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"Bob, thank you so much for your sales and marketing consulting assistance over the past couple of years. It has really paid off with a significant overall company sales growth and the recent closing of some key major accounts. We are developing momentum and are on track for a record year and Competitive Advantage Group has played an important role in this accomplishment." Walt Lemmermann, CEO Advantage Enterprises. South San Francisco, CA

"Bob has a good grasp of strategic business issues.  He has been most helpful to us in formulating and executing pragmatic marketing strategies, including the specific tactics needed for successful results." Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto, ON.

"Bob French helped us develop an executive marketing program to reshape our entire sales and marketing efforts...with great results. Most importantly, it changed our thinking." HSQ Technology, San Bruno, CA

"Competitive Advantage Group has been a significant resource for us in the development of strategic business interactions, planning and communications for technology development." Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, CA

"Your assessment and diagnosis of our company was very useful in reestablishing our strategic direction and focus."  Cala Communications, Montreal, PQ

"Your sales assistance was worth every penny!" J.M. Ridgway.

 Competitive Advantage Group Partners...
Bob

Bob French CMC, Managing Partner

Bob is a Certified Management Consultant with 35 years of senior business experience. For the past ten years he has been advising CEO's and business owners of large and small companies on strategic and tactical growth solutions. 

Bob spent 20 years with FORTUNE 500 companies in various sales and marketing management positions. Ten of those years were with Xerox Corporation in the company’s U.S. Systems Division where he served in several management roles and became Director, Major Account Marketing where he grew his business unit from $12MM to $75MM annually.

After Xerox, Bob became CEO and Tour Commissioner of the World Professional Squash Association. During his 10-year tenure he built the World Pro Tour from start up to over 35 events a year throughout North America and in the process sold programs and packages to over 100 FORTUNE 500 companies.

He is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and has won national and world championships in squash, tennis and table tennis.

   
Ken

Ken Nangle, Senior Partner

A serial entrepreneur, Ken Nangle brings over 32 years of hands on business experience and executive leadership. Prior to joining Competitive Advantage Group, Ken started developed and operated three successful consulting companies over a twenty-three year period. 

Ken was the founder, President & CEO of The Power Store, a 55 person IT consulting firm specializing in the Real Estate Investment Trust industry for 19 years. 

He also organized and launched BAREIT, a regional group of REIT executives that met on a regular basis to discuss common business and industry issues.  Before launching The Power Store he was a founder and partner in Micronet Business Systems, a 25 person network systems and consulting company for 4 years.  Ken also founded the local and Solomon Accounting System user groups which sponsored many local and regional events that went on to attain national attention in the industry.  He was a partner in an automated financial reporting company for a year and practiced executive search in the hospitality industry for 3 years.

   

Dale Radcliff, Senior Partner

Dale brings to Competitive Advantage Group over 30 years of business experience in both large company settings and entrepreneurial middle market companies.

Over a fifteen year career at Bank of America, from 1975 thru 1989, he has held numerous management positions including Vice President, Strategic & Market Planning and, as a Vice President selling both to middle market and large corporate banking customers in the bank's commercial banking divisions. In addition, for five years he was Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of the bank's operations and technology division overseeing a $600MM budget.

After leaving BofA, Dale was the CFO of three consecutive $20MM+ companies, for the last of which he was also Co-CEO.  During these years he managed the mergers and acquisition of several companies as well as the sale of two companies to FORTUNE 500 companies.

Dale holds both Bachelor of Science and MBA degrees from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley as well as having successfully completing executive marketing programs sponsored by Columbia and Harvard Universities.

   


 More on who we are...

Each CAgroup partner provides stage-appropriate consulting and coaching for business owners, executives and entrepreneurs who are seeking personal career success and life fulfillment. Using their considerable contact network, including the Institute of Management Consultants, where two partners have served on the board of directors, they bring to bear the diversity of expert resources necessary to help owner-managed businesses grow, properly prepare for and ultimately exit those businesses.

Because of our expertise in certain domains, such as sales, marketing, finance, technology we also engage in selected high return intiatives for a limited number of clients. One example is a current project we are conducting for major supplier to the US retail industry on energy use and management. See www.executiveinsights.biz.

 
CAgroup owns the San Francisco and San Mateo County Alternative Board (TAB) franchises. Each partner of CAgroup is a Certified TAB Facilitator.  As such, the Partners facilitate peer advisory boards of member CEO’s to help grow their companies and prepare for ultimate exit and/or transition.

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE GROUP 433 Airport Blvd, Ste 109, Burlingame, CA 94010 (650) 652-9393