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About Ingar Grev

Ingar is the Managing Director of our National Capital Region office.

OVERVIEW: Ingar is a multi-industry, multi-disciplinary leader who has improved operations in a number of businesses as a manager and as a consultant. He has a breadth and depth of experience that is difficult for most executives to match, which makes him an ideal adviser and coach for any industry. His thought leadership is recognized through his national column in The Business Journals.

VALUE TO CLIENTS. From climbing utility poles as a supervisor at Verizon, to returning 5% of the top line to the bottom line in two different businesses in two different industries, to getting a company with 3 years of flat sales to grow 25%, to briefing executives in a $10B government agency – few executives have Ingar’s proven ability to:

• Learn any business quickly

• Make profound improvements

• Increase employee morale

• Increase sales

• Relate to members of both the board room and the stock room

Multiple Industry Experience. With experience in many different industries, Ingar is never stove-piped into set ways of thinking. He has personally worked in, or with, the following industries:

• Inside and outside plant telecommunications operations

• Nuclear Power

• Active Duty Military (Navy)

• Missile Defense

• Defense contracting

• Advanced, remote-sensing software development

• Artificial Intelligence

• Natural gas distribution

• Electricity Generation and Distribution

• Mortgage

• HVAC

• Retail

• Law

• International consulting

• Other Federal/State government agencies

• Education Technology

• Software as a service

• Non-profit board work (board member, board adviser)

• IT

• Management consulting

• Commercial and retail banking

• Business services

• Financial services

• Real Estate

• Media (as a columnist for the Business Journals)

Multiple Discipline Experience. Ingar has worked in the following disciplines:

• Industrial operations

• Corporate Finance

• Operations Research

• Capital Forecasting

• Marketing

• Sales

• Business Development

• Due Diligence

• Systems Engineering

• Technical adviser

• Executive (Operations, Finance, Sales)

Current / Past Employers/ Representative Client List:

• 3M (current employer)

• Capital One

• Northrop Grumman

• Philadelphia Gas Works

• Chesapeake Utilities

• Kirkland & Ellis

• Defense Intelligence Agency

• Spirent

• Apex Home Loans

• MassageEnvy

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

• Tech2000

• Lore Systems

• Veloxity

• MarcParc

• FDAImports.com

• Boeing (onsite contractor)

• Raytheon (employee)

• Missile Defense Agency (contractor)

• Covad Communications (employee)

• Verizon (employee)

Education:

• MBA, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

• MS Systems Engineering, University of Maryland

• Nuclear Engineering, Naval Nuclear Power Training

• BS Systems Engineering, United States Naval Academy (aka Annapolis)

Notable Achievements / Awards:

• National columnist for the Business Journals

• President, US Naval Academy Class of 1989 (1999-present)

• Board of Trustees, US Naval Academy Alumni Association (2007-2013)

• Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society (Robert H. Smith School of Business)

• Member: Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion

• Naval Nuclear Engineering Officer

• Submarine Officer

• Winner: Navy Expeditionary Medal and Navy Achievement Medal

• Naval Academy graduate

• Navy Football Varsity Letter Winner

• National Merit Letter of Commendation

• Garden State Distinguished Scholar

• Boys State Delegate – New Jersey

• National Honor Society

About Ingar Grev

OVERVIEW: Ingar is a multi-industry, multi-disciplinary leader who has improved operations in a number of businesses as a manager and as a consultant. He has a breadth and depth of experience that is difficult for most executives to match, which makes him an ideal adviser and coach for any industry. His thought leadership is recognized through his national column in The Business Journals.