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Jeff Henry, Highspring’s President of Consulting, is responsible for driving accelerated growth, ensuring client satisfaction, developing talent, and maintaining the firm’s competitive edge in the market. He has been at the company since 2013, supporting clients in areas such as transaction services, banking, fintech, finance transformation, and technology advisory. He has an MBA from Georgetown and a B.S. in finance from Clemson.

Jawad Hussain is the Senior Managing Partner and Strategy & Growth Leader for Highspring’s consulting business, overseeing go-to-market execution, strategic planning, and growth initiatives across industries. He also serves as Highspring’s Private Equity Market Leader, specializing in the full M&A lifecycle and partnering with private equity sponsors and portfolio companies to accelerate value creation. His expertise spans finance, technology, and operations, driving transformation across executive functions.  

Before joining Highspring (formerly MorganFranklin Consulting), Jawad worked at CrossCountry Consulting, where he led M&A integration strategies to help clients scale their operations. He holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from George Mason University. 

Tom Roland serves as Highspring’s consulting practices leader, driving strategy and team development to execute Highspring’s solutions for its clients. Highspring prides itself on delivering successful transformation engagements driven by events such as mergers, divestitures, emerging technology, process re-engineering, regulatory changes, and rapid growth or expansion—serving both the largest global companies and hyper-growth organizations creating cutting-edge technologies.

In his role, Tom works closely with clients, client delivery teams, and Highspring leaders to understand the opportunities and challenges driving client needs. He refines solution delivery approaches and methodologies, incorporating advancements in emerging technologies and AI while seamlessly integrating Highspring’s deep expertise. Tom played a key role in developing Highspring’s proprietary delivery toolkits, built from thousands of successful client engagements, to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and differentiation in the Highspring impact. 

With over 20 years of client service delivery experience at Highspring and its predecessor companies, Tom is known for his hands-on, action-oriented approach solving new problems with battle-tested solutions. He began his career in public accounting before leading projects at a multinational telecom network company, addressing material weaknesses, transfer pricing, and operational performance challenges. Tom holds a degree in Accountancy from the University of Notre Dame. 

Amy is a critical part of Highspring’s Governance, Risk, and Compliance practice and team of professionals. She works alongside Highspring’s accounting and financial reporting, information management and technology and strategy and transformation practices to provide practical solutions to help companies meet their strategic, financial, operational, risk mitigation and compliance goals.

Amy’s client facing role includes using her extensive experience to deliver risk and regulatory services and further supporting transaction readiness, technical accounting, financial reporting, business process / internal control optimization and transformation initiatives including continuous control monitoring and implementation of information technologies supporting clients’ transformation initiatives. She has an innate ability to address multi-faceted issues and collaborate across teams, with a responsiveness and “roll up your sleeves” approach that reflects a true business partner.

Prior to joining the team, she worked 20 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers and served as an assurance partner in several industries and PwC’s ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) practice.

Amy earned a BSBA from the University of Richmond and is a certified public accountant licensed in Virginia.

Greg, as the Risk & Regulatory Advisory Leader, serves clients in a multitude of industries, principally Pharmaceutical Life Sciences, Utilities, Manufacturing and Industrial Products with their internal controls and internal audit needs. In an effort to provide the optimal outcomes for our clients, Greg is focused on building high performing teams through best in class recruiting which translates to a differentiated experience. He has over 18 years of Big 4 experience with PwC in both their audit and advisory practices as well as over 4 years in industry. This allows Greg to bring unique perspectives as he has experience outside of traditional audit and advisory roles. Greg is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees from La Salle University in Philadelphia. Outside of serving clients, Greg enjoys attending his children’s sporting events and is an avid skier.

Omar Hawa leads Highspring’s accounting advisory practice and serves a wide range of clients from fast-growing private companies to large international publicly traded companies specializing in complex transactional challenges in accounting, finance, and business operations.  Additionally, he oversees Highspring’s rapid growth and strategy on the west coast. His portfolio includes hands-on experience in IPO readiness, financial reporting process design and improvement, finance transformation, enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations, audit readiness, technical accounting, and internal control (Sarbanes-Oxley) compliance. Omar has also advised several multibillion-dollar companies in the aerospace and defense industry through the full M&A lifecycle particularly in post-merger process and system integration challenges. 

Prior to joining Highspring, Omar served in an internal controls role at Black Entertainment Television (BET), a Viacom company, and worked in Big Four public accounting. He is a certified public accountant and holds a B.S. in accounting, B.S. in business management, and a minor in economics from George Mason University. 

Sean Bonadeo leads Highspring’s Strategy, Technology and Transformation practice, with a focus around driving efficiency and effectiveness across the entire enterprise, considering all the dimensions of the operating model (process, people, technology, controls, data and delivery model). This includes internally driven periodic transformation activity, those driven by transactional events (mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, IPO and SPAC readiness), as well as everything from standing up and optimizing finance functions for mid-tier companies to redesigning and implementing national and global target operating model and business process optimization projects for Fortune 50 companies.

Ron currently serves as a Senior Advisory Partner.

After co-founding MorganFranklin in 1998, now part of Highspring, Ron led all aspects of the firm’s consulting practice, including practice management, business development, client service, and personnel development. He also served as chief financial officer from 1998 to 2004 and has worked closely with the executive leadership team to shape the company’s strategy and long-term vision. In May 2013, Ron transitioned from his executive role to become board chairman and advisor, focusing on building the company’s brand and developing its people and client relationships.

Prior, Ron was with PricewaterhouseCoopers. An active member of the professional community, Ron is a member of Penn State University’s Smeal College of Business Board of Visitors and serves on the Board of Directors & Executive Committee for Junior Achievement of Greater Washington. He has a B.S. in accounting from Penn State.

Chris supports the Consulting leadership team in developing client relationships and supporting key people-related initiatives and solutions. Prior to becoming a Senior Advisory Partner, he served as MorganFranklin Consulting’s, now Highspring, President from 2017 to 2025. Chris was instrumental in orchestrating the firm’s acquisition by Vaco in 2019 and has championed the mission, people initiatives, and the firm’s culture since joining in 2006. During his tenure, he has served in several leadership roles, while also supporting many of the firm’s largest client initiatives.

Mann has over 32 years of consulting experience, specializing in technical accounting, SEC reporting, and merger and acquisition-related services. Prior to joining the team, Chris spent 12 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers in their assurance and advisory practices. He also served as chief financial officer at Convera, a publicly traded software company. Chris earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Maryland and is a certified public accountant.