OUR LEADERSHIP
Great People Deliver Great Results
When a client hires a consulting firm, they are not just hiring expertise or bandwidth – they are hiring people. We think our people are unique:
- We have a lot of experience… more than 15 years on average!
- 75% of us have “Big 4” experience
- 60% of us have been both Big 4 consultants and clients (pretty unusual, and very useful)
- 60% of us have advanced degrees
- We live full lives. Our ranks include marathon runners, movie extras, road and mountain bike racers, golfers, photographers, proud parents and more.
This means our clients get a well-rounded team of people with deep professional and life experience. People who can apply new thinking to new challenges. In short, people who provide a refreshing approach to business consulting.
Account and Business Development Leaders
Practice and People Leaders
Operations Leaders
Thought Logic Leadership Team
Bryant Griffith
Solution Manager, Business Analytics & Insights
Bryant Griffith, Solution Manager, Business Analytics & Insights for Thought Logic, brings 15+ years of data strategy, advanced analytics, business strategy, program management, information technology, and process automation. In his role, he is responsible for advising clients on data and automation strategy while leading our data teams to deliver high-quality work. Bryant is passionate about helping clients from design to delivery around data-informed solutions and automation. Bryant has a proven track record of producing high-quality results and strategies across various industries, including telecom, hospitality, manufacturing, agricultural & commodities, industrial products, financial services, and managed services.
Prior to joining Thought Logic, Bryant worked for Accenture providing solutions that addressed complex data and analytics challenges for Fortune 500 companies. He has worked on a wide range of projects across the data strategy landscape and leading ERP and E-commerce deployments, large-scale business transformations, and strategy & new business growth development.
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Melinda Battle
Executive Director, HR People + Strategy
Melinda Battle, Executive Director, HR People + Strategy for Thought Logic, brings more than twenty years of Human Resources experience to the firm. Her extensive background as an HR practitioner working for various sized companies, with over a decade of experience in consulting environments, allows her to offer a valuable perspective when partnering with leaders on challenges they face in an increasingly complex business landscape.
Prior to joining Thought Logic, Melinda worked at Ernst & Young for four years. Most recently, Melinda was responsible for various strategic HR initiatives for the Global Tax service line and served as a Strategic Talent Consultant for the Global Law practice. In her role on the Americas Talent Team supporting the Forensics practice, Melinda led Diversity & Inclusiveness initiatives. In this role, she developed and executed on strategies to enhance an inclusive culture to retain and promote women and under-represented minority talent.
Prior to joining EY, Melinda worked for a leading analytic data solutions company for several years. As a HR Business Partner, she led various talent processes and initiatives including change management, performance management, succession planning, and leadership development. She was also actively involved with the Business Resource Groups (BRGs) enhancing career development and promoting workplace equity.
Melinda will serve as our Executive Sponsor for our Diversity & Inclusiveness team and is looking forward to helping Thought Logic continue to grow through deep focus on our people, a culture of belonging, and client satisfaction.
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Maria Connor
Practice Director – People + Change
Thought Logic clients ask for Maria Connor by name. With more than 25 years of industry and consulting experience focused on business transformation, organizational effectiveness, and change management, her expertise and leadership is consistently in high demand. Throughout her career, Maria has partnered with c-suite leaders to achieve their boldest business objectives – by reimagining strategies, target operating models and organizational capabilities, new ways of working and culture, organizational and workforce design and change management. She has delivered measurable results across a variety of industries, including automotive, communications, financial services, hospitality, healthcare and systems, insurance, consumer goods and services.
Prior to joining Thought Logic, Maria worked with Accenture and KPMG Consulting to provide quality solutions that addressed complex, highly visible business challenges for Fortune 500 companies. Maria started her career by transforming healthcare systems – through the improvement of preadmission, insurance verification, patient care protocols, billing, accounts receivables functions – as well as with insurance payors and pharmaceutical companies to improve business models and ensure regulatory compliance. In subsequent industry roles, she created and led business transformation and organizational effectiveness teams to enhance overall business unit capabilities and performance as well as strengthen functional organizations, such as sales, finance, human resources, data and analytics, and technology.
