Karen Ayas, Ph.D.

Dr. Karen Ayas is a founding partner of Ripples. She 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 Ph.D., 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

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. Mr. Habip started his consulting career at Bain & Company, serving clients in the US and Europe for seven years. Those clients included major high-tech companies, multi-nationals in consumer goods, and life sciences and health care companies.

Mr. Habip served as CEO for CitizensHealth, a start-up launched by Citizens Energy Corporation and its Chairman, former Congressman Joe Kennedy. Earlier in his career, Mr. Habip held several engineering and management positions with International Paper where, in his last position, he was Plant Manager for the Framingham packaging facility.

Mr. Habip earned his M.B.A. in Finance & International Business and BS in Industrial Engineering at Columbia University.

Mete Habip

Mete Habip focuses on financial and operational performance improvement. 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 several new products. In addition, Mete worked as management consultant with Marakon Associates, an international consulting firm, where he focused on growth strategies in the consumer goods and consumer finance industries. He held several positions at MedAssets, Inc., a health care IT company, including leading a software division, and played a key role in the company's successful IPO. Prior to joining the Ripples Group, Mete was Vice President of Corporate Performance at MedAssets.

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

Ant Bozkaya, Ph.D.

Ant Bozkaya, Ph.D. has been a senior executive, management consultant, and a scholar. He was President and CEO of Bilkent Holding Technology, Healthcare, and Power Group in Turkey with a turnover over $1.2B. Earlier in his career, he held positions in management consulting with Accenture in Sydney, London, and Istanbul. Dr. Bozkaya is also a scholar and author whose interests include the financing of young innovative ventures, policy for innovation, and the management of entrepreneurship. Dr. Bozkaya is a Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a Senior Research Fellow of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Dr. Bozkaya earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He has an M.B.A. and an M.S. in Management Science, both from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, and holds a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering and Industrial Management.

Jerome F. Meier

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 M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in chemical engineering from MIT.

Philip H. Mirvis, Ph.D.

Philip H. Mirvis, Ph.D. is an organizational psychologist and author whose consulting 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 diverse organizations, including Ford Motor Co., Intel, Shell Oil, and Banker’s Trust. He has also worked extensively with government agencies and NGOs.

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

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