Edward Nathan Page — Managing Director

Ed’s focus is helping clients to create sustainable business successes in rapidly changing and uncertain environments. His areas of expertise include strategy formulation and implementation, operational improvement and organizational development. He has worked with a wide variety of leading global organizations including Comcast, Dell Computer, American Express, Ameritech, BellSouth, U.S. Cellular, and Ford Motor Company.


Prior to The Piedmont Group, Ed has also held positions as an Associate Partner of the Trium Group, a strategy firm based in San Francisco and New York, the COO of CareAssured, a healthcare technology company, a Senior Manager at Bain & Company, a world-renowned global strategy consulting firm, and was a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Pacific Bell.


Ed’s educational credentials include an M.B.A. in Corporate Strategy and Marketing from Stanford University, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Michael C. Bush

Michael has studied, lectured and delivered organizational and operational performance enhancements for over 25 years. He has developed and implemented his approaches internationally and domestically across multiple industries that include high technology, healthcare, and telecommunications. Clients served include Kaiser Permanente, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Activision, Baxter Healthcare, Stryker Healthcare, McKesson, Intermountain Healthcare, and Southern California Edison.


Prior to The Piedmont Group, Michael was the CEO of Tetra Tech Communications, which was among the largest Telecommunications infrastructure services firm in the United States. Before joining Tetra Tech, Michael served in a series of consulting and interim CEO roles and was a senior executive at Kaiser Permanente.


Michael’s educational credentials include engineering and management degrees from Stanford University.

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             — Charles Sorenson