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Kathryn S. Hanson
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Kathryn S. Hanson is the Managing Partner of The Hanson Group
and founded the Group in 1988. She has over twenty years' experience
in high technology, both as an operating manager and as a strategic consultant.
Her consulting experience ranges across Internet software and services,
PC and mid-range hardware, enterprise software, networking, compliance
and security software. She specializes in helping companies identify
their overall strategic challenges and finding solutions for successful
growth and expansion despite those challenges. Hanson has taught Strategic
Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Stanford Law
School and the Claremont (Drucker) Graduate School.
Dr. Hanson has also co-founded two start-ups (SatMetrix and eMentoring.com),
where she also held key operational roles as Chair/VP Marketing and CEO
respectively. She merged eMentoring.com into Pensare, where she served as
the VP of Marketing, establishing the brand and products as eLearning industry
leaders. She has also been a Director and Manager of Strategy and Marketing
at Convergent Technologies and HP. Hanson holds an MBA with Distinction
from Harvard, an MA and PhD with Dissertation Honors from the University of
Chicago and a BA with Distinction from Stanford University.
Affiliates
The Hanson Group has a number of key strategic and marketing affiliates
with whom it works to put together a full-service consulting team for its
clients. Our affiliates all bring both consulting and operating experience
in high technology businesses. They offer additional expertise in branding,
positioning, quick-start marketing activities and strategic services.
Our affiliates also bring years of effective operating experience
within high technology companies; i.e., they know what works and
how to implement their recommendations. They can also serve as interim
operating executives. Our affiliates include:
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"The Hanson Group brings intellectual power, passion and objectivity
to the job of helping its clients. I have always found Hanson to have
an unusual combination of strategic insight and practical business
judgment that is of enormous use to a CEO."
Edward McCracken
former CEO, Silicon Graphics.
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