultants
Michael Dennis Graham
Michael Dennis Graham is a Consultant with Grahall, LLC. He is a consultant to boards of directors, their compensation committees, and members of company management. He specializes in all aspects of reward strategy, executive compensation, including stock-based compensation, short-term and long-term cash incentive/retention compensation, executive employment arrangements, benefits and development rewards.
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Alan A. Nadel
Alan Nadel is a consultant at Grahall, LLC. For 37 years he has served a diverse range of clients on matters relating to executive and board of directors compensation, employee benefits, retirement programs, and income and estate planning.
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Arlene Brewster
Arlene Brewster is a Consultant with Grahall, LLC. She is a consultant on organizational culture, communications, individual position analysis, person/position matching, individual coaching and consultation, and overall people strategy. She provides Grahall with expertise in executive interviews and diagnosing individual/organizational issues across a wide range of people strategy assignments.
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Bob Malandruccolo
Bob Malandruccolo is a Consultant with Grahall, LLC. He is a consultant to executives, sales leaders and sales compensation steering committees. He specializes in all aspects of sales force effectiveness including sales compensation, lead generation, sales force sizing, customer segmentation, sales roles design, forecasting, goal setting, training and sales automation.
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Chris Wilkinson
Chris Wilkinson is a Consultant with Grahall, LLC. He provides project support on all aspects of total rewards strategy services. He has over 35 years of experience in compensation and benefits in developing and managing programs covering a full range of groups from non-exempt to board of directors. His experience covers a broad range of industries including high technology, services, and manufacturing.
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Chris Wyrtzen
Chris is a consultant with Grahall, LLC. He has over 15 years of experience in the executive compensation and benefits market specializing in the development of technology resources and applications designed to provide effective human capital management information tools.
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Claudia P. De Francisco
Claudia P. De Francisco is a consultant with Grahall, LLC. She is a consultant to boards of directors, their compensation committees, and members of company management. She specializes in business and people strategies linkage as well as analytics related to all aspects of rewards programs including: stock-based compensation, short-term and long-term cash incentive/retention compensation, executive employment arrangements, benefits, and development rewards.
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E. Skip Ahnemann, III
Mr. Ahnemann is a Consultant at Grahall, LLC. He has worked in the area of organization improvement throughout his career including assignments in the private, nonprofit and public sectors. His 25 plus years of experience encompass the disciplines of strategic planning, management and leadership development, executive coaching, organization change, team effectiveness and organization design.
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Erik Van Slyke
Erik Van Slyke is a consultant with Grahall, LLC. With nearly two decades in consulting and HR leadership roles, he advises executives for both domestic and global organizations, representing industries such as financial services, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, high technology, retail, non-profit and government. His consulting expertise includes organizational development and change, operational transformation and HR and talent strategy.
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Frank Casagrande
Frank A. Casagrande is a consultant with Grahall, LLC. He works primarily with education, healthcare and tax-exempt organizations to ensure that their mission is supported by their investments in human resources. Frank’s clients are assured that their processes and levels of compensation and benefits can both be supported by and withstand the scrutiny of all stakeholders. Frank manages client relationships and projects in all consulting areas with individual expertise in executive and faculty compensation and benefits consulting.
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Jan Dean
Jan Dean is a Consultant at Grahall, LLC. Mr. Dean is responsible for providing consulting services to clients regarding the following disciplines: Executive Compensation, Wage & Salary Administration, Incentive Compensation, Organization Design, Employee Relations, and Training & Development.
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Jay Wolf
Jay Wolf is a Consultant and Executive Coach with Grahall, LLC. Jay works in a wide range of industries specializing in Leadership Development, Performance Assessments and Organizational and Executive Coaching.
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John Hammond
John Hammond is a Consultant with Grahall, LLC. He is a career communication consultant/copywriter with a broad and varied writing and educational background. John has more than 20 years of experience in strategizing, writing, editing and producing customized promotional and educational tools and materials, print and online, for target and mass audiences, whether management, bargaining or non-bargaining. Examples include direct mail, brochures, advertisements, SPDs, newsletters, presentations, white papers, correspondence, and talking points.
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Judy Newman
Judy Newman is a skilled Human Resources professional with more than 15 years of progressive Human Resources, Compensation and Benefits and Organizational Development management experience. She specializes in creating and implementing programs to improve organizational effectiveness, promote the rapid growth of employees and enhance the corporate culture.
