SAND CHERRY - Key Persons


Audley Webster - SVP

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President
  • Advisor to the Board
Audley serves as an Advisor to the Board. He has over 30 years of experience as a senior executive and consultant in the broadband and technology industries, including strategy, business planning, and operating leadership roles at AT&T Broadband, MediaOne Group, US West and Booz Allen and Hamilton.

Ben Marti

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director
Ben has more than two decades of strategic planning, operations, product commercialization and project management experience spanning telecom, wireless, broadband, and satellite industries. Ben enables organizational strategy through implementation of strategic planning discipline; combining a customer-focused approach with balance sheet fundamentals to ensure the highest impact investments for both clients and their customers.

Carolyn Rumbarger - SVP

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President
Carolyn has 30 years of experience managing teams in a variety of industries, as well as leading business development strategies, and merger and acquisition programs. She oversees client engagements ranging from large program management teams, to companywide digital transformations and sales channel optimization initiatives; bringing new products to market, and developing change management and learning and development strategies.

Duane Dick

Job Titles:
  • Founding Partner
  • Advisor to the Board
Duane is a Founding Partner of Sand Cherry Associates and now serves as an Advisor to the Board. Previously, in addition to leading Sand Cherry, Duane helped clients create effective sales and marketing solutions. Duane also held executive director roles in market and strategic analysis at AT&T, MediaOne and for the United States Air Force.

Edric Starbird - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
Edric leverages deep cross-functional executive experience to ensure that all Sand Cherry engagements deliver tractionable, real-world impact with our clients. In addition to guiding the coordinated efforts of the business as Partner, he is the Managing Director of Sand Cherry's Data Insights/Data Integrity consulting services, helping clients tackle the daunting challenges of capitalizing on their data in order to incorporate the key intelligence they need to manage and drive their businesses forward.

Joe Seiberlich

Job Titles:
  • Practice Leader, Sand Cherry Health
Founder of The Valde Group. An executive with proven success in helping healthcare and life sciences organizations design, build and implement solutions involving strategy, business process and technology. Extensive experience in collaborating with technical and cross-functional teams to execute strategic objectives.

John Calhoon - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
  • Partner
"Our clients know that our teams own responsibility for outcomes. We're not here to turn a screw or punch a clock and then move on. It's about driving real results." John has more than two decades' experience driving strategic and business growth initiatives for leading companies across the telecom, media, broadband and consumer services industries. His experience and expertise span competitive market strategy, product and marketing leadership, customer experience optimization and business performance solutions. John is a Partner at Sand Cherry and Managing Director of Sand Cherry Business Solutions consulting group.

Lisa Boland

Job Titles:
  • Advisor to the Board
Lisa is a retired Partner who managed the Operations Practice Area of Sand Cherry Associates and now serves as an Advisor to the Board. She is a senior operations executive with over 30 years of cable industry operations, sales and marketing, and general management experience.

Megan McCourt Merk - VP

Job Titles:
  • Vice President
Megan has 15+ years of experience in cross functional program management and analytics. Provides thought leadership and execution support for product rollouts and strategic transformations driving market growth and enhanced customer experiences. Reporting to executive management, Megan has led large-scale teams across product, technology, and operations.

Robert Wharton - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
Robert has 25 years of marketing, sales and competitive strategy experience spanning the wireless, telecom, broadband and new media verticals. His more recent work at Sand Cherry has centered on building digital and omni-channel marketing, sales and care capabilities to enable clients to compete effectively in the evolving digital ecosystem. Robert is a Founding Partner of Sand Cherry.

Sam Howe

Job Titles:
  • Advisor to the Board
Sam serves as an Advisor to the Board, bringing 30 years experience building substantial growth engines in cable and digital media. Previously, he served as the CEO of Allconnect, CMO at Time Warner Cable, and held roles at Cox Communications, TeleWest (now Liberty Global) and Turner Broadcasting Systems. He is a past Chairman of CTAM, a Vanguard Award winner from the NCTA, and a Cable Pioneers inductee.

Tiffany Debolt

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director
Tiffany has over 20 years leading teams and personally delivering mission-critical initiatives within the telecommunications, broadband, real estate, and healthcare verticals. Her expertise includes product management, process optimization, program management, and strategy management. Her experience includes the launch of Fortune 50 products, the deployment of multi-million dollar technologies, and the development and transformation of PMOs. She is passionate about leading change and driving results.