Our Consultants
Michael Dennis Graham
Michael Dennis Graham is a Consultant with Grahall Partners, 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 Partners. 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 Partners, 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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Chris Wilkinson
Chris Wilkinson is a Consultant with Grahall Partners, 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 Partners, 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 Partners, 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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Frank Casagrande
Frank A. Casagrande is a consultant with Grahall Partners 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 Partners, 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 Partners LLC. Jay works in a wide range of industries specializing in Leadership Development, Performance Assessments and Organizational and Executive Coaching.
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Joe Davidson
Joe Davidson is a consultant with Grahall Partners, LLC. His consulting practice is focused on Human Capital strategy and alignment of Human Resource processes with overall business strategies. He works with clients across a wide array of industries including professional services, financial services, life sciences, telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, and public sector among others. Joe leads his own consulting firm, Davidson Human Capital, based in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex.
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John Hammond
John Hammond is a Consultant with Grahall. 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. 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. 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 Partners, LLC. She is a consultant to executives, compensation committees, and management teams.
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Linda M. Gookin
Linda M. Gookin, Ph.D. is a consultant at Grahall, LLC. Linda has over 15 years experience as a coach, organizational consultant, assessor, trainer and facilitator. In her work, Linda combines a keen business sense with an indepth understanding of the psychology of human behavior in order to provide insightful advice and consultation to leaders, executives and employees.
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Mark Killian
Mark Killian is a Consultant at Grahall. 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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Martin J. Somelofske
Martin Somelofske is a Consultant with Grahall Partners, and advises Boards of Directors, compensation committees and executive management on all matters related to executive compensation and benefits. Mr. Somelofske has over 22 years of professional experience in executive compensation. His client assignments have been with both public and privately held companies in industries that include financial institutions, media and advertising, retail organizations, health care organizations, not-for-profit organizations, insurance companies and a wide variety of manufacturing and service organizations.
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Marybeth Mattson
Marybeth Mattson is a consultant with Grahall Partners, 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 Partners. 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 Partners, 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 Partners, LLC. She works with clients on compensation analyses, job evaluation, performance management, recruitment and staffing.
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Pate Steele
Pate Steele is a Consultant with Grahall Partners, LLC. He consults in the area of employee and executive benefits, providing consulting services to a wide array of privately-held and public companies. He is a consultant to boards of directors, their compensation committees, and members of company management.
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Patrick Atkinson
Patrick Atkinson is a consultant at Grahall. 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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Rick Zeranski
Rick Zeranski is a consultant with Grahall Partners, 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 with Grahall Partners, LLC. Over his 30-year career, he has specialized in the efficient funding of benefit liabilities for corporations and he has become a specialist in the securities industry having worked with several dozen securities firms over the past 15 years. He has developed highly specialized concepts designed to both attract new talented financial consultants as well as to retain existing consultants.
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Scott Barton
Scott Barton is a consultant with Grahall Partners, 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 Partners, 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 Partners, 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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Lana Krasnyansky-Tsiperson
Lana Krasnyansky-Tsiperson is a Consultant with Grahall Partners, 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 a Consultant at Grahall Partners and a Managing Partner of the Grahall Executive Search Alliance. As a Consultant for Grahall Partners in the “Capitol Corridor” (Baltimore, MD; Washington, DC; Richmond, VA and Virginia Beach, VA), he works with Boards of Directors and corporate executives in determining people strategy requirements for the implementation of their organizational business strategies.
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