JW 'Jahn' Ballard

Financial Scoreboard Distributor

Jahn has been the primary distributor of the Financial Scoreboard Excel template, and is the Designer of the Financial Dashboard. He is a principal of Performance Management Partners, a firm that uses the Scoreboard and Dashboard as tools for creating financial measurement and reporting systems linked to operating plans for small and medium-sized businesses and business units. He also trains CFO’s, Controllers and CPA’s in Executive Finance for State CPA Societies.

Jahn was a friend and colleague of Louis R. Mobley (Lou), originator of the concepts on which the Scoreboard is based, and author of Beyond IBM. Lou introduced Jahn to Chuck Kremer in the mid 1980s. Jahn went on the become one of the first marketers of Lou’s original software in 1986. Jahn was mentored by Chuck after Lou’s death in 1988, and became the primary person marketing and selling the Scoreboard Excel template, after it was developed as part of the “Financial Game for Decision Making”™ workshop in the 1990s. Jahn introduced Allen Reed to Chuck in 2002, and to Brooks Cole in 2003.

Allen David Reed

Holisys Ltd. Founder and Financial Scoreboard Venture Partner

After meetings with Jahn, the Financial Scoreboard’s power to facilitate Allen’s vision for bringing forward holistic business solutions that enhance productivity and reduce resource waste using technology became very apparent. A co-venture was formed using Holisys’ online technologies to provide simple and immediate fulfillment of the Financial Scoreboard and related products. Allen worked with Jahn on the Financial Dashboard’s™ design and led its development with Miquael Gaio, an extraordinary flash programmer.

As a technologist, Allen brings a very wide and diverse background ranging from architecture and planning, real estate development, intellectual property law, business development, information technology, artificial intelligence and virtual reality to the venture. Building on this background, Allen sees the critical key role the Financial Scoreboard and Financial Dashboard tools play in providing not before seen “at-a-glance” feedback metrics for the decisions, strategies and process flows throughout an organization, thereby assuring maximal efficiency, profit AND cashflow.

Brooks Cole

Founder of Holocosmos and Financial Scoreboard Website Designer

With 23 years experience in communications design and over a decade of experience in interactive design, Brooks is the founder and creative force behind HoloCosmos - a power circle of media magicians at the cutting-edge of human-computer interaction. The notion of "HoloCosmos" is that the superset of the macrocosm, microcosm, infocosm and mythocosm is a unified knowledge universe which can be made navigable and explorable with sufficiently advanced digital media technology. Brooks applies these principles to communications design for clients like General Electric, GE Commercial Finance, GE Consumer Finance, Microsoft, Barclay's Global Investors, Time Warner, TrueDemocracy and many others.

Brooks holds a U.S. Patent on the "Visual Navigation of Information Objects" and is currently developing concepts for the next generation of media and knowledge navigation tools, systems and content applications to discern, track and model user intent and make the Internet and interactive media more powerful, meaningful and relevant.

Website: www.holocosmos.com