Mr. Stone’s consulting experience has included assignments with Fortune 1000 manufacturing companies, as well as government and nonprofit organizations that serve manufacturing markets. His corporate consulting experience has involved projects based on strategic market analysis, competitive cost assessment and strategy, procurement strategy/supply chain management, and cost and profitability modeling. Mr. Stone’s assignments have required an understanding of markets and competitors in North America, Europe, and Asia.

His public sector work has included a series of major projects for the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), a national network that provides small manufacturing firms with consulting assistance in adopting advanced manufacturing technologies and leading management practices. His team generated groundbreaking work on small manufacturing customers/markets, identified strategic implications for best serving these customers, and helped MEP and their affiliates to implement the recommendations. Mr. Stone recently completed another study, which identified proven strategies used by successful manufacturers to compete against China and other low-cost countries.

Most recently, Mr. Stone completed a procurement project with The William Jefferson Clinton Foundation where he was instrumental in forging an agreement with leading generic pharmaceutical companies in India and South Africa. The landmark agreement will provide a major reduction—up to 50%—in the price of key HIV/AIDS drugs for millions of people in Africa and the Caribbean.

Melissa S. Kelly-McCabe
Melissa S. Kelly-McCabe, President and CEO of Clear Intent Strategy, Inc., is a strategist, business advisor, and dynamic public speaker. Having worked in industry and with corporate executives for nearly twenty years, she has assisted hundreds of leaders and boards create clarity of strategy, cause positive and lasting change, and realize their visions. With hands-on experience in manufacturing, engineering and private and public service organizations, Melissa's reach spans hundreds of manufacturers, non-profit firms, and industrial economic development corporations in 50 states, Canada, and the Caribbean. Prior to forming Clear Intent Strategy, Melissa held positions with WNY Technology Development Center, Inc., Price Waterhouse LLP, and General Motors Corporation, and was a guest lecturer at George Washington University and University at Buffalo. Melissa was an assistant to Dr. W. Edwards Deming for five years, researching thinking processes and teaching groups about Deming management principles. (Dr. Deming is credited with transforming Japanese management principles and causing the quality revolution.)

Melissa holds a Masters of Science in Organization Systems, focusing on Change Processes, from the University of Southern California, and a Bachelors degree in Statistics, minor in Industrial Engineering, from the University at Buffalo. Memberships include International Coach Federation, International Association of Facilitators; OD Network, and the Gestalt Institute Working Group.