Martin O'Neill, Principal

"As a business operator, I have been in the shoes of most of my clients. Concerns over the direction of the company, sleepless nights worrying about debt and cash flow, high anxiety regarding our ability to close a deal or a transaction. The challenges seem endless. But I've also experienced the highs of leadership. The real joy of meeting client needs, the great fullfillment of shaping a team and the satisfaction of watching your vision become reality. Through the valley's and peaks, I developed a leadership process for building value. Value that in itself can meet the needs of all your stakeholders. Value that can endure and if the market conditions are just right, value that can build wealth."

Martin O’Neill has been an operator and consultant in the technology services and software industries for 25 years. He has started technology based services companies, led two IT Services firms through successful acquisitions and ran a business unit for a Fortune 50 company.

Martin is now Principal with Corsum Consulting, a firm focused on building enterprise value for mid market companies. He has also served as the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) Entrepreneur-in-Residence and currently teaches classes on Entrepreneurship. He was the Director of Maryland Operations for the Boeing Company’s Space and Intelligence Systems business unit. Marty joined Boeing while the COO for the acquisition target, Conquest, Inc.

Prior to this, he was CEO of Canal Bridge Consulting, a management consulting firm. Martin was also the President and CEO of CTX Corporation, an IT Service company in the Federal Intel market. He founded and was COO and Director of Rapid Systems Solutions, an IT services company. Martin started his career as a consultant with Booz, Allen and Hamilton and later moved to Oracle in a sales role. Martin has been leading change his entire career. He is well known in the Washington/Baltimore market and has a proven record of building dynamic, growth oriented organizations. Martin also co-authored the book "Act Like an Owner … Building an Ownership Culture" lauded by Ken Blanchard as "a must read for the 21st century."