Nick Rench is an Executive Advisor with Shields Meneley Partners, a leading provider of executive consulting services to individuals and organizations around the world. SMP specializes in career, life, and business solutions, and is focused on linking individual executive effectiveness to organizational performance

During a 26-year career with GTE, Mr. Rench was in charge of several large international management information systems (MIS) organizations. Most recently, Mr. Rench served as Director of MIS for the company's Electrical Products Group, where his team of over 350 employees was responsible for all management information systems, office automation systems, and telecommunication systems and resources. In that role, he facilitated a major business restructuring by collapsing a nationwide network of 24 individual systems into two midsize computers and formulated and executed strategies to reduce costs for software development, systems maintenance, and staff recruitment

At GTE's Sylvania Lighting Products Group, where he was Director of MIS, Mr. Rench oversaw the group's electronic data processing (EDP), office automation, electronic mail, and voice and data communications systems. He developed and executed a strategy to create a uniform MIS environment across 16 locations in Europe and implemented large mainframe database applications using fourth-generation languages. The latter project, which included a new billing system, streamlined billing processes, reduced maintenance by 60 percent, and virtually eliminated billing errors. As manager of EDP, Mr. Rench oversaw MIS operations in the United States, including a centralized mainframe data center and decentralized minicomputer systems in remote plants

Mr. Rench began his career with GTE at the company's Sylvania Chemical and Metallurgical Division, where he held positions of increasing responsibility in product development and MIS. Key accomplishments include being awarded three patents and six patent disclosures for new manufacturing processes and the implementation of an on-line, real-time workload system to continuously adjust the arrangement of people and machines to meet customers' needs. Before joining GTE, Mr. Rench worked as an engineer at the Westinghouse Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory.