The Principals
Dana Borowka, CEO, has over 25 years of experience in business consulting. He has an undergraduate degree in Human Behavior and a masters degree in Clinical Psychology. An active member of Vistage for over 20 years, Dana is a frequent speaker to Vistage groups across the country.
Ellen Borowka, Senior Analyst, has an undergraduate degree in Sociology and a masters degree in Counseling Psychology.
Ellen and Dana are authors of the books, “Cracking the Personality Code”, “Cracking the Business Code” and Cracking the Team Building Code”.
The Borowkas are also nationally recognized as experts in their field. They have appeared on television and radio and have been published in various national and international publications.
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Senior Consultants
Eric Bescoby
Senior Consultant
Eric works with manufacturing companies in the areas of organizational design, performance management, staffing assessment. He has 40 years of manufacturing management and private equity sponsored turn-around experience.
Larry Cassidy
Senior Consultant
Larry is a Vistage Master Chair, Business and Leadership Coach, Advisory Board Member and has been a chair with Vistage International for the past 30 years. He currently works with some 50 executives every month and has facilitated over 1,200 executive group meetings, and participated in 11,000 face-to-face discussions with chief executives about all aspects of their businesses. He prepared for this journey at Miami University (Ohio) and Northwestern (MBA); as a Marine Corps officer; with public companies, private, family and foreign-owned firms; and, in the 1980s as General Manager and CEO of local companies.
Jennifer Cavender, CPA
Senior Consultant
Jennifer works with business leaders to create more joy in the workplace through effective team and leadership building. She has over 20 years of experience as a CPA, leading audit teams and advising businesses in their pursuit of growth and problem solving. In her career in public accounting, she lead the mentorship program for her firm, lead team through effective engagement completion, and helped clients develop more effective control in their organizations.
Doug Clute
Senior Consultant
Doug provides LCS clients with his insight and expertise accumulated in over 30 years as a human capital management executive within four different industries on an international scale.
Patty Crabtree
Chief Financial Officer
Patty guides LCS clients seeking to develop or expand effective remote workforce initiatives. To this specialty she brings 25 years of Operations and Finance leadership, excelling in equipping and empowering profit-focused teams.
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Glenn Croix
Senior Consultant
Glenn previously held GM and operations management positions at large aerospace and commercial companies. For LCS he interprets the in-depth work style personality assessments of our clients.
Henry DeVries
Senior Market Research Consultant
Henry DeVries is a market research consultant, author and educator. He is the author of 14 books on marketing and writes a weekly marketing column for forbes.com. Henry has a 30-year successful track record of market research projects including business forecasting, in-depth interviews, focus group facilitation and surveys for clients such as Marriott Corporation, San Diego Padres, Foresters, The Fieldstone Company, and the University of California San Diego. Previously he was director of research and president of an Ad Age 500 advertising agency where he doubled billings from $5 million to $10 million in five years. He also served as the chief marketing officer (assistant dean) and marketing faculty member for the University of California San Diego continuing education program, where he helped raise non-state (private) revenues from $22 million to $45 million in seven years.
Chip Duffie
Senior Environmental, Health & Safety Consultant
Chip is the president of EHS Momentum, LLC, a full-service environmental, health and safety (EHS) consulting and software firm that focuses on empowering small and mid-sized business to implement EHS management systems. An environmental lawyer by trade, Chip spent his early career as assistant general counsel and chief compliance officer for Safety-Kleen, and then as SVP, compliance and sustainability for Clean Harbors. His primary job as CCO was leading an in-house team of EHS professionals responsible for the safety and compliance of North American operations. A frequent speaker on EHS, legal and risk management issues, Chip has a passion for delivering simple, affordable technology to help businesses maximize operations while staying in balance with the environment and protecting their employees.
Howard Fisher
Senior Security Consultant
Jensen Hughes, a leading safety, security, and resiliency professional services firm, is a joint venture partner with Lighthouse Consulting Services LLC. Howard Fisher, a senior vice president with Jensen Hughes, works with senior executives and their legal counsel who want to better manage security risk and emergency management. He is a seasoned executive leader, attorney and litigator with a personal understanding of the safety, security and resilience challenges confronting our clients. Howard has held executive positions at several large professional services firms and corporations where he was entrusted with rapidly increasing responsibility for the strategic, operational and financial performance of multiple teams.
