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Latest News March 2010 Sage Presents the Decision-Ready Board to NACD's Master's Class Tom Doorley, working with Herb Baum, retired CEO of Dial, member of several boards and long-term client of Sage Partner's Rich Schneider, will lead the panel on the Board's Role in Corporate Strategy at NACD's Master's Class for Directors in Scottsdale, AZ in March. Tom and Herb believe today's Directors must take a bigger role in understanding the Big Things their companies face, and how management will deal with them. The Big Things cover the gamut, i.e., any opportunity or problem with enough impact to make a difference in performance or viability. For this session they focus on the strategic dialogue and ethics. Sage Partners' Decision-Ready Board construct will be the platform they will use to explore issues and define the Board's role. December 2009 Sage on Oversight In conjunction with the Financier WorldWide magazine and the National
Association of Corporate Directors, Sage Partners wrote about the governance
challenges we face in the global economy. Oversight, the essential duty of
October 2009 Sage Fall Gathering At our Fall Gathering at the Wequassett Inn on Cape Cod, MA, we welcomed two new partners, John Conway and Clyde Rettig. Our prinicpal intellectual capital contributions came from Roland van Kralingen and Clyde Rettig. Roland reviewed the major themes of his new book, Emotuning, and its consumer branding implications. The concept is based on his work and a year long research project into how consumer behavior is shifting from values-based decision-making to being triggered by emotional responses. The book has been published in Europe. We are introducing the concepts into the US market and anticipate publishing an English version later this year. The focus of Cylde's session was on the strategic importance of a growing shortage of rare earth metals (REMs). Given the widespread use of REMs, and the impact on the US economy of the lack of availability, we have launched an effort to identify strategic alternatives and responses. In addition John Conway, Rich Schneider and Larry Bennigson brought the issue of IT solutions to the health care challenges. We have launched a effort in this arena to bring IT solutions into relevant client environments. As always we mixed community-building activity into our time together. We closed with a day trip to Nantucket Island on one of those exceptionally beautiful autumn days.
August 2009 Tom Doorley on Innovation -- With Australia's Leading CEOs and Government Officials In Canberra at Parliament House, the seat of Australia's Federal Government, Tom addressed the Australian Industry Group's Annual Forum, entitled Emerging Stronger. The focus of the forum was around how companies and the economy can move from the current global recession into a new era of renewed growth. Tom's presentation emphasized the role of innovation, even during times of struggle, as the means to capture the well-known advantages of Value-Creating Growth. Other business leaders included the CEOs of Telstra (largest telco), Leighton Holdings (largest construction) and the MD of IBM Australia/New Zealand. On the Government side, keynoters were the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, and the leader of the opposition, Malcolm Turnbull.
July 2009 Skouting Reports Working with the Skout Group's President, David Gebler (www.skoutgroup.com), Sage Partners have provided perspective on leadership issues. The Skouting Reports focus on key leadership topics (e.g., Larry Bennigson on the Impact of Culture, Ted West on the Life of an Entrepreneur) in keeping with Skout's overriding theme, the management of culture.
May 2009 Sage 2009 Gatherings It is our commitment to continue to build Sage Partners into a community. As such we will host two gatherings this year. The Spring Gathering was held in Poole, UK, a town in Dorset on England's south coast. Poole, the second largest natural harbor on earth, is notable for its role by the Royal Lifeboat Institute which saved over three thousand lives as the Allies were driven into the sea during the Battle of Dunkirk, then provided numerous craft for the successful D-Day invasion, Operation Overlord. The focus of the meeting was around implementing Governance processes proposed at the Fall 2008 Monterrey Gathering and working on client initiatives, especially our evolving Culture Risk assessment process. We will convene again in October, returning to the Wequasett Inn on Cape Cod.
February 2009 Sage contributes to McKinsey's new website What Matters As part of its ongoing commitment to identify and address the critical issues facing top management, McKinsey has invited a group of thought leaders to comment on ten key issues. In this first edition, Sage Partners' CEO, Tom Doorley, was asked to opine on the evolution of the Internet. His comments are contained in the published book What Matters, Ten Questions That Will Shape Our Future, which is available by request from McKinsey. The full book and Tom's article are available online at: http://whatmatters.mckinseydigital.com/
November 2008 Read the latest article written by Tom Doorley and John Gaulding in Financier Worldwide.
