Gary Plaster is Partner with Charter Consulting, Chicago, IL.  He is former Partner with Grant Thornton LLP, serving as the National Managing Partner of the Enterprise Strategies practice and the firm's Chief Strategy Officer. He is the co-author of The Road to Success: How to Manage Growth, published by Wiley. Plaster is a speaker before many professional and academic groups.

Jerry Alderman is Principal with Charter Consulting in Chicago, IL. He has 20 years of industry and consulting experience and has developed a reputation for building unique insights into complex business problems and his problem solving skills are supported by his broad set of experiences, including highly technical operating systems to managing sales growth to setting strategic direction and pace.