APPLIED VALUE GROUP - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Senior Manager / New York
- Senior Manager at Applied Value ConsulAng 's New York
Alex Curiel is a Senior Manager at Applied Value ConsulAng's New York office. He has been with the firm since 2015.
Alex specializes in Raw Material Sourcing, Supply Chain OptimizaAon, Manufacturing Footprint, VA/VE and Sustainability Strategies. He has extensive experience leading ROI-focused projects for management teams at prominent companies in the Automotive OEM & Tier 1, White Goods, Renewable Energy, Elevators & Escalators and Construction industries across North America and Europe.
In addition to responsibility for delivering consulting projects, Alex also leads Sourcing Value, one of Applied Value Group's latest investment companies. Sourcing Value is the next generation of purchasing software, designed to facilitate strategy execution and drive savings for the unique requirements of all Raw Materials.
Alex speaks business proficient Spanish and holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.
Job Titles:
- President - North America
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Executive Chairman
- Founder
- Group Executive
- Senior Partner
- Founders
Bruce is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the Applied Value Group - a group of 20+ companies fully or significantly controlled in North America, Europe and China. Industries represented are Management Consulting, Technology, Media, Telecoms, Renewable Energy, Biotech, Medical Products, Construction Materials and Products, Mining, Food & Beverage, Real Estate and MicroFinance/MicroEntrepreneurship. Bruce was previously the President of Arthur D. Little North America (1995-97) and has been on a dozen public boards in Europe and the US, incl Chairman of Tele2 - the European telecom carrier.
Experience
Executive Chairman
Today, Applied Value carries out our founders' vision as a fully independent boutique management consultancy, investment, and social impact firm. Operating out of offices around the world, we offer clients the global perspective of an international firm coupled with the tailored, value-oriented approach that makes up our DNA.
Our clients include the world's largest and most innovative companies and span a wide variety of industries from Automotive and Industrials to Telecommunications and Technology. Across industries and specialties, we target core business issues and engage clients with an unbiased, action-oriented approach.
Job Titles:
- CEO / Division
- CEO of Division 5
Bryan Hill is the CEO of Division 5, the structural steel fabricator he co-founded with CFO Rhonda Wylie in 2001. Division 5 is one of the largest steel fabricators in the country focused primarily on the distribution center construction market.
Bryan has been in the structural steel industry since the 1980s, when he worked for his father's steel erection company. Growing up in the steel erection business, Hill saw firsthand how expensive miscommunication could be, prompting the founding of Division 5.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director / Associate Partner / Shanghai
- Managing Director of Applied Value Consulting
Jason Yang is the Managing Director of Applied Value Consulting's operations in China. He joined Applied Value Shanghai office in 2007, since then he served 50+ multinational corporations in China and Asia.
Jason's areas of expertise include corporate development strategy, supply chain management, sourcing strategy, VA/VE, and production footprint optimization. He led engagements in Automotive, Industrial Goods, White Goods, Healthcare Equipment, Logistics, and TMT industries. He co-authors several of Applied Value's industry and macro reports with a focus on supply chain in Asia.
Jason holds a Master's degree in Finance and Financial Law from the Centre for Financial and Management Studies at University of London.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- President and Chief Executive Officer at RiverMeadow Software
Jim Jordan is currently President and Chief Executive Officer at RiverMeadow Software and is an active board member and angel investor. Jim has extensive operational and financial experience in software, professional services, manufacturing, mergers and acquisitions and IPO's. Jim has served as CFO to more than 20 companies over the past 15 years, successfully raised more than $600m in debt and equity and completed more than 30 acquisitions.
Jim began his career at Coopers and Lybrand where he specialized in IPO's and Mergers and Acquisitions. Jim attended Boston College and is a US Army Veteran.
Job Titles:
- Associate Partner / Stockholm
- Associate Partner at Applied Value Consulting
- Managing Director / Associate Partner / Stockholm
Johan Lindqvist is Associate Partner at Applied Value Consulting and has been with the firm for more than 20 years. During this time, he also worked in the London office.
Johan is the global practice lead of Telecommunications and Pulp & Paper and has a strong record of advising board of directors and C-suites in multiple major cost transformations. His areas of expertise include Organizational Design & Dimensioning, Operational Excellence, and Cost & Capital Efficiency. The board of a Swedish Pulp & Paper company assigned Johan to be responsible for a two-year program resulting in radical cost and capital reductions.
