Our SIP Team

Your Dedicated C-Level Resources

Andrew Scirri, MBA, B.S. Engr.

Business transformation executive, entrepreneur, and management consultant with decades of hands-on operational experience improving the performance of middle market private companies and family businesses. Combines engineering and technology expertise with business and financial acumen.
Experience spans manufacturing, energy, eCommerce, construction, engineering services, medical devices, specialty materials, healthcare, and retail. Track record of measurable business improvement, including substantial EBITDA and net-income gains, successful turnarounds from significant losses to profitability, capacity expansion, and improved organizational and management performance.
As a CEO and COO, founded and built businesses in online energy distribution, nanotechnology, and medical devices. Operating experience includes commercializing new products and services, building management teams, improving cash flow, developing operating systems, and driving revenue and profit growth.
Founder and Principal Consultant of a consulting firm advising owners and leadership teams on strategy, operational excellence, organizational development, continuous improvement, and translating strategy into measurable financial and operating results.
Recent work includes helping companies identify practical applications for AI, integrating AI into existing business processes, and using data and operating metrics to improve decision-making and profitability.
Former Fortune 500 manager and senior consultant complemented by extensive experience in startups, family-owned businesses, private-equity-backed companies, and growth-stage organizations. Early career posts include ten years as Operations Manager at E.I. DuPont De Nemours and as Process Engineer at Dow Corning.
Former Senior Consultant, American Management Services, providing turnaround management support for small to mid-sized companies including strategic planning, cash management, marketing strategy, organizational restructuring, and sales development.
Former COO on core startup team of Smart Click Energy – launching, building, and expanding an e-Commerce-based marketplace for home heating fuel/HVAC.
Former CEO, Fingerlakes Aquaculture, Inc., an innovative early stage branded, farm-raised fish producer. Planned and executed a successful turnaround.
Co-founded medical device firm Linguaflex with the inventor of revolutionary technology for managing obstructive sleep apnea. Developed and executed the launch strategy and early-stage operations.
Certificate: Generative AI for Productivity, Cornell University
MBA, Entrepreneurship and Private Equity, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Cornell University

Lynn Terwoerds, MA

Twenty-five years as a technology thought leader and cybersecurity risk strategist for large multi-nationals, who is applying next-gen standards to integrating the business agenda, customer criticality, and tech transformation.
Former Executive Director, Executive Women’s Forum on Information Security, Risk and Privacy.
Senior Director, Audit and Risk, for Oracle’s Global Healthcare Business Unit, leading a global team responsible for the Unit’s passing the annual external HIPAA audit.
Improved the compliance posture of an acquired startup whose clinical trial solution was being used by large pharmaceuticals; orchestrated external customer audits of the Unit’s healthcare data and controls; instituted a mature incident response program; and closed security-privacy control deficiencies with acquired companies.
At Barclays PLC in London, head of Global Security Architecture, Standards, and Engineering – focusing on global cybersecurity-IT risk management, large security program implementation, and regulatory compliance.
Managed an £8.5M budget, overseeing managers across the U.K., Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Aligned security standards to ISO27001; led a £500K identity and access management project that included piloting a SOX application recertification tool.
As Senior Security Strategist during ten years at Microsoft, involved at the forefront of global security incident response and crisis management as part of the early Microsoft Security Response Center; contributed to the inaugural Trustworthy Computing group.
Program Manager, Security Response Center, addressing their largest incidents with Blaster, Sasser, Code Red, and Nimda; represented Microsoft at the IT-ISAC, and a sub-committee of the POTUS National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (DoD Top Secret security clearance).
Former Member, The President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
Board Director, First Fed (FNWB); Advisory Board for CONTAINN (cloud security and compliance); Chair, Northwest Maritime Center; Founding/Advisory Board Member, Executive Women’s Forum.
Founding Member, Cloud Security Alliance and Member, Cyber Future Foundation.
Early recipient of the NACD Directorship Certification.
M.A., University of Missouri-Columbia
B.A., University of Toledo

Cynthia Phillips, B.Sc.

Business transformation executive, entrepreneur, and strategic advisor with more than 30 years of experience guiding global enterprises and growth-oriented organizations through complex business and technology transformations.
Melds a deep operational perspective with tech utilization architecture expertise to implement AI innovations that ensure realistic automation deployments, ethical and responsible adoption, as well as governance and risk management models for AI best practices.
Creator-Developer, and now Co-Founder with Art Stewart in the next generation of IMPACT®, an AI-powered proprietary business modernization and transformation platform that is core to ValueRISE.
Former Director/Client Partner, Slalom, focused on deep operational understanding, leadership in complex transformations, and client-first project success.
Advised executives and led delivery teams, mitigated risks, and removed execution obstacles while exceeding revenue targets via sales collaborations and client partnerships.
As Consultant to Phillips Insurance Group, optimized a management system to enhance operational efficiency.
While Senior Engagement Manager at Accenture LLP, was senior delivery leader on Salesforce transformations across the financial services, health insurance, manufacturing, and technology/media industries.
Served as SME supporting deal, proposal, and contract execution as well as authoring SOWs.
Global Director of CRM Operations at Fitch Ratings, achieving 98% user adoption after year one from proposing a global CRM overhaul when reported failure rates then averaged 75%. Project was completed within 10 months within an $800K budget.
Partnered to establish global client IDs, master data programs, and sales automation that improved performance tracking and doubled open rates.
Leadership roles at JP Morgan Chase, including V.P./Online Card Marketing and V.P./Sr. Program Manager, EBusiness Card Acquisitions.
Instrumental in modernizing digital card acquisition capabilities. Created a new online card customer acquisition platform after the Bank One and Chase merger.
As Director of Project Management at Island ECN, led a team to pioneer implementation of decimal pricing for stock trades to become the first equity market to do so. Participated in a presentation to the U.S. Congress.
Product Manager for Fidelity Investments, playing a key role in the launch and continuous quality improvements for its brokerage debit card products in partnership with American Express and PNC Visa.
As Assistant V.P. at First Data Corporation, negotiated multimillion-dollar card processing agreements and provided executive-level advisory services to optimize merchant operations, mitigate risk, and drive profitability.
Salesforce Certified Administrator (SCA)
B.Sc., Adelphi University

Andy Sherman, A.B.

