Satwest Consulting

About SatWest Consulting LLC

SatWest Consulting LLC is a leading provider of consulting services to corporations, government institutions, and laboratories that require independent research and analysis.

Leading companies and government agencies hire SatWest to provide consistent, high quality results on schedule. SatWest has developed and standardized its processes and services through years of conducting projects for multiple government and commercial clients in a diverse range of emerging and traditional high-tech sectors. Although our clients represent many industries, SatWest has particular industry experience and knowledge in aerospace/defense, satellite applications, and energy.

Government agencies and contractors may procure services with SatWest LLC through many established channels such as 8 (a) small business teaming arrangements and through the General Services Administration (GSA). SatWest has a Cage code and we are registered with the U.S. Government’s Central Contracting Registration (CCR).

SatWest Consulting is a small business headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A., and has professional associates located in Houston, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C. For more information contact SatWest at + 1 (505) 255-2499.

Management Consulting Services Include:

Independent Research and Analysis
Market Intelligence
Strategic and Business Planning
Project Management
Systems Design, Test, and Integration

Key Professionals

M. Brian Barnett
Albuquerque - Brian Barnett is founder and President of SatWest Consulting, a management consultancy and marketer/developer of satellite communications devices and non-destructive test equipment. In addition to founding other entrepreneurial ventures, Mr. Barnett has provided strategic business services to multiple technology-based startups over the years. As a management consultant, he has developed business strategies and provided analytic services for more than 50 different technical organizations. Prior to starting his own companies, Mr. Barnett was manager with KPMG Consulting (now Bearing Point) where he provided strategy and business planning services to multinational corporations and advanced technology government laboratories. With KPMG he established and managed the management consulting practice in New Mexico. He began his career at NASA where he managed space shuttle experiments and contributed to astronaut crew training for Spacelab missions. Mr. Barnett earned a B.S. in microbiology from the University of Oklahoma in 1985, and achieved an M.S. in management from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 1988. He pursued post-graduate studies at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France.

Glen Martin
Los Angeles - Glen Martin is founder and Managing Principal of Pod Consulting Group LLC in Los Angeles, where he provides consulting services to an array of government, wireless, satellite, media and entertainment industry clients including the KPMG Space and High Technology practice. Prior to this, Glen held positions with DirecTV Interactive, Hughes Information Technology Systems, Control Data Systems and Boeing Space Systems Company where he worked with NASA on the International Space Station. Glen holds a B.E. in Aerospace Engineering from Ryerson Polytechnical University and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California.

Scott Gilbert
Silicon Valley - Scott Gilbert has worked in a variety of high-technology sectors including nanotechnology, data analytics, satellite communications and interactive new media. Scott has held several roles throughout his career, as a consultant for the KPMG Space and High Technology practice, as a co-founder and Director of Marketing for a Silicon Valley software start up and as an independent consultant. Recent consulting engagements include development of business plan and product analysis for a new media startup, a market quantification, segmentation and marketing study for a data visualization startup, market quantification, segmentation and marketing study for a Fortune 500 aerospace and defense firm. Scott holds a B.B.A. in both Marketing and International Management from the University of New Mexico.

Nicholas Pantazis
Houston - Nicholas Pantazis has more than 16 years of business and entrepreneurial experience. He is associated with SatWest Consulting as founder of Integrated Strategic Systems (ISS). He is an authority on business planning and improvement, project management, technology commercialization, and business development, drawing from experience in both the public and private sectors. He has conducted critical asset assessments for several organizations looking to commercialize their technology. These efforts were utilized as a strategic planning tool to assist those organizations in determining which commercial opportunities to pursue. In addition, He conducted a business case analysis to determine the best use of facilities for a local airfield in Houston, Texas.

Mr. Pantazis has been involved in the aerospace community for much of his career and is currently supporting Boeing's Space Station Logistics Organization's reengineering efforts to move it from a Design, Development, Testing, and Evaluation (DDT&E) environment toward an operational environment. This effort is expected to reduce the cost to the NASA customer by over 25%. He is a co-author of The Art of Business Process Management and the Johnson Space Center Work Process Improvement Guidebook. These books present a methodology for identifying, prioritizing, and improving business processes in organizations. More than 10,000 people have utilized these publications. Prior to founding ISS, Mr. Pantazis was a founding partner with Shebay & Pantazis, LLC, and a consultant with KPMG. He holds an M.B.A. degree from the University of Houston, Clear Lake and a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University.

Dante Di Gregorio
Albuquerque - Mr. Di Gregorio has recently accepted a professorship position with the University of New Mexico Anderson School of Business while completing his Ph.D. in international management at the University of Maryland. He has been a management consultant since the early 1990s when he provided market analysis of Latin American markets for a Canadian trade organization. Mr. Di Gregorio has supported SatWest Consulting on numerous strategic marketing engagements including support of Sandia's Mexico Renewable Energy Program market assessment. He brings to the Team a wealth of international experience, market assessments, and Spanish language speaking skills.

Michael Potter
Los Angeles - Michael Potter is Director of Paradigm Ventures an international venture capital firm focused on high technology ventures. Prior to Paradigm Ventures, Potter was Vice Chairman, founder and President of Esprit Telecom plc, a pan-European competitive telecommunications services provider. During his eight years at Esprit, he grew the company to 1,000 employees in over nine European countries and a market capitalization of a billion U.S. dollars. He was formerly an international telecommunications analyst at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. Potter was also Vice Chairman of the founding Board of the European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA). He is a director Global Connect. His articles on high-technology business and policy have been widely published.

Michael received his M.S. degree from the London School of Economics and his B.A. from California State University at Sacramento, and a certificate in Space Studies from the International Space University.

 

 

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