GARDANT GLOBAL - Key Persons
Charles is expert at building teams using lean techniques for continuous improvement. Recognized as a highly skilled leader in the community with effective relationship building, vision, and operational savvy. Highly visible member of several boards, holding positions as President, Treasurer and Committee Member. A passionate, high-energy, hands-on business and technology leader with a proven track record of managing change and building enterprise value in small, medium, and large global businesses. Charles has experience managing all functional areas of the company (Sales, Operations, Accounting/Finance, Human Resources, Public Relations, Client Services).
Job Titles:
- GWAC Compliance Administrator
Job Titles:
- Manager - Proposal Development and Compliance
Mr. Karch is a pioneering business executive with an established reputation for inventive solutions and distinguishable approaches to achieving both internal corporate and client organizational goals. Mr. Karch is an entrepreneurially driven and internationally savvy executive, who has defined, launched and managed global business expansion strategies. As a classically trained network/computer engineer, Mr. Karch is recognized leader in distinctive and cost-effective technology solutions for US government and commercial organizations. Mr. Karch serves as President/CEO of a industry leading boutique consulting organization with expertise in business development, market strategy, mergers and acquisitions and technology assessment and review.
Mr. Karch has led international contract strategy, winning technology architecture and solution sales that have exceeded over $6 billion in Life Cycle Value with deployments in over 50+ countries, on 6 continents.
His focused specialization includes solutions for citizen services, information security, network management, imaging and knowledge management, staffing and management process and operational logistics. He has managed as Vice President of Business Development, Sales and Marketing of Information Technology services for multiple divisions of L-3 Communications Inc. in the areas of Homeland Security, GWAC programs and state and local. Mr. Karch has also created, managed and directed sales, operations, and marketing for leading networking, outsourcing, Call Center/CRM and technology services companies.
Mr. Karch accomplishments also include positions of Former International Vice President and GM (UK based) of a leading neural network content-based retrieval software corporation; Chief Operating Officer of a leading hosted Application Service Provider focused on delivery of Software as a Service with ERP, CRM and HRIS systems in a hosted environment.
Additionally, Mr. Karch is a featured speaker and writer and has been interviewed by Lou Dobbs, CNN Money Line with representative segments including "After Y2K, Personnel, Opportunity and the Future." -; Featured Articles in Washington Post, Washington Technology, Federal Computer Week, London Daily Telegraph, The Independent (London) and numerous other publications and is currently a member of the COMPTIA Public Policy Committee, the Everything Channel Advisory Board, the Armed Forces Communications Electronics Association (AFCEA) and the Government Affairs Chairman for the American Teleservices Association (ATA).
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer
- President
President Susan Karch is the President and Chief Operating Officer of GARDANT GLOBAL, a leading provider of strategic management consulting services to corporations, governments, and not-for-profits around the globe. Susan is responsible for the firm's strategy, team,operations, and fulfilling the firm's mission to deliver the best client results in the management consulting industry. As a member of GARDANT'sboard of directors, Susan leads efforts to set the firm's business goals and growth strategy, build value, and identify emerging trends that will affect clients.
Based in GARDANT GLOBAL's corporate headquarters in Florida, Susan has a long and successful record of helping clients with strategy and management challenges. She has particular depth working with clients across the technology and healthcare industries, particularly where these industries intersect with financial performance, but draws upon a variety of cross-industry experience as well.
During her tenure at GARDANT, Susan has assisted clients in all areas of corporate and business unit strategy development and implementation including market analysis and penetration, business development, capture services, performance improvement, andrevenuegrowth.
Prior to joining GARDANT, Susan was a Director at Ernst & Young LLP.Susan studied accounting (B.S.), literature (PhD), and law (J.D.) at the University of Miamiand graduated with highest honors.
Tom's last 25 years have been spent working in and around the Washington Beltway. He has worked for a few different integrators ranging from large, like L3 Communications, to smaller and medium-sized organizations. During these years he focused on Business Development, Program and Project Management, Joint Venture management, Chief Operations Officer for one of the firms where he spent 10+ years, as well as direct sales, proposal and capture management. Tom has also been very active with TQM practices in the 90's and ISO 9001 requirements in the past 15-years including his time with GARDANT.
Tom began his Information Technology career at NASA, at Langley Air Force Base, in 1969. He spent 30 years with Control Data Corporation in positions ranging from a technical support engineer to manufacturing engineer, which resulted in him traveling to all parts of the world when new systems were shipped to new clients, and to Canada as general manager after a divestiture from CDC. His travels also took him to multiple and extended projects in Switzerland, to Sweden, and shorter projects in Ghana and Mozambique.
Tom has two years of undergraduate studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta and augmented his studies by attending the Bell Atlantic sponsored Executive Leadership program at the Wharton School in the late 90s. With DC as his home base, Tom enjoyed 8 years on the Board of Directors of the Greater Washington Area Chapter of the American Red Cross and is very active with the Knights of Columbus. He and his wife Anne enjoy their travels, their three children, four grandchildren and their time at the beach.