-: My name is Phil Walker
and I am Managing Principal of the W2Group.
W2Group is a market and business development
consulting firm that works with companies
primarily in the sustainability industry.
And that industry includes energy efficiency,
indoor air quality, wastewater management
or water purification,
and sustainable agriculture.
A project for us can be everything
from getting involved helping the client
to identify who their target market is,
and helping them to go after that target market,
as well as building what I'll call distribution
networks, helping them to create distributors
and dealers around the country,
to help sell their products or their services
as well as their strategic planning.
So we will sit down with organizations,
help them to identify what their three
and five year business plans are,
and then help them to execute on those plans.
I'm also a managing partner
in an organization called Tech3D.
Tech3D is a 3D printing company
that provides educational services
to the K through 12 community around 3D printing.
And also provides rapid prototyping,
design scanning, consulting services
to manufacturers and professional organizations
as well as nonprofits.
And so my role with both Tech3D and with W2Group
is really to a large degree manage the corporate
portfolio, oversee our consultants,
really manage our business relationships
with our clients, making sure that we have
a definitive plan with measurable steps,
in terms of what that plan looks like
for our client to help us
to help them reach their goals,
and make sure that we're implementing
and executing every single day
and every single week.
And if we have to veer off
from that for whatever reason,
making sure that we're on top of that,
and communicating that with the client.
And then also calling
on potential new business clients.