The Companies
Executive IS
London.
Executive IS is a solutions company with the executive in mind.
We were born from the belief that too many business systems fail to report the information executives need to run their business as efficiently as possible. IT Departments tend to be busy, under budgetted, under staffed, they struggle to keep up with the day to day running of companies, let alone finding the time to identify new opportunities to help the business.
We are committed to de;ivering systems that help a business achieve everything it can be. We've developed Enterprise Programme Management systems for £4 billion global projects, through to Quality Management tracking systems for a small pharmaceutical site in Puerto Rico. Working with Catevo in the past we have developed KPI systems and Balanced Scorecard systems for several of the worlds largest companies.
The Catevo Group
Raleigh, Charlotte, Washington and Dubai.
The Catevo Group. A new kind of consulting firm for a new kind of world.
Our name is rooted in our brand promise – to serve as catalysts for the evolution of our clients’ business success worldwide. Combining diverse business disciplines with intelligence, imagination and innovation, The Catevo Group establishes a new benchmark for business consultancies. In addition to traditional research, branding, marketing and public relations consulting services and Hispanic integrated communications, The Catevo Group offers a comprehensive suite of proprietary e-learning products and global project logistics and supply chain management consulting and software solutions.
The Catevo Group is managed by a diverse team of professionals with backgrounds in journalism, finance, healthcare, technology, research, academia, political consulting, entertainment and business. With offices in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East and global connections through The WORLDCOM Group, The Catevo Group is well-positioned to support your business needs anytime, anywhere.
The People
Andrew Lawson
Director, Executive IS
Andrew has been an entrepreneur since his second year at University. Over the past fifteen years he has created businesses in his homeland of New Zealand and his adopted home in England. He has worked on four contintents in numerous countries creating systems to collect site, regional and global data and turn it into executive information. Information that can be used to run, monitor and improve businesses.
He has experience with companies at all ends of the spectrum, from some of the worlds largest like GSK through to one man bands.
After developing KPI systems for several Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 listed companies he organised the partnership of Executive IS and Catevo to create the Scorecard Manager solution.
Mitch Javidi, Ph. D.
President & CEO, Catevo
In addition to being a tenured professor of business strategy and market research and a member of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers & Scholars at North Carolina State University, Dr. Mitch Javidi is the president and CEO of The Catevo Group and former founder and CEO of Digiton Corporation.
During the last 25 years, Mitch has served more than 350 clients and has produced more than 600 corporate reports. Additionally, he has 60+ articles and book chapters with 400+ national and international presentations to his name. He has received prominent acclaim for his strategic planning initiatives, serving as a strategist to Sam Walton and David Glass of Wal-Mart in the early 1980s. While at Wal-Mart, his primary focus was on growing the company’s pharmacy stores, which increased market share by 21 percent in less than 18 months during his tenure.
In 1998 the National Society of Accountants named him Person of the Year in recognition of his competitive intelligence and strategic counsel as part of the association’s organizational redesign initiatives. In 1999 the United States Department of Defense Special Operations Command inducted Mitch as an honorary member to recognize his business strategy and business deployment programs to the unit's ongoing restructuring and development.
Dwight Hallman
Vice President – Business Consulting, Catevo
Dwight is head of The Catevo Group’s Business and Supply Chain consulting unit, where he focuses on helping clients streamline their operations, enhance efficiencies and build
better, smarter business processes.
Dwight has 17 years of experience in business consulting, financial analysis, sales, business startup and venture capital. His global strategic development and project management experience includes the evaluation and redesign of distribution networks, Global Freight Optimization, and the Global Purchase Requisition process review and improvement; vendor/supplier contract negotiations; and strategic business planning and securing of initial funding. In all of these initiatives performance tracking and continuous measurement has been implemented and is a central focus. Furthermore, Dwight has developed and implemented company wide Key Performance tracking and reporting methodologies. Dwight earned a bachelor’s degree, with a double major in computer information systems and economics, from Elon University in Elon, N.C.