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M. Hughes

Executive Director, IISC

Staff Bios

Meave G. O’Marah

The Owner’s Representative was founded in 2000 by Meave O’Marah to fill a void in the financial services sector: interim and part-time CFO consulting to start-up businesses, small companies and non-profits organizations. The Owner’s Representative has expanded to consult in operational areas well, with a specialization in turnarounds and clean-up situations. Ms. O’Marah has experience in the private and public sectors in fiscal policy, budgeting, start-up activities, accounting systems design, and client management. Ms. O’Marah has worked in politics and public policy in London, New York City, and Massachusetts, covering topics ranging from education to administration and finance. She helped launch one of the nation’s largest venture-backed education management companies and functioned as the Vice-President for Strategic Planning and the Director of Finance. She helped to open sixteen 40,000 square foot, K-5, public school facilities in three years. Ms. O’Marah is a graduate of Milton Academy, Harvard College, and Oxford University and is currently pursuing an MBA in Entrepreneurship at Babson College.

Matt Sokolowski

Mr. Sokolowski joined The Owner’s Representative in 2005 with the opening of the Washington, DC office. Mr. Sokolowski brings experience in the non-profit sector including work with museums and education groups. Mr. Sokolowski has served as the Director of Finance with several federally funded organizations, designing and implementing financial and operational systems. Mr. Sokolowski has also overseen several construction projects for his clients including the restoration and renovation of a prominent National Historic Landmark site. Mr. Sokolowski served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin, West Africa. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from The George Washington University.

Lisa Henderson

Lisa Henderson joined The Owner’s Representative in 2007 and has over 20 years of experience in business arenas such as ecommerce, SAAS, social networking, entertainment, consumer packaged goods and most recently crowd sourcing. Products that she has personally been involved in launching and building have generated over $2.5 billion in revenue. She has been an early/founding team member of four companies that were acquired and have another three currently in market. Her executive experience includes top and early stage companies from Nestle Purina and eBay to tier one VC funded www.mokafive.com. Lisa likes to roll up her sleeves and is an expert in building sustainable, viable businesses including go to market planning and execution, revenue generation, product management, operations, database optimization, market segmentation, financial restructuring/funding and marketing. Her recent work has been in the area of complete business turn-arounds via business renivention. She has held the title of CMO, COO, GM, CEO and VP of Marketing in both full time and consultative capacities. Lisa will complete her second MBA in Sustainability in May.