Marianne chester, President and CEO

In 2006, Marianne founded mEnterprise Solutions, LLC (mES) bringing her vast corporate experience to benefit companies and organizations of all sizes. Her focus is on Strategic Planning, Execution Readiness, Strategic Execution, Leadership Alignment & Development, Organizational Culture, and Succession Planning.

Marianne’s corporate experience includes VP of Global Information Services Integration at Andrew Corporation, Officer and CIO for Celiant Corporation as well as CIO at Lucent Technologies and VTech.  She has also held leadership positions at Texas Instruments, Frito Lay, and AT&T. 

Marianne is a guest-lecturer at UMass, was a regular contributor to the Lehigh Valley Business Journal, and has served on business industry Boards, Company Advisory Boards, Non-Profit Boards, and Committees. 

Marianne has experience in Pharmaceuticals, Utilities, Manufacturing, Technology, Consumer Products, Construction, and Telecommunications industries.

Marianne and her husband host home concerts and have been Executive Producers of 19 musical albums by established artists like Schooner Fare, Iain Matthews, John Batdorf, Sultans of String, and emerging artists such as Jesse Terry, Pete Mancini, Callaghan, and Ameranouche.

Tom RhiEl, Advisor

Tom is a former executive of AT&T, Lucent Technologies and Avaya. While working at those companies he was responsible for creating an innovative approach to measuring the effectiveness of training that became a standard for Lucent’s Global Learning Systems.  This involved developing a hybrid level 3/4 instrument that combined transference of knowledge with ROI on the investment.   He has presented this methodology a number of times at conferences held by the International Quality and Productivity Forum.

As a senior member of the team developing a Balanced Score Card for Lucent he moved the company away from using a traditional employee attitude survey to deploying an instrument that measured the overall health and vitality of the company in a number of key strategic areas and based on the perceptions of its employees. 

Having held the lead position on the cultural integration and change management activities associated with a number of acquisitions made by the companies he had worked for, Tom presented a business case to Lucent to establish a professional services consulting arm to provide change management programs directly to its customers.  Initially this was targeted at customers purchasing large technology systems but evolved into providing the services to other organizations including the IRS Modernization Project. 

Tom currently serves as an Advisor at mES.

Debra Jean, Advisor

Debra Jean earned her bachelor’s degree in management as well as a law degree while working full-time in several different industries including food service, engineering, insurance, law and nonprofit.

With more than 35 years’ experience in executive administration and management, Debra has honed her strengths of working with nonprofit organizations and in areas of staff development, training, workshops and webinars.