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Karen Ayas, Ph.D.

Dr. Karen Ayas is a respected scholar with expertise on change management, organizational design, learning organizations and leadership development.

Trained as an industrial engineer, she started her career in human resources, serving as HR Director for two major Israeli hospitals. After earning her PhD, Dr. Ayas continued her career as a consultant, educator, and author.

Her projects, typically large scale organizational transformation and leadership development efforts, include engagements in China, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Netherlands, France, Finland, Turkey, Israel, and the US.

Highlights of her client work include coaching and supporting top leaders (CEO or division managers) through mergers, major transformation, cultural change, developing the top team and leaders throughout the company, and designing and facilitating strategic retreats and leadership journeys.

Dr. Ayas earned her BS and MS degrees in Industrial Engineering at the Technion, Israeli Institute of Technology, and her doctorate in management of innovation at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

Dr. Ayas is adjunct faculty at Babson College School of Executive Education.

Dr. Ayas is fluent in English, French, Dutch, Hebrew and Turkish.

Atilla Habip is a founding partner of Ripples and heads the strategy consulting practice, specializing in growth strategy in healthcare and high tech. He brings together substantial strategy consulting and hands-on leadership experience.

Prior to Ripples, Mr. Habip was with Bain & Company for 7 years, serving clients in the US and Europe. He also had a fast-track management career with International Paper and he served as CEO of Citizens Health.

Mr. Habip earned his MBA and BS at Columbia University.

Jerome F. Meier concentrates in the areas of growth strategy and business development, M&A, and operational improvement.

Mr. Meier was Vice President, Group Strategy and Business Development at Pratt & Whitney, an $11B division of United Technologies Corp., responsible for mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and divestitures, and strategic planning.

Mr. Meier began his career as a Process Development Engineer with DuPont, spent four years with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where he led strategy and reengineering projects principally in financial services and consumer and industrial products, and was co-founder and CEO of Rentmaker, Inc.

He has an MBA from Harvard Business School, and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in chemical engineering from MIT.

Philip H. Mirvis, Ph.D. is an organizational psychologist whose research and practice concerns large-scale organizational change, mergers and acquisitions, social Innovations, community building, and assessments of work life and company cultures.

Dr. Mirvis has designed and led action learning programs for senior managers at Ford Motor Co., Shell Oil, and Banker’s Trust. Mirvis has also worked with government and nonprofit agencies such as Harvard Community Health Plan, Blue Cross and agencies for international development.

Mirvis has a B.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Mete Habip

Mete Habip focuses on financial and operational performance improvement. Prior to joining the Ripples Group, Mete was VP, Corporate Performance at MedAssets, Inc., a publicly-traded healthcare IT company.

Trained as a Food Engineer, Mete started his career as a food technology consultant at The International Food Network and then joined Pepsi-Cola as Field Engineer. At Pepsi, he led the commercialization of new products. In addition, Mete spent two years as management consultant with Marakon Associates, an international consulting firm, where he focused on strategy development in the consumer goods and consumer finance industries. He held several positions at MedAssets, including GM of a software division, and played a key role in the company's successful IPO.

Mete holds a B.S. in Food Science, an MEng in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.