About Us
Our Company
Our Experience
Our Experience
Boutique consulting that creates competitive advantage for our clients.
Our Experience
Our Experience
Our Experience
Start-up, growth, and established company experience across a broad spectrum of technology sectors
Our Leadership
Our Experience
Our Leadership
Meet our team of experienced leaders.
Our Company
Boutique Consulting Creates Competitive Advantage For Our Clients
As experienced Silicon Valley executives and technology industry veterans, we have formed this unique boutique consulting practice to solve the complex challenges of technology companies, ranging from start-up ventures to growth and established midsize companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
Our boutique consulting practice is decidedly not like the bigger consulting firms. We don't sell canned solutions. We custom tailor everything to each client’s unique requirements. We create winning solutions so that our clients achieve sustained competitive advantage.
We provide Interim C-level & VP-level executive support, define strategy at the enterprise, product, and functional level, lead M&A projects, drive improvement in Operations, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain, guide the selection and implementation of ERP platforms, and provide communications coaching for employees whose first language is not English.
Our Experience
An Incredibly Deep & Broad Knowledge Base
Experience counts! There is simply no substitute for a deep and broad knowledge base combined with a strong track record of success for leaders in the increasingly complex technology sector. And that is what we bring to your company!
1) Company life-cycle experience
- Start-up ventures
- Growth companies
- Mature organizations
2) Industry sector experience
- Medical devices (FDA class 2 & 3)
- Diagnostic & life-science instruments
- Semiconductor equipment
- Networking products
- Commercial aerospace systems
- Building controls
- Industrial systems
- Electronics contract manufacturing
- Consumer products
- eCommerce
3) Functional experience
- Executive leadership (C & VP levels)
- Strategy development
- Mergers & acquisitions
- Manufacturing optimization
- Supply Chain Optimization
- CRM & Service
- MES & ERP system implementations
- Communications coaching
Contact us for more information about our experience and how we can help you!
Our Leadership
Bernie Schneider
Bernie Schneider
Bernie Schneider
Leader, innovator, Silicon Valley and
global technology industry veteran
Christine Opie
Bernie Schneider
Bernie Schneider
Academic educator and
language & communications expert
Bernie Schneider
Leader, Innovator, Silicon Valley & Global Technology Industry Veteran
For the last 25 years, Bernie has worked in Silicon Valley and the global technology industry. He is our founder, managing partner, and frequently supports our clients in fractional and/or interim VP & C level roles.
Early in his career, he amassed valuable experience in Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Operations, Sales, and related Executive Management roles at leading EMS companies including Solectron, Flextronics, Paramit, and Plexus, where he mastered the fundamentals of effectively and profitably designing, launching, building, and managing a wide variety of complex technology products.
Transferring those skills to the OEM side, Bernie then held Executive Management roles at Alsius Medical, Multitest Electronics, Cutera Aesthetics, DNA Script, and others, where he focused on optimizing every aspect of the Global Operations function. Bernie also contributed to crafting strategy at the operations, product, and enterprise levels, resulting in a 400% increase in the shareholder value of a publicly traded medical device company. He also contributed to various corporate M&A events.
As the leader of this consulting practice, Bernie now leverages his combined experience to craft winning solutions for clients to further sustain their competitive advantage.
Bernie earned his undergraduate degree in Business Management at Golden Gate University. He completed his graduate-level education with a focus on Mergers & Acquisitions at Stanford University and Corporate Strategy & Business Model Innovation at UC Berkeley, Bernie also holds a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification from the University of Southern California.
Christine Opie
Language & Communications Expert
Early in her career, Chris lived and taught English in Africa and Asia. For the past 25 years, she has worked in the Bay Area teaching academic writing at Cal State East Bay and College of San Mateo. Chris is our co-founder, partner, and leader of our Communications practice.
She also taught spoken and written communication skills to multi-lingual speakers at major Silicon Valley technology companies for 15 years. Chris loves drilling down into the fine details of grammar and pronunciation to help multilingual speakers clearly, effectively, and confidently express their great ideas in writing or speech.
Chris has a Master’s Degree in Teaching English as a Second Language from San Francisco State University.
