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When it comes to helping you make the most of the opportunity at-hand, having professionals in your corner can make all the difference. The biographies below provide some insight into the unique blend of experience, credentials, and passions that we apply to benefit our clients.

Tamara McKinney
Chief Executive Officer

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For our clients, Tamara brings to bear knowledge and perspective gained from intense professional experience and academic study at some of the world's most respected firms and academic institutions. A former consultant with top-tier, global strategy firm Bain & Company, Tamara graduated with Second-Year Honors from the acclaimed MBA program at Harvard Business School where her advanced studies focused on entrepreneurial finance, change management, and the effects of information and technology on businesses and strategy. As an undergraduate, she studied corporate and international finance, computer science, and advanced honors areas.

Prior to graduate school, Tamara rose through the ranks of management at NCR Corporation, a global provider of innovative end-to-end computing solutions used by many of the world's largest business enterprises. Her tenure spanned ten tumultuous years in the computing industry landscape and in NCR's leadership and ownership. In the middle of her tenure, NCR merged with AT&T Corporation and Teradata Corporation simultaneously. In this context, Tamara advanced through roles in finance, operations, marketing, and strategy. She oversaw plans for U.S. capital spending, cost center consolidation, and sales force incentives for both mergers. She championed award-winning national and global projects that deployed fresh approaches and emergent technologies to reshape NCR's practices for customer-facing and internal functions.

After Harvard, Tamara joined Bain & Company, considered the elite among consulting firms and known among corporate executives and private equity investors for its extreme confidentiality, entrepreneurial culture, and cited ability to help businesses outperform the market and beat their competitors. At Bain, she helped clients of all sizes improve their business performance and competitiveness in a variety of industries -- automotive manufacturing, high technology, consumer products, pulp and paper manufacturing, transportation, and financial services. In selected instances, her clients were executing against industry consolidation or rollup strategies to improve shareholder returns. Prior to founding The Constant Group, she advised in the mid-market and startup spaces, finding a line-of-sight to a startup’s first-ever replicable revenue. She architected cash-flow positive business models that self-funded growth as capital markets evaporated after 9/11. Most recently, Tamara constructed analytical models and financial projections for a mid-market business, enabling the company to seek and secure, for the first time, bank funds to support its seasonal cash flow needs.

In addition to being a licensed business broker, Tamara is a member of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), the Midwest Business Brokers & Intermediaries (MBBI), International Business Brokers Association (IBBA), the Turnaround Management Association (TMA), the Midwest U.S.-China Association, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Union League Club of Chicago (ULCC).  

Noel McKinney
President

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Noel McKinney is a principal at The Constant Group, Inc. serving as an appraiser, business broker and information technology consultant. In this latter role, his consulting engagements have created increased revenue opportunities and operational improvements for mid-market firms in the hedge fund administration and investment data management industries. Formerly a university instructor, he taught courses in economic principles, banking and financial markets. As a corporate employee, he has worked in accounting, database administration, and software development roles.

Noel held a graduate research assistantship at Purdue University where he completed two years of doctoral coursework in accounting, economics and quantitative methods. He has two advanced degrees: a Master of Science from DePaul University in Computer Science and a Master of Science from Wright State University in Applied Economics. His Bachelor of Science is in Management, with a Finance concentration, from Purdue. He transferred there from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, where he studied engineering and was an Army ROTC cadet.

In addition to being a licensed business broker, Noel holds a designation of Certified Machinery & Equipment Appraiser (CMEA) through the National Equipment and Business Brokers Institute (NEBBI) and Certified Senior Business Analyst (CSBA) through the Society of Business Analysts. He is also a member of the Midwest Business Brokers & Intermediaries (MBBI), International Business Brokers Association (IBBA), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

  

 

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