He has managed multinational teams for clients across Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa, Russia, South America, and North America. During his extensive career at AV, he has been managing 50+ organizational efficiency projects across industries including Telecommunications, Industrial Manufacturing, Pulp & Paper, and Construction & Mining. He has deep experience from managing turnaround programs and organizational re-design and rightsizing projects. His most memorable projects include a one and a half years organizational re-design and rightsizing project covering 130 countries and a six month turnaround program of a world leading renewable energy companies resulting in a 30% reduction of the fixed cost base.
Johan holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology and a Master of Science in Business Administration from Gothenburg School of Economics.
Job Titles:
- Senior Manager / Miami
- Senior Manager at Applied Value Consulting 's Miami
Justin Leopold is a Senior Manager at Applied Value Consulting's Miami office. He has been with the firm since 2013.
Justin leads Applied Value's Sourcing, Supply Chain and Raw Materials practices globally. He is a Co-Editor of Applied Value's Quarterly Steel Industry Report, which is read by thousands of industry professionals in steel-consuming industries all over the world. Justin is a trusted advisor to many Fortune 500 clients, and has worked extensively all over the world across a variety of industries including, Auto/CVs, Construction, Industrials, White Goods, Consumer Electronics, Tech, Telecom, and Services - focusing on high ROI projects with a clear business case.
Justin has spearheaded a variety of engagements across multiple different areas including Risk, VA/VE, Category Strategy Execution, Digitalization, Aftermarket Strategy, Footprint Optimization, Raw Material Negotiations, Indirect, Inventory Mgmt., Logistics, and Nearshoring. Justin most recently executed a Supplier Readiness initiative with Schneider Electric to proactively identify & act on supply chain risk that won "Supply Chain Initiative of the Year" at the 2022 World Procurement Awards.
Justin holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a specialization in Strategy & Management Consulting from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.
Job Titles:
- Senior Manager / Stockholm
- Senior Manager at Applied Value Consulting 's Stockholm
Leo Yang is a Senior Manager at Applied Value Consulting's Stockholm office. Previously, he worked at Applied Value Consulting's Shanghai office and has also been heavily involved in project delivery in the US.
Leo has worked on engagements in North America, Europe, and China within Automotive, Consumer Electronics, White Goods, Medical Devices, Construction Equipment, and other manufacturing industries. His areas of expertise include Business Strategy, Sourcing Strategy & Execution, Supply Chain Management, Process Optimization, and Commercial/Operational Due Diligence.
He holds a Master's degree in Turbomachinery and Aeromechanics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Partner
- Associate Partner / New York
Magnus Oppenheimer is an Associate Partner at Applied Value Consulting's New York office. He started his Applied Value career at the Stockholm office before moving to the US.
Magnus has worked on engagements in North America, Europe and China within Automotive, Consumer Electronics, White Goods, Renewables, Construction Equipment, and other manufacturing industries. His areas of expertise include business strategy, sourcing and supply chain management, footprint optimization, working capital, pricing, and organizational efficiency.
Prior to joining Applied Value, Magnus worked at Michelin as Pricing Manager. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN.
Job Titles:
- CEO / Cosmos ID
- CEO at CosmosID, Inc
Manoj Dadlani serves as CEO at CosmosID, Inc., a genomic big data company focused on the rapid identification of microorganisms for infectious disease diagnostics, public health surveillance, food safety monitoring, pharmaceutical discovery, and microbiome analysis for health and wellness. Previously, Manoj worked as a partner at Applied Value Consulting and was co-founder and CEO at Rasa Industries, Ltd., a leading beverage manufacturing company in northern Nigeria. He has substantial experience in strategy, M&A, supply chain management, product development, marketing and business development.
At Applied Value, he led the US business in management consulting, advising Fortune 500 companies in revenue growth, cost reduction and lean management. At CosmosID, Manoj has led the company to commercialize current products and develop new products in microbial identification and characterization space. He has a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Biological Engineering from Cornell University.
Marcus Nyman, an experienced Senior Vice President with a demonstrated history of working in the automotive environment in Sweden and internationally. Strong leadership with analytical and hands-on management with continuous improvements through an encouraged, motivated and focused Team.
