G. Michael Ashmore
Managing Director

Mike Ashmore is a senior strategy consultant with more than 35 years of experience providing strategic information technology guidance to corporate and middle market companies. He is widely regarded for his formative work in determining and realizing the business value of information technology. With over 20 years' experience in both technology and change management, he is an expert in marshaling business and technological resources to achieve breakthrough business results.

Prior to joining Smooth Engine, Mr. Ashmore founded i-One Consulting, an innovative management consulting firm that helps clients tackle large and complex business change through the application and management of information technology.

Mr. Ashmore also served as Director of Information Management, with Arthur D. Little (ADL). In his role at ADL, he was responsible for the development and delivery of the North American Management Consulting information technology (IT) strategy services, including IT-enabled business strategy, aligning business and IT strategies, and IS transformation (i.e., optimizing the business value contribution of IT). His work entailed integrating ADL's multi-disciplinary expertise in strategy, operations management, organizational change and learning, and IT to deliver innovative solutions and high value results to the firm's clients. It also involved the creation of alliances and partnerships, both internal to ADL and external, to provide full service offerings that help clients successfully implement the strategies and designs that were fashioned.

Previously, Mr. Ashmore founded and served as President and Managing Director of Tradewinds Consulting. Tradewinds specialized in the application and management of information technology (IT) to create and enhance business value. In his role as Managing Director, he assisted the firm's clients with the formulation and implementation of IT-enabled business processes and with the fundamental transformation of their information services functions. In conducting these engagements, he pioneered a number of IS and IT management approaches and techniques, including the IT Value EquationÓ, Information Services (IS) organization design, and IS TransformationÓ.

In his earlier career, Mr. Ashmore held management and practice leadership positions at several highly regarded management consulting firms. He served as Vice President of Consulting for The Concours Group, an IT management, research and advisory consultancy. He also served as Vice President and Global Practice Leader for the information technology services of CSC Index, Inc., where he developed and managed Index's Information Services Transformation service and participated in numerous business reengineering engagements. While serving as a Vice President at Mercer Management Consulting, Mr. Ashmore directed the firm's Information Management and Systems group. He was also Vice President at Index Systems, where he developed Information Technology Consulting practice and organization. Earlier, he was the manager of financial programming for Medical Information Technology, Inc. and an engineer at Martin-Marietta Corporation, where he developed applications for simulating antiballistic missile flights and developing intercept strategies.

Mr. Ashmore has published numerous articles on IT management, and is a widely known and respected speaker on IT's Contribution to Business Value, IS' Role in Business Reengineering, Information Services Transformation, World Class IS, IS Organization.

Mr. Ashmore earned his Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Managing Directors

G. Michael Ashmore
James Baum
Robert Curran
Catherine Elkies
James Fine
Louis Le Gendre
Robert Gorin
Jean-René Gougelet
James Hartman
Robert Jaegly
Patricia Koziol
Barbara Krasne
Boris Kupermann
Kira Mendez
Susan Miller
Albert P'an
Dan Pomerleau
James Prendergast
Mary Kay Rafferty
Rona Rosenblatt
David Rupert
Clark Santos
Geri Stengel
Frank Vitale
John Wisniewski
Ivan Wolff
Courtney Wood