Bob Branton

Practice Director

Bob is a senior executive with more than 30 years of industry and consulting experience in Transformational Program Management, Information Technology, Strategic Services, Enterprise Applications, Cost Management and Continuous Improvement.

First as a consultant with Grant Thornton LLP and later as Senior Vice President of Hitachi Consulting, Bob supported clients across multiple industries,...

Bob Fronberry

PRACTICE DIRECTOR – TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

Bob is a proven technology executive with more than 32 years of progressive experience, the last 18 at the senior management level. He has held CIO positions with Solo Cup, Broan Nutone and Vivendi Water. His technical vision and leadership have assisted many companies in the development and execution of effective technology strategies.

Bob has extensive experience and a strong record of success ...

Bob Fry

PRACTICE DIRECTOR – HEALTHCARE INSURANCE INDUSTRY

Bob is a senior executive with more than 30 years of experience across multiple disciplines in the healthcare industry. He specializes in developing and implementing innovative solutions to increase profits and exceed growth expectations.

Since 2016, Bob has been a healthcare insurance subject matter expert for Patina.

Bob spent more than 25 years at Cigna Healthcare where he worked across...

Daren Samuels

PRACTICE DIRECTOR - OPERATIONS

Daren is an operations executive with a passion for improving results, providing superior client service, and mentoring and coaching. He’s a proven leader with broad expertise and a strong track record in managing large global projects and delivering tangible results in competitive industries. He’s dedicated to adding value across project delivery, people development and intellectual capital...

Don Drees

Practice Director

Don is a senior executive with more than 30 years’ experience in leadership and business transformation. As a Managing Director at Accenture, he worked with Fortune 500 companies to envision strategic programs and bring them to life. Don has led initiatives in CRM, supply chain, business development and business intelligence. He has also served as President of a school network with...

Greg Wilgenbusch

Practice Director

Greg offers clients more than 30 years of comprehensive Human Resources (HR) experience, including advisory and leadership of global HR teams. Through partnership and consultation, he helps build capabilities and business processes to deliver significant revenue growth and improved profitability. Skilled at aligning talent management and organizational effectiveness processes with strategic...

John Moran

Practice Director – Finance/Accounting

John is a senior financial executive with more than 38 years of experience in serving large publicly held, multi-location, and multi-national firms.

He joins Patina after concluding his tenure as a KPMG Partner, where he worked closely with management and audit committees to coordinate the work of core and international teams. John has extensive experience with corporate governance through...

Mark Leopold

Practice Director

As an experienced C-Level executive, Mark has more than 35 years of diverse experience in enterprise management, strategic planning, P&L, domestic and international sales & marketing of consumer products, new product development/R&D, manufacturing, supply chain, acquisitions, divestiture and turn-around. Mark has served as President and COO of Lacrosse Footwear, CEO of Turtle Wax...

Mark Struss

Practice Director – Manufacturing Operations

Mark is an entrepreneurial-minded leader with 25 years of experience in quality, purchasing, business planning, process engineering and business development. Amongst others, Mark’s specialties include greenfield (startup) manufacturing, P&L improvement, facilities management, cellular manufacturing, Kaizens, KAN-BAN, QS-9000, and TS16949/ISO 9000.

Prior to his Practice Director role at...

Scott Hoffman

PRACTICE DIRECTOR – PRIVATE EQUITY

Scott is a growth-focused leader with a proven track record of private equity firm and portfolio company optimization. On a project, interim or permanent basis, Patina Solutions’ 25+ year business practitioners work with Scott to assist private equity organizations as they address a range of key business needs, including:

• Due diligence expertise
• Solving operational improvement challenges
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Silvia Masini

PRACTICE DIRECTOR - HUMAN RESOURCES AND TALENT DEVELOPMENT

Silvia is a diversified Human Resources leader with extensive experience leading and advising organizations on the development and delivery of human capital, human resources strategies, and organizational effectiveness solutions.

Silvia has led human resources initiatives for small and large corporations, both as a consultant and as a senior executive. She directed ClifonLarsonAllen, a top 10...

Sue Simonett

PRACTICE DIRECTOR – TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

Sue is a proven technology executive experienced in strategic business planning for major corporations, IT consulting, and career coaching and mentoring. Her most recent role was Vice President Information Technology, CTO at General Mills, where she was responsible for developing information systems and strategies with oversight of a global staff of more than 900.

Sue has extensive experience...

Wes MacLagan

PRACTICE DIRECTOR – BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION & IT TRANSFORMATION

Wes is a senior executive with over 30 years of experience in business transformation, consulting, technology implementation and outsourcing. He has led many enterprise-wide programs and held multiple leadership roles in industry and consulting including VP Enterprise Integration for a global software technology firm and CIO for an independent power producer.

Wes transforms existing business...

Anthony Janik

PRACTICE DIRECTOR – LEGAL SERVICES

Anthony (Tony) is an attorney and executive with nearly four decades of experience and leadership within the legal field. He currently works with Patina’s clients, serving as an expert on legal-related initiatives. His goals include ensuring clients have talent needs addressed, through experience-based consulting and interim leaders offering appropriate skills, backgrounds and credentials in law.

Antonio Schiavone

PRACTICE DIRECTOR – MANUFACTURING, DURABLE GOODS

Antonio is an experienced professional with more than 25 years in manufacturing environments, including those related to building products, textiles and steel processing, food products, and fuels. He currently works with Patina’s manufacturing, supply chain and durable goods clients to provide project delivery, people development, and intellectual capital creation.

Prior to his Practice Director ...