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Kathy Patton
Kathy Patton is a Consultant with Grahall, LLC. She is a consultant to boards of directors and members of company management. She specializes in all aspects of people strategy, human resources planning, organization design, employee compensation, training and development, employee relations, and recruiting/staffing.
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Laurence Karsh, CFA
Laurence Karsh is a Consultant at Grahall, LLC. He is a creative and effective business problem solver with extensive line management and consulting expertise. He has an unusual combination of financial expertise as a Chartered Financial Analyst and human resource management and consulting. Today he consults to CEO’s, Boards of Directors and top HR pros. His expertise is in executive compensation design, ownership succession, ESOP compensation design, and executive assessment for selection and succession planning.
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Linda Blandford-Beringsmith
Linda Blandford-Beringsmith is a consultant with Grahall, LLC. She is a consultant to executives, compensation committees, and management teams.
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Mark Killian
Mark Killian is a Consultant at Grahall, LLC. He has been a consultant for the last seven years after twenty-three years in corporate Human Resources leadership roles. Mr. Killian focuses primarily on energy and utilities, financial services, chemical and related manufacturing sectors, particularly in board governance, executive compensation and reward strategy, and general human resources disciplines.
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Marybeth Mattson
Marybeth Mattson is a consultant with Grahall, LLC. She advises clients on compensation, actuarial, executive retirement and human resource administrative systems.
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R. Michael Holt
Mike Holt is a Consultant at Grahall, LLC. He is an expert in private equity organizational and human resources issues, including compensation and performance management. He has designed numerous carried interest and co-investment plans, as well as annual incentive plans. He also has consulted with various real estate and investment/funds management organizations.
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Mike Meisenheimer
Mike Meisenheimer is a consultant with Grahall, LLC. He has more than 15 years experience consulting in the areas of sales effectiveness and sales performance management. His project work focuses on the design, processes and technologies associated with sales incentive compensation.
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Nancy Somelofske
Nancy Somelofske is a consultant with Grahall, LLC. She works with clients on compensation analyses, job evaluation, performance management, recruitment and staffing.
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Patrick Atkinson
Patrick Atkinson is a consultant at Grahall, LLC. He has been involved in the executive search business for 25 years and has owned and operated Waterford Executive Group since 1990. He has specialized in the recruitment of professionals in Human Resources, Compensation and Benefits for the last 18 years. His clientele consists of consulting firms, accounting firms, insurance companies and a broad variety of multi-national corporations.
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R. Garrett Rogers
R. Garrett Rogers is a Consultant with Grahall, LLC. He provides counsel to Boards of Directors, compensation committees and executive management. Mr. Rogers has 25 years of professional experience, including 15 years in the compensation and benefits arena.
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Rick Zeranski
Rick Zeranski is a consultant with Grahall, LLC. and has 29 years Human Resource compensation strategy, design and administration experience from plant floor to executive level in both corporate and consulting environments. His strengths in compensation are salary structure development, management incentives as well as gain sharing, profit sharing and sales incentives. He is a Certified Compensation Professional and has received a Lifetime Achievement Award, both from WorldatWork.
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Robert D Birdsell
Robert D Birdsell is a consultant for Grahall, LLC. Over his 30 years career, he has specialized in designing and funding benefit liabilities for corporations throughout the US. And he will now head up the “non-qualified” practice at Grahall for the upper Midwest region. He has had extensive experience in the securities industry having designed and managed attraction and retention plans for several dozen securities firms over the last 15 years. Although traditional non qualified deferred compensation has been his primary area of expertise, with the prospect of higher taxes, the lack of security of the plan benefits, and the enactment of 409A, Bob has developed a new approach to wealth accumulation, and although deferred compensation will remain an important component to executive wealth accumulation, it can now be augmented with an attractive alternative.
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Scott Barton
Scott Barton is a consultant with Grahall, LLC. He is a consultant to financial, sales and human-resources leadership on issues related to sales compensation and incentive plan design. Clients measure the results of Scott’s work through sales increases and expense reduction. Effective incentive plan design and execution increases productivity by engaging the company’s sales population around goals and pay opportunity. Efficient plan management reduces the costs associated suboptimal processes and technology used to support the incentive programs.
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Scott Cahill
Scott Cahill is a consultant with Grahall, LLC. Over his 29-year career, he has specialized in the efficient funding of benefit liabilities for corporations and estate tax liabilities for wealthy families. He works very effectively to integrate the executive’s personal wealth creation and preservation strategies with the total rewards structure of his/her company.
