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THOMAS HOFSTEDT, Ph.D.
Senior Organizational and Strategy Consultant

Dr. Thomas Hofstedt is an international management consultant with numerous projects and clients in the public and private sectors. His area of particular interest for the past 20 years has been international and corporate banking, with a concentration in credit policy and strategic planning. Major banking clients have included Bank of America (BofA), Wells Fargo, Citibank, Chase, Security Pacific, Robert Morris Associates, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, several large Texas banks, and many others. Outside of the United States, he has led significant consulting and executive programs with banks in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Turkey, Russia, and Mexico. Since 1987 he has been a senior consultant and program leader for Advisory Services.

In addition to banking and credit, Dr. Hofstedt’s consulting focuses generally on corporate finance and on the design of planning and control applications in large companies. Areas of expertise include economic and financial analyses, design and administration of organization planning and control systems, and the problems of valuation and income determination. Consulting experience includes projects in the United States, Europe, and Asia for a large and diversified set of multinational companies including IBM, GE, Monsanto, Schneider Electric, and Mobil Oil.

In addition, Dr. Hofstedt has 15 years’ experience as a professor of business and has published many articles in academic and professional journals. He has a Ph.D. in business from Stanford University and has served on the graduate faculties of Stanford, Cornell University, and Southern Methodist University. He was recently a lecturer in the Stanford Law School and is a frequent lecturer in executive education programs at various universities and corporations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT:
1984-Present

Designer, developer, and lecturer on both financial and non-financial issues in executive education programs for numerous large American companies, including IBM, GE, Monsanto, Mobil Oil, Schneider Electric, Merck, GM (Hughes) Electronics, and others. Considerable industry expertise with banking, oil and gas, electronics, and manufacturing companies.

Wide-ranging international lecturing for programs in United States, Canada, France, Belgium, Britain, Singapore, Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, Eastern Europe, and Middle East for U.S. and non-U.S. companies and universities. Designed and taught programs for Russian, Japanese, Middle Eastern, and Latin American managers.

Extensive lecturing on multinational finance and accounting issues for Citibank, Chase, Manufacturer’s Hanover, Banker’s Trust, Security Pacific, Royal Bank, Westpac, Wells Fargo, and BofA. Lecturer and consultant with smaller and medium-size banks concerning strategic planning, credit quality, portfolio management, and credit culture.

Designed, developed, and taught series of intensive credit programs for officers of BofA. Major objectives were to create uniform credit culture and to improve overall credit decision making.

Consulted with BofA senior management regarding use of expert systems in credit, design and implementation of strategic planning systems, organization of BofA training function, and many special-purpose credit programs.

Consultant to attorneys and companies in approximately 40 separate litigation processes involving financial, economic, or control issues.

PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS: 1969-1983

Cornell University
Stanford University
Southern Methodist University
Professor and/or department chair at graduate schools of business at three universities. Activities included research and writing, administration, teaching, and consulting. Major functional interests: accounting, finance, and organizational control.

Stanford Law School
Lecturer; taught elective accounting course for third-year law students.

American Graduate School of International Management
Columbia University
INSEAD
Southern Methodist University
Stanford University
University of California, Berkeley and Los Angeles
Executive and management program faculty.

EDUCATION

STANFORD UNIVERSITY: 1970
Ph.D. in Business, with concentration in Accounting and Finance

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: 1965, 1967
BS, MS in Business

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Commonwealth of Independent States, France, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines, Scandinavia, Singapore, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom.

 

 
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