About CSI Leadership Team

Beverly Kaye, Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Member of Advisory Board

Cutting edge thinking and continuous improvement efforts have kept the award-winning Dr. Kaye a leader in the career development field for 25 years. She is the author of the classic career development book, Up is Not the Only Way, and the co-author (with Sharon Jordan-Evans) of the international bestseller on retaining talent, Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay, and the workplace satisfaction sequel, Love It, Don't Leave It: 26 Ways to Get What You Want at Work.

In 1979, Dr. Beverly Kaye started Beverly Kaye & Associates, Inc. (BKA) as a management consulting company specializing in the creation, delivery and strategic management of talent in organizations. Career Systems, which later evolved into CSI, was subsequently added to create and supply state-of-the-art instruments for use in our workshops. Today, the product and service operations have been integrated into a single international enterprise under the marketplace banner (dba) of CSI; BKA remains as the parent company and corporate umbrella of CSI.

GARY VILARDI, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, SALES

Gary brings more than 25 years of successful and productive sales and sales management experience to the SVP of Sales position. Over the past two years he was Vice President and General Manager for X-Sells Inc., a leading outsourcer of sales and marketing services in strategic sales lead development for businesses selling to businesses .  Prior to X-Sells, Gary spent over 16 years in the audio, web collaboration and video conferencing industry as SVP of Sales with Genesys Conferencing and Vialog Corp., achieving significant revenue growth by uncovering new revenue opportunities within the existing Fortune 500 customer, negotiating large contracts with major corporations and increasing the size of the sales teams.

Prior to his work with Genesys and Vialog, Gary was VP of Sales for both Video-On Inc. , a GE Capital Company and Darome Teleconferencing where his team sales strategy provided the infrastructure for the accelerated growth that eventually lead to MCI's acquiring Darome . Earlier in his 20 year sales management career, Gary held senior sales management positions in the software industry, including Computer Associates and On-Line Software International.

He resides in Boxford , MA with his wife Cathy of 25 years and son Vinny, a senior and varsity baseball pitcher at Colby-Sawyer College .  Sales and sales management is Gary 's second career.  Up until 20 years ago Gary was a professional drummer, and still finds relaxation through evening Rock, Jazz, Classical (yes, Classical) jam sessions in his basement.

Gary 's wealth of sales and sales management experience in selling business services to Fortune 500 executives including HR and operations will have both immediate and strategic impacts on CSi's efforts to grow revenues by providing our clients the appropriate value-added solutions to their talent management issues and opportunities.  

Barry Levitt, Chief Financial Officer
Member of Advisory Board

Barry Levitt has been the CFO of Beverly Kaye & Associates ever since its inception in 1979. However, for 31 years, his day job was as a bona fide rocket scientist engaged in communications research at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Hard pressed to handle the day-to-day financial operations of BKA in his spare time, Barry was thrilled when Nanci Hendrickson, the VP of Finance, took over that job in 1996.

After taking early retirement from JPL in 2001, Barry was again available to play a more active role in our organization. As CFO he is ultimately responsible for the economic health and long-term financial planning for the enterprise. He also took over the task of creating and maintaining this website several years ago, during which time his web design skills have increased steadily.

Barry is formally Dr. Barry Levitt, having acquired his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT in 1971. During his "other life" at JPL, he contributed to the design of telecommunications links for unmanned satellite missions and did fundamental research on advanced communications techniques for the Defense Department. And he fondly recalls being one of the original members of the technical team supporting the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).

During his communications career, he co-authored a ground-setting book in his field entitled Spread Spectrum Communications, and he published and presented over 40 technical papers based on his research. However, he readily admits that his life is much more enjoyable now.

Ann Jordan, Vice President of Marketing

Ann Jordan joined CSI seven years ago as Vice President of Marketing. In this role, she is responsible for identifying and implementing strategic and global initiatives designed to leverage existing business and build new opportunities. Ann has spent over 15 years in corporate America, where she has held a variety of leadership roles in the areas of sales, marketing, automation, administration, human resources and training.

Nanci Hendrickson, Vice President of Finance and Operations

Nanci Hendrickson truly lives the premise of Love It, Don't Leave It having been with CSI for over 11 years. As CSI has grown, so have Nanci's roles and responsibilities. She is now in charge of all aspects of CSI's day-to-day financial operations while also managing the fulfillment function in Scranton and the IT support team. Prior to joining CSI, Nanci managed operations for several smaller consulting firms, including customer service, IT support, and accounts payable and receivable. She has a practical, no-nonsense approach to management, an extremely capable can-do attitude to every challenge confronting her, and she believes strongly in the power of CSI's solutions to positively transform individuals and organizations.

Al Hazan, Member of Advisory Board

As a member of the CSI Advisory Board for the last five years Al Hazan has been instrumental in facilitating and following the development of the CSI strategic Planning process. Hazan has been a successful entrepreneur founding several organizations in diversified fields over the last 35 years. A pioneer and visionary in the computer and high tech industries, he has been an operating officer for such successful organizations as Lockheed Electronics, Philips Electronics, Pertec and others. His experience and knowledge in the aiding of leadership to several organizations as an Executive Coach and Consultant, has added to growth & profitability for his client base. He has been involved in several successful acquisitions and mergers that have added impressive intrinsic financial value to the companies involved. He brings a knowledge of structure, processes, continuous product improvement in the organizations he is involved in and is dedicated to growth & profitability.

C. Patrick Smith, Member of Advisory Board