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.
Scott has extensive experience supporting publicly traded multinational and domestic corporations, as well as private companies, with their information risk management, SOX compliance, and internal audit program initiatives. He has more than 20 years of experience, and leverages his diverse background of IT risk and compliance, SOX assurance and advisory, and financial audit experience to deliver a broad range of risk advisory solutions to his clients.
Prior to joining Highspring, Scott was PwC Raleigh, NC’s IT External Audit leader and supported his multinational publicly traded clients’ evaluation, implementation, and testing of their IT risks and controls as they progressed through their compliance life cycle. He led engagement teams executing SOX readiness and implementations, security risk and compliance initiatives, third-party attestations (e.g., SOC 2, HITRUST), internal audits, and external integrated audits.
Scott earned a MS in accounting, concentration in accounting information systems and BSBA in accounting and marketing from Appalachian State University. Scott is a certified public accountant licensed in the state of North Carolina.
Tim Keefe is a Director in the Private Equity Services practice at Highspring where he partners with deal teams, operating partners, and portfolio companies to execute M&A and value creation activities. Specializing in synergy analysis, acquisition integration, performance optimization, and exit readiness, Tim takes pride in rolling up his sleeves and delivering results in collaboration with his clients. Tim’s passion outside of work is time with family and coaching his daughters’ lacrosse teams.
Anthony Kim is a Partner in Highspring’s Government Contract Advisory Services practice, supporting aerospace and defense clients navigating the federal contracting landscape. He specializes in compliance, competitiveness, and growth strategy, helping organizations mitigate risk, avoid costly missteps, and strengthen long-term performance. Anthony brings extensive experience advising on federal requirements, operational readiness, and market positioning.
Based in McLean, he partners with clients to enhance efficiency, optimize contract outcomes, and pursue new opportunities in a complex, highly regulated government environment.
Gary Korn leads Highspring’s valuation services practice, bringing over 25 years of experience in business, intangible asset, debt, and equity securities valuations. His expertise spans financial and tax reporting, purchase price allocation, impairment analysis, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy and restructuring, litigation support, and private equity portfolio company reporting across diverse industries such as consumer products, technology, healthcare, government contractors and telecommunications. Gary holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and a Certification in Distressed Business Valuation (CDBV).
He earned his MBA from the University of San Francisco and his B.S. from the United States Naval Academy. Beyond his professional endeavors, Gary still enjoys playing pick-up basketball.
Ben has been with Highspring for more than 15 years and serves as Managing Director of Hosting and Managed Services within the Retail Planning and Supply Chain Management practice. In this role, he oversees Blue Yonder solutions, leading post-go live support for cloud customers in collaboration with the Blue Yonder team, while also supporting on-premises environments. Ben partners with clients to design tailored programs that support production operations across distribution, manufacturing, CPG, and retail. He’s skilled in navigating cross-functional teams to elicit business needs and translating them into technical requirements that drive business goals and strategic outcomes.
Prior to joining Highspring, Ben worked on enterprise projects as a Senior Project Manager. He brings deep expertise in enterprise software implementations, data center migrations and buildouts, SaaS and public cloud migrations, and standing up global system support organizations. His industry experience spans transportation and logistics, CPG, manufacturing, maintenance repair organizations, retail, and federal agency and Department of Defense client engagements.
Ben earned his B.S. in financial services from Pennsylvania State University and has maintained a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) certification for more than a decade. Outside of serving clients, Ben enjoys the outdoors, spending part of the year at the beach, and chauffeuring his twin daughters to sports practices, games, and theater practice in partnership with his wife.
Paul MacIntosh leads Highspring’s Accounting Advisory practice, specializing in financial services and technologyenabled finance transformation. He helps clients modernize reporting, strengthen controls, and enhance decision-making through data, AI, and process optimization.
Before joining Highspring, Paul served as a partner at EY, advising global financial institutions on audit, regulatory readiness, and complex transformation efforts. His background blends technical accounting expertise with deep industry experience, enabling financial organizations to operate with greater accuracy, resilience, and strategic clarity.
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.
Patrick O’Malley is a Managing Director in Highspring’s Financial Services practice, focused on finance modernization, risk and regulatory data, forecasting, and analytics. With more than 15 years of experience, he helps financial institutions enhance reporting accuracy, improve operational performance, and deploy data-driven solutions supporting strategic growth.
Patrick’s global background spans multiple regulatory environments across Europe and Asia, providing valuable insight for multinational organizations. Prior to Highspring, he worked in KPMG’s Financial Services practice and held several corporate finance roles within leading institutions.
