Ramsey Strategy Consultants
Filtration and Separation Focused Deal Sourcing and Technology Analysis
Advice you can rely on, Experts who have been there, Strategies that work
Helping companies grow via strategic acquisitions.
About Us
Our Approach
Every investment or management client has a different need. One-size-fits-all approaches will never help your business reach its full potential. At Ramsey Strategy Consultants, we take the time to listen to your goals and objectives. We understand and appreciate your company culture. We deliver custom deal searches and management solutions, tailored to your needs– your business objectives, your unique challenges.
Our History
Executive Level Filtration and Separations guidance and expertise with more than 35 years of sales, marketing, and business development experience with global, market-leading filtration companies such as Sartorius, Cuno, Pall, Porex,an d Purafil. Ten years at C-Suite level. Strong product development and intellectual property portfolio management experience, with the skills to help grow your business or aquire the right filtration asset.
Our Mission
Expert Analysis-Study The Landscape And Identify The Path To Growth
Ramsey Strategy Consultants will ask the right questions and drill down for the objective facts necessary to make informed business decisions.
Strategic Planning-Craft The Plan And Follow Your Path To Growth
Ramsey Strategy Consultants have built many successful strategic plans through the years and we have the skills to take you step by step through the process.
Risk Management-Mitigate Risk Along The Way
Ramsey Strategy Consultants understands the nature of risk to your growth plan and has developed a series of tools to help you identify, measure and mitigate risk.
We Can Help By Asking the right questions
Business Analysis
Competitive Advantage:
How competitive and differentiated is your business in its core technologies and key market segments?
What are your strengths and weaknesses? Materials - Products - People - Marketing & Sales - Application Engineering Capabilities - Manufacturing Capacity - Global Footprint - Intellectual Property
Who are your key competitors? What are their strengths & weaknesses, sources of competitive differentiation etc.?
Market Growth Potential:
What are the potential revenue growth opportunities for your business over the next 5 years?
Is your business growing faster than the market, are you gaining market share?
What currently served and new markets and applications should your company consider to grow its revenues?
Which market segments and applications are most attractive and why?
What is the depth and breadth of your new product pipeline?
What sales channels are required to penetrate these new market opportunities?
What type and level of investment is needed to realize these growth opportunities?
Strategic Planning
Vision:
Is your Vision Statement clear and concise?
Does it tell who you are, what you do, whom you serve, where you do it and why?
Strategic Objectives:
Have you identified the four or five "high-level" Strategic Objectives that must be achieved to succeed?
Are they clear enough that all "departmental" goals, strategies and tactics can be drawn from these high-level objectives?
Strategy and Tactics:
Are your strategies and tactics well defined and measurable?
Can they be linked to individual MBOs for team members?
Data:
Do you have the right, current critical information?
Markets - size, trends and share
Technologies - competitive and complementary
Companies - customers, competitors, collaborators, acquisition candidates, technology transfer partners, strategic business partners
Risk Mitigation
There can be many risks incorporated into your long term growth plan. Risk is the nature of business. Successful plans acknowledge and identify risk and take active steps to minimize and even eliminate risk during the duration of the plan.
Market Risk - Have you accurately identified the market opportunity, and is it stable or accelerating during the plan period?
Technical Risk - Do you have the right technology to provide the best solution to the market? If you are developing this solution during the plan period, is your development process clearly defined with specific goals, objectives and a deliverables timeline?
Cost and Quality Risk - Do you have a firm understanding of the price/performance matrix the market requires throughout the plan period?
Channel Risk - Do you have the right sales channels to accomplish you plan goals in your target markets? Do you need new channel partners, a strategic parter with an established sales channel?
Biography
Thomas H. Ramsey, Managing Director
Mr. Ramsey has more than 35 years of successful global experience in leading the marketing, sales and business development of high technology fluids filtration and separations products to industrial, healthcare, consumer, and laboratory markets and nearly 10 years of C Suite level experience. His areas of focus include product, technology, and market analysis, as well as management processes, strategic planning and risk management.
Mr. Ramsey has more than 30 years of successful global experience in leading the marketing, sales and business development of high technology fluids filtration and separations products to industrial, healthcare, consumer, and laboratory markets and nearly 10 years of C Suite level experience. His areas of focus include product, technology, and market analysis, as well as management processes, strategic planning and risk management.
Joining Porex in June, 1999, as Vice President of Marketing for the Porous Products Group, Mr. Ramsey was responsible for marketing, market research as well as technical and sales support. In 2004, he shifted his focus to optimizing global business opportunities for the new Porex Filtration Division, as Vice President and General Manager.
Prior to joining Porex, Mr. Ramsey spent eight years with Pall Corporation, where he held positions including Director of Sales and Marketing – Industrial Fluids Microfiltration and Vice President of Marketing and Business Development – Pall Medical. In addition, he worked six years for Cuno Incorporated, holding positions including Division Sales Manager and National Business Manager, and seven years for Sartorius Incorporated as a Regional Sales Manager and Eastern Operations Manager.
Mr. Ramsey holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey, and has been active in the Parenteral Drug Association, Michigan Medical Device Association, American Association for Respiratory Care, International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers. A long time member of American Filtration and Separations Society, he has previously served as Second Vice-Chairman and is currently a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Ramsey holds four US Patents in the areas, of composite membrane technology, multi media porous structures, and three-dimensional molded porous structures for cartridge filtration.
All M & A activities and buy-side advisory services are provided by Mr. Ramsey through his position as Managing Director at Clarity Corporate Growth