The Mpower Group - About Leadership Team

Dalip Raheja

is President and CEO of The Mpower Group. Dalip has over 20 years of experience managing large organizations and change initiatives, and has worked across all facets of strategic sourcing and management consulting.

Prior to founding TMG, Dalip created and led the Strategic Initiatives group for Bank One. This internal consulting organization launched and managed large complex change initiatives for the bank. The group's capstone achievement was creation of a comprehensive Strategic Sourcing program that achieved over $1.3 Billion in documented savings over three years and seamlessly integrated the spend of two other merged organizations. This effort encompassed every area of bank spend and involved both Insourcing and Outsourcing. Prior to joining the bank, Dalip was a Principal and Regional Business Development Manager in the Strategic Consulting Group of Digital Equipment Corporation.

Dalip is a recognized thought leader, a frequent contributor to research papers and articles and a much sought after speaker on the topics of Strategic Sourcing, Outsourcing and Change Management. Dalip has been responsible for fundamentally altering the paradigm of strategic sourcing methodologies by incorporating change management practices.

He is currently authoring two books and holds an MBA in Finance and Marketing.

Anne Kohler

is Executive Vice President and COO of The Mpower Group. Anne has been leading consulting and financial management organizations for the last 18 years, and has extensive expertise in strategic sourcing, change management and organizational design, supply chain management, ERP, and process reengineering.

Before founding TMG, Anne was the SVP of Strategic Sourcing and Initiatives for Bank One. In this role, Anne led a team of over 100 professionals, internal and external staff in developing and executing supply for all of the bank's externally purchased goods and services. Over four years, this organization managed over $3 Billion in annual spend and contributed in excess of $1.3 Billion in savings.

Prior to heading the sourcing organization, Anne led a major reengineering effort of the bank's finance function. This two year effort streamlined the finance organization and core processes, and was founded on a successful implementation of SAP as a fully integrated financial systems solution. During her time at the bank, Anne also led complementary initiatives focusing on insourcing / outsourcing, vendor management, eProcurement, and financial reengineering. Before joining Bank One, Anne held CFO and controller positions for other financial services organizations and started her career at Ernst & Whinney as an audit manager.

Anne is a CPA and has an MBA in Finance from The University of Chicago.