The Strategic Radar team consists of seasoned resources with a broad experience base. Our people bring a high level of intellectual rigor to delivering our products and services to our clients. We seek individuals with outstanding character, a deep pool of practical experience and expertise, an innate sense of intellectual curiosity, a strong work ethic, and excellent team skills.
Board Members:
Paul J.H. Schoemaker, Ph.D. - Chairman and Executive Committee Member
Scott Snyder, Ph.D. - Executive Committee Member, Compensation Committee Member
Ken Foreman - Executive Committee Member, Compensation Committee Member
Christopher (Gus) Ljungkull, Compensation Committee Member
Emil Jones
Management Team:
Jack May - President
Doug Paradis - CTO and VP Operations
Paul J.H. Schoemaker, Ph.D. - Chairman and Executive Committee Member
Paul J. H. Schoemaker, Ph.D., is Executive Chairman of Decision Strategies International, Inc., a consulting and training company he
founded in 1990. Schoemaker served as the company's CEO for 16 years, leading it into strategic planning, executive development and
multi-media software. He is an internationally renowned thought leader in strategy and decision making who has given many seminars
to executives in Europe, America and the Far East. He has appeared on radio and television, and shared stage billings with
President Bill Clinton, Warren Buffet, Rudolph Giuliani, Jack Welch and other public leaders. He lectured frequently in
executive programs at Berkeley, Cedep at Insead, Cornell University, Univ. of Chicago and still does so at the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. During 1982-1984, Dr. Schoemaker took an extended full-time
sabbatical with the strategy group of Royal Dutch/Shell in London, where he helped pioneer scenario planning. He has
since helped over a hundred organizations around the world in both the private and public sectors.
Schoemaker further serves as the Research Director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at the Wharton School of
the University of Pennsylvania, where he also teaches strategy and decision-making as a part-time professor. For over twelve
years, he was a professor in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. He has also been a Visiting Professor
at Cedep at Insead (France). He started his studies in physics and mathematics at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame with a B.S. in physics in 1972. Later, he received an M.B.A. in
Finance, an M.A. in Management and a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences, all three degrees from the Wharton School at the University of
Pennsylvania. He is also a Board Member of the Decision Education Foundation (www.decisioneducation.org).
Schoemaker's main research interests are in the areas of organizational strategy, decision theory, managerial decision-making,
emerging technologies and innovation. He has written over 100 academic and applied papers, which have appeared in journals ranging
from the Harvard Business Review and the Journal of Mathematical Psychology to Management Science and the Journal of Economic
Literature. His first book Experiments on Decisions Under Risk (Kluwer Nijhoff Publishing, 1980) received a two-page author
profile in Fortune Magazine. With J. Edward Russo he wrote the best-selling book Decision Traps (Simon and Schuster, 1990), which
discusses various biases in decision making (as profiled in Newsweek). With Kleindorfer and Kunreuther, Schoemaker wrote an
acclaimed graduate-level text titled Decision Sciences: An Integrative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 1993). With
George Day, he edited the book Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies (Wiley, 2000). Other works included a managerial book on
scenario planning titled Profiting from Uncertainty (Free Press, 2002), and with J. Edward Russo he published Winning Decisions
(Doubleday, 2002.) In May 2006, Drs. Schoemaker and Day published Peripheral Vision: Detecting the Weak Signals That Will Make or
Break Your Company (Harvard Business School Press).
Schoemaker's publications received several awards (including the prestigious Best Paper Prize of the Strategic Management Journal
in 2000), have been reprinted frequently, and are published in over 10 foreign languages. He has been published multiple times in the
Harvard Business Review and his 1995 article Scenario Planning is the second most reprinted publication in the 41 year history of the
Sloan Management Review. He ranks among the top 1% most frequently cited academic researchers in the fields of business and economics
worldwide (www.ISIHighlyCited.com). Dr. Schoemaker is also an active private investor in new technology-based ventures and serves on
the Board of Directors for several of these, including Strategic Radar, Inc. For further details, see www.paulschoemaker.com.
Scott Snyder, Ph.D. - Executive Committee Member
Dr. Snyder is the CEO of Strategic Radar. He has over 19 years of experience in business leadership, strategic planning, decision support systems, and technology management for both Fortune 500 companies and start-up ventures. Dr. Snyder has held executive positions with several Fortune 500 companies including GE, Martin Marietta, and Lockheed Martin. He has also started business ventures in software including OmniChoice, a CRM/Analytics software applications provider, where he served as CTO and CEO, and was selected as a candidate for Entrepreneur of the Year for the Philadelphia Region. He has worked with numerous Fortune 500 clients on business and technology strategy including GE, CVS, AT&T, Sprint, Cingular, Accenture, NCR, Verizon, Echostar, Exelon, Microsoft, DuPont, Lockheed Martin, and Siemens, National Grid and Bank of Montreal as well as government organizations such as the FAA, DoD, DARPA, DLA, NASA, NSA, and INTELSAT.
