Michael Shea Bio

1. Michael Shea Bio • EXPERTISE • Michael is President and Co-Founder of Griffin Strategic Advisors, focusing on Financial Management and Strategy. He has over 25 years of consulting expertise including strategic procurement, strategy, profitability, business process design, and organizational effectiveness for higher education, corporations, and research/engineering firms. He has consulted and led numerous engagements for universities such as The University of Chicago, Case Western Reserve University, Wake Forest University and Boston College, and corporations such as Detroit Diesel, Tenneco Automotive, Viking Range, World Kitchen, Chevron, Sears, and American Electric Power. • RELEVANT EXPERIENCE • Pre and Post-Merger Integration – Helped manage the merger integration synergy capture of the second largest U.S. energy company • Post-Divestiture Profitability and Channel Management Strategy – Helped lead an international profitability strategy and channel strategy study for a major global automotive aftermarket manufacturer • Strategic Sourcing – Led a 12-member team to strategically source over 40 direct parts and assemblies for a $3B US manufacturer of diesel engines • Strategic Sourcing and Procurement Transformation – Led the strategic sourcing of all direct materials, and helped build out a new Procurement function, for a top US manufacturer of high-end major kitchen appliances • Procurement and P2P Transformation – Assessed the capabilities and organizational structure of the P2P process and developed a right-sized, center-led organization model and transition plan for a major housewares manufacturing company • Procurement Transformation – Helped lead a procurement function assessment for a major US electrical utility • Strategic Procurement – Authored white paper regarding advancement in preferred strategic procurement titled “Portfolio Procurement Methodology” • Supply Chain – Co-authored article on Demand Management published in Supply Chain Management Review • PREVIOUS POSITIONS • Huron Consulting Group, Director [Higher Education Practice – Strategy and Financial Management] • AT Kearney, Senior Manager and HR Director • Battelle Memorial Institute, Principal Investigator, Principal Geochemist, and Senior Project Manager • EDUCATION • PhD, Nuclear Geochemistry, University of Chicago • ABD, Isotope Geochemistry, The Ohio State University • MS, Geochemistry, University of California at Riverside • BS, Geology, New Mexico Institute of Technology • AA, Science, Riverside Community College • Certificate, Business Administration, University of Michigan