MCS Staff Profiles
Jan Beaven, Practice Leader, Strategic and Operations Planning
Jan has spent over 13 years in management consulting and has also held senior positions in financial and hospital software companies. A veteran of two other management consulting firms, Jan has led large scale corporate change efforts within mutual funds, insurance companies and banks. Her skills include strategic and business planning, operations improvement and organizational design. In the nonprofit sector, Jan’s clients have included arts and cultural institutions, environmental organizations, educational groups, youth agencies and a state-wide United Way affiliate. Jan was the founding director of the Lower Hudson Conference of Historical Agencies and Museums in New York State. She is also on the board of First Night Boston, Inc. and on the overseers of Mt. Auburn Hospital. She holds an M.Ed from the University of Pittsburgh and an MBA from the Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.
Phone: (617) 372-9400 ext. 201
Email: jbeaven@managementconsultingservices.org
Gene Lee, Practice Leader, Program Development and Planning
Prior to MCS, Gene was at Building Excellent Schools as the Associate Director for the Fellowship program. In that position, he trained and coached up to 15 aspiring charter school leaders in the areas of educational program design, financial management, budgeting, fundraising, and strategy. Other positions he has held include National Manager for Citizen Schools where he provided technical assistance, training, coaching, and strategy for Citizen Schools campuses in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, and California; Director of Grants Management for the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, a $450 million philanthropy; Program Coordinator of Academics for Changing Times, an AmeriCorps program operated by Cambridge Community Services; and Director of Kansas City Summerbridge. He has also taught seventh grade English and Asian-American and Ethnic Literature in Kansas City, MO. Gene holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs of the University of Washington, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley.
Phone: (617) 372-9400 ext. 207
Email: glee@managementconsultingservices.org
Maureen Pompeo, Senior Advisor
Maureen has over 25 years of experience in senior management positions
in the public and private sectors. Prior to joining MCS, she worked with large nonprofits to structure and manage collaborative relationships as well as improve internal operations. She is deeply involved with a number of community organizations and has served in significant volunteer leadership roles including as past President of both the Bunker Hill Community College Foundation and the Massachusetts Association for Mental Health. She currently serves as the Provider
Representative to the Department of Public Health, Public Health Council, is the Consumer Representative to the State Medical Ethics Committee and is on the boards of the University of Massachusetts McCormick Institute's Center for Social Policy, Project Hope, the Justice Resource Institute (JRI) and RAW Art Works . She holds an M. Ed and an MBA and is working on a graduate degree in religion. She also has two post graduate certificates in operations management.
Phone: (617) 372-9400 ext. 206
Email: mpompeo@managementconsultingservices.org
Stephen Rockwell, Executive Director
Practice Leader, Strategic Technology
Steve is currently responsible for the Networked Nonprofit, a new initiative which aims to increase the overall use of emerging internet technologies to advance the effectiveness of nonprofits. An experienced consultant, Steve founded and managed a nonprofit technology consulting practice at United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Significant projects included working with corporate partners, government, and community organizations to build the first wireless neighborhood networks in the country, providing internet connection to the low-income communities. Steve received a BS in policy analysis and management from Cornell University, an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and an MPA from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Phone: (617) 372-9400 ext.204
Email: srockwell@managementconsultingservices.org
Gayathri Tirthapura, Practice Leader, Outcomes and Impact
Gayathri leads the Outcome and Impact practice at MCS. Her skills include outcome measurements, program and formative evaluation, grant writing, technology for non-profits and educational technologies. Prior to joining MCS, her clients have included WGBH, ACCION and Peabody Essex Museum for whom, she has designed and conducted several evaluation studies. Previously, she has also spent 9 years in the corporate sector where she held both technical and managerial roles for companies like Cisco, Motorola and Freescale Semiconductors. She holds a Master of Education degree from Harvard University and a Master of Science degree from Stanford University.
Phone: (617) 372-9400 ext.205
Email: gtirthapura@managementconsultingservices.org
Christina Yoon, Practice Leader, Development
Tina brings a broad-based experience in development to MCS, which includes formulating development plans, writing grants to foundations, securing corporate partnerships, soliciting major gifts, developing communications and marketing strategies, planning events and recruiting and managing volunteers. Although educated as a scientist, she found her skills translated well to the world of development and focused on fundraising for education and health care. Tina joined the MIT Office of Corporate Relations to help companies explore sponsored research opportunities through the Industrial Liaison Program. She subsequently worked on a capital campaign for the MIT Center for Cancer Research's new cancer engineering institute. As a consultant, she helped secure foundation grants for research and programs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and also established a development program for the Lee Academy Pilot School, a Boston Public elementary school in Dorchester. She obtained a B.S. in biochemistry from Yale, a Ph.D. in biology from MIT and worked as a researcher in the pharmaceutical industry for several years before moving into development.
Phone: (617) 372-9400 ext.208
Email: cyoon@managementconsultingservices.org
Sia Lelano, Office Manager
Sia majored in accounting at the University of Kankan in Guinea. Since arriving in Boston, she has studied English and accounting and bookkeeping practices of the United States. Following an internship at the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, Sia joined MCS as office manager.
Email: slelano@managementconsultingservices.org