Leadership

Michael W. Jalbert Managing Director	Michael draws on his 30 years of experience in corporate management, strategic leadership, international business development and team building to meet the needs of clients. To date he has successfully engaged in projects in Europe, Pacific/Asia, North America and South America across many business sectors including consumer products, industrial goods and professional services. Having been a public company division CEO and EVP as well as vice chairman and partner in the private sector enables Michael to bring meaningful and sustainable value to our client partners leveraging his breadth of business knowledge and achievement. Prior to founding Omega Management Group Advisors, Michael spent 14 years with PepsiCo in a variety of assignments leading to his role as Vice President National Sales of Pepsi Cola Company. Following that he was recruited to AlliedSignal (Honeywell) where he joined a new leadership team at the Automotive Aftermarket Division and successfully restructured this $1 billion division to profitability. Cendant Corporation then recruited Michael to their Real Estate Division as EVP to lead the growth, acquisition and administration of Coldwell Banker, Century 21 and ERA real estate brands globally. Michael’s career then took an entrepreneurial turn as he joined the ERA Europe Company, first as chief development officer and later as vice chairman and partner of this 17 country, 1,500 office network across Europe. After this successful relationship he was asked to lead, as President and CEO, Management Recruiters International, a division of the human capital company CDI Corporation. Michael currently is a director at Chestnut Hill Partners a New York based investment boutique. Michael graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a degree in communications and completed the Executive Program in Business Administration “Managing the Enterprise” at Columbia’s Graduate School of Business.

Greg Knoll Managing Director	Greg is a Managing Director and Partner with *Omega Management Group Advisors*. Prior to joining Omega MGA, he was a founder CKL2 Strategic Business Partners, and also had formed his own company, IME Enterprises LLC, a professional management and advisory services business. His main focus has been on managing a business portfolio across several diversified areas. He specializes in identifying investment opportunities in innovative and growing businesses, and independently advises clients in the Consumer Packaged Goods and Business-to-Business markets. He is a major investor, board member, and active partner in several startup food businesses (New Taste Dimensions Foods, and Amanzi Tea). Greg is a seasoned CEO, General Manager, leader, and marketing executive with a diverse background in marketing, branding, advertising, sales, and business operations. He was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Tomra North America, Inc. for seven and a half years. Tomra North America, Inc, is a market leading subsidiary of Tomra Systems ASA, a Norwegian-based provider of technology solutions for the recovery and recycling of packaging materials operating in forty-five countries. As CEO, he had full P & L accountability for the North American Business Unit with annual revenues of $300 million and over 1,300 employees. Greg directed the executive leadership team and was a board member Tomra North America, served on Tomra Systems ASA Global Management Committee, as well as numerous boards of related partnerships and subsidiaries. Greg left Tomra in 2009 to start his own business, IME Enterprises LLC. Prior to joining Tomra, Greg had a successful career at Unilever for thirty years, where he was a senior executive responsible for running large businesses and brands. He has extensive international experience both living and working abroad with a highly successful track record. He served on numerous international category boards, and was involved in the development of innovative new business ventures worldwide. He directed strategic businesses in global, highly competitive/large growth markets in the United States, Japan, and Germany. His major responsibilities were focused on building brands and businesses, change management/ business improvement, and turning around businesses and companies. He holds a BS in Marketing from Penn State University. He is an active alumni involved with the university, a member of several advisory boards, chairs several committees and serves on the College of Liberal Arts Development Council.

