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As Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer at North Highland, Lauren oversees the financial growth and development for the firm. As a seasoned CFO, Lauren’s 20 plus years of expertise covers a breadth of corporate finance and strategic planning for high growth environments. Prior to joining North Highland, Lauren served as the CFO at BeavEx where she led the company’s accounting, financial reporting, financial planning and analysis, tax, risk management, and strategic planning.

Tony Doocey has spent the last 35 years leading the transformative changes required to thrive in today’s market. Across technology, sales, customer experience, and people and change management, Tony has helped companies design and execute transformation programs that reshape infrastructures and operating models to meet future business needs. 

With more than 30 years of consulting experience, Anne Game’s transformative work in the manufacturing, consumer products and hospitality sectors has been both sustainably valuable and immediately impactful. She’s watched the stock of a struggling enterprise tick up real-time as the results of her three-month value creation project were presented, and she is equally inspired by the ongoing growth and long-term capabilities... 

Ben is a Managing Director at North Highland. He has worked at the firm for 12 years, advising technology leaders on applying next-generation IT to transform the way organizations gain speed and agility. He is a recognized thought leader and driver in the DevOps movement, and an expert in applying DevOps to transform enterprise technology. He is also a fellow of the British computer society. 

Lia is Managing Director at North Highland. She has more than 25 years of experience in large-scale transformation engagements in Fortune 100 organizations and deep expertise in the areas of strategy, performance improvement, solution design and development, process analysis, and digital in a number of different verticals and environments. Her industry experience spans the retail and CPG, financial services, and utilities sectors.

Matt leads North Highland’s Marketing, Communications, Sales Enablement, and Sales Operations functions. He is also responsible for the firm's platform for growth through its Enterprise Business Agility Program and IT function. Matt brings over 25 years of experience pioneering go-to-market, voice-of-customer, customer experience, demand generation, and digital marketing programs that have resulted in sustained, top- and bottom-line growth.

Barbara has more than 25 years of experience leading profitable strategies for clients across industries. Her growth and leadership initiatives have been instrumental in generating greater client value and inspiring ingenuity and integrity within the firm and with clients.

Jennifer Mancuso is Vice President of Human Resources & People Strategy at North Highland. She brings over 15 years of experience driving human strategy across a variety of industry sectors including bio-medical, manufacturing and transportation. 

Prior to joining North Highland, Jennifer served as the Vice President of Human Strategy at Vero Biotech where she built the firm’s HR function, defined human strategy to support commercialization, and doubled the size of the team in anticipation of commercialization. 

As North Highland’s chief information officer and head of technology strategic alliances, Paul Falor is driven by a passion to enable efficiency and innovation through technology. Paul has spent more than two decades leading information technology and information security initiatives for companies in the financial services and consulting industries. 

Joseph Conte is Chief Operating Officer at Standish. Prior to joining Standish, Joe spent over twenty years as a Managing Director at Lazard in New York focused on financial, business and tech-enabled services. Before Lazard, Joe was a partner of a middle-market focused investment bank which he and his partners grew to 130 people and sold to Lazard. Early in his career, Joe was a corporate attorney and represented public companies and private companies in public and private market transactions.

William (Bill) W. Douglas, III is a 30-year veteran of the Coca-Cola system with extensive international experience. He joined Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. in July 2004, serving as the Chief Financial Officer from 2005 to 2013. As Executive Vice President and CFO, Bill oversaw the 2010 transformation of CCE into a European operating company, enabling a return of nearly $7 billion in cash to shareowners in the following years. Beginning in 2013, Bill served as head of CCE’s Supply Chain team, before retiring in 2015. Bill is Vice Chairman of the University of Georgia Foundation.

Barbara has more than 25 years of experience leading profitable strategies for clients across industries. Her growth and leadership initiatives have been instrumental in generating greater client value and inspiring ingenuity and integrity within the firm and with clients.