About the Team

Edward T. Geary, MBA - Founding Partner
edgeary@gearyvaughan.com

Mr. Geary is a successful entrepreneur and business owner and has spent over 25 years as a business consultant. His experience spans more than 30 industries, including manufacturing and distribution including food processing and distribution, professional services, health care, retail, e-commerce and software production. He delivers advice and consultation to guide stabilization, growth or eventual sale. Both public and closely-held companies have drawn on his guidance, and he has been retained by both company management and apprehensive lenders. Mr. Geary’s particular strengths are in finance, strategic planning, creditor/vendor negotiations and deal structuring.

He is also widely known for success at identifying sources of value in troubled situations and securing creditor cooperation with a turnaround plan. In addition to founding and operating a number of business ventures, Mr. Geary has extensive interim management experience, fulfilling the chief executive, chief financial, or chief operating officer role in troubled companies.

Mr. Geary holds a B.S.B.A. from Boston University, an MBA from Babson College, and is director of various corporate, educational, and community boards. He has lectured at Boston University’s Graduate School of Management, and is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, the international management honors society.

Rena M. Vaughan, MBA - Founding Partner
renavaughan@gearyvaughan.com

Ms. Vaughan is an experienced general manager and financial executive with over 20 years of success in a variety of industries. She has held executive leadership positions including CFO, COO and CAO in several startup companies building them from the ground up in the Founder/Entrepreneurial early stage through private equity financing through fast growth right to sale to a public company. Most recently, she played a key role in the sale of a mobile marketing technology company to AOL.

Prior to lending her entrepreneurial spirit to the startup world, Ms. Vaughan worked for 13 years in the financial services/banking arena where she held a variety of operations management and financial management positions.

Over the past few years, Ms. Vaughan has been providing strategic consulting services to a variety of industries including manufacturing and distribution, technology, professional services and software companies. Ms. Vaughan’s particular strengths are in finance, operations, maximizing human resources and guiding company owners through tough operating times.

Ms. Vaughan holds an M.B.A. from Simmons, School of Management. She is on the Board of Directors of ICCUSA (Irish Chamber of Commerce in the U.S.).
 

Thomas J. Dunn, CPA - Director
tomdunn@gearyvaughan.com

Mr. Dunn has over 35 years of operating management and business ownership experience in a variety of industries.  He has held senior level positions in both the private and public sector.  He was President and Treasurer of a national interactive computing company, President and Treasurer of a major mechanical contracting company, and has held senior management positions with a national accounting firm.  Mr. Dunn has owned and operated several small businesses, which he successfully turned around.

In 1977, he was a founding partner of Siegel, Dunn & Geary Inc., one of New England’s original turnaround consulting firms.  During an era where the role of a consultant was limited to advice, Siegel Dunn & Geary recognized that the problems often lay at the top of the organization.  S,D &G quickly realized that changes at the top meant they needed to be hands on and often implemented necessary changes themselves taking over from company owners who sometimes lacked the ability to swiftly turn things around.  Mr. Dunn has spent his business career focusing on small companies and helping them grow, thrive and succeed, particularly during troubled times.  Mr. Dunn is the developer of “O2 R3”, a unique survey technique created by him which enables us to evaluate a business and quickly determine the real problems within a company.  Many times these problems are different than what the client may have perceived. 

Mr. Dunn is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a B.B.A. from Northeastern University.  He is the past Editor of the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants CPA Review magazine.

Henry H. Wieman IV - Director
harrywieman@gearyvaughan.com

Mr. Wieman is an experienced general and financial manager who has also founded and operated his own business venture. He provides clients with knowledgeable advice, objective analysis and hands on management/turnaround services. Prior to starting his own venture, Mr. Wieman helped build and lead one of the country’s largest construction companies. Mr. Wieman has extensive operating experience as a General Manager and Chief financial Officer in both high growth and turnaround situations.

He has spent more than twenty years as a business consultant, entrepreneur & senior executive; his commercial experience ranges from manufacturing to software sales, as well as professional services and contracting. He delivers hands on management and consultation to help guide his clients towards stabilization, growth or eventual sale. Mr. Wieman is experienced in helping owners implement unique financing options including ESOPS.

Mr. Wieman brings his unique background and experiences to Geary Vaughan LLC, to help provide creative solutions to complex business problems. His particular strengths are in internal processes and procedures, finance, operations, and creditor/vendor negotiations.

Mr. Wieman holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina.
 

Daniel L. Sullivan - Director
dansullivan@gearyvaughan.com

Mr. Sullivan brings over 35 years of business consulting, operations management, financial management and senior level executive experience to the team. Mr. Sullivan has provided consulting services to specialty contractors, residential real estate developers, general contractors and defense contractors.

He brings an array of strengths to the team helping to provide first class customer service to all of his clients. His ability to focus deeply on the financials of any business and bring to light opportunities for improving the bottom line has brought him accolades from many of his clients. Prior to joining Geary Vaughan LLC, Mr. Sullivan spent 24 years as the CFO at a major road and bridge contractor where he was instrumental in the transition of the ownership of the family company between generations. He has also held senior level executive, financial and operations management positions at a variety of construction companies and has provided consulting services to a variety of general contractors and defense contractors.

Mr. Sullivan holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from Bentley College.
 

John Paul Vaughan, Director
paulvaughan@gearyvaughan.com

Mr. Vaughan is a successful entrepreneur, consultant, and business operator with over 20 years of experience in a variety of industries. Most recently, Mr. Vaughan was the Operations Manager for Ireland for the largest U.S. provider of outsourced retail and inventory solutions in the world, a Michigan based company.  As the National Operations Manager, Mr. Vaughan had full P&L responsibility and was responsible for strategic planning and business growth.

Prior to this, Mr. Vaughan spent 20 years in a variety of high growth and leadership positions with the world’s fourth largest retailer, an international grocery and general merchandising retail chain.  During his tenure at this chain, he was responsible for the growth and expansion of retail areas in food, clothing, and consumer electronics.  He was one of the top leaders in the country for this chain and was selected to report to the Board to implement a three year cost reduction program encompassing ninety retail stores and ROI distribution sites.  He held General Manager positions in the top performing stores in the country and after a merger of one of his stores subsequent to a buyout, his store became the “store of excellence” responsible for the training of all staff  prior to new store openings. 

Mr. Vaughan is considered among the top retail consultants in his field.

Mr. Vaughan has a degree in Retail Marketing from the College of Marketing & Design in Dublin, Ireland.  He has studied Business Process Improvement at the University of Manchester, England.