Alescent’s Team Members are presented as Players because value is realized through people who make decisions, contribute expertise, accept accountability, and act within a shared management system. They are not interchangeable resources assembled around utilization targets or conventional organizational hierarchies. Each Player brings a Principal Role, defined competencies, professional judgment, practical experience, and a distinctive capacity to influence the economic, operational, strategic, and organizational Effects our clients pursue.
Our Players work with and within client teams on an accelerated, supplementary, or integrated basis. Their purpose is not simply to perform assigned work, produce deliverables, or transfer recommendations, but to strengthen the client’s own capability to identify, govern, realize, and sustain value. Alescent aligns each Player’s role and contribution with the relevant Priority Outcomes, Practices, Partners, Platforms, Products, and Projects, creating shared accountability for performance and meaningful participation in the value realized.
Piaras MacDonnell is a Senior Analyst with Alescent and an internationally recognized specialist in IBM licensing and software asset management. Based in Dublin, Ireland, he brings extensive experience helping organizations understand complex software estates, prepare for vendor audits, negotiate enterprise agreements, assess compliance positions, and identify opportunities to reduce or avoid unnecessary expenditure. Through LicenseHawk, where...
Bob Heath helps executives and boards understand whether technology investments, operating models, and organizational capabilities are producing the outcomes for which they were intended. He brings technical depth and enterprise perspective to decisions that are too important to be governed as technology matters alone. As a Principal Advisor at Alescent, Bob works at the intersection of technology architecture, business strategy, organizational...
Jack Lypka applies economic and financial analysis to help organizations understand where value is being created, constrained, transferred, or lost. He combines financial discipline with operational evidence to evaluate investments, establish credible baselines, test assumptions, quantify opportunities, and support decisions intended to produce measurable Effects. A professional accountant of over 15 years, having attained his Certified General...
Darryl Sabo is a Senior Advisor at Alescent with more than 30 years of experience in enterprise and business architecture, capability modeling, process architecture, operating-model design, investment planning, and organizational modernization. His work helps leaders translate strategic intent into the organizational means required to execute, perform, and realize value. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce and the RTBMA designation. Based in Metro...
Piers is an enterprise solution and integration architect with extensive experience designing and delivering software, integration, data-exchange, cloud, and automation capabilities. His background includes software engineering leadership, enterprise application integration, Microsoft Azure, Logic Apps, BizTalk-style integration, application programming interfaces, messaging, workflow automation, and the connection of complex business and...
Karl Klann is Practice Leader for Alescent’s Applied Governance and Optimization practice. The practice is how capital programs, platforms, and innovation debt are governed so value is quantified, not only delivered faster. He brings Disciplined Agile practice plus Program and Platform Economic Optimization to a standing gap: programs can finish on a date and still fail to show what they were meant to realize. His recent work has been in...
Danaka Porter leads Alescent’s Partner Value Realization domain, which governs how Partners are selected, aligned, equipped, and engaged so their capabilities contribute to realized value. She brings an interdisciplinary background in systems engineering, supply-chain management, operations, project management, applied analytics, artificial intelligence, and organizational transformation. Danaka holds a Master of Engineering in Systems and...
Thomas Wiens leads Alescent’s Player Value Realization domain, which governs how organizations assess, select, develop, align, and field the people who hold accountability for creating and realizing value. Thomas is a registered psychologist and organizational consultant who works with executives, business professionals, leadership teams, and organizations to address complex people challenges and improve performance. He is also a Partner at...
Eddy Vertil leads Alescent’s Project Value Realization domain, which governs how projects, programs, portfolios, and transformation initiatives convert intended benefits into evidenced outcomes. He brings nearly two decades of experience at the intersection of strategy, portfolio and program management, enterprise transformation, organizational governance, innovation, and project delivery. Eddy holds a Ph.D. in Business Management, with...
Brad Schmidt leads Alescent’s Lean Process Optimization practice and is the founder and president of Makoto Investments. He has worked in Lean management, the Toyota Production System, Training Within Industry, operational improvement, and organizational transformation since 1998. His work has spanned Japan, Asia, Europe, North America, and the Middle East, supporting organizations ranging from smaller enterprises to multinational companies....
Roland Krummenacher is a Senior Advisor at Alescent, focused on helping organizations turn cloud investment into measurable business value. With more than a decade of experience in cloud technologies and deep specialization in Microsoft Azure, he works at the intersection of FinOps, architecture, and governance to help clients improve transparency, strengthen accountability, and align platform decisions with business priorities. Roland’s...
Michael Boshnack is Practice Leader for Alescent’s IT Investment Management practice, which governs technology as a portfolio of Investments rather than merely as an operating expense or collection of technical assets. His work helps organizations connect technology economics, portfolio decisions, operational performance, and realized business value. With more than 15 years of experience, Michael has advised large technology organizations on...
Stephanie Hayes is Practice Leader for Alescent’s Operations Management and Optimization practice. The practice is how product, portfolio, and operating choices are run so intended value survives contact with delivery. She sits on Alescent Leadership. She holds a CMC, MBA, FOCP, TBMA, Prosci change practitioner, and SAFe Agilist. That mix is the operating system of the practice: economics and FinOps, TBM structure, and the change and agile...
Stefan Denk is Practice Leader for Alescent’s Cloud Economic Optimization practice. The practice governs cloud cost, capacity, and commitments so leaders can see what the estate is consuming and what it is returning. He brings Cloud FinOps from maturity assessment through discrete cost optimization and into ongoing economic governance. His work includes Value Realization in cloud and telco systems, and he leads a Karlsruhe-based practice team...
Jame Healy works with senior executive leaders to improve the economics, governance, and realized performance of major organizational investments. His work addresses the distance between approving an investment, implementing an initiative, and producing an outcome that can be evidenced, attributed, and sustained. A Senior Economist and Fellow Certified Management Consultant, Jame brings more than 30 years of experience across economic analysis,...