Saks Gloweli (“SG”) is a boutique advisory firm which brings a unique service to clients doing business in China and Asia Pacific by combining strategic and managerial consulting expertise with financial advisory and investment banking expertise.
Saks Gloweli: Strategic Consulting & Capital for Asia Business
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Saks Gloweli (“SG”) is a boutique advisory firm which brings a unique
service to clients doing business in China and Asia Pacific by
combining strategic and managerial consulting expertise with
financial advisory and investment banking expertise.
SG’s management team is made up experienced corporate managers,
strategy consultants, lean manufacturing experts, corporate
turnaround specialists and finance professionals with both buy/sell
side experience. Our team hails from top American Universities with
previous work experience from McKinsey & Co, GE Capital, General
Motors, Chrysler, Foxconn, Maersk, Li & Fung, Jabil, JP Morgan Chase
and Lazard.
We are sector and stage agnostic advisers that have worked with pre-
revenue companies to publicly listed corporations offering a wide
range of services on a project/transaction basis or ongoing basis that
are tailored to the client’s specific requirements. The SG team
leverages its deep market knowledge, vast experience and global
network to add value and effect positive change for our clients.
10. David Collins : lean manufacturing and Operations Expert
David C. Collins, Jr. has worked in the automobile assembly, electronics industry, and management manufacturing consulting area for
over 30 years. After graduating from Michigan State University he completed a Master’s of Science in Physical Chemistry and was
published for his work on surface dynamics. He obtained his executive MBA from the University of Delaware, in 2000. He has held
increasingly responsible positions with international assignments for General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, as well as Foxconn Corporation. He
has worked in Mexico, Canada, Germany, the United States and China and has acquired a vast knowledge of leadership and cultural
values.
He has worked with many companies to improve profitability, reduce costs (20-70% is normal), reduce turnover and absenteeism, and
drastically improve quality. Attached are results from some of the companies.
• Turned around the largest electronics site in the Americas, taking it from $100,000/day loses to profitability in 13 months. As well as
creating excellent morale as measured by turnover and the best quality in the division.
• Totally reworked Foxconn’s production process to free up 15% more space and reduce order time to delivery by 27%.
‒ Was able to bring in three more products for HP as customer and launched all on time and in budget.
• Reworked the sites VMI hub’s as well as logistics, and warehousing to reduce inventory 56%.
‒ Worked with Jabil to put in lean manufacturing, reduce scrap, and improve production.
‒ Improved quality 19% and set records for production out of the factory for CISCO products.
• Developed and launched the world’s first waterborne paint process.
• Worked at Toyota Nummi plant and internalized the principles of lean manufacturing and transferred those principles to a Greenfield
assembly plant in Mexico in his role as a department manager.
• Built & Launched a $350,000,000 paint facility , hired a grass roots organization that achieved the best segment performance for
paint in the J. D. Powers initial quality survey.
• Built and launched 3 additional manufacturing facilities worldwide.
• Implemented Total Chemical Management system that saved plant $2 MM and initiated corporate-wide savings of over $25MM
• Created and implemented a Predictive Maintenance System resulting in zero production loss due to machine maintenance related issues.
David attained benchmark status for this work and was featured in the automotive Harbor report.
• Received ISO 9002, 14000 registration
• Fully implemented “Toyota Type” Operating Systems in each of his assignments.
• Established the first Quality Alert System within Chrysler Motors.
• Improved union relations in assembly plants , ed & implemented Modern Operating Agreements with UAW, CAW & CTM in Mexico.
• Ran a $4.1 billion Assembly Center with over 2000 employees and was responsible for
11. David Collins : Continued ..
• 18% improvement in quality
David’s achievements include
• 25 % improvement in productivity
Engineering, Facilities,
• 40% improvement in safety
Production and Quality
• On time delivery of 99.4%
improvements resulting in:
• Created innovative techniques to measure and improve morale.
• Three special recognition awards from the General Motors Corporation
• Executive Vice President Award from Chrysler Motors for the Best New Model Launch in Chrysler history.
David’s Awards • Been featured in trade publications for innovative techniques in manufacturing.
• Been featured on CNBC’s Today’s Business for innovative operations approaches combining technology
and human infrastructure systems.
Dave’s greatest accomplishment is creating lean organizations that are able to sustain recognized performance well after he left
them, as measured by J. D. Powers and Harbor Associates in three assembly plants. In two other assignments he was able to be
part of the team that transformed facilities targeted for closure into high performing teams that continue to operate today.
