Meet The Team
Charles Ayers
Charles Ayers
Charles Ayers is an Analyst with the Firm assisting consultants and attorneys with a variety of client and business development projects.
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Adam Benson
Adam Benson
Mr. Benson is a consultant with the firm’s Management Strategies Group. He combines his background in public finance, labor relations, and employee benefits to provide local governments with strategic financial and operational advice.
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Georgia Cochran
Georgia Cochran
Ms. Cochran is a human resources consultant with over 25 years of public sector human resources and labor relations experience.
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Bob Deis
Bob Deis
Mr. Deis, Senior Consultant, has spent 34 years in public service managing the finances of cities and counties in California, Oregon, and Washington. During his career, he managed a city with only 200 employees and a county with 5,000 employees.
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Howard Jordan
Howard Jordan
Mr. Jordan is a licensed private investigator at Jordan Consulting and Investigations, a self-established company that offers an array of services, including law enforcement consultations, legal services, investigations, and background investigations.
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Scott Kenley
Scott Kenley
Mr. Kenley provides expert consulting services in the areas of labor relations and Fire Service Management. His experience includes labor relations, contract negotiations, training, and strategic and organizational planning in the delivery of fire and life safety services. He has testified as a fire management and operations expert in arbitration proceedings.
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Brad Kilger
Brad Kilger
Mr. Kilger has over 40 years of professional municipal government experience, with more than 30 years of executive and senior level management experience, including 18 years as a City Manager.
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Bonnie Kolesar
Bonnie Kolesar
Bonnie Kolesar passionately approaches the management of risk as opportunity and seeks to help an organization achieve its goals and objectives using realistic approaches. Over an impressive 25-year career in public service, she has held risk manager positions in city, county, state and higher education arenas.
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Jim Leal
Jim Leal
Mr. Leal has over 33 years of professional law enforcement experience serving with the Alameda County and San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department, and the Newark Police Department.
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Michael McDougall
Michael McDougall
Mr. McDougall provides consulting services in all areas of human resources, labor relations, public safety communications, and joint powers authority (JPA) operational governance and design. He possesses over 35 years of local government executive experience and has held positions including founding Chief Executive Officer of a JPA, Director of a County operating department and as a County Human Resources Director.
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Joe Phares
Joe Phares
Mr. Phares possesses over 17 years of management-level experience working in the public sector with broad administrative responsibilities including budgeting and finance, information services management, contract development and administration, and capital improvement project management.
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Geoffrey Rothman
Geoffrey Rothman
Mr. Rothman provides expert consulting services in the areas of human resources and labor relations. His experience includes labor relations and contract negotiations, classification, compensation, personnel assessment, employee benefits, employment discrimination, training, and strategic and organizational planning.
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Gayle Satchwell
Gayle Satchwell
Ms. Satchwell is a human resources consultant with over 30 years of public sector human resources and labor relations experience.
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Scott Schneider
Scott Schneider
Mr. Schneider provides quality and experienced consulting work in the areas of labor negotiations, human resources, organization development and strategic planning.
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Neil Telford
Neil Telford
Ms. Satchwell is a human resources consultant with over 30 years of public sector human resources and labor relations experience.
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Walter Tibbet
Walter Tibbet
Mr. Tibbet brings more than forty years of experience in law enforcement having served in operational, administrative, and management functions while a member of the Alameda, San Jose and Fairfield Police Departments.
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Bill Zenoni
Bill Zenoni
Mr. Zenoni has more than 34 years of experience working in the public sector, primarily in the areas of finance, budgeting, fiscal analysis, and organizational management. As a consultant with the firm, Mr. Zenoni works with our public agency clients on budget balancing, financial forecasting, long range financial planning, and developing effective financial policies and procedures.
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