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Our Leadership Team: Mary Drotar Partner Mary Drotar is a strategic innovation professional with extensive industry and consulting experience. Her career encompasses multiple dimensions of innovation, including the development of products, services, business models, business processes and the customer experience. Mary began her career at Ford Motor Company and she progressed through various positions in marketing and development. Mary then joined AT&T Bell Laboratories, concentrating in the areas of strategy, voice of the customer and scenario planning. Mary transitioned to consulting and she successfully helped scores of companies capture the Voice of the Customer, and understand the market and competition then leverage this in developing strategy as well as new products, services and business models. She was Director of Consulting at Cambridge Management Consulting and subsequently appointed the position of Vice President at Targetbase Marketing, a firm specializing in marketing analytics. Mary has an MS in Organizational Leadership and Development from College of St. Catherine’s and an MBA from The University of Chicago. She is certified as a New Product Development Professional (NPDP) by the Product Development Management Association (PDMA). She is also certified by the PDMA as a NPDP Preparation Review Instructor, and is on the certification committee. Mary serves on The University of Chicago Innovation Roundtable Board as the VP of Community and Business Development. She also serves as a board member for the PDMA Chicago Chapter as the VP of NPDP certification. Kathy Morrissey Partner Kathy has over 15 years of experience with Fortune 100 companies specializing in market and customer research, strategy, business processes and models. She is an expert in quantitative and qualitative tools and techniques of market and customer research. Kathy has been a senior manager in research and strategy positions with Ameritech, Household International and CNA Insurance Companies. She has led research projects to predict failure of banking institutions, analyze retail banking networks for performance and acquisition fit, develop direct mail targeting models, develop customer segmentation systems, quantify customer value and understand customer choices and preferences. She has led large teams in developing customer data warehouses and has coordinated planning initiatives for information strategy and business strategy. Kathy is also a successful entrepreneur, having founded two small businesses in the music industry. She developed the highest-trafficked music-specific website in the Chicago area and the largest music industry conference in the Midwest, along with new products and services that supported the business models. Kathy successfully sold her business in 2005. Kathy has an MS in Statistics from Carnegie-Mellon University and has completed the doctoral core courses. She also has an MBA from the University of Chicago. She is an active and long-standing board member of the Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association and served two terms as President. She is certified as a New Product Development Professional (NPDP) by the Product Development Management Association (PDMA). She serves on The University of Chicago Innovation Roundtable board as the VP of Product Development and is actively involved in the PDMA. |
Companies Worked For:
Auto / Truck
Energy
Retail
Consumer Products
Media
Telecom
Financial Services
High Tech
Transportation |
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