Michael A. Sandman
Senior Vice President/Manufacturing and Process Practice
msandman@fuld.com

Michael Sandman is Senior Vice President of Fuld & Company. He has over twenty-five years of experience as a senior operations manager with a focus on the use of technology in operations. Mr. Sandman also has extensive background in technology transfer to licensees and joint venture partners in the Pacific Rim, Switzerland, England, Mexico and Brazil.

Mr. Sandman was CEO of a privately held composites manufacturer, and he subsequently became chief operating officer of a division of the Dexter Corporation. At Dexter he was responsible for moving his division to client-server architecture and oversaw the development of an integrated IT solution for operations management. Since 1984, he has consulted extensively in the U.S. and abroad for a variety of manufacturing operations. He joined Fuld & Company in 1991, where he is the managing partner. He has led projects for IT clients assessing supply chain issues and he developed a successful methodology for helping clients benchmark their use of technology tools in operations vis-à-vis their competitors'.

He has been a guest lecturer at Columbia University Business School's advanced management program for senior executives, the University of Wisconsin's Management Institute and at the Boston University School of Management. Mr. Sandman developed and teaches CI 101 and CI 202, the courses sponsored by the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP). He has served on the peer review board of the Competitor Intelligence Review, and he wrote the chapter on computers and software for competitor intelligence applications published in Perfectly Legal Competitor Intelligence (Bernhardt, Pitman Publishing/Financial Times, London 1993). He is the author of the chapter on business intelligence analysis for Millennium Intelligence, edited by Professor Jerry Miller and published in 2000.

Mr. Sandman received his B.S. (Economics) from Clark University in Worcester, MA and a M.B.A. from the Johnson School of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.