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SIXTHSENSE Partners - CVs
Senior Staff
Maurice Nobert
Mr. Nobert has 28 years of management and consulting experience across a broad range of industries. He managed engineering, planning, materials and quality/reliability functions at Intel Corporation before joining Booz Allen and Hamilton (BAH), an international management consulting firm, where he served a broad range of Fortune 500 clients. After leaving BAH, Mr. Nobert co-founded both an international Strategic Sourcing company and a regional mid-market strategic consulting firm. He subsequently served as President/COO of MaxVu Inc., a streaming media technology firm before founding SixthSense Partners. Mr. Nobert’s area of special expertise is his ability to identify hidden opportunities (strategic levers) to increase the value of companies. He developed and employs proprietary financial, operational and affective/perceptual analytics developed during his work optimizing high tech manufacturing processes then expanded over 20 years to general business application. Mr. Nobert has increased client values through a wide range of strategic levers identified through our proprietary analytics including application of new pricing strategies, strategic sourcing tools, supply chain restructuring, process yield optimization, team management structures, business strategy reformulation, sales process restructuring, sales force optimization and corporate metric reengineering. Mr. Nobert earned a Bachelors Degree in Physics and Mathematics from the University of California Santa Cruz, where he was a University of California President’s Scholar, a California State Scholar, won the Robert Norris Memorial Scholarship in Physics and was awarded a Cabrillo Foundation Scholarship. Upon graduation, Mr. Nobert served in the US Peace Corps, where he taught Physics and Mathematics in Malaysia.
Ray Glaser
Dr. Glaser has twenty years experience in the chemical industry with ten in senior management. He has held a variety of leadership positions with GE Plastics, DSM Engineering Plastics, Allied Signal/Honeywell, W.R Grace and—just prior to joining SixthSense Partners—Hexion Specialty Chemicals, where he was Vice President Corporate Strategy and Development. During his five years at Borden/Hexion, he helped set the strategic direction, led the business development team and provided leadership to the technology function. The company, part of the Apollo LP portfolio, was transformed from a $1.5 B regional player to a $10 B plus, diversified, global materials leader. Dr. Glaser has expertise in product development, marketing and product management and has lead commercialization, application development, strategic planning and business development functions. He also has extensive experience in M&A and new venture/business development having led or directed thirteen acquisitions and six divestitures as well as founding e-catalysts Inc. (now owned by Grace) and The Formaldehyde Council Inc. Dr. Glaser’s special expertise is the ability to understand the business potential of science and develop strategies to profitably exploit opportunities in the materials sector. Dr. Glaser has brought his insight to several boards of directors: World Kitchen Inc., The Formaldehyde Council (two years as its first Chairman) and The Composite Panel Association. Dr. Glaser earned a Bachelors degree in Chemistry, from Marquette University, a Master of Science in Chemistry, from The Florida State University and a Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Engineering Science, from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Daniel Moneypenny
Mr. Moneypenny is VP of Branding at SixthSense as well as President and Chief Creative Officer of his branding/ideation firm, Emaginit. Countless clients rely on Emaginit for Mr. Moneypenny’s unique branding, potent phraseologies, and marketing stratagems. On any given day, he can create 100-200 branding entities for a specific client. These C-Suite clients have provided hundreds of written testaments to the effectiveness of his unconventional approach – from Dow AgroSciences and Pepsi to Time Warner. Over the last 20+ years, Mr. Moneypenny has traveled extensively developing branding and ideation elements. Mr. Moneypenny spearheaded Amway’s branding efforts by developing 47 consecutive successful branding assignments throughout Europe, Japan and domestically. He led Diebold’s ATM hardware and software branding launches across 26 countries. Mr. Moneypenny has developed branding for numerous Fortune 1000 clients including, Exxon, Dow AgroSciences, Pepsi, Time Warner and many more. Mr. Moneypenny has a wide array of experiences to draw from. He served with the U.S. Army in Europe as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division. He was selected as one of only twelve members for the US Prix LeClerc team. This elite team competed throughout Europe with other NATO teams in competitions involving running, obstacle course and extreme marksmanship. After the military & college, he crisscrossed the country. He was a California forest firefighter, fashion model, antique shop owner, railroad employee, Chrysler assembly worker, cable TV salesman, & a sporting goods store owner. Daniel’s greatest experience is being a husband and father of three young children.
Ralph Zuponcic
Mr. Zuponcic has 22 years of industry experience. His special expertise is providing processes, tools, expertise and resources to manage pricing initiatives for B2B companies. He focuses on leveraging value based pricing opportunities to improve earnings, company value, and cash flow. Mr. Zuponcic has extensive experience in pricing management consulting with companies in a wide variety of industries including, but not limited to, industrial equipment, medical devices and disposables, specialty industrial tapes and adhesives, medical software, rubber and polymer products, ceramic materials and automotive suppliers. He is experienced in managing pricing initiatives with Fortune 1000 companies, mid sized organizations and emerging firms. His clients include industry leaders like Avery Dennison, Mettler-Toledo, Valmont Industries, Greif Corporation, Haemonetics Corporation, Blood Centers of America and a host of smaller firms as well. Mr. Zuponcic works closely with Dr. Larry Robinson of The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business where he frequently publishes articles on strategic pricing management. He has also been recently interviewed on value based pricing strategies by several magazines including Fortune Small Business, CFO Magazine and Marketing News. He is a speaker on strategic pricing management at major universities, associations and companies across the country. Mr. Zuponcic serves on the board of directors of Blossom Hill in Cleveland, Ohio, a non-profit organization that provides homes and care for people with mentally handicaps and developmental disabilities. He is the Chairman of the Development Committee which is currently raising money for a facility expansion and operating support
Elan Yaniv
Mr. Yaniv has 11 years of industry and consulting experience including 7 years conducting strategic analyses for Wells Fargo Financial, Dell Computer and John Deere. Mr. Yaniv’s special area of expertise is strategic analysis in operational and marketing situations, leveraging a wide range of analytic tools to build powerful models of system outcome behaviors. His modeling has enabled significant value creation across a range of industries and strategic challenges. His experience includes strategic plan generation for a $24 billion consumer line of business, alignment of business strategy between divergent lines of business at a large financial industry player; evaluation and commercialization of new technologies using various analytic tools including Economic Value Creation, Monte Carlo simulation, and Real Option analysis and leading a team to successfully reduce the cost of complexity by 50% in a large commercial product family. Mr. Yaniv received a BS in Computer Engineering and a Masters of Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech where he graduated Cum Laude and was President of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Computer Society. He earned an MBA from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business where he was a Rollins Scholar.