Carol Bruckner Coles

Ms. Coles is president, chief operating officer and co-founder of Mitchell and Company, a corporate finance and strategy consulting firm based in Waltham, Massachusetts, which specializes in improving companies' corporate objectives and operating strategies toward rapid stock price growth.

She also designs and conducts research for four organizations in her capacity as co-administrator: SHARE PRICE GROWTH 100, which focuses on better understanding how transactions affect value; LEADING DIVISION PRESIDENTS 100, which works on operating performance improvements; LEADING CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICERS; OUTSTANDING CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS and TWENTY TIMES PROGRESS.

Ms. Coles is coauthor of The 2000 Percent Solution: Free Your Organization from "Stalled" Thinking to Achieve Exponential Success, due to be published in March of 1999. She has spent eighteen years designing management processes to support strategy for major corporations, helping companies develop the strategic potential of their businesses, and helping corporations improve their market value. Ms. Coles has been quoted in Business Week, Forbes, Money, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and numerous influential regional newspapers concerning the future direction of major corporations and the stock market. She has also been a guest speaker at chapters of The Planning Forum, the Association for Corporate Growth, and the National Investor Relations Institute Fall Conference.

In addition to her experience as a member of the Boston Consulting Group, Ms. Coles was Manager, Strategic Planning, for Heublein, Inc., where she was also responsible for developing and instituting the strategy audit process and for acquisition and merger activities.

She is listed in Whoâs Who of American Women.

Ms. Coles has a B.A. degree in Economics from New York University and an M.A. in Economics from Columbia University.

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