Marketing Consulting, Sales Consulting and Business Development Services

Anne M. Mayfield
Ms. Mayfield is President and founder of Mayfield Consulting, a NC based management and marketing consulting firm that focuses on investors that invest or companies that compete in industries that sell business-to-business. While consulting for Arthur D. Little, Inc. she specialized in marketing consulting and worked with companies in a variety of industries.

Anne received her MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration (1978) and a BA in Economics from Duke University (1972), completing a four year curriculum in three years. She also was a Sr Consultant for Arthur D. Little from 1979 to 1987 and a Marketing Representative with IBM from 1972-1976. Since 1987, when she founded Mayfield Consulting, she has been President, Owner and managed its growth. Since 1994, she has been President and/or Chairman of the Charlotte Harvard Business School Alumni Association spearheading its rapid growth.

Katie T. Carswell
Ms. Carswell has been Project Manager for Mayfield Consulting since 1993. With over 25 years of sales, marketing and sales operations experience, she manages the operations of most MC projects and maintains special expertise in contract manufacturing, telecommunications, financial services, packaging and building industries.

Katie received her BS from The University of Southern California (1981) with a major in Business Marketing. She also was Manager of Industry Marketing and held numerous other positions for GTE from 1982 to 1993. As a GTE Sales Operations and Sales Manager, she defined and created the sales process and practices that were required in a number of industries. And she was a member of the Sales Winner Circle for five years.

Associates
Mayfield Consulting associates are highly qualified and have worked in senior positions with companies such as Apple Computer, Chem-Nuclear Systems, Inc., First Union, IBM, Micro-bilt, Price Waterhouse, Sandoz Chemicals, Tivoli Systems, Vision Cable, etc. Our associates are highly focused and motivated, and enjoy the workplace flexibility and intellectual challenges that Mayfield Consulting provides.

Comments from some of our Managers and Associates include:

"I enjoy the challenge involved in helping our clients solve problems or answer difficult questions. I am always amazed at how much information we find out by discussing our client's important issues with their customers, prospects or industry leaders. Some of my favorite projects involve not only identifying a new industry for our clients, but also delivering them business in those industries as well. I think that is one of the ways we are different from other consultants - we identify potential new segments and then deliver the business as well."

- K. Carswell, Project Manager
(Background: 14 years with GTE, in Sales and Sales Operations)

"Our work is similar to reading a good mystery; you start with a small bit of information and start building on it. The story twists and turns as more and more information comes to light. Finally, by the end, you see the big picture and all the facets that make up the picture. Mystery solved! Recommendations made. Client satisfied."

- G. Gagat, Senior Associate
(Background: Lockheed Missiles & Space Co., Inc.)