Jim is Managing Director and heads the Global Supply Chain practice of Banister International. He has extensive experience in building high performance teams across a broad range of industry sectors. Prior to his work with Banister International, Jim held a number of General Manager, Vice President and COO/CEO positions across a variety of businesses in ITT, General Electric, Georgia Pacific and Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing. During Jim’s ten years at GE, he led an internal business performance improvement consulting group in Corporate Engineering and Manufacturing (CE&M) that drove major global reengineering and process improvement initiatives across GE’s businesses. Later at GE Lighting, he reengineered and ran major segments of the $5 billion global business. Additional change management experiences include leading the reengineering of Georgia Pacific’s $8 billion Building Products and Millwork business. Jim has also fixed and grown businesses with P&L responsibility in excess of $2 billion. At Banister International, Jim has built a premiere search and consulting practice, working closely with top industry executives to understand their business needs. Jim’s strategy allows him to focus on select clients within various industry sectors. By partnering with the key executives of client organizations, he stays closely linked to their business issues and the problems they need to solve. Jim’s keen ability to identify and recruit top talent along with his understanding of the client’s needs and culture improves the offer to acceptance ratio, reduces hiring cycle time and ultimately creates a faster pay back on staffing critical positions. Jim has a BA and MBA from Providence College and is a graduate of GE’s IMPACT program and Executive Development Program. He and his wife Winnie live in Center City Philadelphia with their children Bevin and Kyle.