Dan Hamon
Senior Consultant
Daniel has played key leadership roles in product development, marketing, sales, and worldwide operations and P&L. He is particularly gifted at drawing together and leading the right internal and external teams for solving complex problems, including business turnarounds. Daniel’s industry expertise includes software, semiconductors, micro-electro-mechanical systems, high performance computing, cybersecurity, data encryption, crowdfunding and artificial intelligence.
Roger T. Lu
Senior Consultant - Asia
Since 2012 Roger has provided LCS clients with executive coaching services for individuals seeking to achieve top performance in a Sino-American business relationship. He brings deep experience in Financial and Restaurant industries, and is noted for his coaching effectiveness for Americans in Asia and Asians in America.
Patrick McClure
Senior Sales and Customer Service Consultant
Patrick McClure is a recognized expert in sales performance optimization. “Coach Pat” works with management and sales teams nationwide to drive maximum sales performance and dramatically increase revenues. In his corporate career with IBM, Hitachi Data Systems, EDS and Digital Equipment, he was directly responsible for selling over $150 MM in products and services. Patrick is an award-winning public speaker and author of three best-selling books.
David Shaffer
Senior Consultant
David is most recognized for helping organizations prosper by innovatively integrating business processes and by mentoring executives. A former business owner, CEO and EVP, David brings multi-industry and multi-discipline insight to the table.
Whether asked to step in as an interim executive, or consultant, David’s value as a holistic executive is quickly realized.
Ken Ude
Senior Consultant - Family Business Strategic Planning
Ken works with family-owned businesses to navigate the unique challenges that they face, particularly during a generational transition. In fact, his structured approach for companies facing change includes a proprietary toolkit of due diligence, planning, managing, reporting and team building techniques to improve operational efficiency and drive performance. A strategic planning and family business consultant with more than 40 years of hands-on operating experience, he specializes in family business turnarounds. He was director of the USC Marshall Family Business Program. He earned an MBA and a Master’s in Public Relations from USC.
Paul David Walker
Senior Consultant
Paul works with domestic and international companies to improve their bottom line today and planning for the future. Paul is one of the few CEO coaches who has worked with numerous Fortune 500 CEOs and their key staff members for over 25 years along with many mid-cap organizations. Some of the organizations that Paul has worked with countless manufacturing, global utilities, service and consulting organizations. Paul is the author of the best-selling book, "Unleashing Genius", and his new book, "Invent Your Future - 7 Imperatives for a 21st Century".
Operations Team
Victor Avalos
Director of Information Services
Victor has been with us since 2001 and is responsible for the maintenance, support, development, design and procurement of all systems and solutions.
Nancy Croix
Senior Operations Administrator
Nancy has over 25 years experience as a senior administrator with major aerospace companies. Since 1998 Nancy has overseen all aspects of our operations.
Henry DeVries
Director of Marketing
Henry DeVries has been involved with marketing at Lighthouse Consulting for more than a decade. He helped Dana and Ellen Borowka as an editor on their three books: "Cracking the Personality Code," "Cracking the Business Code," and "Cracking the High-Performance Team Code." Henry’s expertise is business development for consulting firms, and he writes a weekly column on the subject for forbes.com. Formerly he was president of an Ad Age 500 advertising agency, vice president of marketing for a $5 billion in assets financial services organization, and chief marketing officer for a $45 million non-state funded business unit of the University of California San Diego.
Pam MacCallum
Senior Data Specialist
Pam has been with us since 2005. She has a gift for compiling and presenting data that is easily understood.
Christina Munro
Customer Service Coordinator
Christina works each day to ensure that our clients’ requirements are met. She is known for her responsive and timely communication with clients.
Brian Whittington
Accounting Coordinator
Brian uses his acute attention to detail to help our growing company keep its books straight.
