Brian T. Kelly,
Managing Director
With over 15 years of management consulting experience,
Brian founded ThinkFast Solutions in an effort to bring top
notch, seasoned consulting veterans to clients across the globe.
Prior to starting the firm, Brian's
career was spread evenly across Oracle Corporation, Ernst & Young, LLP, and most
recently Starpoint Solutions. While at these
organizations, he successfully advised over 50 of the Fortune 1000
clients, and was awarded several promotions along the way - Brian began his
career as a developer at Oracle and has since held titles of Sr. Manager and
Vice President. He has built a track record of surpassing client expectations for
large-scale, enterprise wide initiatives, both in the US and abroad.
Brian holds a Bachelors of Science
degree in Finance from Fairfield
University, Fairfield CT.
James P.
Slattery, Jr.,
Managing
Director
An entrepreneurial
executive with a proven 20 year track
record creating, delivering and
maximizing shareholder value in global
concerns, Jim Slattery is responsible for
Strategy
and Business Development
at ThinkFast Solutions.
Prior to joining the
ThinkFast team, Jim founded the ECHO
Broadband Group, a broadband
communications project delivery company
with wireless and fixed network delivery
operations in France, Germany,
Luxembourg, Malaysia, Singapore and the
United States. As the group’s President
and Chief Executive Officer, Jim was
responsible for the organic growth of
the concern from 1 to 400 professionals
and annualized revenues of
€50M Euros in
a 3 year period.
More recently, Jim
developed a closely held portfolio of
real estate service companies with
operations in property acquisition and
management, mortgage origination, and
agency title insurance services in the
commercial and residential markets of
the
United States.
Portfolio brands include Strategic
Property Management Associates, The
Mortgage Capital Group and Precision
Land Services.
In previous positions,
Jim served as a Senior Project Director
for CH2M HILL, a full service
consulting, construction and operations
concern with 23,000 employees and annual
revenues in excess of $5Billion. Jim
successfully managed the delivery of
multi million dollar infrastructure
projects in the telecommunications,
semiconductor, water, wastewater and
power cogeneration markets in the
private and public sectors of the global
marketplace.
Jim currently serves
as Board Advisor to
The Lead The Way fund.
Previously, he has served on the Board of Directors
of Broadtel Inc., ECHO Broadband
(Singapore) Pte. Ltd., and CH2M HILL
Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.. Jim obtained
his Master of Science and BS in Civil
Engineering from Marquette University,
Milwaukee WI.
Chuck Hawk,
Managing
Director
Chuck has had a 30
year career predominantly specializing
in Financial Markets. He has held
positions of leadership at
broker/dealers and consulting firms in
New York,
London, Hong Kong and Latin America.
Chuck has particular expertise around
securities processing, financial control
and regulatory compliance.
Holding positions
of CFO and COO at various broker
dealers, Chuck has been responsible for
opening new regulated companies in over
10 countries. He has managed new product
development, systems selection and
implementation and maintaining rigorous
control and compliance environments.
As Deputy Chairman
of m.a. partners, Chuck was part of a
team that built a global consulting firm
of over 150 professionals delivering
expert advice to the largest global
investment banks. m.a. partners was sold
in 2006 to a
UK
listed company.
Chuck has served on
the Board of several companies. His
financial and managerial background
assisted these companies in meeting
aggressive growth targets, managing
compensation issues and retaining key
staff.
Chuck holds a B.S.
in accounting and finance from Lehigh
University
and is a Certified Public Accountant.