In Maria’s role with Thought Logic, she builds long-lasting, valued relationships that set the consultancy apart from the competition in the marketplace. She is focused on quality delivery of critical business initiatives, developing compelling People & Change solution offerings that drive business results, and enabling consultant engagement and professional growth through mentoring and project opportunities.
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Brian Greene
Capabilities and Solutions Director
Brian Greene is Practice Director – Finance Transformation for Thought Logic consulting. He brings more than 25 years of experience both in industry and in consulting, including 15 years of advisory experience with his work focused in finance strategy and finance operations. He has advised clients on how to improve the overall performance of finance and overseen the execution of global finance transformation designed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Finance through process improvement and operating model alignment. His work has included merger integration, shared services and covered the spectrum of finance processes, from accounts payable to accounting close and budgeting, forecasting and reporting.
Brian began his career in industry and led various FP&A and reporting groups for national and international companies. Most of his experience prior to joining Thought Logic was with the global firms, including IBM, Deloitte and Accenture. In addition, he supported the launch and development of Slalom Consulting’s CFO Advisory practices with a focus on business and practice development. In his role with Thought Logic he is highly focused on designing and delivering actionable plans for his clients.
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Practice Director – Supply Chain & Procurement
Mike is a Practice Director with over 20 years of Supply Chain and Procurement experience. Mike is responsible for the strategy development and deployment of Thought Logic’s offering for supply chain and procurement working alongside our staff and customers to ensure quality of service delivery and customer satisfaction with our client partners.
Mike provides a skillset aligning and providing customer solutions for end to end supply chain and procurement strategies in distribution, manufacturing, and various industries including retail, chemicals, consumer products, financial services, health and life sciences.
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Solution Manager, Finance Transformation
John Philips is a Solution Manager – Finance Transformation for Thought Logic Consulting. He brings more than 20 years of experience in finance management consulting. He has advised companies on finance performance improvement, enterprise cost optimization, risk and controls, technology and service placement. John began his career in the media and entertainment industry where he helped digitize operations for Tribune and Freedom Communications.
Prior to joining Thought Logic, John gained significant experience in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals with Deloitte. At EY, he advised finance leaders on improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the finance function by evaluating people, process and technology levers. He led a significant amount of transformation work including chart of accounts redesign, financial close process, working capital studies, global business services and process automation business cases. John’s focus is on building unique and customized solutions for its clients around the office of the CFO and continuing to develop Thought Logic’s people and delivery capabilities.
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Senior Managing Consultant
Michelle is a Senior Managing Consultant with Thought Logic and is responsible for leading client delivery teams. Michelle is a trusted execution leader with 20 years of management consulting experience. Michelle is passionate about supporting executives to deliver transformational change, working collaboratively across business functions to enable process and systems improvement as well as growth and profitability.
Prior to Thought Logic, Michelle served global Financial Services clients to deliver risk management related advisory and audit services while holding operational roles enhancing internal department staffing, performance management and retention practices during her time as an expat in London. Michelle also served as an enablement lead for a diverse innovation portfolio of emerging services and go-to-market initiatives.
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Client Development Executive
As a Senior Sales Director and Client Development Executive, Braden Barras brings more than 20 years of Fortune 100 & 500 enterprise sales and sales leadership experience to the Thought Logic team. Braden is responsible for emerging & existing customer relationship development for enterprises across multiple industry segments- Manufacturing, Aviation, Insurance, Retail & Hospitality, Consumer Goods, Healthcare, Banking, Insurance, Power & Utilities.
In his previous experience, Braden has worked in Senior Business Development and Leadership roles for other internationally recognized business and technology consultancies with responsibilities for P&L oversight, new and emerging account acquisition, sales team leadership, and alliance management. He is a leader in all aspects of professional services and solution selling, targeted at the C-suite and below.
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Senior Managing Consultant
Iris Sauls is a Senior Managing Consultant with Thought Logic, responsible for crafting and delivering client strategies while building a culture where people can thrive. With more than 20 years of experience across industry and consulting, Iris brings cross-functional expertise to organizations across CPG, retail, energy / utilities, and healthcare industries. Most recently, Iris has partnered with clients to develop and lead digital and data transformation priorities.
Within Thought Logic, Iris has been instrumental in building environments that attract, motivate, and retain amazing talent. Specifically, she helped build the Thought Logic Peer Advisor program, co-led and initiated the Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and established the career progression framework.
