R. David Seabrook is the Founder and Managing Partner of Percipient Consulting LLC. He founded the firm after eight years leading transformational management consulting engagements with Booz Allen & Hamilton and Computer Sciences Corporation. He is the author of The Three Things that Matter in Business (forthcoming).

Mr. Seabrook's projects have bottom-line impact. He led the post-merger integration of all finance and accounting operations for a $42 billion energy company. He led a turnaround project for the world's largest underground copper mine, reducing operating costs by 40% and increasing production 30%. He led a project that saved $650 million for a global resources company by re-configuring supply chains and negotiating and implementing new strategic supplier relationships. He developed Booz Allen's next generation Business Process Re-Engineering methodology, Value Engineering.

Mr. Seabrook has extensive marketing experience. As a marketing executive at Toshiba, he built Toshiba's UK telecommunications application-specific semiconductor business from zero to $50 million in annual revenues. As a consultant he led the market entry strategy for an Asian venture company investing in Singapore's newly-deregulated mobile telecommunications market.  His article The Wireless Internet for Securities Brokers was published in m-Finance magazine and syndicated on financial news Internet sites. He developed the marketing strategy for an NYSE-listed software firm. Mr. Seabrook led the complete re-design of the marketing and sales organization of a leading telecommunications equipment manufacturer, integrating e-commerce into operating model. 

Mr. Seabrook has a strong information technology background. His digital signal processing expertise was honed as a systems design engineer at GEC Avionics, where he developed algorithms for sonar signature recognition and designed custom semiconductor chips (ASICs) for high-speed digital signal processing.

Mr. Seabrook's international experience includes working in the financial services, computer software, Internet retail, Internet business-to-business, semiconductor, telecommunications, energy, health care, media and aerospace industries in the US ,the UK, Germany, Japan, South East Asia and Australia. He has published articles on Information Economics and Business Strategy, Strategic Learning, Change Program Execution, Value Creation and the Wireless Internet. 

Mr. Seabrook holds a Masters in Business Administration from the London Business School, where he was top of his class in microeconomics, management accounting and strategic modeling.  He also holds an Honors Degree in Electronics Engineering. His Honors thesis developed a revolutionary algorithm for speech recognition using three-dimensional pattern matching. He teaches microeconomics at the State University of New York at Purchase. Mr. Seabrook is a Member of the American Economic Association and the Strategic Management Society.

Percipient Consulting is based in Greenwich, CT. 

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