Before joining AVG & Applied Warehouses, Marcus had several executive positions at IAC Group focusing on Sales and Operational Management.
Job Titles:
- Director of Social Investments
Martine, a human rights lawyer by profession with a specialization in Human rights and Humanitarian law, has an extensive background in working with humanitarian causes. She comes most recently from a position as the Ambassador to the UNSC Bid, within the Government of Malta. Prior to that, she was appointed as the Commissioner for Refugees where she headed the agency responsible for determining the protection claims raised by asylum seekers in Malta, as well as provided policy direction to Government on asylum law and policies, when needed. In 2014, Martine headed the International Organization of Migration Country Office in her home country Malta where she was responsible for overseeing and implementing a number of projects in the fields of integration, counter-trafficking, return and resettlement to the US.
Given her background, Martine will channel her expertise into widening the scope of CSR within the AV group to also extend to the fields of integration of third country nationals. Her immediate focus will be to launch a pilot project with newly arrived Swedes to accelerate their integration into the Swedish job market through skills training.
Martine will be based out of our Stockholm office but will work globally across the AV Group.
Job Titles:
- Associate Partner of Applied Value Consulting
- Lead Director of Division 5
Max Sultan is an Associate Partner of Applied Value Consulting and Managing Director of the Miami office. He has been with the firm since 2013.
Max has led consulting engagements across industries and functional areas. He is trusted by leading management teams on issues including Sourcing & Supply Chain, Product Design & Innovation, Commercial Excellence, and Strategy. Max also has deep experience within Mergers and Acquisitions and is a lead of Applied Value's M&A consulting practice catering primarily to Private Equity clients.
Max has performed work in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and, as a native Spanish speaker, has also worked throughout South America. Max has worked with leading global clients within Telecom, Automotive, Business Services, Logistics, Consumer Electronics, Renewable Energy, Niche Manufacturing and Consumer Goods.
In addition to his broad consulting experience, Max is the Lead Director of Division 5, one of Applied Value Group's control investments.
Max holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a specialization in Finance from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director / Associate Partner / Miami
Max Sultan is an Associate Partner of Applied Value Consulting and Managing Director of the Miami office. He has been with the firm since 2013.
Max has led consulting engagements across industries and functional areas. He is trusted by leading management teams on issues including Sourcing & Supply Chain, Product Design & Innovation, Commercial Excellence, and Strategy. Max also has deep experience within Mergers and Acquisitions and is a lead of Applied Value's M&A consulting practice catering primarily to Private Equity clients.
Max has performed work in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and, as a native Spanish speaker, has also worked throughout South America. Max has worked with leading global clients within Telecom, Automotive, Business Services, Logistics, Consumer Electronics, Renewable Energy, Niche Manufacturing and Consumer Goods.
In addition to his broad consulting experience, Max is the Lead Director of Division 5, one of Applied Value Group's control investments.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Chairman
- CEO / Applied Industries Holding
- CEO / Applied Industries Holding AB
Moses Isik is the Chairman of Söderfors Steel and CEO of Bake My Day and its subsidiaries.
Moses started his career as a Management Consultant back in 2008 at about the same time as the Lehman Crash event. He spent his first year traveling to Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa working on the major cost efficiency program of a global Telecommunications OEM. He then became a consultant to the board of a newly acquired manufacturing company, Robust AB, which constituted three businesses. In April 2010 he became the CEO for one of the businesses and in 2011 for the whole Robust Group. Moses became a hands-on lean expert and led a very swift and successful turnaround of the Group followed by an even more successful exit.
The proceeds from the turnaround became the basis for future investments and the same Group today is renamed Applied Industries Holding (former Robust AB) and it owns majority and minority stakes in several of the companies within Applied Value Group. Moses has continued to serve as a turnaround expert and hands-on manages through the entire life cycle from Acquisitions - Operational improvement - Exit with Söderfors Steel and Bake My Day as the latest examples.
He holds a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Business Management from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and a Bachelor of Science with a major in Business Administration from Stockholm University.
Job Titles:
- Associate Partner of Applied Value Consulting
- Managing Director / Associate Partner / New York
Philip Nordenström is Associate Partner of Applied Value Consulting and Managing Director of the Stockholm office. Previously, he was Managing Director at Applied Value Consulting's Shanghai office and has also been part of the New York leadership for several years.