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Client Partner
Jay Whittier is a Client Partner in our Project Leadership service area. He brings more than 20 years of industry and management consulting experience to Thought Logic. For most of his career he’s been focused on project delivery across multiple areas of technology – both as a project manager serving industries including Healthcare, Financial Services, and Food Services, as well as leading large-scale programs and establishing PMOs within enterprise level clients. His background on both the industry and consulting side and his pragmatic approach to solving large, complex problems allows him a valuable perspective when helping clients tackle the sizable challenges that come with large organizations. Early in Jay’s career he served in various roles at early-stage software startups where he first experienced the entrepreneurial spirit required to build a company. Prior to joining Thought Logic, Jay worked at McKesson, a Fortune-15 Healthcare organization, in project delivery and account management functions, and most recently he enjoyed a successful 7 year run as an independent consultant leading several multi-year programs at Fortune 500 clients. Jay is developing the Project Leadership practice area at Thought Logic and looking forward to expanding that space in the Atlanta market.
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Richmond Managing Partner
Jeff Deyerle, the Managing Partner for Thought Logic’s Richmond, VA office, brings more than 20 years of consulting and business leadership experience to the firm. Jeff’s career has allowed him to experience consulting from multiple perspectives. Before making the move to Richmond to open Thought Logic’s second office, Jeff led Informatica’s highly technical Professional Services practice in the Northeast U.S., and managed a team of more than 700 consultants as the North America leader for Capgemini’s Business Information Management practice. Additionally, he joined Slalom Consulting to help open their New York market, which grew to more than 200 consultants in its first five years of operation. Today, one of Jeff’s main goals is to help the people of Thought Logic establish the firm as a premier management consultancy.
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Managing Partner and Founder
Keith Roberts is the Managing Partner and founder of Thought Logic Consulting. Keith brings more than 20 years of business consulting and advisory services to the firm and to our clients. He has advised Fortune 500 clients in overall business transformation, merger integration, organizational change and operations management. Prior to starting Thought Logic, Keith started his consulting career working for the original Price Waterhouse/PricewaterhouseCoopers and then IBM Global Business Services via the acquisition of PwC , where he was a Partner in the Media and Entertainment Sector, delivering large scale transformations for clients. In addition, he formed and ran a national finance transformation practice for Slalom Consulting, which had practitioners across seven offices. Keith is focused on creating a culture at Thought Logic that consultants want to call home, one that allows them to focus on true business consulting but still allows them to meet their own personal and professional goals.
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Practice Director – People and Change
Kerri McBride is Practice Director – People and Change for Thought Logic. Kerri brings more than 25 years of private industry and consulting experience to the firm and our clients. After beginning her career in industry, Kerri developed broad capability across the Change Management and Talent Management disciplines. With deep skills in culture alignment and associate engagement, Kerri’s focus is on strategies for organizational transformation. Prior to joining Thought Logic, Kerri led change management, talent management and organizational effectiveness teams in the consulting domain and also as the leader of internal Centers of Excellence. Since joining Thought Logic, Kerri has developed a robust practice of Human Capital and Change Management practitioners working across our client base delivering transformational People strategies that accelerate change and sustain desired outcomes for the long term.
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Capabilities and Engagement Lead
Leigh Papevies, Director of Talent for Thought Logic, brings more than ten years of advisory and management consulting experience to the firm. Before shifting to her role as Director of Talent, Leigh worked on a broad spectrum of projects including compliance initiatives, corporate transformations, and mergers and acquisitions. Her extensive background in audit and accounting allowed her to offer a valuable perspective when advising clients on finance transformation initiatives and business process improvement-based efforts.
Prior to joining Thought Logic, Leigh worked at Ernst & Young within the Assurance and Advisory Practice where she played an integral role on the audit teams for several high-profile Fortune 500 clients. From there, she made the transition to management consulting by joining Keith Roberts’ Finance Transformation Practice at Slalom Consulting where she proved valuable in growing and developing that practice in the Atlanta market.
Leigh was thrilled to join Thought Logic shortly after the company was founded, and she is looking forward to upholding her role as a strong brand ambassador and continuing to connect Thought Logic with the brightest and best consultants in Atlanta.
