Meet Our Founders

Dwight W. Holcomb​

Dwight W. Holcomb serves on the Board of Directors for the Anderson CEO Forum having five CEO Peer Groups consisting of 10-15 CEOs, all graduates from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Dwight is the CEO of HC Development which provides Fractional CEO-CMO services. HC Development delivers On-Demand resources, creating a Virtual Sales & Marketing Department for companies exploring lean, rapid growth, through a blend of technology, marketing & innovation. By using The Lean CMO Method™ Dwight helped one SaaS client triple revenue in 18 months and generated more than $54 million in total contract value for another enterprise software client.Dwight speaks Internationally as a Technology Futurist & Marketing Innovator and is the Author of the upcoming book, “The Lean CMO”. Dwight sits on the Board for a number of privately held companies in the technology, telemedicine & Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industries. Dwight works with Executives, serving small businesses and start-ups, primarily in the SaaS, software & technology space.Dwight is a serial entrepreneur, having launched several start-up companies in very diverse industries. He is the founding CEO of LifePet Organic, iBuyBaby.com, and Millennium Entertainment, earning executive producing credit and pilot work with Robert Downey, Jr., Jon Lovitz and Russell Peters.Dwight is an avid wakeboarder & snow skier and enjoys traveling with his wife and two children.

Tom Oser

Business advisor and hands-on leader from strategy through execution in transformational situations: post-merger integration, digital transformation, and business operations performance improvement. Focus: “pipeline strategies” for consistency and predictability in CXO performance priorities: (CEO: Strategy-aligned execution; CFO: foundational finance for profit performance; COO: Predictable ops performance with KPIs; CSO: Managing the sales pipeline; CIO: technology enablement of the business strategy.) Providing the full cycle of services from strategy through execution, emphasizing the use of transaction level data which ALWAYS reflects exactly what is going on in the business.Turn-around Situation: Day-to-day chief executive of a market brand leader in higher and continuing education; focused on marketing and financial operations, redesign ERP/LMS systems to achieve a turn-around of multi-year losses and declining enrollments to enrollment stabilization and positive contribution to reserves.Post-merger integration as operational executive cross functional leader, led post-merger operations integration for a billion dollar manufacturer. Used business operations analytics to prioritize process level performance improvements across operations, sales, shipping and financials within mega-function level integration tasks of manufacturing plant integration across the U.S.; integration of plant operational-IT and consolidating plant operations ERP, MEP and managerial accounting systems in twelve months; rationalization of multiple product catalogs with cost-management to convert volume driven sales to margin-based pricing disciplines.Tom delivers professional development to corporate executives and MBAs in top graduate programs in “Management of Technology & Innovation”, “Strategic Planning”; “Strategic Sales Operations & Management”, “Negotiations”, and “Executive Communication” in corporate programs such as Microsoft, Minsheng Bank of China, Verizon, AT&T Bell Labs; and at top business schools including: The Wharton School; Pepperdine-Graziadio School of Business; UCLA Anderson; and Stevens Institute of Technology.Professional Activities: Tom mentors entrepreneurs and start-up companies in the business incubators and accelerators in the Silicon Beach technology ventures ecosystem, including accelerators at UC Irvine, UCLA, and The ExpertDOJO in Santa Monica. He is also Chairman of the Professional Speakers Academy of the National Speaker Association, Los Angeles, and serves as an Executive Coach for select clientele.