Our Team

Engagement Leadership

Ivona Grimberg

MANAGING PARTNER

MBA Emory University, BA University of Mississippi, MIT AI Strategy Certificate, Amazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner, IC Agile Certified Professional, Project Management Professional (PM Institute)

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PMP Certified · D1 Tennis Scholar

Ivona Grimberg is a senior program executive with over 20 years of experience leading large-scale technology modernization, analytics, and risk management initiatives for the federal government and Fortune 500 companies. As Senior Program Leader at Booz Allen Hamilton, she has directed multiple cross-functional teams of more than 50 professionals on an operational transformation programs for government agencies, including cloud migration and robotic process automation, and led a 15-person analytics team that developed risk models addressing a $28 billion tax gap, delivering strategies that achieved $500 million in savings. Ivona has advised senior federal executives on identity verification for more than 100 million users, designed omnichannel service strategy for a call center serving 80 million customers, and strengthened data stewardship guidelines protecting more than 200 external data holders. Earlier in her career, she founded a boutique advisory practice serving Fortune 500 clients and delivered international tax strategy at Ernst & Young. A former competitive professional and collegiate athlete, Ivona was a Division I full scholarship recipient for women’s tennis, bringing the same discipline, focus, and drive to her career in program leadership.

Tracy L. Williams

MANAGING PARTNER

MBA Florida A&M University, BBA Florida A&M University, MIT AI Strategy Certificate, Wharton M&A Certificate, Certified Treasury Professional (expired), Series 7 Licensee (expired), US ARMY Military Police Leadership

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A disciplined program management leader, Tracy L. Williams has spent his career turning strategic plans into structured, milestone-driven execution across finance, operations, and growth initiatives. He is a veteran operating executive, board director, and turnaround leader with over 30 years of experience spanning private equity, corporate strategy, commercial banking, and executive finance. As Senior Operating Partner and Portfolio Company Executive Chairman at Sovereign’s Capital Management, he guided a lower middle market investment fund’s portfolio companies through growth and operational transformation. His career spans chief strategy officer, CFO, CEO, and board leadership roles across telecommunications, banking, mortgage finance, enterprise software, and restaurant operations, including leading a public safety telecom integrator’s growth strategy, co-founding a private equity advisory practice, and guiding companies through Chapter 11 reorganization, SEC-compliant capital raises, and multi-hundred-million-dollar portfolio growth. Over his career, Tracy has coordinated more than $2 billion in enterprise value and generated returns exceeding 40% IRR across more than 20 direct investments.

Sheetal Maithel

MANAGING DIRECTOR

MPP Harvard, University of Chicago, BA

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Member Cross-Agency Teams Led

Sheetal Maithel is a strategy and operations executive with over 15 years of experience building trust-driven strategy for organizations ranging from Google to the U.S. federal government. As Head of Strategic Insights for Consumer Trust at Google, she led the company-wide effort to define Search’s trust values, built more than 10 measurement frameworks adopted across Search, Maps, and Assistant, and ran the annual strategy process advising senior leadership on investment and policy decisions. Earlier, at Booz Allen Hamilton and Deloitte Consulting, Sheetal led more than 20 strategic planning and operations engagements for federal, state, and local government clients, including a five-year strategic vision for the New York MTA serving 1.5 billion annual riders, a fraud detection strategy for the Affordable Care Act marketplace, and an analytics initiative that improved outcomes across 50 million IRS customer sessions. Her work has contributed to more than $150 million in new consulting engagements across agencies from the SEC to state health and human services departments.

Howard Bush

MANAGING DIRECTOR

MBA Florida A&M University, BBA Florida A&M University, Harvard Venture in Management Program, Six Sigma Green Belt, Azure Cloud Coach, Series 7 Licensee (expired)

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Howard Bush is an enterprise executive with over 35 years of experience driving customer success and enterprise transformation at Fortune 100 scale across big tech, big four consulting, big banking, and fintech. As Client Partner at Pearson, he sold $70 million in AI-enabled workforce learning solutions within six months of joining, 18 times his quota, and was selected to help redesign the company’s enterprise-wide sales and incentive strategy. At Accenture, Howard owned a $60 million Bank of America relationship with 40% growth in contract value, led a 900-plus person global delivery organization across three continents, and served as executive sponsor of the bank’s generative AI build function, while also growing an Amazon Pay account from scratch to $12 million in revenue. He led the retail banking conversion workstream for the largest U.S. bank merger in over a decade, safely migrating $350 billion in deposits across 12 states, and earlier built a Fortune 100 customer success practice at Microsoft and led enterprise data operations supporting the Bank of America and Merrill Lynch merger.

David Bernard

MANAGING DIRECTOR

BA Georgia Tech, Microsoft Certification, Series 82

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Dave Bernard is a technologist, entrepreneur, and inventor with over 40 years of experience founding and scaling technology companies and rescuing complex, high-stakes projects for enterprises and government agencies. As Co-Founder and CEO of The Intellection Group, he has spent more than two decades building custom SaaS, mobile, and ERP solutions for market-leading organizations, earning a reputation as the “vendor of last resort” for stalled or derailed technology initiatives. His firm has delivered a portfolio management platform for a world-leading private equity firm, a complex human resources system for a European defense ministry, and a sales force productivity system used by Microsoft, Symantec, and Computer Associates. Dave also co-founded ConCap Global, providing business consulting and mentoring services, and founded BeneVets, a technology platform that improves the accuracy and speed of veterans’ disability claims. He holds multiple patents in natural language processing and voice recognition technology, and has advised or served on the board of more than a dozen technology ventures spanning cybersecurity, traffic management, and fintech. Earlier in his career, Dave built and led enterprise data infrastructure supporting over 250 million records across hundreds of tables for a national professional services firm. He was named to Georgia’s Top 40 Most Innovative Companies and received the 2015 Virginia Governor’s Technology Award.

Takim Williams

DIRECTOR

University of Georgia, MBA, Princeton University, BA

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Takim Williams is a strategy, operations, and project management professional with five years of management consulting experience across travel, retail, technology, and the public sector, working directly with VP and C-suite stakeholders on data-driven strategy. At The Boston Consulting Group, he built the financial model behind a luxury cruise line’s new ship order decision, projecting $50 million in incremental EBITDA, and defined a new “air accessibility” metric that combined global flight data with client history to identify roughly $2 million in annual deployment savings. Takim also led a 5G use case prioritization study for the Department of Defense, quantifying $49 billion in projected cost savings and lives saved over ten years, and managed the PMO onboarding of more than 50 new roles during an omnichannel marketing rollout for a national home improvement retailer. Earlier, at Experient Group, he sized a pet CBD market opportunity targeting $175 million in incremental revenue and identified a $50 billion addressable market at the intersection of moving and life events for a major retailer. Takim holds an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, where he was a full-tuition Batten Innovation Scholar, and a BA in Philosophy from Princeton University. He is also a published author of literary and speculative fiction.