Philip is the global practice lead for Healthcare and has worked on assignments for Applied Value in Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia Pacific. His areas of expertise include organizational efficiency, turnaround management, direct and indirect procurement, supply chain management and manufacturing excellence. He has, apart from multiple healthcare projects, led engagements in Private Equity, Telecom, Consumer Electronics, Automotive, Defense, White Goods and Manufacturing industries.
He holds a Master's degree in Economics and Business from Stockholm School of Economics with a Major in Finance.
Job Titles:
- Fellow of the Forte Foundation for Female Business Leaders
- Managing Director / Applied Value Group Turkey
- Managing Director of Applied Value Group Turkey
Reyhan Baylan is the Managing Director of Applied Value Group Turkey. She has an international background with previous work experiences from Lehman Brothers in New York as well as various management positions in Istanbul, Turkey. Her experiences include managing the alternative investment fund of Garanti Bank, starting the e-commerce operations the largest retail group, developing a marketplace for the Otto Group and serving as the Assistant General Manager for multiple other international companies in Turkey. She has also started her own entrepreneurial venture StilSOS which was funded by Galata Business Angels (GBA) and awarded "The Most Promising Deal" by EBAN (European Business Angels Network).
Reyhan is a Fellow of the Forte Foundation for Female Business Leaders, and an ambassador to Columbia Business School where she received her MBA. She also holds a BSc. in Applied Mathematics and a BA in Economics from Johns Hopkins University. She is also a start-up mentor and an education/career consultant.
With more than 25 years of experience in accounting and finance, Rob has been Applied Value's Chief Financial Officer since 2005.
Rob has led the firm through over 15 years of transformative growth in the consultancy as well as the investments and social impact practices. Beyond his role as CFO, Rob also works pro bono as Treasurer of Friends of Hand in Hand International as well as Director & Treasurer of The Wenham House.
When he's not at his home outside of Boston, Rob enjoys researching his Italian ancestry and spending time at his Maine log cabin with his wife Julie and their four children. Rob holds a B.S. in Accounting from Merrimack College and a Master of Business Administration from Southern New Hampshire University.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- CEO / Applied Value Consulting
- Consulting CEO / Partner / New York
Ryan Huff is the CEO of Applied Value Group's consulting practice and has been with the firm for over 12 years. Previously, Ryan served as a Partner and the Managing Director of US Business at Applied Value. Throughout his tenure at the firm, Ryan has lead multi-national engagements for clients in a variety of industries ranging from automotive, oil & gas, and industrials to consumer electronics, white goods, and food & beverage. He has worked across nearly all of the firm's service areas in multiple industries and has built over a decade of deep expertise in sourcing, supply chain, operations, innovation efficiency and effectiveness, turnaround management, and general business strategy.
Since the beginning of his time at Applied Value, Ryan has built a track record of results. His work includes co-heading a large turnaround team to shed 40% OPEX for a major mobile handset manufacturer in under one year, optimizing the raw material value chain of an industrial company resulting in over 10% cost reduction, and implementing a portfolio profitability strategy resulting in 40% increase in IRR for a heavy manufacturing company. Today, Ryan draws on his years of expertise to guide Applied Value's consulting practice while acting as a trusted advisor to executives on implementing practical solutions to complex business issues and navigating evolving organizational dynamics.
Beyond the consulting practice, Ryan sits on the board of Division 5, one of Applied Value's control investments, and was previously a board member at Nordic Iron Ore, a former investment of Applied Value. He holds a Bachelor's of Business Administration from Goizueta Business School at Emory University. A New Yorker by birth and in spirit, Ryan lives in his Brooklyn with his wife Mila and enjoys cooking and wine and following NY sports.
Job Titles:
- Project Manager
- Senior Manager
- Senior Manager / Stockholm
Victoria Falck is a Senior Manager at Applied Value Consulting's Stockholm office.
Victoria is an experienced project manager with a track record of leading large efficiency programs across a variety of industries, with focus on the Pulp & Paper Industry. Her areas of expertise include Order-to-Delivery, Commercial Excellence, Operational Excellence, and various long-term strategic projects. Prior to joining Applied Value, Mrs. Falck worked at KPMG focusing on strategic sales management and management consulting.
Victoria holds a M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management, with specialization in financial engineering and mechanical engineering, from Linköping University.