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Stephen Karp
Stephen Karp is a consultant with Grahall, LLC. Stephen brings over 27 years of business expertise in various senior managerial capacities to help his clients. As a result, Stephen Karp has become a trusted advisor and “go to” person for leading organizations. Stephen’s clients regard him as a knowledgeable listener, a strategic thinker, and an innovative problem solver. Throughout his career, he has developed creative solutions to tough business issues, implemented those innovations, and managed the resulting operations. Stephen’s compensation consulting practice specializes in executive total rewards, compensation process design, and incentive plan conception.
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Sheldon Freedman
Sheldon Freedman is a Consultant with Grahall, LLC. Sheldon works in a wide range of industries specializing in Investment Services, Executive Search, Assessment, Leadership Development, Organization Design and providing consulting services to Boards of Directors and Company Management.
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Lana Krasnyansky-Tsiperson
Lana Krasnyansky-Tsiperson is a Consultant with Grahall, LLC. She consults in the area of organization design, talent management, and employee relations. She is a consultant to boards of directors, their compensation committees, and members of company management.
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William M. Byrnes
Bill Byrnes is responsible for the delivery of Grahall services in the “Capitol Corridor” (Baltimore, MD; Washington, DC; Richmond, VA and Virginia Beach, VA). He directs the local service teams which support these markets by providing a full range of HR consulting capabilities. Each market also has access to the national service teams as projects may require. These client focused project teams bring extensive skill sets to deliver practical, cost effective workforce solutions in such areas such as Compensation & Benefits/Total Rewards, Performance Management & Assessment, Executive & Organizational Development, Change Leadership, various Board services and much more. Client profiles include public & private for-profit companies as well as not-for-profit employers such as foundations, associations, hospitals and universities.
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Timothy Nickerson Szal
Timothy Szal is a Consultant with Grahall, LLC. He is a consultant on economic analysis and various impact analytical techniques with respect to the impact modeling of alternatives and final recommendations on executive and employee reward programs. He specializes in modeling all aspects of reward strategy, executive compensation, including stock-based compensation, short-term and long-term cash incentive/retention compensation, executive employment arrangements, benefits and development rewards.
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Jamie Szal
Jamie Szal a Consultant with Grahall, LLC, where she provides counsel to Boards of Directors, compensation committees and executive management. She also works as a member of Grahall Regulatory Services, LLC, where she provides interpretation of regulatory issues associated with employment contracts, operating agreements, compensation policies, proxy disclosure issues, and governance issues.
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Leigh Priebe Kearney, PhD
Leigh Priebe Kearney is a Consultant at Grahall, LLC. Leigh Kearney is also the founder and President of Osprey Leadership Consulting, Inc. She has 20 years experience serving senior executives in leadership development, assessment for selection and development, executive coaching, and team facilitation. Prior to founding Osprey Leadership, Leigh was the President of Leadership and Team Development for BeamPines, Inc. From 2002 through 2005, Leigh served as a Partner and managed the U.S. assessment business for Whitehead Mann Plc, a global leadership consultancy firm. Prior to Whitehead Mann, Leigh was Vice President of Professional Services and co-founder of Summit Leadership Solutions, a boutique leadership services firm, later acquired by Whitehead Mann, LLC.
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Chris Dona
Christopher P. Dona, Sr. is a Consultant at Grahall, LLC. Mr. Dona is also a Managing Partner in DHI’s Boston office and brings more than 25 years of executive search and corporate experience to assist his clients in their recruitment initiatives.
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Jim Hughes
James V. Hughes is a Consultant with Grahall, LLC. For over 25 years, he has served as an independent advisor to senior management, Boards and Compensation Committees in the discharge of their ongoing responsibilities related to executive compensation as well as in special transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, IPOs, spins and bankruptcies.
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Barry Horwitz
Barry Horwitz is a Consultant with Grahall, LLC. He has more than 25 years of experience including strategic planning, marketing and general management. His work has been focused on helping senior management with growth initiatives; developing or refining strategic plans, business plans and implementation plans. He has worked with organizations in many industries, but with a stronger focus in retail and consumer products, Internet and software technology and telecommunications.
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Robert Damigella
Robert Damigella is a consultant with Grahall, LLC. He has more than 20 years of experience in finance including private equity and hedge funds, as well as real estate, and mortgage investing with a focus on alternative assets such as distressed mortgage assets.
He has a high level of expertise in traditional areas of consulting such as organization design and development, sales and marketing alignment and implementation, as well as leadership development to name a few. In addition he has a demonstrated expertise in other more unique areas such as hedge fund set up, capital raising, management and compensation practices, business plan creation and valuation consulting, whole loan mortgage resolution strategies, along with deal structure and design.
