he Acelera Group affiliate team includes number of senior level business professionals with expertise in specific areas, allowing us to provide a broad range of services to help your business succeed.

Karen J. Adams
Karen provides part-time finance and accounting services to rapidly growing companies in need of financial and operational discipline. She manages and performs all corporate financial functions including monthly financial reporting, financial modeling and forecasting, maintaining the general ledger, managing cash and establishing financial procedures and controls. She develops and manages professional relationships with audit firms, bank officers, legal counsel and insurance agents. For many engagements, Karen is responsible for the Human Resource function including selecting, recommending and implementing employee benefits and company policy development and implementation as required.

Her engagements range from intensive full-time consultation and support for an interim period to weekly part-time support over a protracted period for clients. Her clients have included both established companies and a variety of startups in the product and service sectors.

Daniel P. Dern
We've worked with Daniel since the mid-'90s...he helped us to launch the first web server software for Windows in 1995 and to recruit resellers for Process Software.

Daniel provides PR writing, editorial and consulting services to technology companies and agencies particularly in the Internet, computer and bio-IT areas, on a project basis. He brings a strong combination of techo-savvy and an understanding of the press and PR process.

His writing projects include case histories, interviews, FAQs, OpEds, press releases and feature articles. He also does bylined articles and columns.

Daniel has been writing for start-ups and leading vendors, agencies, and trade publications, for over twenty years. He was the founding editor of Internet World magazine; most recently he was Executive Editor of Byte.com.

See www.dern.com/artic.shtml for links to samples of his recent work, and www.dern.com for more info.

Will Gaulin
Will facilitates breakthrough thinking and its development into innovative products/services, strategy and organizational development. He coaches individuals to find their own creative roots and trains groups to use a methodology for productive out-of-the-box thinking. As a senior practitioner of the Synectics system, he has, for over twenty years, worked with client teams across industries and sectors. He acts as the catalyst for the creativity he finds latent in all organizations.

A frequent speaker on Innovation, Will has led interactive workshops and conferences that demonstrate innovatiove approaches to success in rapidly changing world markets.

Lisa M. Moore
Lisa is a Web-based content developer and strategist with over 13 years' experience as an editor, journalist and copywriter. She works closely with clients to align their online content needs with their business objectives in an engaging, relevant manner. In conjunction with designers and producers, she develops and implements content solutions that extend a client's brand to an online environment and further reinforce user experience goals.

She has won awards for her online copywriting, and she has a Masters in Mass Communication from Boston University. Her thesis on online syndication was circulated as "recommended reading" at RealNetworks, Allaire and Nervewire.

Brian Simons
Brian, an experienced market development executive, works with clients to maximize customer acquisition, communications and retention activities. His primary consulting focus is on product launch or re-introduction into a marketplace with the primary focus placed on “building communications skills among sales and marketing executives” and “crafting clear and concise messages.”

He has worked with many of the leading technology and media firms, including Ricoh Corporation, Sony, Keynote Systems, Nickelodeon, Ortho Biotech, EON Digital Designs, Election.com, Priceline, Penton Media, Edgix, Digital Think and Crain’s Business Publications.

Prior to launching his own consulting practice, Brian worked with Laurie and Lee on the launch of the News Corporation initiative into content distribution over the Internet.  Brian has been published in a number of trade magazines, has appeared in broadcast and on the web and speaks frequently to national and local associations, companies and groups on the topics of “effective communications through interactive meeting”, “presentation and event marketing” and “the value of calculated repetition.”

Julianne Steinberg
Leveraging her background in both marketing and organizational behavior, Julianne has managed award-winning (and revenue-producing) websites for several large companies, including SprintPCS and Hifi.com. Part of her work involves coordinating the customer-centric web environments and call centers to provide a fully integrated marketing environment.

Steve Stutman
Steve works with start-ups and established businesses to develop wireless, e-commerce, and Internet strategies and implementations. Advisor on integration of existing systems and future operations. Excellent network of contacts within top-management, technical, marketing, and press segments of Internet and Wireless Internet sector. Frequent speaker on wireless e-commerce at Wireless Internet conferences and seminars such as Wireless Agenda 2000.

Steve was the co-founder and CEO of Metriplex, Inc, Cambridge, MA, the world¹s first successful and profitable wireless information and messaging software company. At Metriplex, he developed a variety of financial and industrial wireless information services, messaging software applications and telemetry applications delivered to devices ranging from pagers to handsets to PDAs; most applications were first in industry.

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