Dr. Snyder is a Senior Fellow in the Management Department at the Wharton School and also a part-time faculty member in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and has lectured at MIT and RIT on Decision-making, Business and IT Strategy, Telecommunications, Product Design and Development, and Business Intelligence. He sits on the Advisory Board of Safeguard Scientific and the Boards of two Technology-based Non-Profits, Quantum Works and Mentor IT. He holds a patent for on-line decision aids and has been quoted as a thought leader in numerous publications including the LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Phone +, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Business Journal. Dr. Snyder earned his BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from University of Pennsylvania and has an executive degree from USC in Telecommunications Management.
Christopher R. Ljungkull is a 1976 graduate of Amherst College and a 1981 graduate of William Mitchell College of Law. Mr. Ljungkull co-founded Legal Research Center in 1978. He is currently LRC's Chief Executive Officer and is responsible for LRC's financial management. In 1999, Mr. Ljungkull was named Co-Chairman of LRC's Board of Directors, sharing the role with Mr. Dubé.
In addition to his LRC responsibilities, Mr. Ljungkull was employed by West Publishing from 1987 to 1994. At West, he managed the marketing of software products in the Electronic and Editorial Processes and Publications Division. Prior to assuming that position, he was responsible for WESTLAW advertising and for developing WESTLAW marketing plans. From 1982 to 1985, Mr. Ljungkull was a co-founder and director of the area's first and largest paralegal placement service, Templeton and Associates.
Ken Foreman is the founder and Principal of Foreman Consulting Group, Inc., a provider of Executive Leadership, Capital Markets and Managed Growth services to businesses from startup to mature. He is an accomplished business executive with 25 years of operating experience leading organizations as CEO, COO and CFO in a variety of industries.
In addition to a successful track record accelerating the growth and profitability of both emerging growth and large companies, Mr. Foreman has significant capital markets experience, including buying and selling businesses, mergers, raising capital and debt/equity financing. He has received multiple awards, is a trained instructor, and is a member of several business and leadership organizations.
Prior to the founding of Foreman Consulting Group, Inc., Mr. Foreman served as CFO, VP and Treasurer for Princeton Ecom, a venture-backed software company, where he created strategies and implemented changes leading to a turnaround from a net loss to a very profitable business and the successful sale of the company for $190 million. Prior to this, Mr. Foreman served as CEO and CFO at Actium, an IT services and product resale business, and presided over revenue growth of 500%, an increase in value of 30X, and the eventual sale of the business for over $130 million.
Mr. Foreman earned his BS and MS degrees in Accounting at Penn State University, where he also spent a year as a teaching assistant. Mr. Foreman began his career with KPMG in Philadelphia and achieved his CPA license.
Mr. May is the President of Strategic Radar. He has over 20 years of experience in business leadership with a range of established and growth oriented businesses serving the B to C and B to B markets. Jack developed strong strategic management and marketing skills during his six years at two blue chip Fortune 50 consumer products corporations. In addition, Mr. May has thirteen years of rapid career growth with a Fortune 1000 Investment Management firm serving in a variety of leadership roles in unit leadership, marketing, sales and product management. He also started technology related business ventures serving the market research and residential construction industries.
Mr. May's brand management experience at Nabisco Brands and Johnson and Johnson included leading three $100M plus consumer brands in the OTC drug, oral care and brokered food categories. Jack applied his classical packaged goods management and marketing skills during his career at SEI Investments where he successfully developed and led the introduction of three new businesses. These successes include two innovate short-term investment management solutions to the corporate treasury and commercial bank markets that generated over $8.0 billion in assets under administration. He also led a multifunctional team in creating, developing and introducing a revolutionary new franchising concept for independent investment advisors. During Jack's tenure at SEI, the executive team earned the firm recognition as one of Americas top five financially successful mid-cap companies and selection by Fortune Magazine as a top 100 company to work for in America.
Jack holds a BS from Drexel University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He maintains series 7, 24, 63, and 65 securities licenses.
Doug Paradis - CTO and VP of Operations
Mr. Paradis is Vice President of Product Development for Strategic Radar. He has over 16 years of experience in strategy development for technology organizations, product design and development, business and IT alignment solutions, organization design, and operational management.
Mr. Paradis also has significant experience in biotechnology, financial services, technology, utility, government and other industries. He also has deep experience delivering business and technology solutions around business intelligence, enterprise technology architecture, web applications and analytics. Mr. Paradis has previously been a Principal at Virtus Partners, served as the Vice President of Technology at Idea Integration (a division of MPS), and served as a Managing Director at Actium. Prior to that, he served in a number of roles for GE Corporation. In these roles, he has led business units of existing organizations, started organizations from scratch, opened new markets, and consulted for top businesses in the country.
Mr. Paradis earned a Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan and a Master's degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Teaching and training related to IT and Operational processes and strategies, in addition to various technology elements, have been provided throughout his history.