Qualifications

Thomas W. Allen

Thomas W. Allen has 25 years of experience in management consulting to companies and non-profit organizations in financial management and the use of information to improve management and operations.

From 1998-2000, Mr. Allen extended an initial consulting assignment to serve full time as Chief Financial Officer of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP, a $450 million national law firm headquartered in San Francisco. During this period, Mr. Allen initiated and successfully completed a Firm-wide project to replace the Firm’s general ledger, accounts payable, and billing and collections systems. As CFO, Mr. Allen was responsible for all accounting, financial planning and budgeting, renegotiation of long term and working capital credit facilities, equipment leasing, partnership accounting, and billing and collections, supervising a staff of 60 accounting personnel in San Francisco and 40 in Brobeck’s 8 other offices.

Mr. Allen is Managing Partner of IT Management Advisors, Inc. (ITMA), an alliance-based management consulting firm focused on middle market clients in the Bay Area. He founded ITMA in 1989 because he believed that medium-sized companies and large non-profits needed an alternative to the traditional "Big 5" model of consulting. During the past 10 years, he has provided financial management and information technology planning services to professional service firms and manufacturing, telecommunications, financial services, and other companies and non-profit organizations.

ITMA focuses on the strategic use of information technology to achieve business objectives, with a special emphasis on the role of the user in the decision-making process. He specializes in "direction-setting" projects that include strategic systems planning, system requirements definition, business process improvement, software evaluation and selection, project planning, recovery of runaway projects, and the like.

While with ITMA Mr. Allen has consulted for Lucasfilm, Ltd., Octel Corporation, Charles Schwab & Co., CellularOne, Homestake Mining, Amdahl Corporation, AirTouch, Bio-Rad Laboratories, VLSI Technology, National Semiconductor, Failure Analysis Associates, Raynet Corporation and several other clients.

Prior to founding ITMA, he was a management consulting partner with KPMG Peat Marwick, where he consulted for major clients over a 14 year period. Mr. Allen built consulting practices in several industries and managed a wide variety of projects for commercial clients and public sector organizations.

For example, he installed a new financial management system for the State of Washington, provided systems consulting to ALPS Electric (USA) Inc. and other high technology companies in Silicon Valley, conducted strategic systems planning studies for the Montana Power Company and other large clients, and performed a variety of financial management projects.

He conducted requirements definition projects, installed lease accounting systems, conducted feasibility studies, taught a management development course in Beijing, China, and successfully completed multiple consulting assignments for a large roster of clients.

Mr. Allen served for two years as a Naval officer in the Vietnam War.

He holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He is a CPA.