PAC CONSULTING - Key Persons
A native of Bulgaria, Dragan has worked in investment banking since his graduation from Pomona College. While at Lazard, he has participated in a number of mergers & acquisitions and restructuring assignments for clients including Microsoft, SBC Communications and others. Dragan currently focuses on the enterprise software, IT services, telecommunications/ broadband sectors, and has also completed transactions in networking equipment (including the sale of VPN technology vendor Compatible Systems to Cisco).
Kent Fisher is a Vice President at Boeing where he has responsibility for the firm's understanding of the future of commercial aviation - where demand for commercial aircraft and services will come from, what business models, trends and political factors will be most important, and ultimately where and how passengers and freight of the future will want to move. His team's analyses serve as the basis for forming of Boeing strategy, product decisions, marketing communication, and sales tactics. He took this position in June 2002. Prior to this, Kent directed the programs of Boeing's Air Traffic Management unit, with broad responsibility for leading the company's efforts in developing effective, affordable solutions to increase global air traffic capacity. Kent previously served as director, Commercial Airplane Group Sales where he managed several high-visibility accounts, including American Airlines, Atlas Air, WestJet and Midway Airlines. From 1996 to 1998, he was responsible for assisting Commercial Airplanes customers with their financing needs as a director in Customer Financing. Before joining Boeing, Kent held various positions at Price Waterhouse, in its litigation and bankruptcy-consulting group in Los Angeles and Seattle. Kent has a bachelor's degree in economics from Pomona College and a master's degree in business administration from the UCLA.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Associate at DCM
Peter is an Associate at DCM focused on enterprise applications and wireless software companies. DCM is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in the communications, networking, wireless, software and storage systems sectors. Prior to joining DCM, Peter worked as an Associate for Epoch Partners which was sold to Goldman, Sachs in 2001. Before Epoch, Peter worked for Merrill Lynch in London as an investment banking analyst in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals group. He began his career with the Merrill Lynch in Los Angeles working with technology and healthcare companies on both M&A and convertible financing transactions. He majored in economics at Pomona College and graduated in the class of 1997.
Job Titles:
- Analyst
- Analyst for Barrington Associates
Since completing his B.A. in economics at Pomona College, Phil has worked as an analyst for Barrington Associates, a premier M&A investment bank located in Los Angeles. As this position, Phil supports ongoing transactions by conducting industry research, preparing financial models, writing portions of investment memoranda and performing other analytical work to assist transaction teams. Analysts work directly with senior firm members and clients throughout an engagement. Phil's experience includes the sale of WARCO, a rubber manufacturer, to a private investment group as well as the sale of Keystone RV to Thor Industries in a $150 million transaction that created the largest manufacturer of travel trailers and fifth wheels in the country.
Job Titles:
- Director of Finance
- Director of Finance at Pay
Susan V. Helfrey is Director of Finance at PayCycle, Inc. in Palo Alto, California. PayCycle is a leading provider of web-based payroll services for small businesses. PayCycle started in 1999 with the vision of using the Internet to provide an easy and low cost way for small businesses employers to handle their payroll. At PayCycle, Susie is responsible for all finance functions: planning, analysis, cash management, and accounting. Prior to joining PayCycle in 2002, Susie worked as VP Operations for NextMonet, a direct marketer of fine art, where she was in charge of all customer service and framing operations. Before NextMonet, she worked with IBM in supply-chain logistics and finance. Prior to IBM, she worked in the treasury department of Exxon Corporation and in economic research for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Susie graduated from Pomona College in 1992 with a concentration in economics and she holds an MBA from Stanford University.
Following graduation from Pomona in economics, Tim worked with McKinsey & Company as a business analyst in their Los Angeles office. He then earned his MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and returned to McKinsey in San Francisco for two more years as an associate. While at McKinsey, Tim worked on strategy projects in the sectors of financial services, technology, healthcare, and not-for-profit. After leaving McKinsey in mid-2001, Tim joined Charles Schwab to manage strategy and operations projects impacting their retail brokerage business, including 400 investment centers. Projects so far have included redesigning the incentive compensation structure for 1500 retail brokers, analyzing "best practices" for referrals of retail clients to third-party financial advisors, and redesigning aspects of Schwab's mass-affluent client segment offer.
After graduating from Pomona in 1998, Victor spent two years as a business analyst at McKinsey & Company. His projects involved different functions including corporate strategy, mergers & acquisitions, and private equity due diligence. The different sectors he worked in included software, entertainment, retail, and private equity. Before McKinsey and following McKinsey, Victor spent time in Asia as: an intern with a Pomona alumnus, Bernard Chan in Hong Kong; a Rotary Ambassador in Taiwan; and as a backpacker in Southeast Asia. This fall he starts up at Merrill Lynch in its investment banking division as an analyst in the firm's Westwood, California office.