Joseph S. Jacob, Board of Directors & Group Chairman

Joseph S. Jacob is a renowned global strategist, board member and experienced leader in technology-enabled fields. He is a gifted scientist with engineering and executive management degrees from renowned International institutions and an honorary Doctorate of Pedagogy. 

For more than 35 years, he has been providing technology and execution assistance to technocrats, corporate leaders, boards, and investors in diverse geographies including Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America. His experience as an entrepreneur and technocrat has enabled him to successfully launch multiple International companies.  

The arenas that Joseph focuses his strategic expertise, methods and ideas with a history of success include analytics, inter-disciplinary engineering technologies, communications, computing, information, magnetics and green energy technologies.  His unique way of strategically analyzing and accessing the business landscape, coupled with technology and execution experiences, offers a fresh framework for understanding how technology and change can create “Economic Sublimation" possibilities.

Mr. Joseph follows the principle of “Twist the technology, to make the Usage Simple” a methodology that identifies key principles necessary to gain and maintain success.  His creative mind invents new technologies and products, and he holds multiple International Patents. His involvement includes boards of directors, advisory roles, executive leadership presentations and keynotes.

Barry F. Smith, Managing Partner

Strengths – Product design, research and development, product engineering, cross company initiatives and collaboration

Experience – Aerospace industry in the fields of satellite communications, in private industry in electronic banking terminals, computer mainframes, and word processing machines, started a private business with computer aided design, hardware and software systems, and programming.

Education – Prior to and while attending GA Institute of Technology Mr. Smith was an associate professor at DeVry University in Communications and Electronics.  He graduated in 1981 with a degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from GA Institute of Technology.

Jeffrey W. Hunter, Managing Partner

Strengths – Business planning, sales, marketing, professional services consulting practices and implementation, management, enterprise and startup experience,

Experience – The Hartford, Deere & Company, Baxter Healthcare and Allegiance Healthcare, service providers such as BellSouth Wireless Data, Sears Business Systems, Ram Mobile Data and Inacom, and startups in software ClientSoft, Inc. As a division CIO (The Hartford), he introduced BPM (business  process management) front end to AS400 applications, reorganized IT department reducing headcount by 35% and expenses by 30%, introduced Governance, retooled staff skill sets/capabilities, established a PMO and SOX Compliance; As a sales leader (Sears, Inacom) Jeff drove enterprise level sales to Fortune 500 companies generating over 300 million in revenue; Experienced in startups, Jeff established professional services practices, authored programs for contracts processes, project controls, project life cycle management and web-based time reporting increasing sales by 25% raising professional services utilization to 81%.

Education – Jeff holds a Bachelors of Business (Cum Laude) from Western Illinois University.

Harold (Hal) Trebes, PhD, Partner

Strengths – Business strategy development, business operations and process analysis, SOA analysis and design, Object-Oriented analysis and design, software development, and project management in a broad range of technical and organizational environments. 

Experience – Industries served include telecommunications and media, entertainment, financial services, aerospace, health care, logistics, government (local and federal), utilities, academia, and retail.  Experience also includes large systems/software installation, maintenance, capacity planning and performance measurement, hardware/software evaluation and selection, conversion and migration projects as well as data center and MIS control review.

Hal’s expertise in sophisticated software algorithms is the foundation of GGP’s capabilities manipulating current and producing the orders of magnitude improvement in systems performance.