Business Coach - mark orton

I work with owners and CEOs of startups and small firms predominantly using telephone-based work sessions. We focus on improving sales and profits through improved operations, strategies and tactics, and better personal performance.

General manager, people management, fact-based management, process and systems approaches, problem identification and solving, team-based work, lean enterprise principles and practices

Business Coach at Riverside Associates
November 2004 - Present

Business coach to managers of startups and small businesses. Focused on sales, marketing, operations, human resources as well as improving personal focus and accountability. Predominantly telephone based working sessions.

Co-Founder and CTO at Valuedge, Inc.
March 1999 - November 2004

Created web-based supplier assessment and management tools for Boeing and other companies.

Director at Merrimack Valley Manufacturing Partnership
May 1994 - July 1996

A public-private organization to support small manufacturing in MA. Delivered Lean Manufacturing workshops and consulting.

VP Marketing, Plant Mgr, others at Augat, Inc.
September 1982 - August 1993

Multiple positions in a Fortune 500 electronic components company (now part of Tyco)

none, finance, operations, law, Harvard U. Extension School
September 1985

Multiple courses in accounting and finance. Operations, cost accounting, business law, International finance

AS, Manufacturing Engineering, Wentworth Institute of Technology
May 1977

BA, Slavic languages and literatures, Lawrence University
June 1969