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A reputation for quality and creative thinking is directly attributable to the performance and abilities of an organization's people. Our team of business professionals have backgrounds in a wide variety of management disciplines, including: human resource management, labor relations, contract negotiations, labor law, strategic planning, operations management, and organization development.
Combined with decades of experience working for large international corporations, we have the skills and experience to evaluate, design, and implement effective business strategies to achieve your business goals.

Experience & Professionalism

Cameron Hutchison - President & Founder

Michael "Mick" Roberts - Vice President & Principal

Douglas Brennan, P.E. - Operations, Finance & Strategic Planning

Patrick Winn, J.D. - General Counsel

W.C. "Butch" Dyer - Lean Manufacturing, ISO Certification & Change Management

Don Abbott - Business Operations & Restructuring

Mark Kozin - Human Resource Management

Marsha Boratynski, Ph.D. - Organization Development

Michael London - Public Relations & Communications

Cameron J. Hutchison
President & Founder

For over twenty five years, Cameron Hutchison has been instrumental in helping major international corporations successfully restructure their labor costs for improved performance and profitability.
Mr. Hutchison is highly regarded for his ability to develop and implement innovative strategies during mergers, acquisitions, and business restructuring. Areas of specialization include, labor relations, contract negotiations, conflict resolution, facilitating effective working relationships between union and management, supervisor training, transition management and developing effective people organizations.

Mr. Hutchison has worked with such well known companies as, United Technologies Corporation, The Boeing Company, Onex Corporation, PepsiCo, The Dow Chemical Company, Hamilton Sundstrand, GKN Aerospace, Spirit AeroSystems, Westinghouse, Allison Transmission, Hawker Beechcraft and The Carlyle Group. In addition, he is well respected by many of the country’s largest labor unions.

Recent projects include negotiating new and innovative labor agreements for General Motors and Boeing divestitures; helping the buyers to successfully restructure labor costs and work practices. The results dramatically improved the new entity’s ability to compete while creating opportunities for future job growth.

Prior to establishing the Hutchison Group in 1996, Mr. Hutchison spent seventeen years as a senior executive for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and Sundstrand Corporation where he worked for Harry Stonecipher, former President and CEO of McDonnell Douglas and The Boeing Company. His educational background includes an MBA in labor relations and an MS degree in industrial psychology. In addition, he successfully completed pre-doctoral studies and executive development programs at the Harvard Business School and Columbia Graduate School of Business.

Mr. Hutchison has received numerous awards for his work in labor relations; including the Excellence Award for Best Merger & Acquisition, sponsored by KPMG Consulting. He has served on various boards and commissions including the business development councils for two State Governors. Mr. Hutchison is frequently requested to speak and publish articles in his area of expertise, and has been recognized by various publications, including Business Week Magazine. In 2006 he was invited by the Director of the U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to present at their annual conference and recognized as an innovator in the field of labor relations.

Michael "Mick" Roberts
Vice President and Principal

Mick Roberts is Vice-President and Principal with the Hutchison Group. He has more than three decades of HR generalist experience with Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies and has advised local government and Federal agencies. He is skilled in the broad spectrum of human resources activities including merger, acquisition, due diligence, and integration. His expertise in employee and labor relations, compensation plans, operations processes and job structures ranks him among the best in the world. In addition, Mick is a skilled facilitator working comfortably with management, union leaders and employees .

Mick has served on numerous business councils and civic boards. He is past chair of the Northwest Indiana Business Group on Health, past chair of the Midwest Round Table of the National Foreign Trade Council, past President of the LaMoille-Clarion District Library Board. Currently he is an advisor to the Fort Collins Business Incubator and the Loveland New Business Development Group.

Prior to joining the Hutchison Group in 2000, Mick served as a senior human resources executive for Sundstrand Corporation. He graduated from Purdue University with a BS degree in Industrial Management and Engineering.

Douglas Brennan, P.E.
Operations, Finance and Strategic Planning

Douglas Brennan is recognized throughout the world as one of the leading experts in helping companies evaluate opportunities for business growth and developing highly effective new plant start-up implementation programs. With nearly twenty years in manufacturing operations and new business development, Mr. Brennan has consistently helped his clients establish highly profitable operations in over 14 countries, including: United States, Ireland, China, India, Thailand, Venezuela, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Germany, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Prior to joining the Hutchison Group, Mr. Brennan spent over twenty years with PepsiCo and the Proctor and Gamble Corporation, holding such key positions as Vice President of International Trade and Business Development, Director of Engineering, and Manager of Operations. Mr. Brennan is a certified professional engineer. His educational preparation includes a Jurist Doctorate from Rutgers University School of Law, BS in Civil Engineering, and BS Business and Economics. In recognition of his extensive experience establishing business operations in foreign countries, Mr. Brennan was selected by the Bush Administration as a member of the administration's committee to evaluate business opportunities in Russia.

