Leadership

The partners Mihwa Cha, Susan Bennett and Dr. Francois Sauer have over 90 years of collective business experience with expertise in strategy, engineering, IT, product development, and sales.


Mihwa Cha Mihwa Cha, Managing Partner and Co-Founder

Ms. Cha has 25 years of business experience and executive management in telecommunications R&D, network technologies, software, products and services development. Her previous role was with Sprint as VP Product Development managing a $3B portfolio of devices, their design, development and launch (e.g. integration with services and distribution channels). Under her tenure Sprint released the first camera phone and mobile Internet in the US. Prior to that she successfully built from the ground up the best-in-class technology integration organization with 350 engineers and virtual network facilities for verification and integration of all Sprint’s products and services.

Susan Bennett Susan Bennett, Senior Partner and Co-Founder

Ms. Bennett’s 18 years of business experience and executive management included practices in engineering, product development, sales & marketing within the oil & gas, telecommunications and transportation industries. Her accomplishments include: the successful launch of a tank monitoring business on behalf of two other organizations, securing investments and leading the design and development of one of the first cloud-based asset tracking solutions for the transportation industry. Her past 7-8 years has predominantly been focused on Sales & Marketing of new innovations in the telecom industry.

Francois Sauer Francois Sauer, Senior Partner & Chief Catalyst

Dr. Sauer, M.D., M.B.A., & M.S., is an expert in the domains of systems thinking, human relations, and international operations. As a catalyst, author, philosopher and scientist his proven approaches are both innovative and pragmatic. Over the past three decades he has delivered organizational improvements and profitable business growths. He is a co-founder of Supercourse, a preventative healthcare network of over 56000 scientists in 174 countries. He has served as a CEO, executive, adviser, and consultant to large enterprises as well as start-up ventures. His tenure has included Banamex (Health Services executive), AT&T and DEC, and CEO of Cerner International.

As Senior Partner, Dr. Sauer addresses significant problems in the domain of real-time business intelligence and situational awareness. He is also the CEO of Trans AM Group, an international organization that fosters relationships and trade between the U.S.A., Canada and Mexico.

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