Margaretta Noonan Managing Director	Margaretta Noonan is a managing director of Omega Managment Group Advisors and the CEO of noonanHR. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Margaretta had executive experience with Fortune 500 companies in all global functions of human resources, especially in the retail and professional services industries. She has a proven track record of being able to identify issues in complex organizations and implement effective solutions. Margaretta was the Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer for Hudson Highland Group, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed, worldwide recruitment, staffing, and human resources consulting company. Her responsibilities included the strategic direction of the Human Resources and Legal teams around the world as well as the firm’s business process improvement initiatives. She was the primary management liaison to the company’s Compensation, Human Resources and Nominating & Governance Committees of the Board of Directors. In recent years, her focus has been in the areas of executive recruiting and compensation, workforce planning, succession planning and internal communications. Before joining Hudson Highland, Margaretta was Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources at Monster Worldwide, Inc., the parent company of Monster®, the leading global online careers and recruitment resource. Her career in the retail sector included senior HR positions with Carter Hawley Hale Stores, Best Products, Kohl’s and Lord & Taylor. During her corporate career, Margaretta participated in the management of a high growth organization (Kohl’s), an acquirer of more than 100 other firms (Monster Worldwide), a Chapter 11 bankruptcy (Best Products), a company closure (Carter Hawley Hale), and a successful public-company spin off (Hudson Highland). Her professional and civic affiliations include Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School’s Women’s Leadership Board, the Board of Directors for the Volunteer Consulting Group/boardnet USA (Chair of the Governance Committee), the Global Summit of Women (member of the International Planning Committee).

Dennis Pitocco Director	As a global consumer banking industry veteran with over 35 years of domestic and international experience, Dennis currently serves as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of ConQuest Partners International, a privately-held global management consulting firm, principally operating within the consumer financial services industry, and with a particular focus on all aspects of strategic planning, organizational development, business execution and exceptional service delivery. He has also served on the Board of Directors of a number of public and private companies in the US, Canada and Europe. Dennis is also an active Member of the Gerson Lehrman Consulting Platform and a former Director of Ocean Finance & Mortgages (UK). Immediately prior to launching his consulting practice, Dennis served as Chief Executive and Managing Director of Preferred Mortgages Limited (UK), having led a management buy-out backed by Barclays Private Equity. His career has encompassed senior executive roles across the US commercial banking industry, during which time his forte was development of high-performance, state-of-the-art consumer finance platforms. He is a graduate of the American Institute of Banking, the Bank Executive Program at the Kenan-Flagler Business School – University of North Carolina, National Graduate Compliance School – University of Oklahoma, Graduate School of Banking – University of Wisconsin, and holds a diploma from the McIntire School of Commerce, Retail Banking Management Program conducted at the University of Virginia. Dennis has also authored a number of articles for consumer finance industry publications in the US and Europe. Over the past several years, Dennis has methodically developed a formidable business advisory channel within the ConQuest Partners global consulting practice, entirely focused on the tactical leveraging of existing and emerging social media platforms. Along the way, Dennis has created and launched a series of professional networking Groups across Ushi (China) and Linkedin (worldwide), spanning the Residential Mortgage\|Real Estate, Hospitality, Recruiting and Global Business Industries, amassing tens of thousands of member professionals across dozens of countries. He ultimately parlayed the success of these initiative into the independent launch of BIZCATALYST 360°, over which he now presides both as Editor and as a member of the BIZEVANGELISTS "thought leadership" panel. Dennis is a US Air Force veteran, residing in Tampa, Florida with his beautiful (British) wife and seasoned travel partner Ali, both of whom spend considerable time "giving back" to the community as members of the American Red Cross Disaster Action Team, and various other local volunteer groups. Dennis is also on the Board of Meal on Wheels of Tampa.

Nico Hulstein Director of European Development	Nico is a seasoned executive with a 30 year track record of achievement. Having been a sales director, country manager, COO, and CEO at both public and private companies, Nico brings a broad set of skills and experience to Omega Management Group Advisors and its clients with successful leadership roles in marketing, sales, and general management across advertising, entertainment, real estate, insurance and business services sectors. Prior to joining Omega Management Group Advisors, Nico spent five years with Unilever as a salesman then sales group leader. Nico was then recruited to Dureco, a privately held European record company as Sales Director, where he led the company’s sales function for the Netherlands and Belgium. After great success he joined Warner Bros as sales manager for the Benelux region. Seven years later he join the Netherlands publisher, Wegener, where he served for more than five years. He served first as business unit manager for the Wegener municipal guides and later as general manager for Falkplan, a market leader for city maps and route maps. Following Wegener, he was recruited to start up a new division of ITT and Thomas Register as country manager where he successfully built up a Dutch and Belgium operation. ERA Europe, the then largest Pan European Real Estate Network, recruited Nico to their real estate division in The Netherlands. First as chief operating officer and later as chief executive officer with full P&L responsibility. As such he was responsible for the growth of the broker network to more than 180 offices with close to 1,000 agents in the Netherlands and a market share of 25 percent of all transactions. Nico Currently is the owner of Real Estate Factory, the leading call centre in real estate and financial services, located in the Amsterdam area. His company works with more than 100 real estate brokers and 300 insurance and mortgage offices. Nico Graduated from the Dutch School of Business with a degree in marketing.