Thirty years of sales leadership across global enterprises, startups, and turnarounds — helping companies accelerate scalable, sustainable growth by aligning Sales Strategy, Story, Messaging, Technology (AI), Process, and People.
Founder and Principal of his own firm, partnering with SIP in the ValueRISE growth and GTM program, helping clients operationalize their go-to-market strategy involving the design and execution of AI-powered Sales Playbooks, building sales teams, and developing modern infrastructures.
Enables and empowers teams for revenue performance acceleration in the current market context of volatility, disruption, and uncertainty.
Former Consultant, Whitman Transition Advisors, driving growth for its MSP practice via GTM strategies and AI-powered sales enablement services.
Founding Vice President, NaviSite, initiating and growing revenue to $100M in four years, resulting then in a successful IPO.
Built from scratch, and scaled, a high-performing team to over 100 revenue operations professionals.
Former V.P. of Sales, CEO, and turnaround leader at multiple venture-backed software and services companies, including Webevent and Centerstone Software, driving 2X revenue and strategic growth leading to successful exits.
Chief Operating Officer, Ntirety, a managed services firm. Drove sales and marketing acceleration, and led operations, to enable a successful acquisition by HOSTING.
Later served as Chief Marketing Officer of HOSTING, a $100M managed services leader.
President and CEO, Centerstone Software, accelerating growth via an overhaul of the GTM strategy, and an advanced product planning and development process, that then led to a successful exit.
Tripled quarterly sales and doubled annual revenue. Guided major agreements, supported by the building of a professional services organization, that doubled the company’s overall business for three successive quarters.
Earlier career included sales roles at IBM and Apple, twice earning a top-performing National Accounts District Manager award and later appointed to the corporate team to drive strategic account initiatives.
Completed IBM IT services and tech consulting development programs in Sales Training and Methodologies, IBM Needs Satisfaction Selling, Miller Heiman, SPIN Selling, and Solution Selling.
Recent certifications in Black Belt (BB), Simple Academy; Rhythm Maker Coach, Catipult.ai; and Sales Leader, Sales Xceleration®.
Founding Board Member and President, Friends of Harold Parker State Forest, supporting conservation and recreation projects.
A.B., Dartmouth College

Joshua Rubin, MBA; MPP; JD; MPH; AB

Highly experienced health care executive with leadership roles focused on health IT policy formulation, program design, implementation, administration, and consulting for private, public, and nonprofit sector contexts.
Integrates extensive education, work experience, and subject matter expertise in law, public health, business administration, and public policy.
A social entrepreneur and advocate who optimizes shared value-oriented technology and human capital systems for continuous learning and transformational outcomes.
As a researcher and academician, advances efforts to revolutionize medical research, empower public health professionals, redefine the patient experience, and transform health systems.
Currently Executive Director and Board V.P., Joseph H. Kanter Family Foundation.
Currently Clinical Assistant Professor, Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan (UMich) Medical School.
At UMich, successfully positions the Department of Learning Health Sciences and university collaborators as an academic epicenter and innovator – growing global multi-stakeholder engagement to catalyze the disruption and transformation of healthcare research, education, and impacts.
Continues leadership roles in cross-disciplinary convenings for multi-stakeholder communities that are addressing critical challenges at the national and global level, including the International Working Meeting on Electronic Medical Records and Outcomes Research; the National eHealth Collaborative Consumer Consortium on eHealth; the Learning Health System Summit; the National Campus Sexual Assault Summit; and National Science Foundation funded workshops.
Co-Founder/Acting CEO/Board Vice Chair, Singula Institute; Former Founding President and CEO, Learning Health Community; Former Board President, Promoting Awareness/Victim Empowerment (PAVE).
Former Senior Consultant, Public Sector Strategy and Change, IBM Global Business Services – working at the intersection of health IT, policy, consumer engagement, and public health arenas.
Healthcare Policy Intern, Edward Kennedy Health Office, U.S. Senate and Senior Policy Fellow, eHealth Initiative Foundation, Washington.
Certificates: Business of Sustainability, Georgetown; International Management, Trinity College, Oxford UK.
Active law licenses and Bar memberships in Virginia, Washington DC, and SCOTUS.
AB, Psychology (Summa Cum Laude), Georgetown University
MBA, (Beta Gamma Sigma), McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
MPP, Georgetown Public Policy Institute
JD, (Cum Laude), Georgetown University Law Center
MPH, (Delta Omega Alpha), Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
AB, Psychology (Summa Cum Laude), Georgetown University

“Art’s team works as a partner, not as a vendor of services. They ask the right questions, really understand the business, engage the relationship team, push back when appropriate, and deliver results that are right on target.”

Robert Posten
Co-Chairman, Comanche Holdings, LLC; Former President & Co-Chairman, Landis Strategy & Innovation.