His proven performance, leadership and organizational development skills have been a foundation for his ability to partner with
companies requiring similar results.
13. Thomas P. Bispham
Tom Sr. is a senior banking and finance professional with vast experience in project finance, investment banking/M&A,
structured & leveraged Finance among others.
Mr. Bispham moved to Asia in 1995, when he joined Peregrine Investment Bank to start up its infrastructure project
finance business. Prior to that he had been traveling to the region on behalf of Bear Stearns (NY) as Managing Director and
Co-Head of Project Finance. He was recognized in 1996 by Independent Energy magazine “for pioneering achievement in
the global private power industry.”
Mr. Bispham also served as Chief Operating Officer of JPMorgan’s Asia Pacific investment banking business.
His transaction history includes representing ESI Energy in its 1988 investment in Zond Systems (now GE Renewable
Resources), and helping to design the Danish wind industry guaranty program; Hopewell Holdings in the $2.7 billion sale of
its 80% interest in its pan-Asian affiliate, Consolidated Electric Power Asia (“CEPA”), to Southern Electric (now Mirant);
advising Entergy in its $50 million equity investment in the Hub River (Pakistan) power project; advising Unocal in financing
the development of the Shahbazpur (Bangladesh) Gas Field plus pipeline and power plant projects; and assisting Florida
Power & Light’s affiliate, ESI Energy, to become the third largest utility IPP in the US.
Tom sits on the board of several companies and is a Board Advisor & Director at Saks Gloweli.
14. Laurent Jacque
Laurent L. Jacque is the Walter B. Wriston Professor of International Finance & Banking at the Fletcher School of Law
and Diplomacy (Tufts University) and Director of its International Business Studies Program. From 2004 to 2007 he was
Fletcher's Academic Dean and as such responsible for the design and the establishment of the new Master of
International Business degree and the Center for Emerging Market Enterprises. Since 1990 he has also held a joint
appointment at the HEC School of Management (France) as a Professor of Economics, Finance, and International
Business. From 1976 to 1987 he was on the faculty of the Wharton School where he held a joint appointment in the
Management and Finance departments.
A recipient of four teaching awards at The Wharton and Carlson Schools, Jacque received the James L. Paddock award
for teaching excellence at The Fletcher School in 1996. He is a consultant to a number of firms in the area of corporate
finance and risk management and has taught in many Management Development Programs, including Merck, Sharp &
Dohme, General Motors, Bunge and Born (Brazil), Rhone-Poulenc (France), Siam Commercial Bank (Thailand), Daewoo
(South Korea), General Electric, Dupont de Nemours, Norwest Bank, Bangkok Bank (Thailand), INSEAD, Pechiney,
Petrobras and the IFC (World Bank group).
Laurent Jacque is a graduate of HEC (Paris) and received his MA, MBA and PhD from the Wharton School (University of
Pennsylvania).
15. Sid Mewara
Sid holds an E-MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and is enrolled at
Oxford University for the Advanced Management and Strategy Program. Sid has worked with global companies
across various sectors as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. He then worked in the semiconductor
distribution and supply chain industry in the US and China, managing the Asian operations of a PLC German
company where he serviced the OEM industry and managed their supply chain and inventory control systems.
Sid specializes in market entry and business development strategy for stage and sector agnostic companies to help
them grow and develop their business in China and Asia . He has assists clients in raising capital from Private
Equity and Venture Capital investors across various industries, sector and stages of growth. Sid has assisted and
managed M&A deals for SME to MNC level companies from both buy and sell side. He is a financial and strategy
adviser to many firms within the PE , VC, Distribution, manufacturing and heavy Industry in China and greater Asia.
Sid holds a position on the board at True Wind Consulting, an HR consulting firm and Beepo Electric Vehicles a
electric commercial vehicle manufacturer. He is also an advisor at Guide-Point Global and a guest business
columnist at Shenzhen Standard.
Sid is the Founder and Managing Director of Saks Gloweli Consulting & Capital.
16. David Collins
David C. Collins, Jr. has worked in the automobile, electronics, chemical, environmental, Aerospace, and management
consulting area for over 30 years. He completed his executive MBA from the University of Delaware, Lerner School of
Business. He was one of two Chrysler employees selected for corporate sponsorship in the executive MBA program in
1999. He also has completed a Master’s of Science in Chemical Physics and was published for his work on surface
dynamics. David was also published for work in environmental studies and has appeared on business television
discussing bringing human infrastructure and technology together.
