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Clear Strategy was founded by Jo Anne Schwendinger, a seasoned corporate executive with for-profit and not-for-profit boardroom experience, who believes that the way we do business matters.
  • Jo Anne Schwendinger
    Jo Anne Schwendinger
    Founder & Advisor
  • Jim Bergman
    Jim Bergman
    Advisor
  • Joseph Martinez
    Joseph Martinez
    Advisor
  • Dominic Cincotta
    Dominic Cincotta
    Contributor
  • Lucas Gravina
    Lucas Gravina
    Contributor
Jo Anne Schwendinger
Founder & Advisor

Jo Anne is an entrepreneur, seasoned public company executive, lawyer, and an ESG and sustainability thought leader. She founded Clear Strategy Co. to leverage her strategic business planning, risk management, and ESG experience to help companies realize sustainable outcomes for themselves and their stakeholders. As a trusted legal advisor to companies for more than 30 years, Jo Anne worked for leading global companies in the finance, manufacturing, mining, and high tech industries, in the US, Europe, and Asia.

At Clear Strategy, Jo Anne’s areas of focus are ESG Essentials, Strategic Planning, Regulatory Compliance, and TPRM.

Watch for Jo Anne’s book, The Path to Sustainability: An ESG Approach to Business Success. Forthcoming, Autumn 2023.

View Jo Anne’s interview with Priscilla Ramcharan in which she talks about the value of ESG as a tool for companies to achieve more.

Jim Bergman
Advisor

Jim is a business relationship thought leader. Before joining Clear Strategy, Jim founded two businesses focused on maximizing the yield from commercial assets – from creating collaborative contracts and risk mitigation strategies, to fully integrating and operationalizing ESG supply chains. In these projects, he has served in varied roles including lawyer, supply chain manager and business development leader – at Fortune 50 companies and small not-for-profit businesses alike.

At Clear Strategy Jim’s areas of focus are ESG Essentials and TPRM.​

Check out Jim’s book, Contracting In The New Economy: Using Relational Contracts To Boost Trust And Collaboration In Strategic Business Relationships, which Nobel laureate Oliver Hart describes as “pathbreaking.”

Joseph Martinez
Advisor

Joseph Martinez has 25+ years of experience in Supply Chain Management, having served as the Chief Procurement Officer of Bank of New York Mellon and several other global banks. His prior global experience includes consulting for PricewaterhouseCoopers, as well as spending over ten years living and working in Asia (Japan, China and Singapore), and two years in Latin America. Joseph was awarded the ProcureCon 2022 EPIC Lifetime Award, and named to SIG Supernova Award Hall of Fame and as one of the top 100 Supply Chain Leaders Globally by Supply Chain Digital Magazine for 2021.
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At Clear Strategy, Joseph’s areas of focus are Supply Chain Management, Procurement & TPRM.
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Joseph is a co-author of the CPSM Study Guide and the 3-bookISM Professional Series Certified Professional in Supply Management.

Dominic Cincotta
Contributor

Having completed a Masters degree in Organizational Leadership and a Doctorate degree in Information Systems and Communications, his Masters culminated in a manual for field leadership in CPG promotion. His Doctoral Thesis was quite literally the book on how to evaluate small and medium size enterprise brands in a digital world and then how to further create systems for multiple entities to work together to be competitive against large enterprises in a regional strategy.

Lucas Gravina
Contributor

Lucas Gravina is a high school junior passionate about learning, exploring the world, and preserving the environment. He shares these interests with others through the clubs and organizations he leads, including the conservation student association he founded as a sophomore. Over his years of academic and extracurricular endeavors, he has found particular interest in ESG and sustainability, as well as the broader fields of math and economics.

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