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:
Paul J.H. Schoemaker, Ph.D. - Chairman and Executive Committee Member
Paul J.H. Schoemaker, Ph.D is an internationally renowned thought leader in the fields of strategy and decision making. He speaks frequently at conferences, offers seminars around the world, and has appeared on radio and television. He has shared stage billings with President Bill Clinton, Warren Buffet, Rudolph Giuliani, Jack Welch, as well as other public leaders. He is a leading scholar and visionary author, an entrepreneur in both the business and the philanthropic sectors, and has been an adviser to more than 100 companies and non-profit organizations around the world (for details see www.paulschoemaker.com). His hobbies include tennis, golf, and piano. He lives with his wife and kids in Villanova, PA and Ft. Lauderdale, FL while retaining roots in Holland, his native country.
Professor Schoemaker is the author of Decision Traps (Doubleday 1989) and its sequel Winning Decisions (Doubleday 2001) which together have sold well over 100,000 copies. He is also the coauthor of Wharton on Emerging Technologies (Wiley 2000), Profiting from Uncertainty (Free Press 2002), Peripheral Vision (Harvard Business School Press 2006) and Chips, Clones and Living Beyond 100 (Pearson Ltd 2009). He is presently completing a new book titled Brilliant Mistakes, a topic he was recently interviewed about on CBS’s Sunday Morning. Schoemaker has written over 100 academic and applied papers, which have appeared in such diverse journals as the Harvard Business Review, the Journal of Mathematical Psychology, Brain and Behavioral Sciences, and The Journal of Economic Literature. His writings have been translated into twelve languages and the ISI citation index ranks him in the top 1% of scholars worldwide in business and economics.
Dr. Schoemaker also serves as Research Director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at the Wharton School, where he is a professor teaching strategy and decision making part-time. For twelve years, he was a professor at the University of Chicago, where he did leading academic work in the Center for Decision Research covering behavioral economics as well as strategy. Schoemaker is the founder and executive chairman of Decision Strategies International, Inc, a consulting and training firm specializing in strategic management, executive development and multi-media software (see www.thinkdsi.com). The company’s clients include 8 of the 10 largest corporations worldwide, as well as many of the Fortune 100. He also co-founded Strategic Radar, a technology-platform company that helps organizations track changes and scan for weak signals in their external environment (see www.strategicradar.com). Schoemaker is a social entrepreneur as well via the Decision Education Foundation (www.decisioneducation.org) which teaches decision making skills to adolescents, in partnership with many US high schools around the country.
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.
Franklin Shen is the Director of Strategic Radar. Through this role, Franklin provides clients consulting tools and content to support strategy and decision making. He works with companies and organizations in the planning, analysis, and execution of creating a systemized process for making more informed decisions based on the future environment. He also manages the development of the software services of DSI to continually adapt to the environment and the needs of companies and organizations.
Since starting with the firm, Franklin has worked with numerous clients including AAHSA, ASIS, Bank of Montreal, CUES, DARPA, DuPont, GSK, Lockheed, Mayo Clinic, Merrill Lynch, NASA, National Grid, Pfizer and the U.S. Navy. In addition, he has helped in the production of the scenario reports 2015: Scenarios for the Future of Human Resource Management and The Future of the Biosciences and served as a contributor for Navigating Uncertainty: Future Scenarios for Technology Services, 2016: Future Scenarios for the U.S. Dairy Industry and The Long and Winding Road: Histories of Aging Services in America 2006-2016.
Before joining DSI, Franklin worked with Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania, where he aided in due diligence and research of investment opportunities. He also managed the organization's mentoring program to help develop and foster the ventures supported by the company.
Franklin holds a Bachelor's of Applied Science in Biomedical Sciences with a minor in math from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He still actively participates with the university as a board member of the Pan-Asian American Community House, board of governor's member for the Sphinx Senior Society, and a chapter representative of the University of Pennsylvania Asian American Alumni Network.