People

Taryn M. Howard

Taryn Howard, President of MINERVA Consulting, brings nearly 25 years and a wide cross section of experience to every engagement. Her proven successes in managing client services, operations, marketing, analysis and technology for many of the industry's leading global banking and investment management organizations produces pragmatic recommendations with a high degree of confidence. Ms. Howard's approach when consulting with clients is comprehensive and balanced...insuring success in terms of both the underlying business objectives involved and the organization’s ability to execute.

Her most recent responsibilities creating and implementing a Client Management function for a global asset management leader, demonstrates the breadth of her abilities in delivering value to an organization with a focus on client impact and causal effects of internal activities.

With her experience managing both line and staff groups, Ms. Howard has been on both sides, and understands how to translate goals into action. Ms. Howard’s specific skills include the ability to review and analyze business processes, identifying their relative efficiencies or inefficiencies, and a pragmatic business perspective on use of technology.

While Ms. Howard’s primary area of expertise is global financial services, she has also served clients in the not-for-profit, hospitality, healthcare, local government, and communications industries.

Ms. Howard earned a Bachelor of Arts cum laude from Union College in Schenectady, New York and a Masters in Business Administration from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Robert D. Hill

Robert Hill has more than 20 years of experience in the international financial services and management consulting industries. An entrepreneur at heart, Robert is also the founder of a variety of start-up ventures. As a consultant, his primary focus is new business creation, market strategy and product development. Over the past 10 years, he has led a range of strategic and new business initiatives for some of the world's largest financial services organizations — a client list that includes AIG, Kemper Insurance, American Express, The United Nations Joint Pension Fund, The Capital Group and Ameritrade.

He is currently leading an effort to build a professional services organization that unifies independent consultant practitioners throughout North America. Mr. Hill brings a healthy blend of consulting and hands-on industry experience to each of his client engagements. Having spent 10 years on the inside as a market strategist and product champion with Bankers Trust Company — in both the US and overseas — Mr. Hill knows how to build consensus up, down and across diverse, multi-cultural organizations. His client management skills were honed at Bankers Trust as well, where he served as a Sales & Client Relationship Manager for a mix of Fortune 500 organizations, across multiple industries, in both the US and Europe.

While Mr. Hill’s primary area of expertise is global financial services, he has also served clients in the endowment, foundation, publishing, media, sports marketing, commercial real estate, software & online employment industries.

Mr. Hill earned a Bachelor of Arts from Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia, and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh's Katz Graduate School of Business.