The Hudson Group - Overview

The Hudson Strategic Group

Joseph Hudson has more than 25 years experience as an entrepreneur, association executive and independent consultant. A regularly published columnist on small business matters Hudson is featured in many national publications. He is the former President and Chief Staff Officer of the Georgia Minority Supplier Development Council and was a Presidential Appointee to the White House Program for Executive Exchange, as well as, a participant in the International Business Fellows Program held at the London Business School. He is a Certified Administrative Manager (C.A.M.). His post educational and work experience gives him both theoretical and practical "hands on" knowledge of corporate and small business management applications needs and responses. Joseph is President and CEO

Henry Whitlow holds a masters degree in business from Harvard University (MBA) and is trained as a Baldrige examiner, one of only a handful of those certified to conduct comprehensive organizational assessments (Malcolm Baldridge Quality Standards) and is also trained in a number of quality related topics, including ISO 9000, Benchmarking, Facilitation, Quality Planning, and Statistical Process Control techniques. He has served as an adjunct instructor for Southern Tech University, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology and winner of the Groupware Service Provider Award for application of Groupware technology, awarded by Computer World at the Groupware conference held annually in San Jose, California. Henry is a business process analyst with extensive financial management and financial systems experience. As a member of the IBM Corporate Quality Staff, he was responsible for the establishment and management of the projects in private and public settings.

Henry is Executive Vice President for Project Development and Analysis

Kirk Patterson matriculated at Stanford University (BA Economics) with a concentration in econometrics. He perfected his skills in quantitative analysis as an internal and external business consultant for Dean Witter, Pepsi, and IBM. Mr. Patterson has extensive experience in growing revenue for third party vendors, dealers, corporate investors and business partners. For the past five years Kirk has specialized in conducting performance analyses for entrepreneurial divisions, business units, and companies

Kirk is also Executive Vice President for Project Execution.

Richard Finley. a superb facilitator experienced in Community Planning and Management, Organizational Development, Strategic Planning, and Performance Measurement Richard holds a BA in Business. A former banker, and city aide, Richard has spent more than 20 years developing and producing consultant studies for federal and state governments. Richard, is Vice President –in-Charge of the Birmingham, Al office of HsG.

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