About Us
With over thirty years of specialized experience, we excel in:
Consumer Goods Expertise
We provide over thirty years of consumer products experience working in leadership for companies like PepsiCo, Frito Lay, Cadbury, Pfizer, and Conair.
Financial Market Acumen
Proven experience with leading financial organizations and markets, including RBS, FactSet, Greenwich Capital Markets, and more.
Tailored Business Solutions
Offering high-value insights and hands-on support to organizations lacking in-house departmental resources, enabling seamless integration and business growth.
Meet the Leadership Team
Founder
Joan Marie Asher
Ms. Asher is a dynamic, hands-on leader with dual U.S. and European citizenship and over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. Her career spans private equity, hedge funds, broker/dealers, and capital markets, with a proven history of collaborating with financial institutions and clients across the U.S. and internationally on a variety of investment-related initiatives and transactions. Her forward-thinking approach ensures sustainable success and measurable results.
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Renowned for her ability to identify challenges and implement strategic action plans, Ms. Asher excels in mitigating risk and managing complex business tradeoffs. She consistently delivers timely results in demanding and rapidly changing environments, including business restructurings. Her expertise lies in enhancing critical infrastructure through process-driven improvements in finance, operations, audit, regulatory compliance, governance, risk management, due diligence, and oversight of third-party service providers.
With a collaborative leadership style and a focus on long-term growth and profitability, Ms. Asher transforms challenges into opportunities, driving operational excellence that aligns with organizational strategic goals.
Ms. Asher holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from Fairfield University’s Charles F. Dolan School of Business. She graduated from the Investment Fund Director Institute in Dublin, Ireland as a Certified Investment Fund Director. She is also an Investment Adviser Certified Compliance Professional.
In addition to her professional achievements, Ms. Asher has served on non-profit boards and continues to contribute her expertise as an advisory board member for various other business entities.
Business Intelligence Consultant
David Schwartz
Mr. Schwartz is currently a Business Intelligence Consultant at See Klear. Over the past 20+ years, his career in the consumer products industry has evolved through Leadership roles where he has built three teams from the ground up. He has also held numerous roles from sales, strategic planning, and sales management to category management, market research, consumer insights, and data analytics. He has engaged with almost every retailer across the consumer products industry in the food, drug, mass, dollar, convenience, e-commerce, and D to C channels.
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In his career he has spearheaded the management of large data sets and implementation of business intelligence tools. His expertise in synthesizing insights from data and research information across multiple business sectors is a must in todays ever changing world.
Education: MBA Global Management, BS Business Marketing
Certification’s: Category Management CPCA,CPCM,CPSA, Delta Fact Based Selling, Delta Category Management, Power BI, Burke Market Research, UGA Mobile Market Research, Blue Yonder / JDA Prospace, Big Data, Intro to R
Data Experience: Circana, NPD Decision Key, IRI, Nielsen, dunnhumby 84:51-Stratum, Retail Link, RSI, POS, EDI, Stackline, 1010, TCN,
Panel Data: Numerator, NPD Checkout, IRI Panel, Nielsen Spectra
Business Intelligence Tools: DOMO, Microsoft BI, Placer AI and assorted market research tools
Principal
Keith Augustyn
Mr. Augustyn is an entrepreneurial operations leader excelling at driving organizational transformation and efficiency within complex, high-growth organizations. He partners with executive leadership to learn the strategy and vision, then understands the current operational state leveraging a bottom-up approach within each business vertical. Once unique challenges are identified, he outlines tactical changes that balance resource allocation and prioritization of internal and external needs, enabling your business to grow and scale on a stable, cost-effective foundation.
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As a hands-on executor, he has a proven track record of building and scaling successful global operations for both startups and established divisions of Fortune 500 companies.
Key areas of support include:
o Securing Funding: Investor presentations; pitch decks; Use of Funds; financial forecasts
Business plan development
o Product-Market Fit: Identifying customer segments, pain points, and competitive landscape analysis
o Building strong teams: determine the initial and longer-term hiring plan, including defining roles and responsibilities; candidate sourcing leveraging a global hiring model
Determine in-house hiring versus contractors
o Proven channel partners: develop functions such as Marketing & Sales, Finance, Engineering, and Customer Support with proven vendor relationships prior to building internal solutions
o Addressing Ongoing Operational Challenges: fractional COO; CFO; Chief of Staff services: streamline workflow; task automation; optimize resource allocation; manage cash flow; budgeting; and other day-to-day execution needs.
SeeKlear is a Woman-Owned Business
At SeeKlear, we take pride in being a woman-owned company, bringing a unique perspective and approach to our work. Our leadership embodies innovation, resilience, and collaboration, driving meaningful results for our clients.