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About our team:
Paula Morgan has over 25 years in health care sales, marketing and strategy, with a diverse experience in both products and services. She started her career as a licensed physical therapist working in private practice, hospital, and home care. Paula held both line and staff positions during her 22 year tenure at Schering-Plough, including Director, Oncology/Biotech Sales, Vice President, Sales and Marketing Operations, Vice President, Sales during the company’s successful launch of Claritin, and later Vice President, Managed Care Sales and Customer Market Development. In 2002, Paula assumed the position of Senior Vice President, Global Business Development for the Ingenix CRO (now i3 Research), a division of UnitedHealth Group. Upon leaving there in 2005, she founded Morgan Consulting LLC, and began working with Aveus in 2007.
Paula is a member of the advisory board to the Women’s Business Leaders in Healthcare, has served as a mentor in the Virtual 100 program of Menttium Corporation, and was a former member of the Board of Directors of Synergy Bank. She holds a BS degree from East Carolina University, in Greenville, North Carolina (yes, she still has a great accent). Most any chance she gets you’ll find Paula on a tennis court, or on a train from her Westfield, NJ home into New York City to see an indie movie or new Broadway play.
Mike Stafford brings over 25 years of experience in leadership and organization development to Aveus. He has worked for a variety of Fortune 500 companies, including PepsiCo, i2 Technologies, and Litton Industries. Just before becoming part of Aveus, Mike served as Senior Vice President, Talent Management for Starbucks Coffee Company.
Mike has held a broad range of consulting roles as well, working with leaders at Williams-Sonoma, Motorola, Boeing, Mazda Motors and DreamWorks SKG. Across all, his consistent focus has been on anticipating emerging organizational needs and enhancing each organization’s ability to reach its strategic business objectives. It’s no surprise; Mike brings terrific skills in leadership development, organization design, change management, survey design, executive assessment /selection and executive coaching.
Mike holds a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from New York University, a Master's degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Mike has served on numerous professional and non-profit Boards of Directors including for the Human Resource Planning Society, Leadership Tomorrow and Seattle University’s Center for Leadership Formation. He has also been a member of the adjunct faculty of the Center for Creative Leadership and the graduate school of The University of Redlands.
Adele McLean is an energetic, collaborative leader and change agent with over 20 years of increasing global responsibilities in sales operations, supply chain management and corporate finance. She started her career as a cost accountant at IBM in Research Triangle Park, NC. During her 10 year tenure with IBM, Adele held roles in corporate accounting and finance in San Jose, CA, Singapore, Thailand and China. After leaving IBM, Adele held positions in the CFO, COO, and CMO organizations at Seagate Technology leading the global cost, supply chain metrics, customer service operations, and finally the global pricing and revenue planning functions of the organization. Later, Adele was Vice President of worldwide sales operations for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. Just before joining Aveus, Adele was the vice president of worldwide supply chain finance and restructuring for telecommunications company Avaya.
Adele is serving as a mentor in the Virtual 100 program of Menttium Corporation and has served as a captain in the Los Gatos Relay for Life for several years. She holds a BS in Business Administration and a Masters in Accounting from UNC – Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In her free time, Adele loves to travel, play golf, garden, bake cakes, and tend her orchids.
Nancy Norman has spent the past 20+ years in supply change management and finance leadership roles. Her supply chain experience includes work in the highly regulated industries of health care, medical device manufacturing, and airline transportation. Similarly, her finance background encompasses those industries and banking as well. Nancy also teaches for both Metropolitan State University and Moorhead State University. She is known for her ability to look at the same old problem and develop a new insight or approach to creatively solve it.
Prior to working with Aveus, Nancy has worked for Wells Fargo, Northwest Airlines, Regions Hospital, Accellent, and American Medical Systems. She holds an MBA, an MA in Library Science, and a BA in English – all from the University of Minnesota. Her certifications include CFPIM [APICS], CMA, and CIA. She is past president of the Twin Cities APICS Chapter. Nancy loves to read, garden, snorkel, and kayak. In exchange for golfing with her husband, he takes her ballroom and swing dancing.
Pam Sveinson has been consulting a variety of clients since 1999. Prior to that, having received her Masters in Industrial Relations from the University of Minnesota in 1980, she held executive HR positions with Cowles Media Company/Star Tribune and with First Bank System and has served as a member of the board of directors for several firms. In her consulting role, most of her current work involves individual executive coaching, facilitation of management team sessions and consulting on large scale culture initiatives. Pam purchased and has been subdividing and developing property in her home state of Montana near West Yellowstone, which includes the operation of Kirkwood Resort & Marina.
David Morefield joined Aveus in early 2011, bringing expertise in logistics, sales and financial services. Prior to Aveus, at Fifth Third Private Bank, Dave managed fund transactions and completed estate valuations, then identified and implemented performance chain improvements that cut processing time for the business in half. At Total Quality Logistics, Dave built and managed a freight brokerage portfolio for the emerging growth firm, establishing stable customer relationships in an industry where few exist.
David holds a BA in Economics and a minor in Spanish from DePauw University in Indiana. Why Economics? Dave likes the big picture of markets, industries, and underlying forces for why things move. Ask him about applying metrics to baseball, where he brings that big picture thinking to player stats. We call David our Renaissance man, as his diverse talents have already contributed in performance chain, customer experience and strategy projects for clients, and his diverse interests have broadened the conversation at Aveus.
Kara Hans O’Brien is a marketing research consultant with 16 years of marketing research experience. Prior to becoming an independent consultant in 2002, Kara served marketing agencies by designing and managing quantitative and qualitative research projects and client relationships in a wide variety of industry areas. Kara’s background in research design, project management and analysis brings a key understanding of marketplace issues with actionable results-oriented focus to her projects. Much of her research experience involves work in: market analysis, customer development and growth, new product development, communication strategies, customer satisfaction, and customer segmentation analysis.
With an undergraduate degree in psychology and a MBA in marketing, Kara works to understand behavior what motivates people. Her best “thinking” time is when she’s outside running.
Administration
Nicki Beyioku is our finance manager. She has an MBA in Finance from the University of St Thomas. Born in Nigeria, Nicki has lived for extended periods on three continents and travels extensively, so she considers herself a true citizen of the world. If finance weren’t her calling, she’d love to be a travel writer.
Molly Danielson is the office manager at Aveus, handles our secondary research and the administration for many of our diagnostic projects. Molly has been part of Aveus since 2000. Molly has a B.A. in psychology from St. Olaf College. She loves to spend as much time as she can with her two young sons, but when given the chance, also likes to go to movies and read. When she’s not juggling partner schedules, you might find her juggling beanbags—or any three items she can find. We all say if you need to know anything, ask Molly!
Katie Morrow joined Aveus in 2009 as the marketing / project coordinator. Katie has a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing / Management from the College of St. Catherine. When she is not creating eye catching powerpoint decks and reports, Katie loves to read, bake and spend time with her family.