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Practice Director – Business Analytics & Insights
Matt Beyer is Practice Director – Business Analytics & Insights for Thought Logic and brings more than 20 years of professional services consulting. Matt is a senior level executive and subject matter expert in leveraging data to produce exceptional business value to his clients. Matt has created and developed a Business Analytics practice within three separate firms over the past 15 years. One being for a Boston based firm entering the Atlanta market and another was with an established management consulting firm where he grew the practice by 150%. Matt was also the executive in charge of a newly formed Analytics / BI division of an Atlanta based management consulting firm. Matt was responsible for the ideation, creation and development of the division. The division was responsible for supporting clients, developing delivery capabilities, and enhancing Analytics expertise. The division delivered hundreds of business intelligence and analytics solutions to some of the world’s largest companies. Matt’s focus at Thought Logic will be to assist our clients in uncovering meaningful information and delivering it in the appropriate context in order to help clients improve customer relationships, increase profitability, grow margins and reduce time-to-value.
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Michael MedwedClient Partner
Michael Medwed is a Client Partner with Thought Logic and is responsible for planning leading solutions that bring out the best of the firm’s teams. His focus is on delivering high-quality client service, fueling people growth, and helping to create meaningful work with the firms client base. Michael is an experienced program delivery strategist known for partnering with senior business leaders, across a wide variety of industries and verticals, to drive and help realize his clients’ most critical initiatives.
In previous experience, Michael had a proven track record for delivering on a number of high visibility client engagements across Fortune 500 and middle-market clients within sales and marketing, brand, digital, loyalty, information technology, product and PMO organizations. Michael’s approach is instrumental in establishing, growing and sustaining a significant share of our client relationships.
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Steve EsmondeClient Partner
Steve Esmonde is a Client Partner with Thought Logic and brings more than 10 years of consulting and account leadership experience. He is responsible for building meaningful relationships with our clients, while leading our teams to deliver high-quality work. His focus is on helping his clients solve complex problems, consistently developing and challenging our Thought Logic consultants to grow within the firm, and helping to create a work environment that encourages curiosity and innovation. Steve is an experienced strategy partner known for helping senior business leaders, across a wide variety of industries and verticals, drive and help realize their most critical initiatives.
In previous experience, Steve has a proven track record for delivering on a number of high visibility client engagements across Fortune 500 clients within finance, sales, information technology, product and PMO organizations. Prior to joining Thought Logic, Steve gained deep Finance Transformation expertise at EY, and he continues to help Finance leaders navigate their challenges today while supporting the growth of Thought Logic’s Finance practice. Steve is looking forward to helping Thought Logic continue to grow through deep focus on our people, culture, and client satisfaction.
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Bobby ConnorClient Development Executive
As a Client Development Executive, Bobby Connor brings more than 12 years of Fortune 500 enterprise sales experience to the team. Bobby is responsible for driving new and emerging client partnerships in the Atlanta market. His focus is on building successful client relationships that allow Thought Logic to deliver high-value strategic solutions to its’ clients.
In previous experience, Bobby most recently oversaw sales and operations for multiple markets at an IT services company. He was responsible for full development and execution of successful product strategies, account business plans, revenue growth, and sales team development.
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Jeff KelleyClient Service Lead
Jeff Kelley is a Client Service Lead and 20 year veteran of the Richmond business community, responsible for developing and building relationships with Thought Logic’s clients. Jeff is an experienced corporate strategist and consultant known for partnering with senior business and technology leaders to drive a wide range of business transformation initiatives. Prior to joining Thought Logic, Jeff was a Director at CapTech Ventures where he managed large scale programs across multiple Fortune 100 clients.
Prior to his career in consulting, Jeff was a Vice President at two top 10 banks where he specialized in building consensus across diverse functional groups to achieve corporate objectives. Jeff focused on initiatives related to merger integration strategy, product development, pricing, profitability, and customer-facing user experiences. He began his career as an analyst with the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
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Mark KnaussIntegrated Solutions Leader
Mark Knauss, Client Account Leader for Thought Logic, brings global consulting experience from EY and McKinsey to the firm. Mark earned his MBA from the University of Florida and has been in the consulting world ever since. Mark brings a unique blend of technology understanding, functional business acumen, and empathy on his client’s priorities to ensure Thought Logic’s approach is aligned to the true business need, leverages market capabilities and knowledge, and aligns to Thought Logic’s high standards of delivery.
