Michael I. Pirron, MBA, PMP
Chief Executive Officer
As founder of Impact Makers, Michael has developed a new business model that takes social entrepreneurship to a new level. Impact Makers is a not-for-profit professional services firm dedicated to delivering quality consulting services while making a direct charitable community impact.
Michael spent the early years of his career as a Senior Consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) based in Sophia Antipolis, France. His tenure allowed him to consult, with increasingly complex engagements, throughout the EMEAI (Europe, Middle East, Africa, and India) region. As a result, Michael has lived or worked in seven countries and spent significant time in over 25 nations. He became conversant in French, and when he moved on to be a Product Manager with ViryaNet Systems in Jerusalem, Israel, he added Hebrew to his language skills. Later, while an independent consultant, Michael completed an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Michael returned to the States and accepted a position as the Manager of Application Development at Health Management Corporation (HMC), a leading disease management company and subsidiary of WellPoint Blue Cross / Blue Shield (one of the nation’s largest providers of health insurance). Prior to launching Impact Makers, Michael was the Director of Product Development at First Health Services Corporation.
Carl Miller
President
As President of Impact Makers, Carl uses his considerable program/project management and operational experience to continue to build our delivery capabilities and help grow our business. Carl leads our engagements in the Health Information Exchange (HIE) market where he focuses on helping HIEs launch their services and implement business operations. Carl gained a wealth of consulting experience in the Federal and State markets early in his career. This was followed by five years with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida where Carl led the design and development of their physician/provider database as well as authoring BCBSF’s Information Engineering development methodology. Carl relocated his family to Richmond, VA in 1997. Since that time Carl has gained increasingly responsible management experience by leading large, complex, business critical technology and business programs at Circuit City, iXL, East3 and Capital One.
Immediately prior to joining Impact Makers, Carl was a member of the executive management team at Cinea, Inc. (a division of Dolby Labs). Carl served in multiple roles including directing operations and leading Cinea’s largest line of business and driving strategic partnerships and licensing deals with Fortune 500 customers.
Rodney Willett
Vice President, Business Strategy
Rodney joined Impact Makers in 2011 as Vice President of Business Strategy and oversees the company’s business development efforts nationally. He has more than 20 years of experience working with government and commercial entities and helping to meet their management and technology needs. Most recently, Rodney served as public sector lead for Virginia for North Highland, a global management consulting company. At North Highland, he worked with dozens of state agencies and universities to assist them in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations and implementing their business strategies. Prior to joining North Highland, Rodney directed Virginia’s state government Internet portal (www.virginia.gov) and served as president of Virginia Interactive, LLC, the Virginia subsidiary of the e-government company NIC. The Center for Digital Government recognized the Virginia portal and its e-government services as the best state Internet portal in the nation because of its innovations in delivering citizen and business services online.
Rodney is a licensed Virginia attorney and has represented state and local government clients for more than 17 years. He practiced with the law firm of Hunton & Williams, where he primarily represented and advised Virginia municipal governments and local school boards on contractual, administrative, and constitutional law issues. Rodney also is an advocate for educational and other public interests. He is the immediate past chairman of the Richmond Montessori School Board of Trustees and just completed his 11th year of service to the board. Rodney founded the Pulley Family Endowment at the College of William and Mary in order to fund public service work by student volunteers world-wide. He also helped to create and lead a legal assistance program for the homeless in Northern Virginia. Rodney currently serves on the Public Policy Committee of the Board of the United Way of Greater Richmond and Petersburg and is a member of the Board of Directors of Wintergreen Resort.
Rodney attended the College of William and Mary for his BA and JD degrees. He completed high school at the Collegiate School in Richmond.
Adam Beck, CSP, PMP
Principal
Before his volunteer work through a William & Mary business school project, Adam began his career by frequently donating his career skills to aid charitable organizations. That approach of leveraging business objectives to advance worthwhile causes remains a theme for Adam as one of the Principals of Impact Makers. Adam’s career focus after college moved to software product development and leadership of financial services projects while managing increasingly larger operations, development and IT project teams at Citi, Arthur Andersen, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase then Capital One.
With the responsibility for larger, more complex projects and teams with 8-figure budgets, Adam found the simplicity of Agile a refreshingly structured tool to provide innovative IT delivery solutions for both project team and larger programs. During Adam’s masters degree work at UVA’s McIntire IT school and later engagements with mobile/eCommerce technology companies, Adam further refined his industry-leading leadership techniques to help client teams find innovative ways to meet many of the most stubborn business challenges. By combining traditional management methods with proven innovations, Adam brings his experience developing high-performing teams–as well as mid-size through Fortune 50 program offices–to Impact Makers’ growing client base.
Doug Couvillion, PMP, CSM
Director, Project Delivery
Doug joined the Impact Makers team in 2011. He began his career in 1992 as a software developer for AT&T. In 1997 Doug moved to the Richmond area to pursue a consulting opportunity. Since that time he’s worked with financial, manufacturing, technology, education, and government clients. Prior to accepting his current position Doug spent three years as an independent project management consultant. Doug prides himself in his ability to build strong, loyal teams that deliver results and his record of repeat business. His project management experience includes delivery of custom software, website development, management of offshore teams, business process implementations and infrastructure upgrades. Doug holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Mary Washington College (now The University of Mary Washington) and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified Scrum Master (CSM).
