Leeza Savinski- Chief Executive Officer
Leeza is an accomplished manager with a 15-year record of achievement in project management, business process analysis and design, and leading training organizations to support technology change initiatives. She has successfully managed teams responsible for business process re-engineering, as well as the design, development and implementation of custom training programs for enterprise applications.

Prior to starting FutureTech, Leeza was director of training at an international training company, and was responsible for managing the design, development and national implementation of custom training programs for Fortune 500 clients. With technical and management roots, Leeza’s strengths lie in her ability to align technical solutions to business needs.

As the company's CEO, she has led the organization to receive many awards:

• LACP Platinum Award for Intranet Development and Excellence in Newsletter Publication
• PRSA Pepperpot Award for Excellence in Intranet Development
• Philadelphia’s Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies
• 2001 Emerging Business of the Year by the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.

Leeza received a bachelor of business administration from Bloomsburg University, and maintains an active schedule of consulting, speaking and seminar facilitation. She currently serves on the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce Small Business Board.

John D. Mueller- President
John brings years of experience as an educator and administrator to FutureTech. During his 18 year tenure in public education, he performed numerous tasks in his roles of high school teacher, coach, athletic director and assistant principal. His duties included crisis communication and management, curriculum development, staff and teacher onboarding, observation and evaluation, as well as staff, parent and student counseling.

Joining the business world in 1998, John evolved into a much-in-demand corporate trainer, bringing with him the insight and skills acquired by a lifetime in education. Building on his training success, John moved into recruiting, sales, marketing and management, utilizing his natural skills to quickly develop as a corporate executive.

John received a Bachelor of Science in Education, with minors in Government and Politics and United States History from the University of Maryland in College Park. He has completed graduate work at Eastern Washington University and The University of the Pacific and holds a Master’s Degree in Human Relations from The George Washington University.

Charlie McCurdy- Senior Consultant
Charlie, a senior communications and change management consultant, specializes in writing, instructional design, and web site, intranet and portal architecture and content. A member of FutureTech’s leadership team, he also helps identify new business opportunities. His clients include companies such as:

CEPHALON, INC., a global biopharmaceutical company with 2,600 employees in U.S. Auditing internal communications and helping plan strategic approach to change communications around a year-long internal system launch.

ONEBEACON INSURANCE GROUP, a 4,000-employee family of companies selling specialty, personal and commercial insurance. Conducting change communications for the Adirondack Insurance Exchange, a soon-to-launch subsidiary in Buffalo, NY. Also helped conduct crisis communications focusing on the agent community of another subsidiary, NEW JERSEY SKYLANDS INSURANCE, in Basking Ridge, NJ.

ASTRAZENECA PLC, a global pharmaceutical company with 64,000 employees, about 12,000 of them in the US. Conducted communications for a two-year corporate project involving experimental sales models. Helped determine organizational impact of experiments; wrote final reports. Wrote and edited 60-page process document: Commercial Innovation, Adaptive Experiments 2003-2005.

Charlie has written content plans and taxonomy for employee portals for local, regional and global companies, including HealthCore, Inc., a health outcomes research subsidiary of Wellpoint, Inc.; Rohm & Haas, Inc., a 17,000-employee global manufacturer of specialty chemicals; C.R. Bard, Inc., an 8,000-employee medical device manufacturing company; and Covance, Inc., a 6,900-employee drug development services company.

Logan Sossman- Director, Organizational Communications
Logan is an experienced consultant in corporate and workplace communications and public relations. He specializes in developing and managing complex external and internal communication projects for Fortune 1000 companies and private entities. Experience includes significant projects communicating organizational change, mergers/acquisitions and corporate restructurings. Clients have included:

• Bombardier
• Buchanan Ingersoll, P.C.
• CDI Corporation
• H.J. Heinz Co.
• National City Bank
• New Jersey Skylands Insurance
• Newmont Mining
• Pittsburgh Steelers
• Rutgers University
• Whole Foods

  Prior to joining FutureTech, Logan was an Account Supervisor, Corporate/Workplace practice at Ketchum, Inc., a top five global public relations firm. He was also Manager, Corporate Communications for CDI, Inc. a Fortune 1000 international IT and engineering services company; a political communications consultant in Virginia; and, an attorney in South Carolina.

  His work has garnered a number of industry awards including a PRSA Silver Anvil, LACP Silver Award and Gold SABRE Award for internal communications.
  Logan received a dual B.A. in Political Science/History from the University of Pittsburgh and a J.D. from Duquesne University School of Law. He is a member of the South Carolina Bar.

   

Jo-Ann McCausland- Director, Targeted Training
Jo-Ann directs all FutureTech online orientation projects from conception through completion, as well as strategic analysis, planning, and execution of a wide array of training products. She has more than 30 years of training and management experience, including special projects in the retail, banking and services industries, most recently with Lockheed Martin and Galaxy Scientific Corporation. Jo-Ann also has project management and instructional design experience in government and the military.

Past clients have included:

• TSA (Transportation Security Agency)
• Terminix International, L.P.
• Mellon PSFS Bank
• Commonwealth Savings Bank
• Independence Blue Cross
• US Army
• US Marines
• US Navy
• US Coast Guard

  She graduated from West Chester University with a B.A. in psychology and earned an M.S. in instructional systems from Penn State University. Published articles include, Creating an Organic Knowledge-Building Environment within an Asynchronous Distributed Learning Context: Quarterly Review of Distance Education Vol. 3, #1, Spring 2002.

  Jo-Ann is a member of the Great Valley chapter of the International Society for Performance Improvement (GVISPI).

Christina Deluca
Chris has been with FutureTech since 2000 and is responsible for the daily operations of the business. She is the chief human resource officer for the company and is experienced in all areas of operational management including sales, marketing, corporate administration, accounting and contract management.

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