Jonathan Kendall
Mr. Kendall’s experience delves deep into the convergence of physical, electronic, and cyberspace resources to support and protect business. He has direct experience in risk analysis, IPO’s as one of his businesses was traded on NASDAQ, start-up funding, investment preparation and entrepreneurial issues. To support his management analysis and advice, he has created an infrastructure to assess business risk by applying a structured, scientific methodology to the evaluation, research, examination, execution and conclusion. He has been a professional consultant and educator for over 25 years focused on technology, risk and management issues. He has 20+ years of client-focused planning, design and integration experience in professional services consultancies engaged in projects as diverse as the campus-wide converged IT, building design, and project management at the famous National Defense University in Washington, DC to the US$500 million UM Medical Systems hospital, emergency response 911 headquarters, and the schools of nursing and medicine in urban Baltimore, Maryland USA. International projects outside of Brazil and USA include South Korea, Canada and the Middle East.
David Young
Mr. Young has over 40+ years of business, network and computer experience. He worked for IBM as an executive and as a senior consultant, giving him business management as well as computer systems knowledge. He was a senior-certified consulting engineer, consulting with banks (e.g. Banco do Brazil) and manufacturing companies specializing in systems and security management. He was product marketing executive with worldwide responsibility for designing and building solutions for systems and security management as well as automation and monitoring. He was responsible for corporate product strategy for many years, doing in-depth market, customer and financial viability analysis. As the marketing and finance executive for South America, he consulted on finance and marketing plans. In addition, he managed a team that monitored the financial spending and return on investments for marketing dollars. This experience positions him to provide senior consulting in the world of business management including financial analysis, on-going business operations, cyber and electronic security in Latin America.
Hakan Olsson
Mr. Olsson has many years of hands-on, practical business management experience in Europe and Brazil. Mr. Olsson is a start-up expert and with his 15+ years as a successful entrepreneur in his Brazilian companies, it has given him a unique understanding of the risks of living and doing business in Brazil. As a professional executive consultant, he possesses unique and real-world business management skills within a Brazilian context relating to foreign companies and investors. He is uniquely qualified to deal with the required interface to the Brazilian agencies, culture and norms regarding company creation and structural issues. These include building and protecting a business, risk mitigation issues, employee problem and management consulting, benefit and retention recommendations, loss prevention, crisis mitigation, and the critical quality, security, safety and health related issues. He processes the invaluable, direct contacts with the movers and shakers of the fast-pace Brazilian growth machine.
