staff

Jim Stoynoff

President
Synthesis Solutions

As Synthesis Solutions founder and president, Jim Stoynoff has ultimate responsibility for managing the firm’s interactions with clients and ensuring that they are best positioned to maximize their organization’s full potential.

Ken Volz

Senior Consultant
Synthesis Solutions

Ken Volz is a business development and financial senior advisor who works with companies to assist them in building stronger and more profitable businesses. During the last 20 years he has helped a variety of companies improve their competitiveness, become more efficient and generate over $10 billion in enterprise value. His specific areas of expertise include:

Mike Sullivan

Senior Consultant
Synthesis Solutions

Mike Sullivan knows first-hand about the challenges that small business owners and entrepreneurs face. In fact, his career in entrepreneurship began when he started an import/export business while in college to help pay his tuition. After graduating, he held marketing and sales positions with several major corporations, before going on to his most significant business endeavor.

Russ Scalpone

Senior Consultant
Synthesis Solutions

Russ Scalpone, PH.D, provides consulting and research in organization effectiveness and change management and works at all levels of the client organization to facilitate change and help clients in improve individual, team, and organizational performance. Specific areas of expertise include:

Bob Nelson

Senior Consultant
Synthesis Solutions

Bob Nelson is an accomplished senior electronics manufacturing executive that includes 16 years of multi-functional executive assignments in product development, manufacturing, sales and business acquisition and integration.

His experience includes 10 years of P&L responsibility as President of North American divisions of European manufacturing companies.

Scott McGarvey

Senior Consultant
Synthesis Solutions

Scott McGarvey has 18 years’ experience in consulting and industry. His areas of focus include acquisition search and due diligence, post-merger integration, start-up ventures, new and re-positioned product lines, and integrated marketing through multiple channels.

Scott works with clients to plan and execute a fact-based process for strategic mergers and acquisitions:

Jerry Hicks

Senior Consultant
Synthesis Solutions

Jerry Hicks is a seasoned executive with domestic and international experience developing and executing strategic initiatives that drive operational improvements. Jerry has established a reputation for delivering measurable results for large multi-nationals, and he successfully scales this methodology to benefit smaller enterprises across many industries. His specific areas of expertise include:

Patricia Guerzo

Senior Consultant
Synthesis Solutions

With more than eighteen years of experience in finance, internal audit, and supply chain-logistics, Patricia Guerzo has a reputation for achieving bottom line results through effective project management and innovative leadership. Her background includes:

Joel Goldhar

Senior Consultant
Synthesis Solutions

Joel Goldhar is a professor of technology management at the Stuart Graduate School of Business at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He teaches Business Policy and Strategy, Operations and Technology Management, Industrial Marketing and the Management of Technology and Innovation.

Marina Davis

Senior Consultant
Synthesis Solutions

Marina Davis is a highly sought after facilitator and an expert in organizational and leadership development.

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