Mr. Chen is the managing partner in the Madison Consulting Group, focusing on new business development, overseeing the management team, and providing strategic direction to the company.  Under his guidance, Madison has developed a strong investment management practice, with areas of expertise in investment process design, straight through processing, outsourcing, and client servicing. 

Mr. Chen began his financial services career at Bankers Trust Company as an internal management consultant, working in the areas of process design and improvement, financial analysis, and business strategy.  He then joined the bank’s retirement services business where he worked as a product manager, and also headed the re-engineering efforts. He later joined the bank’s investment management division as business manager for fixed income and also spent time as a high yield research analyst and as a lead project manager on a major portfolio management systems implementation. He began his business career in manufacturing management, focused on re-engineering and process improvement for General Electric in the mid 1980s.

Mr. Chen attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering. He received an MBA, attending Columbia Business School on a full scholarship. He lives in Westchester County with his wife, a marketing strategy consultant, and three young boys. His is an avid downhill skier, and enjoys tennis and golf.

E-mail: bchen@madisoncg.com

Annette Corbin is a partner in the Madison Consulting Group. She focuses on new business development and provides strategic consulting services to clients. In addition to her consulting responsibilities, she is the Chief Financial and Administrative Officer for the firm. With over 18 years of operational, banking, and consulting experience, Ms. Corbin’s areas of expertise include wealth management, private banking, and global cash management.  She also runs the Anti-Money Laundering Compliance and Regulatory practice for firm. 

Ms. Corbin has spent her entire career in financial services.  She began her career as a management trainee at Chase Manhattan Bank, completing the credit training program and then working in foreign exchange and correspondent banking.  She joined Banker’s Trust Company as an internal management consultant working in global cash management, retirement services, securities services, capital markets, and credit. She worked on the development of strategic plans, re-engineering projects and profit maximization models for these core businesses. She joined the Private Bank and rose to senior business manager for the US Private Bank.

Ms. Corbin was educated at St. Peter's College, where she received a BA in Economics and Political Science. She spent one year working at the European Economic Community in Brussels. She received her MBA in Finance from the New York University Stern School of Business.

Ms. Corbin lives in Bergen County, New Jersey with her husband and two daughters. She is active on several local charity and school boards.

E-mail: acorbin@madisoncg.com

Mr. Chua is a principal in the Madison Consulting Group.  With over 20 years experience in financial services, he is the lead consultant working with C-level and senior officers of banks, asset management firms, and alternative investments groups.  He has spent the past few years providing operations advisory and project management support to hedge funds and private equity clients.  In addition, his areas of expertise include process and organizational transformation, technology strategy and implementation, and project management.

Mr. Chua started his career in banking as an internal management consultant at Bankers Trust Company.  He later joined the bank’s Securities Lending Group, overseeing the cash and collateral management, revenue and billing, proof and control, and cash and securities settlement operations.  He later joined the marketing group of JP Morgan Chase Global Securities Services as a product manager. 

Mr. Chua co-founded MBAFreeAgents.com (now MBA GlobalNet), an internet based talent network for seasoned MBA professionals. He has also been actively involved in strategy and product development of several Internet startup companies, including a pioneering streaming media entertainment company.

Mr. Chua began his business career as an industrial engineer at Johnson and Johnson.

Mr. Chua holds a BS degree in Industrial Engineering from University of the Philippines and an MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Management. HE also holds a Certificate in Multimedia Technology from New York University.

E-mail: rchua@madisoncg.com

George Swetlitz is a principal at the Madison Consulting Group, co-managing the Transformation and Change Management Practice.  He has over 20 years experience focused on developing and implementing change management processes that allow large organizations to achieve broad change and substantial financial improvement by making department leaders the center of a structured performance improvement process.  His work with clients has helped them achieve hundreds of millions of dollars in profit improvement. 

Mr. Swetlitz has both extensive corporate and consulting experience.  His corporate experience includes several years as a division president at Sara Lee Corporation, where he led the company's expansion into Eastern Europe, and as CEO and Founder of a venture capital-backed manufactured housing company. In addition to his consulting experience at McKinsey & Company, Mr. Swetlitz was a Managing Director with Tandon Capital Associates and EHS Partners.  Working with financial institutions, branded consumer products and utilities, Mr. Swetlitz has focused on change management and rapid performance improvement where department managers are the center of idea development, rather than contributing to a process centered around external consulting teams. 

Mr. Swetlitz has undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard.

E-mail: gswetlitz@madisoncg.com