Meet our team.

At Clarite, we bring a wealth of meaningful execution experience from management consulting and industry practice to help clients accelerate their financial and human capital business priorities and ideas, and grow as individuals and teams.

We've assembled a network of talented expertise who are truly passionate about tackling the challenges that mean so much to our clients.

RICH SQUEGLIA

FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR

Rich Squeglia, a highly respected executive and management consultant with decades of experience in Post-Acquisition and Business Transformations, founded Clarite in 2002. He has led the execution of numerous performance improvement and operational reinventions. He is well-versed in people, process and technology thinking, and relishes in constructing creative solutions to business challenges for the benefit of clients at Clarite.

When Rich is not solving client problems, he is co-coaching (with his wife) their five kids; trying to squeeze in his 9th marathon; walking their dog Hunter; connecting with friends constantly; and keeping his garage organized and lean.

Clarite’s Subject Matter Expertise

FINANCE, HUMAN CAPITAL AND PAYROLL OPERATIONS

25+ years experience in multi-national organizations

  • Reengineered end-to-end global Payroll processes in 36 countries
  • Business and program lead for $50m multi-year transformation project to implement a global order-to-cash solution
  • Successfully transitioned US and Canada employee populations to new outsourcing vendor and Workday Payroll
  • Implemented centralized global HR data model; developed, automated and documented a global standard work flow; centralized data collection; established a global HR operations and data center with 24-hour Service Level Agreement

Industry experience: Financial Services, Consumer Products, Media & Entertainment

PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT, IT STRATEGY AND OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

30+ years experience in Fortune 100 globals

  • Led the design and implementation of an Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO), including tools and processes for 12 Business functional PMOs, supporting over 100,000 employees across 130 countries, overseeing $1.2B project spend
  • Developed IT and Business Governance models and processes to ensure project alignment to strategy and project benefit realization
  • Wound down a 50-person Offshore Shared Services function and managed workload transition to minimize risk
  • Streamlined Gartner's Distributed Computing Total Cost of Ownership tool and process and rolled out to 32 countries to identify $10M CapEx/OpEx savings by applying automation, process efficiencies, best practices

    • Industry experience: Life Sciences, Financial Services, Insurance

TRANSFORMATION PROGRAM AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT

25+ years experience in Fortune 500 cos.

  • Led Workday Financial implementations for a Technology company and for a Professional Services Firm
  • Managed post merger integration activities, including project and change management for a division of a large regional bank
  • Developed a PMO capability for a spot TV Rep firm; led a transformation program to change the overall selling model and enabling technology, transitioning to paperless process, with higher customer value and lower operational costs

Industry experience: Technology, Media & Entertainment, Retail Banking, Professional Services

FINANCE SHARED SERVICES AND CONTROLLERSHIP

35+ years experience in multi-market media cos.

  • Designed, led the build-out effort, and managed the broadcast industry’s first successful full service Shared Accounting Operations Center for a large television group
  • Oversaw and managed the centralization and integration of accounting operations of several acquisitions, providing shared services for a $1.5B broadcast company
  • Concentrated and simplified accounting policies, processes and controls for automated solutions for SOX compliance
  • Advised and assisted major operational platform software providers to improve and enhance their offerings

Industry experience: Media & Entertainment

FINANCE / WORKFORCE STRATEGY / COST EFFICIENCY

35+ years experience in multi-nationals companies

  • Developed and implemented 3-year initiative focused on sustained cost efficiency management focused on (1) resource deployment to low cost locations, (2) rigorous Contract & Vendor Management review & (3) IT Application Rationalization & Elimination
  • Developed workforce strategy to properly align strategic business plan with financial objectives
  • Led financial due diligence around outsourced mainframe agreement that saved Investment Bank $380m over 7 years

Industry Experience: Financial Services, Consumer Retail, Media & Entertainment

TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ADVISORY

30+ years experience in fin'l and info services cos.

  • Directed all global technology operations, support, system design/dev and logistics. Aligned capabilities and established delivery and support model for flexibility, stability, performance and analytics
  • Led the strategic planning and execution of a global technology development for a $480MM business, including operating, project and off-shore consulting budgets
  • Drove 65% OpEx reduction and 100% increase in annual customer transactions. Implemented LMS platform to support digital transformation to eLearning product line, mobile product distribution capabilities, and customer engagement worldwide
  • Implemented series of cloud-based solutions (Salesforce, eLoqua, market, Tableau, office365, Azure, hosted VOIP) to support business innovation using current technologies at reduced cost footprint

Industry experience: Data and Information Services, Financial Information and Research, Technology

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