James Kennedy, President and Founder: MBA - James brings over 10 years of consulting, marketing and technology experience. He began this work after graduating from the Bentley College Graduate School of Management. James has worked with a diverse group of industries from financial services to printing, from hospitality to photography, and from manufacturing to real estate. This work includes market research, website design and development, e-commerce, marketing campaigns, sales improvement, systems analyses, brand creation, promotions, direct mail advertising and public relations. He directs his creative talents to generate strong brand awareness and increased customer loyalty. This is always done with an eye toward improving time to market and reducing costs. His systems consulting highlights the advantages technology can bring to an organization when executives and managers work collaboratively with information technology.

Michael Puckett, Managing Principal and Senior Consultant: MBA, MSA- As a graduate of the Suffolk University Master’s program he has earned himself two post-graduate degrees including a Masters of Business Administration & a Masters of Accounting. Mike has worked with MMT clients from a wide variety of industries acting as resource for strategic and financial planning. Michael has helped several organizations achieve profitability through financial planning and innovative business solutions. Michael’s ability to analyze internal functions and initiate innovative incremental strategic goals has been recognized by numerous MMT clients. His expertise lies in Blue Ocean Strategy formulation and financial operations. Over the years he has added value to MMT client’s organizations through the creation and implementation of strategic & financial plans with a heavy focus on differentiation strategy. With a strong background in cost accounting his work tends to generate revenue that has not yet been realized by unlocking hidden potential of existing assets.

Bill Tuxbury, Senior Consultant and Interim Executive: MBA - Bill brings over 30 years of business experience, an executive with extensive hands-on P&L leadership experience and expertise in general management, sales/marketing, manufacturing and operations. Bill, a Harvard MBA and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, has developed and revitalized companies, successfully improving top and bottom line results and organizational effectiveness. Bill is an experienced senior level executive who has managed transitions, crisis and change within small to mid-sized companies. His hands-on implementation experience and broad strategic vision focused helps him improve profitability and efficiencies for MMT clients.

Court Booth, Senior Consultant - Court is a community educator and action learning specialist with over 25 years of experience designing and delivering training programs and interventions for industry groups and educational institutions. Court has worked with clients in a wide range of business endeavors over the course of his career, often as a representative of organizations such as Outward Bound, Project Adventure, and other leading edge providers of organizational development services. He also has a background in sales and marketing. Court focuses on team development and adventure-based learning in his current role with MMT.

Mark Lehrer, Senior Consultant: Ph.D, Ph.D - Associate Professor of Management at Suffolk University in Boston. He obtained his BS in Economics at MIT in 1980. He worked as a computer programmer in Silicon Valley while pursuing a first PhD in German Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. For five years, he worked as an Assistant Professor of German (19th-century literature) at the University of Colorado at Denver and the Free University of Berlin. In 1991, he decided to change fields and pursued doctoral studies at the famous international business school INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He wrote his doctoral thesis on European civil aviation with Professor Yves Doz, a renown international strategy expert and co-author of many authoritative books, including The Multinational Mission (with C.K. Prahalad) and Alliance Advantage (with Gary Hamel).

He has authored about 20 articles and 10 book chapters, publishing in noted academic journals that include Journal of World Business, California Management Review, Research Policy, Organization Studies, and Industrial and Corporate Change. He has regularly taught strategic management since 1999, and he has written a set of 11 modules on the core topics of strategic management that together comprise a genuine textbook for his MBA students, constantly revising them to keep abreast of new developments. His expertise in strategy is further demonstrated by the fact that since 2001 he is the author of The Wall Street Journal Instructor’s Review in Strategic Management, a weekly national online column accessible to hundreds of management educators who adopt the Wall Street Journal for use in their classes. His research activities bring him regularly to work on collaborative projects in Europe, especially at the Kiel Institute of World Economics (Germany) and the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (Austria).

Jeffery Davis, Strategic Partner - Davis works with clients on a personal basis and utilizes his diverse background and unusual flexibility to identify corporate goals and develop a strategy to enhance growth or ensure a smooth transition. Davis' approach keeps him actively involved with every client and always available to address their needs or concerns. Over the past two decades, Davis has worked with hundreds of owners and leaders of emerging and transitioning firms to define their vision and goals and achieve overall success. His expertise includes advising executives of growing organizations on all aspects of leadership, from initial strategy and organizational design and change to marketing and business plan implementation. Before founding Mage, Davis established his reputation as an entrepreneurial strategist, organizational change agent and marketing and sales expert working for well-known international organizations, including Johnson & Johnson, Avis and Quaker Oats. Davis is a member of the Family Firm Institute, the National Association of Corporate Directors, President Emeritus of the New England Jewish National Fund and today serves as the Jewish National Fund's Zone President for the New England Region. Davis did his undergraduate work at Concordia University in Montreal, where he majored in psychology and commerce. He pursued graduate studies at the University of Ottawa, majoring in marketing with a minor in human resource development.