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Mohan Tavorath
Chief Executive Officer
Mohan Tavorath is Chief Executive Officer of the Walz Group. Mohan has spent the last twenty years in executive and management positions at Fortune 100 corporations, premier Big 4 consulting firms and innovative and entrepreneurial startups in North America and Asia. Prior to Walz, Mohan served as Director of Business Strategy and Technology Architecture at MetLife (#37 on the Fortune 100) where he was responsible for business strategy and technology architecture in the Institutional line of business. Prior to that, Mohan spent four years with KPMG Consulting's business technology practice, where he was the Chief Technology Architect of a Fortune 10 Financial Services national account team.
Beginning in late 1996, Mohan formed the Internet-focused business technology practices of two large software consulting firms where he led technology, business process re-engineering and operations management initiatives for clients in the financial services, insurance, investment management, financial operations and public services industries.
Mohan graduated with a Master's degree in Business Administration from Columbia University in New York (Dean’s List) and holds Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science (with Distinction) from the University of Poona.
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Martin Muoto
Senior Vice President, Financial Services
Martin Muoto currently serves as SVP, Financial Services of the Walz Group. Martin has spent the last 15 years in outsourcing companies serving the financial services industry. At Walz, he consults with mortgage servicers, trustees, and attorney firms on loss mitigation strategies, legal compliance, and operational best-practices.
Prior to Walz, Martin held senior executive positions at various outsourcing companies and at leading private equity/venture capital firms focused on software and business process outsourcing including serving as President of NewRoads Inc, as a founding Member of Accretive Partners, LLC and as Director of Research at General Atlantic Partners. Martin started his career as an analyst at Gartner Group.
Martin graduated from the Wharton School of Business and was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania with dual degrees in Economics and Industrial Sociology.
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Deanne Wertin
Senior Vice President, Public Services
Deanne Wertin, PMP, is the SVP, Public Services at Walz Group. Deanne has over 25 years of operational leadership experience for government and private sector organizations. Prior to joining Walz, Deanne was the President and CEO of MAXIMUS Consulting, a subsidiary of MAXIMUS, Inc, where she managed all management and technology consulting activities for the pure-play government services organization. Prior to that, she managed the Western Region Business Process Outsourcing division for MAXIMUS, where she oversaw statewide health administration programs on behalf of the government. She was also a Managing Director at KPMG Consulting, where she led systems integration teams that serviced federal and state government clients, as well as commercial health insurance companies, by designing and implementing technology solutions to automate key business. Deanne was also a Health Care Administration Officer for the United States Air Force, serving in Korea, Mississippi, Texas, and California.
Deanne excels at working with clients to develop a keen understanding of critical business processes and to identify risk-managed solutions that save money and time while improving regulatory compliance and customer service.
Deanne graduated with a Master’s degree in Business Administration, with honors, from UC Davis in California and with a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia.
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Antonio Castro
Senior Vice President, Product Strategy
Antonio currently serves as SVP, Product Strategy of the Walz Group. Antonio comes from more than 10 years of business, technology and operational leadership positions at the world’s largest global financial services and management consulting firms. Prior to joining Walz, Antonio served as Senior Vice President at Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers where he ran a global technology and operations function and drove strategic change programs across global front office, risk management and finance divisions. Prior to that, he led KPMG and Bearingpoint’s Capital Markets Technology Strategy and Architecture practice, where he worked with clients such as GE Capital, AIG, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, PayPal/EBay and Vanguard.
Antonio graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with an Electrical Engineering minor. Antonio has published a number of industry articles on topics such as financial services risk and compliance architecture, software engineering risk management practices, and service-oriented architecture applied in financial services.
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Jim August
Chief Information Officer
Jim August currently serves as Chief Information Officer of the Walz Group. Prior to joining Walz, Jim was a Managing Director in the financial services practice at Pricewaterhouse Coopers. He has over 30 years of IT management experience and has held executive leadership positions in technology, sales and marketing at premier management consulting firms such as Ernst & Young and KPMG. Jim served as the Chief Technology Architect at MetLife where he was responsible for technology strategy across the enterprise. In addition to experience growing smaller technology start-ups, Jim spent over 16 years at IBM - most prominently as product manager for DB2, IBM’s flagship relational database management system.
Jim has extensive experience in new product development, application development, service-oriented architecture, enterprise integration technology, data warehousing, and distributed and mainframe systems. He has served as chairperson of ACORD’s Life products standards technical subcommittee, which defines the insurance industry’s XML standards organization.
Jim graduated with a Master’s degree in Business Administration, with honors, from Columbia University in New York and is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in management and marketing, magna cum laude, from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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Jeff Sherwood
Senior Vice President, Operations and Finance
Jeff Sherwood currently serves as SVP, Operations and Finance of the Walz Group. Jeff has spent the past 25 years managing financial operations in various industries. Additionally, he has held sales, audit, financial accounting and operational responsibilities at Fortune 500 companies that included Disney, PepsiCo and Bowe Bell and Howell. At Walz, he oversees the fulfillment of our overall operations and manages the compilation and analysis of financial results for the organization.
Jeff is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and graduated with high honors with a degree in Accountancy from the University of Illinois.
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