Our SIP Team
Your Dedicated Resource
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) - 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
Peter Hess, MA
- Thirty years of expertise in conceiving, planning, and leading corporate transformation initiatives
- Senior Consultant, Slalom and the North Highland Company in conceiving and executing large global organizational projects including in Enterprise Performance Management
- Owner, Change Partners, Inc., overseeing all facets of organizational effectiveness consulting
- Director, Bayer Corporation, and Senior Manager, Nabisco designing and implementing organizational effectiveness, planning, and learning initiatives
- Facilitated and consulted to over 30 union/management teams on workforce development and reskilling, AT&T Alliance For Employee Growth
Developed a “Culture of Sustainability” offering - Fostered stakeholder consensus via the Rutgers University Climate and Environmental Change Initiative
- Advanced a firm’s net-zero pledge by conceiving and implementing an internal “carbon tax”
- Empowered the swift integration of two pharmaceutical businesses
- Helped create a new North American home design business
- Program Chair, New Jersey Organization Development Network
- Board Member, Human Resource Planning Group and Philadelphia Region OD Network
- Committees – American Society of Training and Development, National Society of Performance and Instruction
- Assessor, “Baldrige Quality Award”, Quality New Jersey
- Instructor – Columbia University, NYU
- M.A., Human Resource Mgmt. and Labor Relations, Rutgers University
- B.A., Swarthmore College
Eliza Erskine, MA
- Principal, Green Buoy Consulting, providing Impact/ESG program design and implementation services to high-growth companies: ESG strategies, carbon footprint analysis, net zero strategy, and B Corp certification conformance
- Speaker at various industry events, such as Terra.do, 500 Startups, the Consulate General of the Netherlands, and the Connecticut Sustainable Business Council
- Subject Matter Advisor, Good.Lab; Executive in Residence, The Fashioneering Lab
- ESG Lead, Kara, focused on supporting venture capital investors and technology companies in streamlining their climate disclosures and ESG reporting processes
- Business Specialist, Federated Investors, providing operational and development support for local government investment pools valued at $76B
Created project and test plans for 25 issues annually; produced a statistics dashboard for reporting - Client Service, Massachusetts Municipal Depository Trust, demonstrating operational and implementation processes for current clients, including participating in business development and project planning
- Community Business Outreach Coordinator, New Generation Energy, responsible for the local+GREEN program to increase business owner and government engagement
- At MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International):
As ESG Client Services Associate, conducted training on multiple MSCI products; advanced internal projects while maintaining over 350 relationships
As ESG Analyst, covered the ESG metrics of approximately 350 small market capitalization companies to evaluate risk exposure, presented developing issues to the ESG Small Cap team, and provided feedback and edits on over 100 company profiles. - M.A., Sustainability and Environment Management, Harvard University (Extension School)
- B.B.A, Questrom School of Business – Entrepreneurial Studies & Business Law, Boston University
Matt Karnes, MBA/CPA
- Over twenty-five years of diverse finance and accounting experience, serving clients with independent, institutional quality financial research and analysis
- Managing Director, GreenWave Advisors, providing comprehensive research and financial analysis for the cannabis industry
Produces fundamental intel throughout the cannabis ecosystem – including detailed, comprehensive analysis and transparent due diligence reports for fully defendable financial forecasts - Analyst, SG Cowen, covering satellite communications
- Vice President, Equity Analyst (Consumer Internet) at Bear Stearns & Co., where his team was consistently recognized by Institutional Investor as an “All America Research Team”
As a sell side equity analyst, authored or co-authored numerous industry research reports including for Google, Sirius, XM Satellite Radio, DIRECTV and EchoStar Communications - Equity Analyst, Wachovia Securities, covering radio broadcasting and cable television
- Held various finance and accounting positions at PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Deloitte, and Texaco
Executed client engagements throughout the U.S., Europe, The Caribbean, and Asia - At Chase Manhattan, responsible for implementing corporate accounting policies on commodity, interest rate, and foreign currency derivative products
- Series 7 and 63 licensee, FINRA/SIPC
- M.B.A., Gabelli School of Business – Fordham University
- B.S., Business Administration (Accounting and Finance), Miami University (OH)
Yan Hai, M.A.Sc
- Over 18 years of progressive experience in the pharmaceutical, cannabis, medical device, and natural health products industries including scientific and quality management contributions to some 300 projects to date
- Knowledge and extensive experience within a range of quality and compliance matters including cGxPs, FDA and Health Canada drug, cannabis and medical device regulatory standards, and ISO frameworks
- A track record of success improving quality systems, interpreting new regulatory requirements, fixing gaps between quality systems and regulatory standards, implementing CAPA systems, and advancing quality processes to ensure compliance and cost effectiveness
- Held a variety of roles with global pharmaceutical leaders including Sanofi Pasteur, Novartis, Taro Pharmaceuticals and Thermo Fisher Scientific
- President and Principal Consultant – Innova Medipharm, Inc., specializing in regulatory compliance, quality assurance, and cGxPs services for the cannabis and pharmaceutical industries
- Client engagements include inspection readiness, auditing, SOP development, GMP and ISO qualification, quality management system alignment, deviation investigation, gap assessment and change control programs
- M.A.Sc, Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry & Biomaterials/Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
- B.Eng., Chemical Engineering, Tongji University, China
“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.