John W. Stempeck
John Brzezenski
William A. Morrison
Craig Lentz
Ray W. McClure
Bill Ebeling
Brian Stempeck
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JOHN W. STEMPECK
Phone: 617-571-0369
Email: john@avalonassociates.com
Mr. Stempeck is the founder of Avalon Associates, LLC. He has provided a broad range of professional services, including strategy development, product and business development, and merger and acquisition services. Mr. Stempeck spent 10 years as Director at Braxton Associates (now Deloitte Consulting), Partner at EDS Management Consulting, and Vice President at Xerox Corporation. Mr. Stempeck worked in product design at Polaroid Corporation (seven patents) after his BSEE from MIT and MBA from Boston University.
JOHN BRZEZENSKI
Phone: 781-608-3977
Email: johnb@avalonassociates.com
Mr. Brzezenski has a broad-based background in consulting (Arthur D. Little), operating management and private equity with an emphasis on company formation and growth. Mr. Brzezenski’s experience has spanned all stages of a company lifecycle and all aspects of business planning, strategy development, business development, marketing strategy/execution and acquisitions/financing. Industry experience includes many areas within the high-technology industry (enterprise software, communications, and semiconductor applications), medical and health-related products/services, energy, chemicals and other process industries. John has an undergraduate degree from Harvard and an MBA from Kellogg.
WILLIAM A. MORRISON
Phone: 415-296-0960
Email: bill@avalonassociates.com
Mr. Morrison specializes in strategy and shareholder value. He has extensive experience with the consulting firms of Marakon Associates (shareholder value), Braxton Associates (strategy), Bain & Company (strategy), and Ernst & Ernst (operations), following six years with ITT Avionics and Martin Marietta. He did strategic planning at Gulf Oil for two years and has consulted in over 20 industries, including manufacturing, high-tech, marketing, service, and natural resources. Bill is a graduate of Columbia University.
CRAIG LENTZ
Phone: 617-233-5748
Email: craig@avalonassociates.com
Mr. Lentz’s clients are involved in the oilfield services, power, process, or the major segments of the engineering & construction industry. Assignments are typically at the senior management or board level, where knowledge regarding the clients’ core and niche market segments is important. From 1971 to 1979, Mr. Lentz was a staff member at Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts. The following five years he was a co-owner of Braxton Associates, an international strategy consulting firm with offices in Boston, London, and Houston. Mr. Lentz is a graduate of Penn State University with an honors degree in Engineering, and he holds an MBA from the Sloan School at MIT.
RAY W. MCCLURE
Phone: 585-474-7175
Email: ray@avalonassociates.com
Ray has a general management background in marketing, business development and strategy in a broad range of industries, including food, chemicals, plastics, and electronics industries. He has worked extensively in new product development, branding, marketing research and innovation with companies and brands such as Pillsbury, Green Giant, Nabisco, Birds Eye, Exxon Mobil, Hefty, Xerox, Dentsply International, Cavitron, Qualitrol and Danaher. Mr. McClure holds a B.S. in logistics from Penn State and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has executive management training from Cornell University and the University of Chicago.
BILL EBELING
Phone: 617-908-3586
Email: william@avalonassociates.com
Mr. Ebeling has over 30 years of experience in strategy development. As a founder of Braxton Associates, Bain’s first spin-out, Bill helped develop the firm into a premier strategy consulting firm that was sold to Deloitte in 1984. He focuses on growth strategies for technology-intensive firms such as Corning where he worked for roughly 10 years. Bill has an SB and SM (now MBA) in Management from MIT.
BRIAN STEMPECK
Email: brian@avalonassociates.com
Mr. Stempeck specializes in marketing strategy, and spent several years working at Bain & Company, where he advised clients in pharma, retail, transportation and other industries. Brian also worked in Bain’s private equity practice, conducting due diligence on behalf of the world’s largest PE funds and leading turnaround projects within portfolio companies. Brian also has extensive experience in online marketing and advertising technology, working for top publishers and advertisers, along with leading startup companies. Mr. Stempeck graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia and received his MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
