Profile
Performance Advisors is a business consulting firm that serves client interests globally. We add value through our experienced and focused consultants, enterprise grade collaboration technologies, software tools & analytical models, and unique multimedia client deliverables.
Client engagements are primarily focused on projects that require substantial earnings growth. The underlying earnings drivers are assessed and optimized based on targets for top line revenue, costs of sales, operating costs and margins, EBITDA, and other shareholder return metrics. We have special capabilities to deliver value on projects that are significantly underperforming, or which are involved in distressed situations that require operational and financial turnaround.
Performance Advisors works with our sister company, Performance Visualization Studios (PVS), to deliver unique perspectives and visual intelligence regarding corporate performance, along with the specific, underlying relationships that influence and/or impact that performance.
Our approach, including the use of proprietary tools, improves the financial and operating performance of clients by mapping, measuring and managing “Stakeholder Relationship Networks”. Stakeholders in performance include customers, suppliers, employees, credit and equity partners, professional advisors, governments, local communities, the environment, and others.
These constituents have dynamic and complex relationships over time. A company’s ability to understand and manage these relationships is highly dependent on their ability to identify, visualize and measure their stakeholder networks. The PVS simulation models deliver this capability and also enable clients to create decision scenarios and visualize alternative performance outcomes.
Performance Advisors, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Performance Proxies, LLC.
Leadership
Thomas S. Liggett — President
Thom serves as the CEO of Performance Proxies, LLC along with its two wholly owned subsidiaries: Performance Advisors, LLC and Performance Visualization Studios, LLC. His entrepreneurial vision, leadership and energy complement his experience to create measurable advantage for his collaborators and clients.
Thom has over 20 years experience in business; he has been a principal investor, board member, executive officer, and/or top strategic advisor in 21 private M&A transactions with various stakeholders. The diversity of his business experience includes aggressive growth projects, M&A transactions, complex post-acquisition integration challenges, organizational turnarounds, and complex restructuring efforts through Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings as well.
Thom’s passion for organizational transformation has been the central theme of his work for the past 20 years. He has led various corporate acquisitions, transformation and restructuring projects throughout the energy supply chain over 16 years, and he has worked with major oil companies as a supply chain “subject matter expert” for the past 7 years. Earlier, Thom worked for 9 years at Roadway Services, Inc. (a $5 Billion transportation holding company headquartered in Akron, Ohio) where he ultimately managed a special project (250 million gallons of fuel annually) for 10 trucking companies covering 1,300 truck terminals with 350 bulk storage tank sites.
Since 2003, Thom has focused his research and client engagements on “stakeholder relationship assessments” including the economics associated with trade flows of products, services, information and resources among enterprise and industry stakeholders. Based on this research, he provides unique perspectives and intelligence regarding the economic alignment or misalignment of stakeholder relationships to corporate clients.
Thom is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), the Turnaround Management Association (TMA), the Risk Management Association (RMA), the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), and the International Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI). Thom supports Junior Achievement, the American Cancer Society, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the ALD Foundation, the United Way, the American Red Cross, and Akron Children’s Hospital. Thom earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Akron in 1991.
Thomas S. Liggett
Phone: 330.671.8367
tliggett@performanceadvisors.net