Roy Gover Director	Roy is a UK based business consultant, Chartered Accountant and entrepreneur whose entire career has involved successful delivery of start-ups and managing change. A passion for the then fledgling profession of management consultancy was the hallmark of his professional training. After qualifying, he worked extensively in the USA, Europe and Middle East during a substantial career in banking, Roy entered the real estate sector to head up Legal and General's estate agency acquisition team building a national network of offices in two years. He founded GCG Consulting in 1990 and has advised on many of the major estate agency trade-sale transactions, developed competencies in franchising and built a proven track record in franchise development and implementation both in the UK and overseas. Roy’s hands-on, results oriented, attention-to-detail approach was forged in the challenging environments of emerging overseas markets but he is quick to acknowledge the value of the consistent encouragement from key mentors in his early career development. As a Director of the Colchester Business Enterprise Agency - a not-for-profit organisation to help emerging businesses get established - he can now give something back to new entrepreneurs in Essex County, UK Roy was business correspondent with the Estate Agency News for 10 years and has been featured on BBC radio but now prefers to comment in the trade press - more mischievously - under a variety of pseudonyms Outside business he is Dad to an expensive raft of wonderful daughters, travels extensively with his ‘rock’ Lorraine, is recognised as a leading authority on British Progressive Rock Music, known to be a classic car and bike petrolhead and conceals, hopelessly inadequately, a lifelong passion for Queens Park Rangers FC.

Jan Kloppers Director	Man is a learning device. This vision has been inspiring Jan for more than two decades to put every effort in the performance improvement of people and organizations. Jan Kloppers is a dedicated consultant specialized in Leadership Development programs, IT change and Migration Process Accompaniment, Coaching/Mentoring and Sales Development. Currently Jan is owner of JKDS Development Support in The Netherlands, a company focusing on Personal Leadership, Team Leadership, and Provocative Coaching/Mentoring for Senior Management, VP’s and Boards of Directors. Jan is deeply involved in control models (Anglo Saxon, Rhenish) of companies. He facilitates intensive high end sessions, together with the former Royal Dutch Commander of the UN Army in Kosovo, on the basis of a three day Battlefield tour in Normandy, France, on the subject of control models. On the Battlefield during World War I and II, (the most extreme competitive situation) Jan explains and shows boards of directors of companies the impact, consequences and risks of the Anglo Saxon and Rhenish control models. During these sessions countless translations are being made towards the actual client organizations. Jan has completed successful engagements in Europe, North America and South America with leading companies such as IBM, Volvo, Toyota, Philips, ING Bank, CCL, Belron (Carglass, Autoglass), NXP, DSM and Actuant. His insight and deep knowledge regarding inter human relationships in combination with a sharp mind, personal integrity and experience in the implementation of strategic changes in organizations has made Jan a highly valued resource and partner for senior managers and Boards of Directors. He is renowned, not always loved, for his sincerity and honesty and he is not hampered by titles or positions acquired. In 1992 Jan co-founded Itasc, a Dutch Leadership and advisory company. In his role as Managing Director of Itasc, Jan worked towards enhancing the performance of his clients and their companies. In 2011 Jan sold Itasc and founded JKDS Development Support. Prior to founding his own companies Jan was, at the age of 29, recruited as General Manager at Tepro Technical Products, a leading German company in the aftermarket for office automation products. As the GM of Tepro he was responsible for developing the Benelux market and for creating the European central warehouse. His career took off while working for Nashua, an American company in the office automation business, copiers, laser printers and fax machines. At Nashua he fully mastered his sales and customer management skills. He is, as they say, a genuine self made man. After graduating from High School he joined the Military and when he left the Military he started working in the sales department at Aspa (Staples) in the office supply market.