Patrick Winn, J.D.
General Counsel (Labor Relations & Labor Law)

Mr. Winn combines a long history of successful trial work with executive experience as the chief human resources officer for three multi-national companies. A former prosecutor of serious felonies in Illinois, Mr. Winn has tried cases or handled alternative dispute resolution matters in 17 different states. He has investigated ethics complaints, developed or administered ethics / compliance programs, and trained others on compliance with laws governing employment discrimination, affirmative action, leadership development, and change management. Mr. Winn has led negotiations for management in the public and private sectors, and is experienced in both mediation and arbitration, serving as a presiding arbitrator in Court-annexed arbitration cases. Mr. Winn received his law degree from the University of Iowa and his undergraduate degree from Loras College. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of an Illinois manufacturing company and is an experienced not-for-profit agencies director.

Don Abbott
Business Operations and Restructuring

Don Abbott is a seasoned operations manager with both domestic and international operations and restructuring experience. He has over 30 years of experience in the manufacturing divisions of a Fortune 500 company. During his numerous assignments he has demonstrated expertise in the manufacturing cycle, resulting in reduced operating cost and increased product velocity. He has achieved dramatic results utilizing process improvement and lean manufacturing principles. Performance metric improvements of 50 to 60 percent were achieved. During recent consulting assignments in Europe he helped lead successful restructuring of manufacturing facilities working as coach and mentor to the local staff. Don graduated from Regis University with a BS in Technical Management.

Mark Kozin
Human Resource Management

For nearly two decades, Mark Kozin has been a leader in helping companies establish high performance human resource systems. He is particularly noted for his skills and experience in the area of international human resource management, helping to staff and successfully start up new operations in both Europeand Asia. Mark has a Bachelor Degree from Susquehanna University, and has completed graduate studies in human resource management at Cornell University, located in Ithaca, New York. He is a member of the National Foreign Trade Council and a distinguished member of the organization's Asia Pacific Round Table.

Marsha Boratynski, Phd.
Organization Development

Marsha Boratynski has extensive experience developing and implementing a wide variety of organizational development and training programs, working effectively with senior level executives through first line management. Awarded her Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1980, Marsha has gone on to develop a reputation as a highly effective organizational development consultant. Her clients include: Otis Elevator, Amoco, Tetley, Warner Lambert, Platex, Pratt and Whitney, and Sikorsky Aircraft. Prior to establishing her own consulting practice in 1987, Marsha was employed by Yale University to develop various training materials in the area of interpersonal relations, decision making, and conflict resolution skills. While at Yale, she co-authored various articles in cooperation with the University's Consultation Center. She also served as an assistant professor at Michigan Sate University, where she developed and taught interpersonal communications which later became required for business students.

Michael London
Communications & Public Relations

Michael London began his career in 1974 as a journalist. During seven years at The Hartford Courant, he moved from reporter to assistant business editor to regional bureau chief. For three years, he was the spokesman for New England's largest utility, developing and presenting company positions on television, radio, and in print. Michael served a Fortune 500 company for five years as Director of Corporate Relations, responsible for all external and internal communications. Michael received a Bronze Quill and two Merit Awards from IABC, three reporting awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, and was an Annual Report Conference finalist. He formed Michael J. London & Associates in 1990.

W.C. "Butch" Dyer
Lean Manufacturing, ISO Certification and Change Management

Butch Dyer is a distinguished independent consultant and recently served as the Director of the Gerstacker Institute for Professional Management at Albion College. Prior to joining the Gerstacker Institute, Mr. Dyer was President & CEO of the Industrial Technology Institute (ITI). Under his leadership ITI served hundreds of small and mid-sized manufacturing companies helping them implement process improvements such as Lean business systems, six sigma, activity based costing and ISO/QS 9000. ITI is a market leader for innovative techniques to deliver services that produced sustained and measurable results. Mr. Dyer served as an advisor to several Tier-1 companies such as Johnson Controls, Freudenberg NOK, Tower Automotive, Lear and Visteon on methods and techniques to improve supplier productivity. In addition Mr. Dyer has presented several studies to the U.S. Congressional Science & Technology Subcommittee in Washington DC. and was nominated for a Presidential Award and developed the program model for technology transfer at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. He is a graduate from Bowling Green State University and has an MBA from Ashland University.