October 2008 Sage Partners’ annual “all hands” gathering was held this year on Monterey Bay, California. As our firm has continued to grow we focused on the themes of Celebrating—our successful venture development transactions; Connecting—it is a key element to the building of our global Sage community that we need to spend time together; Adjusting—ensuring that our core values remain relevant and intact; Moving Forward—outlining our principal initiatives for the coming year. Our key adjustments centered on bringing more structure to the Sage governance process. We agree that at our current scale we can operate as a Board of the entirety. But, we have also chartered two Committees, namely, Growth & Strategic Initiatives and Partnership. This gives each of us an active, ongoing role as the firm evolves. We also celebrated our Founding Director, John Gaulding and his wife, Rita, at our closing dinner at the Inn at Spanish Bay overlooking the spectacular Monterey coast. For a variety of reason, John has moved into Emeritus status with the firm. It is a core principle of Sage that our community is a “place to stand forever.” While John will continue to work with us on a more contained basis he also pioneers the essence of our community. September 2008 Sage Partners launches the Skout Group, LLC In response to growing demand for better knowledge around the non-financial indicators of performance, Skout takes as its mission, "Harnessing Intangibles." Skout focuses on helping clients to manage key performance metrics to take advantage, more effectively, of the energy, skills, and resources their people bring to work each day. By utilizing diagnostic tools and implementation expertise, Skout assists its clients to build more productive, ethical organizations.
Led by a renowned expert in corporate culture and ethics, David Gebler, the Skout team has deep experience in strategy, corporate culture, ethics and values. Contact David Gebler at dgebler@skoutgroup.com or visit Skout Group at www.skoutgroup.com.
July 2008 Tom Doorley writes on M&A for Financier WorldWide
Financier WorldWide provides ongoing intellectual capital targeted at Chief Financial Officers and senior Investors. Tom has contributed several articles over the years, typically stressing the Governance role. In the July 2008 article, “Value Creating M&A,” he provides counsel on improving the odds of success for mergers and acquisitions. View the article here.
April 2008 RiskMetrics has asked Tom Doorley to join the Advisory Board of its new service offering, the Governance Exchange. The Exchange is intended to provide an interactive forum for Boards of Directors, Management Teams and Institutional Investors to share ideas around major issues and leading practices in governance. It represents a major step forward in the effort to enhance governance, especially in the areas of strategy, succession planning and compensation. Tom and his fellow advisors will provide input on best practices and will field inquiries on how to bridge the gap between theory and practice.
March 2008 Pete Bonee Joins Innosight Ventures Our partner Pete Bonee has joined Innosight Ventures, a fund management company that applies the Disruptive Innovation theories of Professor Clayton Christensen to the area of venture investing. In his new role, Pete will be dividing his time between Silicon Valley and Singapore, the headquarters location of Innosight Ventures. His focus at Innosight Ventures will be on supporting their portfolio of early stage technology companies, and he will be a general partner of their new IDEAS Fund. While working full time at Innosight Ventures, Pete will also remain involved as a partner in Sage Partners.
February 2008 Larry Bennigson to Devote Additional Time to Sage Partners Our partner Larry Bennigson has announced his retirement from Harvard Business School. While he will continue to help develop and deliver HBS customized programs for companies, Larry will increasingly devote his professional time to clients of Sage Partners. Larry's expertise is in working with senior executives on issues of governance and overall strategic and organizational development. We are privileged to have Larry on our team and pleased that he will be available to help more Sage companies.
January 2008 Ticketmaster, the world’s leading ticketing company, announced it has signed an agreement to acquire GET ME IN! Limited (www.getmein.com) a leading independent web-based marketplace for sport, music, theatre and other live entertainment event tickets in Europe. Launched in September 2003 and based in London, GET ME IN! operates the largest open marketplace dedicated to live event tickets in the UK and Europe. Since launching, GET ME IN! has served over 50,000 customers by providing a safe and trusted environment for ticket resale, and guaranteeing each and every transaction that occurs. GET ME IN! Chairman, Grahame Sewell, of Sage Partners’ London Office, said that “The work done by the two original founders, James Gray and Paul Montagne, in creating the business, supplemented by strategic assistance from a number of partners from Sage Partners in the USA, had laid the foundation for this success. Since Andrew Blachman’s appointment as CEO one year ago, the Company has continued to develop and more than doubled its revenues during the last 12 months.”
January 2008 Memetrics Ltd., a provider of digital marketing optimization software, with operations in the U.S., U.K., and Australia, announced that it has been acquired by Accenture (NYSE:ACN). Sage Partners had been engaged with Memetrics in strategic venture development, U.S. market entry, and Board service since January 2006. "Memetrics and Accenture share a vision to deliver more strategic marketing based on data-driven decision-making," said Hikaru Phillips, Memetrics founder. "Working together, we will now have the scale, technology and people to truly transform the marketing function." Sage Partners helped the company grow into a leader in the online marketing optimization space. Ted West, Managing Director, served as lead partner on the Memetrics engagement, and on the Memetrics Board of Directors.
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