Gregg Nettleton Director	Gregg owns and operates an international consulting firm, specializing in the franchise arena. Having served in Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Operating Officer and President/CEO roles, Gregg can offer a broad and diversified approach in resolving the needs of his clients. While known across a number of industries as a strong senior executive with exceptional leadership skills, he is best known for identifying and delivering game changing growth initiatives. Over the past 30 years he has profitably grown top line revenue for category leading clients in the cruise, hotel, restaurant, healthcare, retail, advertising and recruiting industries. Gregg’s strength is in his unique ability to quickly assess an industry and develop defensible positioning and strategic plans. His typical approach is to generate revenue in the short term while putting into operation long term positioning strategies designed to generate significant enterprise growth. He has delivered such game changing strategies for Norwegian Cruise Lines, Burger King Corporation, IHOP, Applebee’s, Management Recruiters International, various advertising/promotional agencies and numerous multi-national corporations. In addition to Gregg’s domestic market experience, he has successfully led organizations in Continental Europe, Western Europe, Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Latin America. Mr. Nettleton is a visionary who enjoys a unique style of leadership that brings the discipline of yesterday into the technology driven marketplace of today. His point of difference is in developing innovative creative solutions that leverage brand strengths and, most importantly, deliver long term sustained growth. Gregg is engaged with Omega Management Advisors as a Director and consults on a number of strategic projects on an on-going basis.

Jon Glesinger Director	Prior to founding Expert Alumni, Jon was Managing Director of Norman Broadbent's Energy and Natural Resources Practice and Client Partnership Director for the BNB Group. Jon built an industry leading team that operated globally providing a wide range of solutions for clients in Executive Search, Recruitment, Corporate Branding and Advertising. He also developed a unique and highly effective method of engaging with clients on a consultative basis, redefining the way in which a multi-brand international company engages with its employees, clients and prospects. Before joining BNB, Jon worked for TMP Worldwide/Monster and a boutique executive search firm covering a number of diverse sectors. Prior to this, Jon was deeply involved in Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing including starting up and running a software development company focused on drawing office management and parametric design. During his career, Jon lived and worked in the Far East, Houston and Europe and has traveled to a wide variety of countries.

Tony Dickel Director	Tony has a number of business interests and currently holds the position of Chairman of Transcend International Holdings in Hong Kong, an established center for excellence in coaching and leadership development in Australia and the Asia Pacific Region. He is also a current Director of the International Coaching Federation, Hong Kong and the Hong Kong International Coaching Community. Tony is also a Board Member of the award winning and groundbreaking MRI China Group. This was founded by Tony in 1999 and grew under his stewardship into a leading multinational recruitment solutions, outsourcing talent management and talent market research organization employing more than 250 people across six countries in the region, with more than 150 in the mainland of China. He grew the organization from scratch despite having no background in either recruitment or HR, and was thus able to defeat many of the paradigms held both inside and outside the industry about its practices and drivers. Tony exited this business in 2010 and remains on its Board. Previous to this role Tony spent six years with ABN AMRO Asia Group, first as CFO and, later, as deputy COO, covering the region from Japan, China and Hong Kong to Indonesia. He has also held Board level positions with Sotheby’s Asia, Barings and the Jardine Fleming Group, each one a leading institution in its field during his time with them. Tony is a keen life scientist, artist, photographer and birdwatcher.

Nicholas Coutts Director	One of the world's leading authorities on routes to market, Nicholas helps clients select and maintain the optimum mix of direct and indirect channels and routes to market that will maximise market share, profit and brand value. An expert in the design and marketing of services, he develops models, tools, processes and services which help companies go to market more effectively and efficiently. As Vice President, Global Distribution Channel Strategy for IBM, he was responsible for channel strategy and development and the effective use of distribution channels. He has a masters degree in economics from Kings College, Cambridge. Nicholas is a trustee and chair of The Dialogue Trust, which runs dialogue groups in prisons and in the local community to help reduce reoffending.