Andy has extensive professional experience as an independent consultant, as a university professor, and within corporations.  He has a PhD from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration—now the Tepper School—at Carnegie Mellon University.

He has consulted for a wide variety of industries on topics that span finance, accounting, and risk management, and his rare combination of academic background and professional experiences across multiple fields allows him to rapidly develop innovative and creative solutions for clients, particularly for problems that cross traditional functional areas.

As a professor, Andy researched information, incentive, corporate finance, and quality areas, and has won research awards from national organizations in both accounting and finance.

He has won teaching awards from both Executive and Professional MBAs. His teaching at both Washington University and the University of Minnesota focused on:

• Decision Making and Preferences;
• Strategic Cost Analysis (the design of cost and information systems);
• Control & Incentives, including transfer pricing, budgeting, and performance measurement; and their linkage to strategy.

He is particularly interested in the nexus of these areas: the selection of goal-maximizing strategies and their complementary structures, incentive mechanisms, and information systems.  He notes that when organizations implement isolated—rather than integrated—practices and systems there are often severe and negative “unintended” consequences.

In addition to consulting and academic experience, Andy has extensive corporate risk management experience spanning both market and credit risk and within firms has often served as an internal consultant to other departments and customers.  He has developed:

• Sophisticated valuation and risk models, including many simulations;
• Financial projection software for mergers and acquisitions; and
• Enterprise-wide hypothetical scenarios and stress tests.

Andy can be reached at Andy(at)SperoConsulting.com.