Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, The Sovos Group helps businesses and government/non profit organizations accelerate business performance using social and collaborative constructs and technologies. Our approach is focused on tangible near term results, working against a long term road map to achieve sustainable success.
The Sovos Group is at the forefront of helping identify and realize competitive advantage, fostering innovation, aligning cost, and reducing business risk for our clients with improved, purpose driven interaction and collaboration amongst employees, partners and customers.
Our leadership team is comprised of managers and consultants with reputation, experience and expertise around advising leading organizations on making businesses more effective in the areas of workplace performance, sales and marketing performance, channel performance and supply chain performance.
The Sovos Group founding partners Oliver Marks and Sameer Patel are two experienced professionals who have built internal management and execution consulting service practices and served well known clients such as Sun Microsystems, Sony PlayStation, McKesson, Ingres, W.R.Wrigley Jr. Co. and Cisco, amongst others.
About the founders
Sameer Patel has more than a decade of experience managing initiatives for large organizations helping them define and execute sustainable programs that drive lead generation, business partner network optimization, sales and marketing operational effectiveness, innovation, customer acquisition and employee productivity via communication and collaboration constructs.
Organizations that he has had the privilege to work on strategic global initiatives with include Ingres, Sun Microsystems, KPMG, McKesson HBOC, WR WrigleyCo., The Sabre Group, Grupo Televisa (Mx), and Cardinal Health.
Sameer blogs at Pretzel Logic.
Contact Sameer on Twitter @sameerpatel or by email here
Oliver Marks brings seasoned consulting guidance to companies on the effective planning of collaboration strategy, tactics, technology decisions, change management and roll out.
With extensive senior management practical experience in international enterprise collaboration, Oliver previously managed the Sony WorldWide collaboration extranet, and has worked with the American Management Association, Sun, Docent/SumTotal Systems, Harvard Business School and McKinsey & Company on major initiatives around knowledge transfer and change management.
Oliver has worked on Asian, European and American global enterprise collaboration initiatives and writes the ZDNet 'Collaboration 2.0' blog.
Contact Oliver on Twitter @olivermarks or by email here