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Nelson Garcia
Nelson Garcia is a Consultant at Grahall, LLC. Mr. Garcia has been consulting since 1982 in various areas in the investment management and insurance industries. He has in depth experience in the midsized bank and investment fund sectors of the financial services industry. He has worked in and advised clients on the management of non-performing residential mortgages and has expert knowledge of the purchasing, servicing, insuring and disposition of such.
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Elliot Scott
Elliot Scott is a consultant with Grahall, LLC. In his nearly two decades as a sales compensation and sales effectiveness consultant, Elliot has worked with over 100 clients in industries from aerospace to warehousing, with recent emphasis on consumer products, publishing, software, technology, and health insurance. He manages both large and small projects in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Areas of expertise include sales compensation assessment, re-design, scenario modeling, and communication; market assessment; customer segmentation and targeting; sales coverage and organization design; sales force sizing and territory mapping; and custom benchmarking surveys.
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Marvin Smith
Marvin L. Smith is a Consultant at Grahall, LLC. Marvin primarily works with small to mid- sized organizations and has a deep knowledge of all aspects of innovative teamwork and concentrates heavily on the human factors side of the equation.
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Tim McConnell
Tim McConnell is a consultant with Grahall, LLC, specializing in Organization Analysis and Design. Tim is also Managing Partner of McConnell HR Consulting Inc. – a boutique management consulting firm specializing in Organization Design challenges. The firm has offices in both Ottawa and New York.
Prior to his work at Grahall and McConnell HRC, Tim was a Partner with the Sierra Systems Group. There he led a team providing strategic Human Resources planning and consulting solutions on large Information Technology and Systems projects across North America. Tim has also worked as a Manager and Senior Consultant with the Coopers & Lybrand Consulting Group (now part of PwC) specializing in Compensation.
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Kathy Bedard
Kathy Bedard is a Consultant with Grahall, LLC, specializing in Organization Analysis and Design. She is also Director of HR Consulting with McConnell HRC Inc. – a boutique management consulting firm specializing in Organization Design challenges. The firm has offices in both Ottawa and New York.
With experience that spans the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, Kathy’s clients include organizations of all sizes and complexities. She has led a number of organizational transformations using a proven methodology that ensures the design of an organization reflects the mission, vision and strategic priorities of the business.
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Dennis Martin
Denny Martin is a consultant at Grahall, LLC. The focus of his practice for over 25 years has been Organization Development, Leadership and Coaching as well as implementing practical and sustainable change efforts in organizations. He is currently the Managing Partner at Zinke Martin Consulting. Denny works at all levels of system: organization, group, interpersonal and individual including CEO’s, Executive Teams, SVP’s, Directors and Managers.
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Maggie Thompson
Maggie Thompson is a consultant at Grahall, LLC based in Calgary. Maggie is an accomplished communications professional with over 21 years’ experience in communication consulting. She is an award-winning writer known for her abilities to effectively plan and deliver all facets of communication related to human resource programs and strategies.
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Coleen McKeon
Coleen McKeon is a consultant at Grahall, LLC based in Calgary. Coleen has been working in the design, development and implementation of comprehensive rewards programs for 20 years. Her primary focus is the design and implementation of compensation strategy, variable pay programs, and the assessment of competitiveness of employee and executive pay. Her work regularly includes the design and clarification of corporate business strategy.
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Marc Lattoni
Marc Lattoni is a consultant at Grahall, LLC based in Calgary. Over the past 25 years Marc has been instrumental in helping Canadian and US organizations plan and deliver all aspects of compensation and rewards programs. His primary areas of concentration include executive compensation, talent management and performance.
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Pat Johnston
Pat Johnston is a consultant at Grahall, LLC based in Calgary. Pat has over 30 years of actuarial experience, providing a wide range of private and public sector organizations with the design, funding, administration and governance of their retirement programs. His primary areas of concentration include registered defined benefit plans and supplemental executive retirement programs.
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Christiane St-Amour
Christiane St-Amour Rivard is a Consultant at Grahall, LLC. She is also a co-founder and Principle at JCris Consulting Group. Christiane is an Executive Coach and Leadership Development Specialist, partnering with executives and organizations to achieve excellence both within and outside of the workforce. Her diverse expertise includes: executive placement (head-hunting), career transition, executive coaching, leadership development consulting, running corporate coaching initiatives, succession planning, and competency model development. Christiane has had the privilege of working with two global consulting firms ranked within the top five of their respective industries.
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