Meet Our Leadership Team

Eric Kimberling – Managing Partner

After 15 years of ERP consulting at large firms including PricewaterhouseCoopers and SchlumbergerSema, Eric Kimberling realized the need for an independent consulting firm that really understands both ERP and the business benefits it can enable.

He began his career as an ERP organizational change management consultant and eventually broadened his background to include implementation project management and software selection. Eric’s background includes extensive ERP software selection, ERP organizational change, and ERP implementation project management experience.

Throughout his career, Eric has helped dozens of high-profile and global companies with their ERP initiatives, including Kodak, Samsonite, Coors, Duke Energy and Lucent Technologies. In addition to his extensive ERP experience, Eric has also helped clients with business process reengineering, merger and acquisition integration, strategic planning and Six Sigma. Eric holds an MBA from Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver.

Read more in Eric Kimberling’s resume.

Calvin Hamler – Managing Partner

Calvin Hamler is a former Wall Street finance professional turned entrepreneur, with proven results building and leading organizations of significant size, scale, and complexity, managing both horizontal and vertical growth initiatives, and personally orchestrating and negotiating strategic mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures.

A summa cum laude graduate in finance and economics from the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver, Calvin has also carried various professional designations throughout his career, including a myriad of different securities industry licenses and accreditations in financial services. He also has served on boards of directors for financial services industry trade groups.

In 2002, Calvin started his own financial services firm, which grew to more than 600 employees generating $2.6 billion in financial asset production. In addition to building an industry-leading capital markets hedging and trading operation at the heart of the firm, he oversaw IT staff in both the development of proprietary ERP systems and the selection and implementation of off-the-shelf ERP solutions, ultimately orchestrating a joint venture with a startup software development firm to build proprietary middleware designed for the banking and financial services industries.

Read more in Calvin Hamler’s LinkedIn Profile.

Z. Vanessa Giacoman – Managing Partner

Vanessa Giacoman is a proven C-level executive with more than 15 years of experience driving corporate performance through business process optimization and IT solutions development credited with a strong ROI.

She began her career in the late 1990s serving as president and CEO of a mortgage bank, successfully executing a unique strategy that targeted the Latin American market and grew the company to more than 300 employees. At other firms, she was brought in as COO to drive corporate performance and implement cost cutting initiatives that drove down the organization’s cost to produce and reduced the production cycle time through process re-engineering and integration of enterprise-wide operations. In her last position, she crafted the overall corporate strategy, implemented financial ERP systems, introduced efficient business processes and deployed organizational change management initiatives that would take a 50-year old financial firm through its largest expansion yet.

Vanessa is a graduate of the Harvard School of Business, the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University and holds a double Bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley. She is fluent in Spanish and holds multiple financial designations, as well as her Six Sigma Black Belt. She also serves on both public and private boards, including the Colorado I Have a Dream Foundation and Pacific Mutual REIT.

Allan Bloom – Director, Client Services

With more than three decades of project management and process improvement experience in IT solution development and deployment, Allan has proved himself an invaluable resource during ERP implementations time and time again. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Allan has brought his expertise in areas as diverse as financial services, statistical project control, customer service, process architecture and strategic planning to enterprise and process management positions at Fiserv, Lehman Brothers and AdvizeX Technologies. He holds a BS in Management Information Systems from Robert Morris University and is a graduate of the Oracle Fellowship Program.

Kim Harrington – Director, Client Services

Kim has extensive IT experience in business development, governance and software delivery life cycle improvements – including ERP technology implementations and legacy conversions – as well as nearly a decade of project management and consulting experience.  She has worked with more than 100 companies analyzing and addressing ERP software, organizational change and business process needs in order to provide strategic development and operational enhancements. Kim holds a BA from Eastern New Mexico University and is both a current member of PMI and a certified PMP.

Rich Farrell – Senior Manager, Client Services

Rich Farrell is a former U.S. Naval Officer with 13 years of technical and operational experience in military and government entities. As principal engineer and business developer at Cosmic Advanced Engineered Solutions, Rich oversaw business process improvements for multiple projects including the U.S. Air Force and the Department of Homeland Defense. In 2010, he received designation as an Associate Technical Fellow for the Camber Corporation. Rich is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering. He also holds a Master of Arts in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College and a Master of Science in Physics from the Naval Postgraduate School. He is currently pursuing his Master of Business Administration at the University of Colorado.