Evan M. Dudik, President

 
Evan founded Evan M. Dudik & Associates in 1994 because he recognized many companies needed high quality strategic problem solving, delivered quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively. Since 1994, EMD & Associates has successfully served companies ranging from medical diagnostic start-ups to billion-dollar retailers.

Evan is personally sensitive to the needs of today's managers to obtain workable, practical solutions. He spent four years managing his own wood products company. In this time he expanded sales by a factor of three, and overcame the recession of the early 1990s by successfully selling manufactured products into Japan and to large warehouse-type club retailers. The company was sold in 1994 to a larger acquirer.

Evan developed his management consulting skills at McKinsey & Company, a large international management consulting firm. He spent six years as Engagement Manager in McKinsey's Los Angeles office. There he served numerous large companies in industries ranging from transportation to hospital management to aluminum processing to appliance manufacturing. He also spent four years as a research project manager and technology lobbyist in Washington, D.C.

Evan Dudik holds an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School, a Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin and a BA from St. John's College, Annapolis, MD. He has authored articles on strategic marketing published in The Journal of Business Strategy and The Wall Street Journal.

Since 1991, Vineet has been president of Bombay Pacific Partners, a venture management and business development firm. Previously, Vineet was the corporate finance specialist in the Los Angeles and Amsterdam offices of McKinsey & Company, Inc., where he advised clients on mergers and acquisitions, valuation, and financial issues for numerous Fortune 500 companies. His clients included multibillion-dollar oil & gas, transportation, photographic products, agricultural, aerospace, and media/entertainment companies.

Prior to McKinsey, Mr. Kapur worked as a managing associate for Marakon Associates, Inc., an international financial consulting firm. While at Marakon, he specialized in financial restructurings and M&A advisory, including key engagements for a large entertainment/film production company, a leading photographic products manufacturer, a large hotel chain, and a food processing company. Vineet also played a key role in the assessment of a potential acquiree for a large national transportation company.

Vineet holds a B. Tech. (equivalent to a BS) in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University. He also has authored an article on multimedia authoring tools for New Media magazine.

George and Evan worked together at McKinsey & Company in the 1980s, where George focused on applying information technology to solve client's problems. There he implemented such techniques as expert systems, relational and hierarchical databases, linear programming and multivariate statistics.

Prior to McKinsey, George built and managed the Los Angeles Office of Data Resources, Inc. (DRI), a division of McGraw-Hill. DRI provided econometric forecasting services to over 60 corporate and financial clients. George holds an MBA in Finance and Information Systems from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a BA in economics from Princeton University.