Career Consultants
Meet Our Career Consultants:
This team of experts work with you to determine your specific career and employment needs and how Stewart, Cooper & Coon may apply our considerable resources to meet these needs. Their other function is to present your candidacy to our coaching, recruiting, administrative, and candidate marketing teams who will be working on your candidacy.
Chuck McConnell, President & Chief Operating Officer
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Charles "Chuck" McConnell has been a leading voice in career management for many years. He defined and developed First Career Corporation and FindCareer.com and serves as the "Career Expert" for New York American Marketing Association. He has published numerous articles on the subject of career management and search preparation and has organized national and international conferences that have assisted thousands in getting their career searches on track.
Prior to his work in career services, Chuck was the Senior Consulting Partner at The Watson Group, a strategic communications agency based in NYC. His background includes corporate management positions with multinational marketers in the packaged goods, snack, confection, toy and apparel industries. Chuck was President of The Apparel Group Limited, building worldwide acceptance of men's apparel. He also has held global management positions at top advertising agencies such as WPP, Bozell and DMB&B and major marketers including Hanes, International Playtex and General Foods. Chuck earned his MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and a BA in economics from DePauw University and Exeter University in England.
Connie C. McGhee, Executive Career Consultant
Residing in Colorado, Connie is currently the Publisher of the Colorado Edition of PubLinks Golfer Magazine, a publication reaching 40,000 daily subscribers in the Colorado and Rocky Mountain Region. Connie is a graduate of Temple University with a degree in Journalism.
Judy Reeves, Executive Career Consultant
Judy Reeves has spent a considerable portion of her career in the legal field, working with trial lawyers and judges. Following her legal career, she was tapped by the Trampoline and Power Tumbling Program of USA Gymnastics to assist them in having that sport recognized by the U.S. Olympic Committee. She secured the sport's first television exposure when she served in the U.S. Director's office.
Her primary responsibility was guiding the national governing board, foreign delegations and members of the International Federation of Trampoline and Power Tumbling. She also assisted in managing The Pan Pacific Games, a weeklong competition between teams from Australia, South Africa, Japan, Mexico, Canada and the U.S.
As an entrepreneur, Judy built a residential and commercial design firm whose primary focus was residential and commercial projects ranging from 14,000 - 100,000 square feet that generated over $1M in first year revenue.
Judy spends her spare time working in fundraising for non-profit organizations. Her focus and passion is raising money for needed pediatric equipment for the American Heart Association. What Judy understands is people and how to move the barriers that stand in the way of their achieving their personal goals.
E. R. (Reggie) Reeves, Executive Career Consultant
For 23 years Reggie Reeves was a practicing attorney. He has represented members of the Dallas Cowboys, NCAA athletes, private individuals, small to mid-size public and privately held companies, oil and gas interests and real estate corporations throughout Texas. His specialties are medical and hospital law, banking law, international business relations, oil and gas and IPOs for both start-up companies and established entities. He also has extensive experience with Central and South American joint ventures and in promoting and managing business ventures in Andean pact countries, as well as the United States.
He serves his community by working with a committee to bring a medical facility to his local area, and worked with associated attorneys to set up a foundation for that purpose. He also served on the committee to revise the by-laws of the local community theater and was active in contract negotiations on behalf of the group with the Executive Director.
Reggie obtained his Law Degree, with honors, from Texas Tech University School of Law.
Carmine Tirone, Executive Career Consultant
Carmine's career was focused on assisting clients achieve their career search goals. He founded and served as President of Career Dynamics, where clients have been introduced to the value of “branding” on a personal level to achieve transition goals. He also has executive credentials and extensive background in trade show general management roles, dealing with Fortune 100 businesses and a productive career in marketing management. Companies he has helped in developing national business opportunities include Mercedes Benz, Nike, Dunkin Doughnuts, Kraft, Siemens and Colgate.
He has over 20 years experience in senior level sales management and business development roles, following the creation of a successful venture in the career seminar industry. His recent experience has focused on trade show presentations where he generated multi-million dollar business-to-business programs as GM, SVP and President of national firms working with growth-oriented, high profile clients. Carmine also has proven himself to be effective in virtual business venues, excelling in managing high value, tangible and intangible programs to major businesses. A native New Yorker who earned his degree at Long Island University, he contributes to his community in Illinois as a pro bono, Certified Life and Wellness Coach.
Carmine welcomes the opportunity to serve executives in their career search by providing perspective to develop results-oriented employment campaigns.
Jeff Resnick, Executive Career Consultant
jresnick@stewartcoopercoon.com
Jeff Resnick has spent the past 25+ years developing advertising and sales promotional programs for Fortune 500 companies. Companies such as National City Bank, American Express, Sherwin-Williams, Levi Strauss, and American Greetings have profited from Jeff's unique incremental profit-based incentive programs that tie in all levels of employees.
Jeff has developed bottom-line oriented sales training programs as well as all levels of executive/management training. In addition, Jeff has had extensive experience in designing Career Paths within both large corporate organizations and smaller startup companies. For his highly creative strategies, Jeff has won multiple awards. He has also successfully built national sales teams and managed national product distribution channels.
Jeff has an Organizational Communication degree with a BA and MA from Ohio State University.
Jerry Strohman, Executive Career Consultant
jstrohman@stewartcoopercoon.com
Jerry has the experience for setting and making difficult management decisions and achieving results based upon them. He is known as a hand's on manager credited for increasing business while eliminating unnecessary costs.
Jerry comes to us from one of America's best known brewing companies, Miller Brands. As General Manager, he was responsible for all profit and loss decisions and managed sales, marketing, brand management, national accounts, finance, inventory and distribution. He was also responsible for labor relations.
Jerry's distinguished career is not without national recognition: Presidents Club-Outstanding Achievement award for Seven Up; Salesman of the Month 22 Times and Salesman of the Year twice. At Olympia Brewing, he won the treasured Golden Horseshoe Award for being the number 15 out of 325 Distributors nationwide. While at Miller Brewing Company, he was named a Miller Master by being their number 20 distributor, out of 437 possible contenders.
Arthur Lane, Executive Career Consultant
Arthur Lane has more than 30 years of experience in the areas of sales, consulting, and financial management.
Arthur began his career in the financial world, where he held a number of positions over a 15-year span:
the first being in a public accounting firm, and the last being the Chief Financial Officer for Colborne Corporation,
a $30M manufacturer of custom high volume food processing equipment.
Next, his career transitioned to consulting and business process improvement with Origin Technology.
Arthur then joined Oracle Corporation in a consulting role before progressing to sales and business development within the company.
Upon leaving Oracle, he joined RCG Information Technology and led their Enterprise Solutions Group for several years.
Prior to joining SC&C, Arthur worked for a national technology-based career consulting organization, in a sales role.
Arthur currently resides in Chicago.
Glenn Appleyard, Executive Career Consultant
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Prior to joining Stewart, Cooper & Coon, Glenn Appleyard worked as a senior marketing consultant successfully developing brand- and business-building marketing programs for top Fortune 500 companies and their ‘flagship’ brands. Working across a broad spectrum of the marketing mix, he leveraged his strong communications, marketing and creative skills to develop high market recognition and sales for both consumer and business-to-business clients.
Previously, Glenn worked as both an executive placement consultant and an outplacement consultant, bringing to this work, a broad and diversified career that included vice president level positions with Citibank, Manufacturers Hanover Trust and Bankers Trust, Managing Director for The Ryan Partnership and New Business Development for Howard Bedford Nolan, a promotion marketing agency. Glenn received his MBA from Seton Hall University with a double major in Quantitative Analysis and Marketing. He received his BA degree in Zoology from the University of New Hampshire. He is a published writer over most of his career and helped author a book on Bank Operations Management.
Bill Donelson, Executive Career Consultant
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Prior to joining Stewart, Cooper, and Coon, Bill Donelson served as a Senior Vice President of a nationally known executive coaching and placement firm. Clients have included senior executives from industry leaders Kellogg Corporation, GM, Delco, Quest, Kodak, BellSouth, Honeywell, Citicorp, IBM, and Nike, among many others.
Bill brings outstanding leadership and organizational abilities, extensive management experience and superior communication skills, verbal and written, to his position as a Vice President with McKenzie Scott Partners. He is a proactive problem solver with outstanding skills dealing with people and facilitating issues. He is a consummate professional with a multifaceted background in human resources management, organizational development, and public speaking.
He obtained his B.S. in Accounting from the University of Wyoming. Later he obtained his master degree in counseling from Denver Seminary. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Colorado.
Early in Bill’s career, he served as Controller and Finance Manager in the automotive industry. After that, he successfully launched, operated, and sold several franchise businesses. Later, he was the Business Manager and Controller for a $150 million commodity trading firm (which owned a nationally-known western art gallery).
Bill worked in a human resources consulting firm, where he consulted with companies, groups, and individuals on a variety of interpersonal and organizational issues. He conducted seminars, workshops, and teambuilding retreats. Later, he operated his own consulting practice.
He also founded a nonprofit corporation providing counsel to other non-profits throughout the Western U.S. in the areas of staff and board development as well as fundraising campaign management issues.
Bill is the co-author of “Coaching Tips for Job Seekers – Keys and Secrets for Success.”
Tim O'Neil, Executive Career Consultant
After twenty-five years as a sales executive for Fortune 500 companies, Tim O'Neil entered into the business of career consulting eight years ago and puts to use his extensive knowledge of corporate America to help executives in job or career transition.
Tim’s performance has always been in the top tier in each company he has served - ending his career in the Fortune 500 as the number one new business development officer for Bank of America, Fleet Bank and U.S. Trust.
Respected as “change agent”, to implement a new sales approach and launch systems, company wide, Tim has always been tapped as an 'internal consultant' to other corporate areas. His primary responsibility has been to infuse new thinking and implement new strategies to meet corporate goals.
Tim has brought his experience of change management, mentoring employees, and servicing clients to the career services industry, enabling him to help individuals attain their career management goals. Tim holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Lehigh University as well as certification from the National Trust School at Northwestern University.
Michael Rossillo, Executive Career Consultant
mrossillo@stewartcoopercoon.com
Michael's senior level experience includes positions in the executive placement field as a Senior Marketing Consultant and Medical Executive Recruiting. Prior to joining Stewart, Cooper & Coon, Michael created brand identities and marketing programs for industry leaders including Miller Brewing, Pepsi, Nabisco, Pizza Hut, M&M Mars, Citibank and Johnson & Johnson. With experience across the entire marketing mix, Michael has worked as a Executive Consultant and Creative Director in sales promotion agencies and successfully founded several Marketing firms. Michael's diverse experience and valuable corporate contributions have been based upon on his ability to identify opportunities, solve problems and get results. Michael is a graduate of Central Connecticut State University, earning a BA in Graphic Design Management and his BS in Marketing.
Oliver Cornell, Executive Career Consultant
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Oliver is one of the early adopters of the use of modern marketing techniques to effect the transition of highly successful executives and professionals from one position to another. He is one of the pioneers in the development of individual and corporate outplacement consulting practices that saw career transition as a marketing problem, a problem of positioning, packaging, promoting and pricing.
Oliver began his career as a college teacher and became involved in publishing, eventually running a small publishing house in Chicago-Printers Row Press. Printers Row published a weekly newspaper, pamphlets, journals and books, primarily in the political arena.
In early 1980 he joined one of the founding companies in the new field of outplacement rooted in the principles of modern marketing-Robert Jameson & Associate. Rising to the position of Executive Vice President he was one of the key associates to grow the company nationwide, personally working a long the way helping to place hundreds of senior level managers and executives in new and exciting growth opportunities.
In 1986 he formed his own firm-Cornell Business Associates and built the company to cover twenty one major market areas in the West and successfully worked with thousands of clients.
He took early retirement in 2001, managed investments and helped found a company to raise money for schools. The company eventually incorporated the latest in Internet technology and became the popular site www.schoolpop.com.
Realizing the absolute necessity of using the internet and its enormous access to information to run a successful executive search he joined Stewart, Cooper & Coon coming back to the business of helping serious minded executives find rewarding new jobs and careers.
Kevin Barker, Executive Career Consultant
Kevin Barker has one common theme in his extensive transition management background - client success. Besides his career consulting work with executives whose salaries range from $100 - $500K, he also served as National Recruiting Manager for a leading executive career transition firm.
With franchise marketing responsibility for major real estate groups and their insurance divisions, he increased market penetration. An expert in strategic business development, P&L management, organization problem solving, agency management, marketing and advertising campaigns, Kevin successfully directed regional expansion efforts for Allied Group and Metro 100 USA.
As the President of CBS Homes Inc. Kevin developed and built custom, million dollar executive homes which have increased equity for their owners over the years and been featured on the cover of regional home publications. He served as Vice President within the Metropolitan Homebuilders Association of Denver, Colorado.
Since starting his career years ago as a teacher, Kevin has continued to be known for helping others achieve their goals and success. Teacher of the Year in 1982 and All Conference Varsity Basketball Coach of the Year in 1985 are evidence of his emphasis on teamwork, a winning attitude, and producing results. Kevin earned his BA from William Jewell College and his MA from Grace College.
Bill Henner, Executive Career Consultant
bhenner@stewartcoopercoon.com With more than 25 years of experience in financial services, asset based lending and constructing risk management strategies, Bill has a record of helping investors to maximize returns on their investments. In the volatile world of commodity futures, he excelled in the role of Exchange Trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade. Bill also created a proprietary trading organization, specializing in foreign currency and fixed income futures investments.
Using his extensive sales and client relations experience within the financial arena and in executive transition management, Bill is able to contribute valuable counsel to clients he serves at Stewart, Cooper & Coon. He is a physical fitness devotee, now as in the past when he was the Illinois State Triathlon Champion. Bill earned his BA in Psychology with a minor in Political Science at Stanford University.
John Lytle, Executive Career Consultant
With 18 years of management experience in retail/wholesale and investment management, John has proven success in consulting, client relations and problem resolution. In 1996, John relocated to Phoenix, AZ and embarked on a new career in the investment industry. As a Financial Advisor, he developed keen analytical skills that were used in understanding the various investment markets and the economy. John successfully managed a large base of loyal clients who came to him for recommendations on their investment portfolios. Commonly, he provided them with a detailed suitability analysis and needs based advice. In 2003, John’s entrepreneurial tendencies and past business experiences directed him to Franchise Consulting. He advised his clients as to the most suitable concepts based on extensive profile analysis and coaching. Subsequently, John saw a great opportunity to assist the many executives transitioning in the corporate world. He has a BA degree in Broadcasting from Ball State University.
