The Spur Group CEO and leadership

Chris McCall is the Co-founder & CFO of The Spur Group. He has over 25 years of experience across business strategy, operations and channel management. He was part of Deloitte’s Mergers & Acquisitions service line, where he helped to develop the methodology that has been used on hundreds of integrations world-wide. He was also part of Microsoft’s Global Partner and Corporate Strategic Planning teams where he led Go-To-Market strategy for Microsoft’s largest alliance. Chris has a BA in Economics and Accounting from Claremont McKenna College and an MBA in Finance and Strategic Management from the Wharton School.

Richard leads The Spur Group’s four go-to-market service lines leveraging over 20 years of experience in sales, channel management, marketing strategy and business operations. Prior to joining The Spur Group, Richard worked for Microsoft and other technology companies where he led groups with responsibilities ranging from partner and channel management, market development and customer-satisfaction planning.

Steve White is a Partner and Chief Operations Officer for The Spur Group. Steve has over 20 years of experience in leadership, organizational systems, operations, and change management. He has led business critical-strategic initiatives for some of the largest companies in the Fortune 100. Prior to joining Spur, Steve was VP of Business Process Integration (fully elected officer), for JP Morgan Chase and was a Regional Marketing Director for Allstate Insurance. Steve helps clients make better decisions, realize their objectives, tell their stories, leverage their channels and strengthen their staff.

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Bhavani engages and empowers organizations to realize their talent potential. She is a trusted people leader and talent strategist, with a reputation for building, developing and leading transformative teams that scale and serve the organization, and positively impacts culture and growth. She has consistent and proven ability to implement effective people initiatives within short timelines and with limited resources.

Bhavani has held various head of HR roles with accountability for up to 3000 regional employees in multiple states and locations. She is a consistent recipient of accolades for leading, managing and supporting organizational change in corporate, mid-size and startup organizations across various industries.

Passionate about people, performance and talent potential, Bhavani partners closely with executives and their leaders to ideate and implement creative talent strategies to realize business goals. Often characterized as bold, energetic, fun and tenacious. she is unafraid to take appropriate risks and believes there are agile and creative ways to support the workforce. Bhavani is an influencer, inspirer and change leader, and has successfully led large national change management initiatives. She has led strategic staffing initiatives in new markets and the opening and closing of various locations with minimal to no impact to day to day operations.

Areas of expertise:

Scale and revenue growth through talent strategy. HR operations. Full employee life cycle - Talent acquisition, organization effectiveness, talent management, performance management, training and leadership development, compensation and benefits strategy, succession planning, organization re-design, re-structures and change management, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging, HRIS strategy and implementation, employee relations, leadership coaching, workforce planning, policy/process development, leader and employee engagement, on boarding, off boarding and retention strategies.

Corporate Strategy & Development Executive - Driving scalable growth for companies by delivering corporate-level guidance, risk mitigation, technology & process improvement, financial diligence, corporate development and turnaround expertise. Executive and owner level decision-making combined with a track record of highly successful outcomes and positive impacts.



Position organizations for expansion and growth by clearly defining vision, leveraging human capital, building external partnerships and facilitating entry into new markets.



Highlights

• Inc. Fastest Growing Company (2010)

• E&Y Entrepreneur of the year Nominee (2007 - 2010)

• Inc. Fastest Growing Company (2007)

• Inc. Top 10 Companies in Seattle (2007)

• Inc. Top 15 Software Development Companies in Seattle (2007)

• PSBJ Fastest Growing Company (2006)



Executive Assets & Key Skills

* International Business Leadership

* Board of Director Leadership

* Go-to-Market (GTM) Execution

* Financial Analysis

* Accounting

* Strategy Definition & Deployment

* Engineering & Operations Orientation

* Full P&L Management

* Executive Team Development

* Information Management Strategy

* Cloud Solutions

* M&A / Consolidations / Integrations

Chris McCall is the Co-founder & CFO of The Spur Group. He has over 25 years of experience across business strategy, operations and channel management. He was part of Deloitte’s Mergers & Acquisitions service line, where he helped to develop the methodology that has been used on hundreds of integrations world-wide. He was also part of Microsoft’s Global Partner and Corporate Strategic Planning teams where he led Go-To-Market strategy for Microsoft’s largest alliance. Chris has a BA in Economics and Accounting from Claremont McKenna College and an MBA in Finance and Strategic Management from the Wharton School.

Richard leads The Spur Group’s four go-to-market service lines leveraging over 20 years of experience in sales, channel management, marketing strategy and business operations. Prior to joining The Spur Group, Richard worked for Microsoft and other technology companies where he led groups with responsibilities ranging from partner and channel management, market development and customer-satisfaction planning.

Steve White is a Partner and Chief Operations Officer for The Spur Group. Steve has over 20 years of experience in leadership, organizational systems, operations, and change management. He has led business critical-strategic initiatives for some of the largest companies in the Fortune 100. Prior to joining Spur, Steve was VP of Business Process Integration (fully elected officer), for JP Morgan Chase and was a Regional Marketing Director for Allstate Insurance. Steve helps clients make better decisions, realize their objectives, tell their stories, leverage their channels and strengthen their staff.

Chris McCall is the Co-founder & CFO of The Spur Group. He has over 25 years of experience across business strategy, operations and channel management. He was part of Deloitte’s Mergers & Acquisitions service line, where he helped to develop the methodology that has been used on hundreds of integrations world-wide. He was also part of Microsoft’s Global Partner and Corporate Strategic Planning teams where he led Go-To-Market strategy for Microsoft’s largest alliance. Chris has a BA in Economics and Accounting from Claremont McKenna College and an MBA in Finance and Strategic Management from the Wharton School.