Colin Cook, CEO
Micah Dylan, Application Architecture
Joe Garma, Business Strategy

Christina Chew, Business Process & Strategy
Margery Mayer, Business Process & Strategy

Colin Cook, CEO
Colin entered the field of management consulting after an 9-year career in advertising, during which time he served clients such as Levi Strauss, ATT, Blue Shield, and Virgin Megastore. As an executive producer at Foote Cone Belding San Francisco and founding partner of Swirl Advertising, he witnessed firsthand that while advertising can generate interest and motivate initial trial, it is operational excellence that creates sustained customer loyalty and, ultimately, builds brand equity. He formed Shepard Associates in 2001 to help life science companies increase their customer equity by aligning processes, workforce skills, and technology.

Micah Dylan, Technical Services
Micah has a background in both sociology and software architecture. Past roles include Senior Software Architect for Hewlett Packard and Lead Developer at Process Claims. Micah has a Masters in Sociology from University of Mississippi, where he acted as Director of the Sociology Research Laboratory, responsible for teaching statistical methods to undergraduates and training lab workers. Micah’s ability to blend insight into human behavior with advanced software architecture skills make him the idea lead for process-driven application development.

Joe Garma, Business Strategy
Joe advises Shepard Associates on matters related to strategic partners, sales and marketing. For over 18 years, he has worked in the financial services, software, and Internet industries running corporate development, sales and marketing departments. Formerly a start-up operations specialist at Shepard, Joe currently is the Vice President of Business Development at Capital Alliance Advisors, Inc., a fixed-income fund manager, where he is responsible for deal structuring, raising investment capital and for overall marketing. At Utopia Technology, a CRM applications vendor, Joe built and managed the marketing, business development, direct sales and channel operations. He also has experience as Managing Director for investment banker JCM Financial, and Vice President of Shearson Lehman Hutton (now Lehman Brothers). A Board Advisor to Pro Health, Inc. and Financial Navigator, Inc., Joe holds an M.A. in Applied Economics and Finance and a B.A. in Mathematical Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was a Regents Scholar and a Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) Fellow.

Christina Chew, Business Process and Strategy
Christina has experience in the healthcare industry where she held various positions in marketing and finance with Hewlett-Packard, Partners Healthcare, Stryker Orthopaedics, Immersion and Digene Corporation. In addition, she has experience in management consulting. During her tenure at Emergence Consulting, she has helped clients apply and implement the principals of Balanced Scorecard to align organizations against a strategic change agenda. Christina holds a B.A. in Biochemistry from Mount Holyoke College, and an MBA from University of Rochester's Simon School.

Margery Mayer, Business Process and Strategy
Margery Mayer has been a consultant focusing on Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness for over ten years. She has helped in restructuring, reviewing policies and processes to become more effective, developing management teams in leadership and critical thinking and improving communication throughout the organization. She has worked with CEOs, CFOs, Presidents VPs and Managers to understand the issues they face in delivering effectively to their organizations. Prior to consulting, Margery was the Worldwide Director of IT for a leading high tech manufacturer where she oversaw technology implementations and developed a program for organizational readiness that is still used today. Margery is currently working towards her PhD in business leadership.