Meet Our Leadership Team

With more than 80 years of collective ERP and management consulting expertise, Panorama’s leadership team has assembled a team of world class players.

Portia Prescott – Managing Member, The Prescott Group, LLC

Portia Prescott, a corporate and entrepreneurial leader recognized for establishing thriving professional staffing, HR, business marketing, and technology operations, serves as Managing Member of The Prescott Group, LLC. A Brown University-educated HR executive and business development leader, Portia leads an international consulting practice offering IT strategy, ERP software selection, implementation, and organizational change management. The Prescott Group serves nonprofit, agricultural chemicals, manufacturing, distribution, consumer services, paper and packaging, aerospace, utilities, retail and defense engineering corporations of up to $3B in annual revenue.

Portia has served as the driving force behind a thriving professional staffing, HR, business marketing and technology evaluation operation recognized as a finalist for the Denver Chamber of Commerce’s Minority/Woman-Owned Business of the Year.

As an acknowledged leader in specialized staffing, Portia has recruited C-level executives, ERP subject matter experts, change management leaders, federal government consultants, PR experts, engineering resources, Lean Six Sigma professionals, aerospace specialists and supply chain professionals from U.S. and foreign corporations. Her influence extends to civic and philanthropic affiliations, with experience serving as a member of the Colorado Leadership Council for The White House Project and as a business strategist to a successful mayoral campaign. She also is a member of ExecConnect, a board member for the YESS Institute and a founding member of The Virtual Exchange.

Eric Kimberling – President

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 to name a few. In addition to extensive ERP experience, Eric has also helped clients with business process re-engineering, 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 – Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer

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 – Chief Operating Officer

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.

Meghan Buchanan – Director of Client Services

Meghan Buchanan joined Panorama from Lockheed Martin, where she was lead spacecraft survivability engineer for Human Spaceflight Advanced Programs (including both Project Orion and Constellation IRAD). The combination of her incredible technical expertise with her project management and leadership skills make Meghan a natural fit for ERP consulting and client service. Throughout her impressive career, she has won several awards for excellence in leadership and innovation, been published in top industry journals and chosen to speak at symposiums and events. She is a current applicant to the United States of America Astronaut Program.

Meghan holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering and an ME in Engineering Management from the University of Colorado.

Steve Matthews – Director of Client Services

As director of client services, Steve brings to bear two decades of experience in business development, marketing, operations andmanagement as well as industry expertise in supply chain, distribution and warehouse management. He has worked with more than 200 companies analyzing ERP software, current processes, investment alternatives and justifications, including nine years at an ERP vendor. His expert consulting provides organizations with a baseline financial analysis and process improvement for business model scalability and increased profitability. His work also enables clients to maximize software utilization and business process improvement.

Steve holds an Executive MBA from the University of Colorado.

Larry Bell – Manager of Vendor Relations

Larry Bell is the manager of vendor relations on Panorama’s software selection team. Having previously served as an inventory control manager, warehouse manager, buyer, planner, and purchasing manager, Larry brings extensive experience in the areas of supply chain management, distribution and manufacturing. His background also includes more than fifteen years experience working as a trainer and consultant with a variety of high-profile ERP software vendors.