Tom McMahon
Tom is the President and CEO of RGS. He is responsible for setting and executing the strategic direction for RGS. Tom has been a key player in transforming RGS from a systems integrator and IT support contractor into a federally focused management consulting company. He also led the buyout of our firm’s founder in 2006 by the employee shareholders.
Tom has worked for RGS since 1994 in a series of roles with increasing responsibility, including operations (Project Manager), management (Business Area Manager), and executive (Vice President and President). Tom has also held operational and management positions in the US Navy (active duty ’82 to ’88) and Newport News Shipbuilding (’88 to ‘94).
Tom holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Business Management from Park University and a Masters in Business Administration from Troy University.
Joseph Saponaro
Mr. Saponaro is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of FPMI Solutions, Inc., a privately held company providing human resources services to federal government agencies. Previously, Mr. Saponaro was president of L-3 Government Services Inc (GSI) a wholly owned subsidiary of L-3 Communications. Mr. Saponaro has over 40 years of experience in U.S. government services, and has served as a member of senior management with responsibility for profit and loss for over 27 years. His experience includes developing approaches to internal growth as well as the successful closing of mergers and acquisitions, and their successful integration following post-closing.
Prior to joining L-3 GSI, Mr. Saponaro served as sector president and general manager of a $300 million business unit of the Titan Corporation. This Titan sector focused on providing information technology services to the federal civilian market. Prior to Titan, he was president of AverStar, which was acquired in June 2000 by Titan, a private company providing software and systems services to both commercial and government markets. Mr. Saponaro was president and CEO of Intermetrics (a public company) for 14 years prior to the formation of AverStar.
Prior to Intermetrics, Mr. Saponaro held a number of engineering and management positions at GTE and System Development Corp (SDC). At SDC, he played a key role in building the on-board flight guidance, navigation and control software for all of the APOLLO missions.
Mr. Saponaro has a B.S. in Navigation and Astronomy from the Maritime Academy, an M.S. in Mathematics from Northeastern University, and has completed coursework toward a Ph.D. in Aeronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Joel Jacks
Mr. Jacks is a Managing Partner and was a founder of CM Equity Partners. From 1992 to 1996, Mr. Jacks co-founded and managed Carl Marks Consulting Group, LLC. He has extensive experience in managing and operating companies in a wide variety of industries. From 1988 to 1992, Mr. Jacks was involved in interim management and profit improvement programs for under-performing companies as a private consultant.
From 1984 to 1988, Mr. Jacks served as CFO, and later as CEO, of USSCO (a subsidiary of ADT, Ltd.), a distributor of security alarm and CCTV equipment throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. From 1976 to 1983, Mr. Jacks worked for The Penn Central Corporation as director of Financial Planning and IT director, and was involved with the restructuring of Penn Central's public securities. He was also assigned to the New York City Partnership to assist the NYC Transportation Authority as the IT vice president.
Prior to 1976, Mr. Jacks was a management consultant for Deloitte Haskins & Sells.
Related to CMEP’s private equity investing activities, Mr. Jacks is a member of the Board of Directors of the following companies: Echo Bridge Entertainment, LLC, ICF International, Inc. (NASDAQ: ICFI), Falcon Communications, Inc., Laguna Ventures, Inc,. and Preferred Systems Solutions, Inc. Mr. Jacks is also a director of ATS Corporation (OTCBB: ATCT).
Mr. Jacks received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Cape Town and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Jacks is a chartered accountant.
Peter Schulte
Mr. Schulte is a Managing Partner and was a founder of CM Equity Partners. Mr. Schulte’s experience includes private equity investing through CMEP since 1992, as well as corporate finance and M&A at Salomon Brothers, Inc. beginning in 1983. Prior to that, he was in technology marketing and sales at IBM in its Data Processing Division (DPD) that was focused on the financial services sector.
Related to his private equity investing activities, Mr. Schulte has established successful publicly traded companies: ICF International, Inc. (NASDAQ: ICFI) and ATS Corporation (OTCBB: ATCT), and he serves as director of those companies. Mr. Schulte also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of private companies, including: Falcon Communications, Inc., Xebec Global Corporation, Laguna Ventures, Inc., and Preferred Systems Solutions, Inc.
Mr. Schulte is a graduate of Harvard College (AB) and holds a master’s degree in public and private management (MPPM) from Yale University. He is currently a member of the boards of Marymount School in New York City and the Rainforest Alliance.
