The Tambellini Group is a culmination of a diverse team of people who are passionate about helping other people achieve business and personal success. Members of the Tambellini Group bring unparalleled knowledge and experience that helps clients get results as many are former administrators, educators, marketplace executives, and industry experts. Each member has many years of career achievement along with excellent client relationships. The company operates with a team that resides in 3 countries and 4 states.
Vicki TambelliniPresident and CEO
Throughout her career as a sales and marketing executive and business owner, Vicki Tambellini has focused on developing the insights, skills and practices needed to identify and reach both her professional and personal goals. Helping others' employees, associates, clients and consumers reach their business and life management goals is at the heart of all her initiatives.
She is the President and CEO of The Tambellini Group, a consulting firm that provides expert research, expert experience and executive-level skills to enable breakthrough results. The Tambellini Group contributes directly to your organization's success by providing executive-level and management strategy recommendations based on insight and analysis of detailed, quantitative and qualitative research.
In order to meet today's growing demand for greater access to targeted information, The Tambellini Group also develops and operates enterprise social media websites that provide timely and objective analysis on business and life management and access to peers, specialists and the larger community.
In 2008, Vicki's former company, Synergy3 launched a community site for higher education at www.edu1world.org. The site serves the information and networking needs of higher education professionals. edu1world.org is a single destination where members can define and locate peer institutions and colleagues, search information about vendors and products, and collaborate and share information with each other. The Tambellini Group acquired Synergy3 in February 2009.
In November 2008 she also launched a personal life management site where individuals find all they need, including personal guidance, to improve health, wellness, weight management and life management skills.
The Tambellini Group developed the enterprise social software platform Enterprise Hive. Enterprise Hive powers edu1world and other complex social software web communities. Available as a service, Enterprise Hive was launched in July 2010.
Ms. Tambellini is a member of The Obesity Society and is currently serving on the Advocacy Task Force. She received a BS in Marketing from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1982.
Paula K. GoldmanGeneral Counsel
Ms. Goldman runs her own law practice specializing in the contracting needs of small technology companies and works with The Tambellini Group as a consultant for institutions of higher education negotiating large software acquisitions. Her expertise stems from over 15 years of assisting technology companies, both as inside and outside counsel.
Before starting her own practice, Ms. Goldman was General Counsel for Gelco Information Network, Inc., a company specializing in outsourced business services related to travel and expense management. Prior to that she was Senior Regional Counsel for PeopleSoft, Inc.'s Education and Government division, and General Counsel for Digicon Corporation. Ms. Goldman's in-house career was preceded by 5 years as an associate at Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, where she worked with the litigation, administrative law, and government contract groups.
Ms. Goldman was selected as Employee of the Year at Gelco and the legal team she led at PeopleSoft received numerous awards for their productivity and dedication to excellence. She was a speaker at the 2006 Association of Corporate Counsel's annual conference.
Ms. Goldman received her Juris Doctor degree from The National Law Center at George Washington University in 1989. She also earned an M.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1986, and an A.B. from Cornell University in 1985.
Lauren Hart-PiperVice President, Product Management & Marketing
Lauren Hart-Piper has over 20 years experience in technology sales and marketing for the education industry. Most recently, she has provided competitive intelligence, business planning analysis, product management and marketing communications services to organizations serving the education market such as CollegeAnywhere, Schoolwires,Synergy3, WebStudy and WHYY.
She previously was the Senior Director of Competitive Intelligence at Systems and Computer Technology (now Sungard Higher Education).
Ms. Hart-Piper has over a decade of product management expertise as she was the IA-Plus Finance and Human Resource product manager for SCT.
She began her career at Monroe Community College as the project leader for Information Associates's Financial Record System. She then joined Information Associates and held positions in professional services, sales and marketing.
Ms. Hart-Piper holds a B.S. from Roberts Wesleyan College and has studied competitive intelligence from Leonard Fuld and at Drexel University.
Mary Beth CahillTechnology Support, Technology Research and Content Developer
Mary Beth Cahill has over 25 years of experience as a technology consultant in the computer software industry specializing in database and web-based business solutions.
Ms. Cahill spent over 9 years at Oracle Corporation as a Senior Core Technology Consultant. In this capacity, Ms. Cahill worked with State and Local Government entities to solve business problems using Oracle Technologies. Ms. Cahill has also worked in similar capacities with companies such as Digital Equipment and Xerox Corporation.
Most recently, Ms. Cahill has worked as a free-lance technology consultant for Synergy3, LLC and The Tambellini Group, LLC. She has worked closely with bellaSavio founder, Vicki Tambellini, to create content specifically for the bellaSavio content management site, www.bellasavio.com. Ms. Cahill continues to work with the on-line bellaSavio community and The Tambellini Group in several capacities.
Ms. Cahill holds a B.S. in Mathematics with a minor in Biology from the University of Richmond.
Candace EidsonTechnology Support, Research Associate
Candace Eidson has worked in the higher ed software industry for the past 10 years in the area of marketing. At The Tambellini Group, she researches and gathers information on software and services provided to colleges and universities.
Prior to joining edu1world and bellaSavio, Ms. Eidson was the Events Manager for Jenzabar. She redesigned the annual user conference by listening to both the clients and corporate needs and bringing five merged companies together into one conference. The result was targeted educational sessions and a tight conference community of over 1300 customers.
Ms. Eidson was a Senior District Manager for Maidenform Outlets for eight years, prior to joining Jenzabar. Her expertise at Maidenform was turning underperforming stores into profitable stores through the development of management staff.
Julian AndronicSales Manager
Since the start of his career, Julian Andronic has worked with both small and large companies, focusing on their business development. Working as an operations manager and later as a business development manager, Mr. Andronic has delivered consistent business growth and a positive bottom line impact. His areas of expertise are customer growth, commercial business development, and new products and services.
Being involved with the technology field from and early age, managing various projects, working for an innovative technology company was a dream come true. Mr. Andronic hopes to translate the same level of success to his new team.
Julian Andronic holds a B.S. in Business Administration from University of Richmond, Robins School of Business.
Eileen GlennieOffice Manager
Eileen Glennie has over 25 years of experience in the field of administrative support. Specializing in start-up and privately owned companies, Ms. Glennie has worked in various fields such as government, construction, airline industry and international manufacturing/distribution. In this capacity, Ms. Glennie has gained considerable experience in bookkeeping, customer service management, and general office management.
Carter Prillamanwebmaster
Carter Prillaman began her career in newspaper advertising sales and design, rising to the position of publisher before making the decision to retire to focus on raising her family. Later, Ms. Prillaman formed a computer business focusing on both hardware and software support as well as tutoring.
Ms. Prillaman worked as a graphic/web production artist and webmaster for a regional marketing firm for six years before joining The Tambellini Group and Enterprise Hive. A graduate of the University of Virginia with a degree in Psychology, Ms. Prillaman in addition has received Adobe authorized training in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Flash, as well as extensive training in Joomla content management system.
Members of the Tambellini Group bring unparalleled knowledge and experience that helps clients get results as many are former administrators, educators, marketplace executives, and industry experts.