Profile
Formed in 2003, the Performance Proxies companies conduct advanced enterprise performance diagnostics and provide consulting services for Fortune 500 and other large companies throughout the US. Our unique stakeholder network performance models and maps have an immediate impact on client earnings.
The Performance Proxies companies have developed proprietary software, technologies and advanced collaboration and solution delivery capabilities which are available for client use through Microsoft Office SharePoint Server®.
Research Practice
The core of our firm is the study and development of economic value. We have conducted hundreds of research projects in more than 50 commercial and financial industry sectors. The research has produced insight and “relationship roadmaps” to more than $16 Billion in earnings improvement for public and private companies globally. For more information on our research, click here.
Consulting Practice
We work with clients in a traditional consulting capacity to customize the application of our R&D into the context of their specific challenge. Engagements are focused on earnings growth where we can leverage our advanced project management & collaboration resources and our unique technologies. The projects are typically focused on “Value Chain Optimization” through Sales Networks, Supply Networks, and/or Employee Networks. For more information on our Consulting practice, please visit the Performance Advisors, LLC web site.
Solutions Practice
Strategic clients require a more intensive and comprehensive solution to achieve and sustain earnings improvements. Performance Proxies combines the Research and Consulting offerings with our advanced Enterprise Collaboration Technologies to enable clients and their constituents to work together over longer time periods. For more information, click here.
Leadership
The Performance Proxies research team is a professional services organization that manages a formal network of executives and specialist consultants. Our network is highly adaptive and scalable for client engagements and project deployments throughout the US and globally.
Thomas S. Liggett — President
Thom serves as the CEO of Performance Proxies, LLC along with its two wholly owned subsidiaries: Performance Advisors, LLC and Performance Visualization Studios, LLC. His entrepreneurial vision, leadership and energy complement his experience to create measureable advantage for his collaborators and clients.
Thom has over 20 years experience in business; he has been a principal investor, board member, executive officer, and/or top strategic advisor in 21 private M&A transactions with various stakeholders. The diversity of his business experience includes aggressive growth projects, M&A transactions, complex post-acquisition integration challenges, organizational turnarounds, and complex restructuring efforts through Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings as well.
Thom’s passion for organizational transformation has been the central theme of his work for the past 20 years. He has led various corporate acquisitions, transformation and restructuring projects throughout the energy supply chain over 16 years, and he has worked with major oil companies as a supply chain “subject matter expert” for the past 7 years. Earlier, Thom worked for 9 years at Roadway Services, Inc. (a $5 Billion transportation holding company headquartered in Akron, Ohio) where he ultimately managed a special project (250 million gallons of fuel annually) for 10 trucking companies covering 1,300 truck terminals with 350 bulk storage tank sites.
Since 2003, Thom has focused his research and client engagements on “stakeholder relationship assessments” including the economics associated with trade flows of products, services, information and resources among enterprise and industry stakeholders. Based on this research, he provides unique perspectives and intelligence regarding the economic alignment or misalignment of stakeholder relationships to corporate clients.
Thom is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), the Turnaround Management Association (TMA), the Risk Management Association (RMA), the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), and the International Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI). Thom supports Junior Achievement, the American Cancer Society, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the ALD Foundation, the United Way, the American Red Cross, and Akron Children’s Hospital. Thom earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Akron in 1991.
Thomas S. Liggett
Phone: 330.671.8367
tliggett@performanceproxies.com
