TAB-Low Country Facilitator(s)

Each facilitator with The Alternative Board® (TAB) is an experienced business person who has successfully completed an extensive TAB facilitator training program and participates in ongoing training sessions. Most facilitators run or have run their own businesses giving them a unique perspective to share with the board members.

The TAB facilitator guides the group discussions without dominating the meetings and encourages all members to express their views while keeping the discussion on track. They also ensure problem solving ideas are generated and the meeting does not become a gripe session.

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Mike Deignan
Mike Deignan
Phone:843-837-2116
Fax:
Email:mike@tab-lowcountry.com
Address:33 Cat Brier Road
Hilton Head, SC 29926
Mike Deignan brings TAB members his extensive experience as a business consultant/coach who provides strategic business assessment, interim management and business transformation consulting services to both large multinational and small privately held companies through DMDConsult. Mike has over 30 years of senior executive experience in key functional assignments: materials management, sales and marketing, international operations, and business development. Among the companies in which he has had a key executive position are CRBard, GD Searle (Monsanto) and Baxter International. The product focuses of these businesses are medical devices, biotech and consumer products and assignments included three expatriate relocations: United Kingdom, France and Malaysia. He is intimately acquainted with markets and business practices in China and the Far East. Mike has served as President and CEO of three separate companies: Tonometrics Inc., SSI Surgical Services Inc. and Vasomedical Inc. While he was either a CEO or Member of the Board, two of the companies we reacquired by Fortune 1000 companies. Common to all three were the challenges of growth, building or restructuring management teams, systems development, financing (renegotiating lines of credit, etc.), and divestiture, merger and/or acquisition. Mike has served on the Boards of Directors of four companies and his wide management experience with both large and small companies, as well as his four years of consulting and coaching, results in exceptional insight and understanding of the needs and goals of family and sole proprietor businesses. Mike holds a BA, Economics from Providence College, Rhode Island, and seminar graduate of Creative Leadership at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. He is also a Past President, Providence Chapter, National Association of Accountants.