We bring experienced industry professionals who are nimble, smart and focus on your business challenges. You’ll work with team members who have big firm experience combined with a “get it done” attitude. We offer tangible results and real outcomes, not just plans that gather dust on your shelf.
JIM WADELLA
OWNER, FOUNDER
Jim Wadella is the Founder and Managing Member of Core Catalysts. Jim has over thirty years experience ranging from building telecom networks, to managing outsourced IT services, to starting up several businesses. Prior to founding Core Catalysts, Jim worked for large consulting firms and with a variety of corporations throughout the country.
His primary areas of concentration include:
- Overall leadership of the Executive Team.
- Strategic direction and implementation.
- Giving back and stewardship strategy.
- Professional organization representation.
- Hiring consistency and culture development.
MATT CRAIG
CLIENT SERVICE AND DELIVERY
Matt Craig is a Director with Core Catalysts. Matt is a seasoned IT executive and consultant with over 25 years, managing a wide range of strategic initiatives with specific emphasis on the financial service industry. As a certified project management professional, Matt has successfully led teams across a wide range of businesses and IT implementation efforts, providing significant, recognized long-term value.
His primary areas of concentration include:
- Complex IT design, development, and implementation.
- Agile planning and software development.
- Program and project management.
- Business and systems analysis.
- Operations management.
- Process improvement.
- Distressed project resolution.
JEFFREY KUPPER
CLIENT SERVICE AND DELIVERY
Jeff is a Director with Core Catalysts, with over 30 years of experience in global business and technology operations.
His primary areas of concentration include:
- Organizational transformation.
- Complex stakeholder management.
- Financial services and insurance industry.
- Corporate strategy and executive leadership.
- Technology thought leadership.
MARK JACOBS
CLIENT SERVICE AND DELIVERY
Mark Jacobs is a Director with Core Catalysts. Mark has 25 years of experience driving top-line and bottom-line growth, organizational change, and performance improvement across multiple industries and businesses.
His primary areas of concentration include:
- Operational efficiency and effectiveness.
- Mergers, acquisitions, and carveouts.
- Turnarounds and restructuring.
- Business and investment case generation.
- Strategic communications.
DOUG RICHARDS
CLIENT SERVICE AND DELIVERY
Doug is a pioneering technologist with over 15 years of executive level and entrepreneurial-spirited experience identifying, qualifying, building consensus, for, and implementing enabling technologies and enterprise systems that facilitate business processes and strategic objectives. A powerful blend of technology vision and business acumen results in consistent development of powerful business strategies supported by project life cycle management, client/vendor relationship management, and financial/operational management.
BRAD ANDERSON
CLIENT SERVICE AND DELIVERY
Brad has more than 25 years of professional experience across multiple industries and businesses. His expertise includes operational efficiency and effectiveness and the implementation of technologies and systems to facilitate strategic objectives. Deep expertise in managing business and technical teams, technology management, business process improvement and program/project management.
ANDREW MACK
TALENT ACQUISITION AND PEOPLE OPERATIONS
Andrew leverages extensive experience in customer service, sales, client relations, and recruiting, to head up talent acquisition and people operations for Core Catalysts. His proven track record in building productive working relationships, and in consistently delivering high-quality talent solutions across various industries, is instrumental in helping the firm diagnose and resolve issues that directly impact client growth, revenue, and profitability. Andrew consistently manages to balance delivering exceptional client success and connecting individuals with opportunities that align with their personal goals and professional needs.
JO ANNE WILLIAMS
CLIENT SERVICE AND DELIVERY
Jo Anne brings a wealth of expertise and knowledge to the Core Catalysts team. Her experience within management consulting spans multiple industries within the publicly traded Fortune 500 companies. Her expertise includes operational efficiency and effectiveness, strategic planning, customer service, process and organizational design and development. An effective leader in CEO and COO roles Jo Anne has received numerous awards. Among these awards, in 2009 Jo Anne has was recognized as one of Midwest CEO Magazines Most Influential Women and in 2010 she was recognized as one of Kansas City’s top female executives by Ingram’s Magazine.
BOB THARP
CLIENT SERVICE AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Bob has over 30 years of sales and marketing experience combined with 20 plus years’ experience in management and IT consulting. Leveraging his wealth of experience and creativity, he helps clients to successfully achieve their goals by diagnosing and developing strategies that resolve the root cause issues stunting their growth. Looking beyond the obvious and here and now, he’s able to quickly identify opportunities that deliver both rapid ROI and transformational change resulting in long-term success.