He has held increasingly responsible positions with international assignments in North American, Latin American,
Europe and Asia with global companies that include GM, Chrysler, Foxconn, Jabil among many others. David has
managed P&L’s over $2.7 billion USD, over 10,000 employees and multiple site and country operations. David has
advised PE on creating value within their portfolio through lean manufacturing and operations. He has both union and
non-union expertise internationally. He has acquired a vast knowledge of leadership and cultural values.
He brings his hands on operations experience as well as his business development and organization abilities to his
clients. David is a director at Saks Gloweli Consulting and is a lean manufacturing and operations expert.
17. Stephen Browne
Stephen Browne has a degree and master's degree in civil and environmental engineering from Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland. Stephen also holds an MBA from IESE, Spain. Stephen worked for 4 years as engineering project
manager completing large infrastructure projects in Japan and Ireland. He then worked for 6 years with the
Maersk shipping group as supply chain consulting manager, implementing world class projects for customers such
as IKEA, GE, Walmart and Target corporation. During this time Stephen's team brought in over EUR100m of new
business for the group.
Since 2007 Stephen has been based in China and is currently leading a private equity turn around of Spanish-
owned manufacturing enterprise in southern China.
Stephen manages the supply chain consulting practice at SG consulting and is actively involved in turnaround and
value optimization engagements at SG Capital. He is comfortable working in English, Spanish, French and
Mandarin Chinese.
18. Olivier Jacque
Olivier holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently pursuing his MBA from the Wharton School of
Business. . Prior to joining Saks Gloweli Capital, Olivier worked for Lazard Real Estate Partners; a real estate private equity
fund based in New York City and was responsible for identifying strategic acquisition, disposition and recapitalization
opportunities. During his time there, he worked on a major corporate recapitalization of an assisted living company while
also implementing the fund raising aspects for a large redevelopment project of the portfolio as well as securing a credit line
from institutions. In addition, Olivier is the General Partner of multiple real estate investment vehicles in multifamily housing
with total assets close to $10 million in the Mid-West.
Prior to that Olivier worked at Deutsche Bank in their emerging markets fund. Olivier is a guest lecturer at the Business
School at Shenzhen University and is a speaker at local business forums. Olivier is Director at Saks Gloweli Capital.
Anniruddha Jain
Anniruddha holds an MBA in finance from Pepperdine University. He has extensive principal investing and financial management
experience and has worked in investment banking, private equity and financial services. He has raised over $100 million in M&A
and has led transactions in active sports & recreation, sustainable living, organics, fair trade, renewable energy, healthy nutrition,
wellness and relaxation/leisure. At North Castle Partners (NCP) a private equity fund he was responsible for investigation and lead
generation of non-solicited deals, financial modeling and due diligence. Prior to NCP Anniruddha worked at GE Capital
International Services (GECIS) for five years where he had several diverse roles ranging from project management to portfolio
management. AJ is a graduate of GECIS’s highly competitive internal leadership development program ‘Fastrax’ (1% selection rate).
He also earned GECIS’s “Management Excellence Award” for exceptional people and process management skills. AJ holds a BA
Honors degree in Economics from Delhi University, India.
19. Thomas P. Bispham Jr.
Thomas Bispham, Jr. began working with Saks-Gloweli Consulting in 2008 as affiliated project consultant.
In 2012, he joined the firm as a full Consultant to bolster SGC's existing portfolio value optimization
services. He came to SGC following 6 years of experience working in a variety of operations and general
management positions at Li &Fung Ltd out of Hong Kong. He reported directly into Li & Fung strategic
management and operated as an internal consultant being moved throughout the company to optimize
efficiency, corporate operations, and bottom line growth. During his time at Li & Fung, Thomas was
General Manager of the Indonesia sourcing office for two years, based in Jakarta. In Shanghai, he
managed several acquisition businesses as they integrated into the company and streamlined their
supply chains. He also has a strong background in licensed brands and private labels which he launched
for Li & Fung out of the Shanghai hub. Before Li & Fung, he worked for RT Sourcing in a number of
operations management positions specializing in supply chain management, information systems, and
financial reporting and management accounting.
He has spent the past 17 years working or living in Asia and speaks Mandarin Chinese and Bahasa
Indonesian. He holds a Bachelor's degree from University of Pennsylvania and a Chinese language
certificate from the FALCON Program at Cornell University.