Accel Announces First Board Members
Accel Consulting Group LLC announces the formation of a Global Advisory Board. The creation of the ACG Global Advisory Board, has stimulated greater success for the company by capitalizing on the vast experience and insight these leaders have. They provide strategic advice from business management to ensure our growth path is sustainable to technical oversight to ensure ACG can better deliver technology and solutions so our customers’ can excel in their specific markets.
Knowing how precarious the current economy and financial markets are with the COVID-19 shutdown, Accel Consulting Group LLC in conjunction with their Global Advisory Board want to mitigate our customers risks to the greatest extent possible. That is why we have chosen successful leaders across every sector of our business from Research and Development to manufacturing. We’re here to take care of our customers to the fullest extent possible.
“We are excited to welcome our first three members Dr. Prakash Kasiraj, Dr. Jacob Parker, and Brig Gen Steven DePalmer to our Global Advisory Board. They bring decades of leadership in key areas, such as research, technology development, strategy implementation, military tactics and operation, as well as health institutions & clinical procedures, that are vital to our future operations and strategy,” said Linda Sverdrup, CEO Accel Consulting Group LLC. “Prakash, Joseph, and Steven’s counsel and expertise will bring energy to our board and strengthen ACG’s commitment to technology development and enhancing mission-critical solutions to better serve our employees, and customers.”
Prakash Kasiraj is a technical and executive leader with over 32 years of experience in the field of hard disk drive technologies and products. He’s had a distinguished career with IBM and Hitachi. He was the former Senior Director, Recording Head Customer Engineering & Materials Analysis at Hitachi GST, and the Senior Manager, Recording Head Research Department at IBM Research. He holds a PhD degree in Applied Physics from California Institute of Technology and has 24 issued patents, as well as a myriad of awards. His technical expertise will be invaluable to Accel Consulting Group LLC.
Dr. Jacob Parker has a distinguished career as a radiology expert and executive leader with over 54 years of experience working clinically at hospitals and with patients, instructing in academia, as well as, owner of multiple medical businesses. He is Currently Staff Radiologist, VA Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK. Prior to that he was the former Medical Director, Breast Center of Northern Solano, CA and the Chief, Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Ozarks Medical Center, West Plains, MO. He holds a MD from University of Manitoba with Honors, conducted his residency at Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center. His research efforts include: 1) FDA Clinical Trials: Immunotherapy for Metastatic Cancer and 2) An ISCHEMIA Study with the VA Cardiology Department in Oklahoma.
Brig Gen Steve DePalmer is a highly decorated Air Force general, serving in the Air Force for more than 29 years, holding command and operational assignments at all levels within the Air Force and Joint Commands. These positions include Deputy Director, Joint Interagency Task Force South; Vice Commander, 14th Air Force, Vandenberg AFB; and Chief of Staff NATO joint Warfare Centre in Norway. He is a command pilot with more than 3100 flight hours in F-15C. He brings a wealth of knowledge in command & control of air, space, and cyber forces.
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