Executives Helping Executives:Delivering Results from the Inside

Serving our clients effectively in today’s economic environment requires experienced staff to lead, manage, and deliver on projects. In both assessment and implementation, a key Whitehall differentiator is our ability to actively assume operating roles inside the client organization until the business issues are addressed.

Our senior professionals have decades of experience and are credentialed as lean and six sigma practitioners, CPAs, and CVAs. All have assumed financial and operational roles as CEOs, presidents, general managers, and CFOs. This senior team is augmented with staff consultants and analysts with proven financial skills and shop-floor savvy.

We are a team of experienced “doers” who take command of projects and deliver results.

About Joseph Bione

Whitehall Group President & Founder

Whitehall Group President and Founder Joseph Bione has over 35 years of experience in manufacturing and restructuring. Mr. Bione’s expertise includes the areas of operations, finance, re-engineering, enterprise lean, continuous improvement, and supply chain management.

In the past, Joe had served as interim CEO/CRO/President for many clients, including:

• Mold Masters Corporation
• Constar
• CMI Holdings
• Venture Industries
• Talon Automotive Group
• Como Plastics
• Detroit Plastic Molding
• Kuhlman Automotive Group

He is currently serving as chief restructuring officer for Mold Masters Corporation.

Management Expertise

Mr. Bione has been interim president/CEO for American Special Vehicle Cars (ASC), where he won the 2016 Manufacturing Leadership Award (ML100) for Visionary Leadership.

He also has been EVP of Operations at Constar Inc., a $500 million manufacturing company, where he won the 2012 Manufacturing Leadership Award (ML100) for Turnaround. Mr. Bione is on the governors’ list of potential emergency managers, and Whitehall has been approved by the State of Michigan as a “Turnaround and Restructuring” resource.

Joe started his manufacturing career at Johnson Controls, where he served as VP and general manager for both the Automotive Group and Beverage Bottle Division, as well as at the American Sterilizer Company as director of operations for the Medical Products Division.

He was also a partner at Deloitte Consulting in the automotive, supply chain, and restructuring practices with global account responsibility for DaimlerChrysler and co-leadership of the Global Automotive Practice.

Mr. Bione is a frequent speaker at industry events, including:

A bi-continental auto conference, where he spoke on “Preparing for the Next Disruptive Event”
The Michigan Association of CPAs management conference
The Automotive News motor vehicle conference
Original Equipment Suppliers Association regional meetings

Community Involvement & Education

Joe has contributed guest columns in both the TMA newsletter and at the OESA Annual Outlook Conference. He participated in PowerPlex as a partner and guest speaker, the Automotive Supplier Finance Summit, and Eastern Michigan University’s College of Business Ethos Week.

In addition to speaking, Mr. Bione has authored a series of four articles on addressing “Business Transition Issues” that most privately held companies are facing.

Education

Bachelor of Science, with a major in business management and a minor in engineering (Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania)
Master of Business Administration, with a focus on organizational behavior (Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania)