Leadership
| | Scott GauvinCEOOperations and Strategy Scott is a seasoned change agent with over 20 years of experience successfully helping organizations realize their potential. Throughout his career, Scott’s focus has been on driving performance gains through organizational alignment and a progressive approach to operations strategy. He has advised companies the world over and across a wide range of industries including pharmaceuticals, biotech, consumer goods, medical devices, agriculture, packaging, and industrial manufacturing. In addition to driving the growth of Macresco’s consultancy practice, Scott counsels client organizations in transition and is most often involved in strategic endeavors that include assessing a company’s capabilities and capacity for change as well as innovating underperforming business models to improve Total Cost of Ownership and market opportunity. Prior to launching Macresco, Scott was a business management consultant and began his career in the tech space specializing in systems design and architecture. He holds a BA from the University of Massachusetts, an MBA from Boston University and is a Six Sigma Black Belt.  Connect with Scott |
 | Judith MendozaCMOMarketing and Strategy Judith is a strategy and communications leader with an intuitive ability to understand and speak to the needs of an organization’s most important audiences. Equally, at home in startup environments or large enterprise cultures, she has over 20 years of experience engaging employees, customers, and consumers both locally or globally. A multilingual and bicultural storyteller, her strengths include strategy, branding, and messaging with a focus on driving change and improving business outcomes. Her client-facing work with Macresco centers around advising executive leadership on the market relevance of their business model, the strength of their go-to marketing strategy, and the effectiveness of their branding and engagement efforts. She also supports client endeavors through the development of insight-driven calls to action: From campaigns that cultivate community and change hearts and minds to initiatives that amplify external demand and spur internal performance. Prior to joining Macresco, Judith was the Director of Brand Strategy at a global experience marketing agency, GPJ. She studied Advertising and Communications at Boston University. Connect with Judith |
| | Ernie AhumadaCONSULTANTOperations Change Leader Ernie is a versatile operations and manufacturing executive with over 35 years of experience leading Continuous Improvement initiatives across Fortune 100 companies. With a focus on developing operational and workforce capability, he supports clients’ efforts to transform performance via step-change improvement - be it for a stand-alone facility or multinational end to end endeavor. Prior to joining Macresco, Ernie ran global Lean efforts for two of the world’s leading organizations in consumer packaged goods. His efforts at these companies hinged on leveraging operations excellence as a competitive advantage. To that end, Ernie’s tenure in the CPG environment forged his ability to tame complexity as well as the discipline to consistently and effective execute in the name of operational turn arounds in particular. Ernie holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Six Sigma Green Belt and is certified to train, coach and facilitate inter-personal topics related to technical management, personnel management and strategy development. Connect with Ernie |
| | Adam DworkinCONSULTANTFinance and Accounting Change Leader Adam has over 30 years of experience supporting clients spanning several industries from not-for-profits to High Tech and manufacturing with companies large and small. He began his career at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and continued on with a CPA firm where he helped clients navigate complex accounting and tax issues. Adam has also worked as a controller leading the financial direction of companies and guiding them to go public, such as USWebCKS, SSH, ZipCar, and HEFA. Adam has developed forecasting and budgeting models, managed internal and external financial reporting, established financial strategies to help organizations grow, and has filled the role of Interim CFO for several companies, managing them through successful growth strategies, acquisition as well as post-merger accounting integration for the acquiring companies. Adam holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from San Jose University and is an active CPA in multiple states. Connect with Adam |