TMG Consulting Announces New VP of Digital Innovation & Research

AUSTIN, Texas - Oct. 17, 2019 - PRLog -- TMG Consulting announced Bob Champagne as VP of Digital Innovation & Research. In this role, Bob will oversee TMG's portfolio of Strategic Research and Digital Practice designed to help Utilities discover, implement and monetize new opportunities for digital innovation as they position themselves and their operating models for the future.

For over 27 years, Utility executives have relied on TMG's cutting edge research, best practices and implementation methodologies to guide many of the industry's largest and most successful technology deployments. "Key to our success has been a deep understanding of current technology and vendor landscapes, and how these capabilities can be best integrated to drive maximum value for the Utility and its customers" said Mario Bauer, CEO of TMG Consulting.

"Our Digital Innovation & Research practice will build on these capabilities through a suite of solutions designed to help clients keep pace with new opportunities for digital transformation, and facilitate the introduction of "best fit" technologies, vendors, and capabilities needed to effect change," added Bauer  "Bob's deep industry expertise and track record driving innovative and transformative change will be a big asset to our clients as they grow and expand their digitalization initiatives."

Bob brings over 30 years of experience in the energy sector, leading business transformation initiatives across many functional areas including customer operations, marketing, sales, customer experience, energy supply, and smart grid. After starting his career with Entergy, Bob held consulting roles with KPMG, UMS Group, and onVector consulting where he worked with a number of regulated and unregulated utilities on technology driven business transformation. Most recently, Bob served as Senior VP of Strategy and Market Development for Innowatts - a cloud-based platform providing smart meter analytics, predictive intelligence and AI enablement to Utilities and Retail Energy Providers worldwide.

"The industry is finally at a stage where the benefits of digital innovation are becoming more and more additive- with value now extending well outside of today's functional silos, and often outside of the utility itself," said Champagne. "TMG is in a great position to help Utilities understand and navigate that landscape and orchestrate their digital innovation efforts to maximizes value. I'm excited to be working with TMG as it positions its clients for this next generation of digital innovation."

About TMG: Based in Austin, Texas, TMG was founded in 1992 to address an industry-wide need for leadership in critical information technology decisions. TMG has contributed consulting support to over 500 projects for more than 300 clients. Expertise includes: Digital Customer Experience, (CIS), Customer self-service automated dispatch & mobile data, work management, (AMI), (MDM), (WAM) and (ERP), as well as Application Management Services (post-implementation support). Platform expertise includes SaaS, IaaS, on-premises, and managed (PaaS). https://tmgconsulting.com/