Before shifting to his role as a Client Account Leader, Mark worked on a broad spectrum of projects across the Data Strategy landscape. Mark’s knowledge of market-leading data practices and ability to partner with senior executives allows him to help clients bridge the gap between technology and business priorities to unlock enhanced value.
Mark has led transformational work across the largest companies in the Atlanta market and continues to help his clients solution strategic priorities to provide the perfect balance between strategic advancement and execution strategy.
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Andy RowlandClient Service Lead
Andy is a Client Service Lead in Thought Logic’s Project Leadership service area. He brings nearly 20 years of industry and consulting experience leading complex initiatives that address a broad range of business and technology challenges. Andy has extensive experience helping clients to define, launch, and execute strategic initiatives. He is an effective facilitator who partners with stakeholders at all levels of an organization to define clear objectives and pragmatic implementation plans.
In his previous experience consulting and in industry, Andy successfully led and supported numerous enterprise-wide initiatives across Public Sector, Power & Utilities, Transportation, and Not-for-Profit industries, providing expertise in customer service, process improvement, change management, information technology, and business continuity planning.
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Dan CooperSenior Managing Consultant
Dan Cooper is a Senior Managing Consultant in Business Operations & Transformation for Thought Logic. He is an experienced management consultant and former business executive with 15+ years of professional services advisory, that enjoys tackling complex initiatives of strategic value to business leadership – from business process improvements to large-scale business transformations. Dan often works with nebulously defined challenges to identify the root cause and solution recommendations. He appreciates a team culture and collegiate atmosphere, as well as the shared desire to have meaningful and tangible impact on business operations and the strategic vision of a company.
Dan brings a depth and breadth of experience in a wide array of business verticals and industries including Telecommunications, Hospitality, Insurance, Financial Services, Non-Profit, Foodservice, Manufacturing, Government, and Sustainability that has been applied to domains such as strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions implementation, cost and productivity optimization, roadmap and business case development, and business process improvement. Dan is an MBA graduate from Emory’s Goizueta Business School where he focused in Strategy, Decision Modeling, and Finance.
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Doug RiepeClient Development Executive
As Director of Business Development, Doug Riepe brings more than 15 years of Enterprise sales experience along with sharp negotiation skills to the team. Doug is responsible for driving new client partnerships along with building out new vertical lead segments in the Atlanta and surrounding markets. His focus is on building successful client relationships and identifying new focused capabilities that allow Thought Logic to deliver a positive return of investment to its’ clients while cultivating long-standing mutually beneficial relationships.
Prior to Thought Logic, Doug most recently oversaw all Enterprise sales and customer experience for the Restaurant and Entertainment verticals for Elavon/ U.S. Bank. He was responsible for full vertical strategy from both a net new sales and existing customer development perspective, all the while keenly focused on product solution delivery and execution of strategic company initiatives.
Doug resides in Roswell, GA with his wife Klarysa, three children Henry (10), Norah (8), and George (6), and two Vizslas Deacon and Maya.
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Jeff PodojilDirector of Talent Acquisition
Jeff Podojil has the unique privilege of leading the Talent Acquisition function here at Thought Logic. He is responsible for creating a robust recruiting framework to ensure a memorable candidate experience, while focusing on hiring the top talent in the city. Jeff has a track record of building and managing world-class recruiting organizations, having spent most of his career in local-model professional services, he enjoys the pace and excitement of serving Atlanta’s dynamic and diverse talent base.
His philosophy on recruiting extends beyond traditional interviewing and hiring and expands to acting as champion of the Thought Logic culture and a talent brand-builder. He is proud to work with this amazing group of consultants and is continually amazed at the impact they have with our clients and community.
CASE STUDIES
Program Management: Retail Food Service
A global leader in the retail food services industry with an international presence that includes 34 manufacturing facilities, 26 distribution centers, four innovation centers of excellence and more than 8,500 employees needed system-wide guidance on the focus of their sales and marketing efforts.
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Change Management: Beverage
A global refreshment brand striving for continuous renewal of its product portfolio
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