Links to Other Consulting Professionals

Grinnell Scott & Associates, Inc. has developed, over the years, relationships with other consulting professionals whose integrity and work product have excelled in every assignment. These select professionals and their organizations have been a part of numerous assignments and will continue to work with GSA in the future. Therefore, it is appropriate to identify them and provide a link to their websites as well as a brief overview of the individuals and/or organization.

Herbert Cano
Principal Consultant

CAVU Consulting

CAVU Consulting provides project management, strategic planning, financial management, and operational consulting services to large, international corporations as well as to smaller, entrepreneurial companies, including start-ups.

Herbert Cano, President of CAVU Consulting LLC, has over twenty-five years of hands-on management experience. Mr. Cano is an innovative, results-oriented leader with a demonstrated ability to organize complex operating units in a timely and effective manner. A proven communicator with all levels of management, Mr. Cano has an established consulting track record in transitional situations requiring proactive leadership, vision, and fast and successful implementation. His consulting experience includes work for government, large international corporations, small companies, and entrepreneurial startups.

Mr. Cano has provided his services to corporate clients including Hewlett Packard, Bank of America, Wells Fargo Bank, and Visa International. Using his proven project management processes, he has been able to successfully meet the clients’ desired results within the allotted timeframes and under budget.

Mr. Cano’s efforts for major institutions and smaller companies and entrepreneurs include:

• Business/Operations reengineering,

• Strategic planning for Internet services,

• Divestiture/IPO project management,

• Major litigation project management,

• New product development in chip-based and automated services,

• Y2K vendor compliance,

• Strategic Business Plans and Pro-forma Financials,

• Investor Sourcing for Start-ups, and

• Financial restructuring of ailing companies.

Prior to providing management consulting services, Mr. Cano was a corporate executive. As CFO of a computer services company, Mr. Cano performed a financial turnaround of this $22 million company within thirteen months. As Managing Director of a corporate finance boutique, Mr. Cano was in charge of providing corporate finance services to start-ups, middle-market companies, and financial institutions. As Chief Operating Officer of a Silicon Valley manufacturer, Mr. Cano restructured the company to achieve an 80% increase in revenues within a two-year period.

Mr. Cano began his career with Bank of America as a Credit Officer and rose to CFO and Operations Manager of BA Capital Markets Group, the bank’s $4 billion investment banking arm. In 1982, during his tenure with Bank of America, Mr. Cano was chosen by Governor Brown as one of 12 individuals to serve as a Governor’s Executive Fellow. Working as a consultant to the Pension Investment Unit, Mr. Cano was instrumental in developing legislation that allowed public pension funds greater investment latitude resulting in the quadrupling of the funds’ investment returns.

Mr. Cano holds an MBA in Finance and International Marketing from Santa Clara University, and a BS in Marketing from San Jose State University. Mr. Cano is fluent in Spanish.

Mr. Cano’s recent assignments and details of his work can be found at his website http://www.cavuconsulting.com