- Jennifer Brown
Founder and CEO - Dennis Najjar
CFO - Brian Sorge
Managing Director/EVP - Western Region - Sebastian Giordano
Managing Director/EVP - Eastern Region - Emily Przybylinski
Social Marketing + Technology - Kalpana Shanmugham
Senior Consultant - Julnar Rizk
Senior Consultant - Gloria Cotton
Senior Consultant - Brittany Emal
Senior Consultant - Mike Davis
Senior Consultant - Alison Oxman
Client Services Coordinator, Eastern Region - Sharon Smith-Mauney
Client Services Coordinator, Western Region
TEAM
Jennifer Brown Consulting is a strategic leadership and diversity consulting firm founded in 2004 to guide the efforts of Talent Management, HR, Diversity and Employee Resource Group champions and their business partners in creating more inclusive and innovative workplaces for the future. JBC counts among its client base many employer-of-choice organizations, and maintains a powerful network of nearly 3000 internal organizational and external change agents who share the organization’s commitment and partner with the JBC team to design and deliver innovative training, coaching, research and events.
Sebastian Giordano, Managing Director/EVP - Eastern Region
Sebastian is the senior executive in charge of the JBC Eastern Region Division, responsible for Business Development, Business Processing, and Business Delivery. He also provides consulting and executive coaching for selected strategic engagements.
Over the last 20 years, Sebastian has served as a Board Member, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Restructuring Officer of public and privately-held companies, including most recently as CEO of a management consulting firm providing C-Level services to new ventures, turnarounds and established companies.
Sebastian has a consistent track record of creating successful outcomes in complex situations, including as CFO, helping to rebuild a national retail optical chain from $40 Million to $150 Million and an IPO in less than three years, and as CEO, directing the turnaround and growth of a training and education business from $1 Million to $25 Million in just 30 months.
Sebastian is an innovative and strategic thinker, with in-depth expertise in operations, finance, marketing and business development and the proven ability to quickly adapt to any business – while conceiving and executing strategies to accelerate revenue and profits. He is adept at developing & motivating teams, building shareholder value, new product development, public speaking & presenting, negotiating & closing deals, managing budgets and P&L’s, sales, marketing & promotion, raising capital, franchising/licensing, and leading change.
In addition to closing multi-million dollar corporate sales and strategic marketing deals with organizations such as Ford, MetLife, GE and others, Sebastian has secured over $250M in various financings from leading investors such as Chase, CIT, GE, and Sanwa and closed 40 M&A transactions valued at over $150M.
Sebastian earned an MBA and BBA from Iona College.