The Company:

HighTide Partners is a business operations consulting firm focused on helping companies succeed in challenging times. Some challenges are great to have: rapid growth, new market opportunities, favorable merger or acquisition prospects, lower cost technologies. Others are not so great: downsizing, consolidation, new regulatory barriers, or bankruptcy. Even if you are fortunate enough to face just the every-day challenges of reducing costs and improving margin, HighTide Partners can help. Target industries include telecommunications, energy and medical. Our skills are particularly suited to clients transforming from regulated to highly competitive environments or facing significant change in direction. Take advantage of our expertise. You know your objectives and where your company needs to be for success. HighTide Partners has a wealth of experience that can show you the right path and help you stay on course to get there. Our strengths are particularly valuable for joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, integrations, bankruptcies, cost restructuring and other events requiring unique and focused expertise. Prior to starting each engagement we work with you to fully understand your business needs and challenges to make sure HighTide Partners is the right fit. We want to ensure that every client is fully satisfied with each engagement and will not take on a project that will not produce value for you. Over 80% of our business is from repeat customers and we want to keep it that way.

Principles: Michael A. Beach: Michael is co-founder of HighTide Partners, LLC a business operations consulting and project management firm specializing in helping companies succeed in challenging times. Prior to founding HighTide Partners, Michael’s experience included executive positions over 30 years during the rise, fall and resurrection of MCI Communications. Michael helped open new markets to competition, implemented new organizations, negotiated resolution of $6 Billion in creditor claims during bankruptcy recovery, provided expert testimony in state and federal regulatory forums, and managed both rapid growth and consolidation strategies. He has experience in public policy, bankruptcy recovery, contract negotiation, and numerous other international and US business operations functions. Following the acquisition of MCI by Verizon, Michael was selected to head the consolidation of US vendor audit and payment operations for the combined company with responsibility for ongoing audit, payment and dispute resolution of over $7 Billion in annual vendor costs. Michael’s hands-on approach and wealth of experience brings tremendous value to clients who need reliable help and guidance during periods of tremendous change impacting their business. Michael Beach Resume

Pat J. Lewis: Pat is co-founder of HighTide Partners, LLC. Pat is a Sales and Marketing executive with a track record of exceeding sales objectives, attracting new customers and satisfying unique customer requirements through the modification of existing products and services. Pat successfully managed, trained and developed Account Executives and Consultants in their sales and support functions for network interconnection, access and billing services. Pat is an experienced manager and project leader, including design and construction of technical sites and administrative office facilities. Pat Lewis Resume