About CSI Leadership Team

Beverly Kaye, Founder & CO-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.

C. Patrick Smith, CO-Chief Executive Officer
Member of Advisory Board

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.

Ann Jordan, Vice President, Marketing & Product Development

Ann Jordan joined CSI ten years ago as a member of the Executive Committee and has been supporting multiple aspects of CSi's growth strategy and overall business needs. In her current role as Vice President of Marketing and Product Development, she has been instrumental in the development and hugely successful launch of CSi's newest offering, CareerPower 3.0®. She has also led all marketing and branding efforts, and has recreated CSi's brand and positioning in the marketplace. She is responsible for identifying and implementing strategic and global initiatives designed to leverage existing business and build new opportunities. Ann has spent more than 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.

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.

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.  

Michael G. Winston, Member of Advisory Board

As a member of the CSI Advisory Board, Michael brings the experience of a 30 year career preparing organizations to meet the challenges of rapid, continuous and disruptive market change. He has served as Global Head and Chief Organization & Leadership Officer at Merrill Lynch, Bank of America Home Loan, Motorola, McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed Corporations during seismic changes in their industries. In all, he has worked closely with and reported directly to C-Suite Officers developing the strategy and business model, architecting structure, creating culture, and selecting and developing leaders (including the CEO). He is passionate about achieving exemplary performance in these areas. Michael has also addressed executives at Harvard, Stanford, University of California, Berkeley, INSEAD (France), Management Centre Europe (Belgium) and served as Distinguished Adjunct Professor for 16 years at Stichting deBaak (The Netherlands). He plays an active role in CSI's Advisory Board.

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.

Rosalind Sago, Vice President, Solutions Delivery & Development

Rosalind Sago is an experienced consultant specializing in the areas of organization, employee and human resources development. Her career spans a variety of industries, including, but not limited to, retail, financial services, information technology and manufacturing. As Career Systems International "Lead Consultant" she provides expertise in the areas of career development, mentoring and retention. In her role as Vice President, Rosalind plays a strategic role overseeing the development and certification of facilitators and trainers. She has led in the successful development, testing and delivery of the classroom and virtual experience for the CareerPower 3.0® solution. A master trainer and instructional designer, she has been the lead in developing and delivering CSi's e-learning solutions, including CareerPower® and PowerMentoring®. She has consulted, designed and conducted programs for employees and managers ranging from large companies to small entrepreneurial businesses in the United States and abroad, including the Netherlands, Australia, Asia, South Africa, South America and Europe. Starbucks, Catepillar, CitiGroup, Merrill Lynch, HP, Daimler Chrysler, Lockheed Martin and Microsoft, are among those organizations utilizing these services.