Value Networks LLC aka ValueNetworks.com was founded in late 2007 by value networks pioneer Verna Allee and a team of expert technologists and advisors. We have a several-year advantage in the technology, methodology, and experience to deliver breakthrough business results through value network analysis - from board room to shop floor, to business webs, to global humanitarian networks.
Mission
Our mission is to put the best practices of value network analysis and business process networks into software that is easy to use, making it more efficient and affordable for organizations of all sizes to gain the benefits from this powerful new way of business modeling.
A Global Customer Base
We serve a broad range of organizations from Fortune 1000 companies to non-profits. Our customer success stories illustrate our unique ability to help companies discover the power of intangible value in their business.
Management Team
Verna Allee, Co-founder and CEO
With more than twenty years of deep experience in value networks, knowledge management, intellectual capital, and new business models, Verna has been a trusted advisor to more than 100 Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies, civil society organizations, and startups, focusing the power of intangible value for increased efficiency and competitive advantage.
She began her management career in the late 1970s as co-founder of a networked sign manufacturing company. Frustrated by organizational complexity in her early corporate experiences, she organized the new company as a value network – a radical idea at the time. Within five years, the company was handling large installations from Alaska to Florida and revenue had grown to match some of the largest companies in the industry. Determined to carry her insights into global companies, she developed the ValueNet Works™ methodology, a cornerstone in the field that intersects business process and human networks.
Verna is the author of two books and more than 50 industry articles and papers on value networks and knowledge management and is a popular keynote speaker at business conferences around the world. She is a Fellow of the World Business Academy, an advisor to the European Commission, and sits on a number of Advisory Boards including the Enterprise of the Future project at George Washington University, the Norval Morris Project with the U.S. Department of Justice, and Hazel Henderson's Ethical Markets television series on PBS.
She holds a B.A. in Social Science and International Business from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.A. in Organizational Leadership and Human Consciousness from JFK University. She is a visiting professor at Oxford, the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, and other universities.
Oliver Schwabe, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
 Since 1981, Oliver has been involved in organizational change management with a special focus on the interactions of people, processes, organizations, and technology, from systemic perspectives. He has focused continually on developing new technologies and research approaches to uncover and visualize hidden value in organizations.
Oliver has lead the development and delivery of value networks applications and qualification programs since 2001. Professionally he has designed, developed, and delivered a wide range of technology projects and consulting services for Fortune 500 companies across the globe. In addition, he helps organizations develop their knowledge economy capabilities and master the challenge of business transitions, based on the principles of systems thinking, complexity science, and knowledge management.
Oliver holds an M.B.A. in International Business from Keller Graduate School of Management and a B.S. in Human Resources Management from the New School for Social Research in New York. He is an adjunct Professor for Innovation and Technology at Jones International University in Colorado and teaches at the Open University Business School in the United Kingdom.
Ken Vanosky, Chief Financial Officer
 Ken brings more than 30 years of corporate experience in finance, operations, business assessment, and market development. He is a co-founder of the company and has managed numerous companies, public and private, foreign and domestic, from start-up to public market, joint venture and large company groups.
At The Greyhound Corporation, then a $4B Fortune 100 company, he served as Vice President for Administration with financial analysis, reporting, and strategic planning responsibility over an eleven-company, $600 million group of entrepreneurial, fast-growth service companies (now VIAD Corp.). He later co-founded Futurtek Communications, a Canadian satellite-based telecommunication services company, serving as CFO/Treasurer from start-up to $28M CND revenue and public listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange, raising approximately $16 million in equity financing. Ken was also CFO and later Business Unit Manager for Andrew VSAT systems, the VSAT business unit of Andrew Corporation, a $2B company. In this capacity, Ken managed a joint venture with China's largest electronics company.
He also has considerable experience in visualization technologies. He co-founded and served as CFO and Treasurer of Reality Capture Technologies, Inc. (now Common Point, Inc./Bently Systems), a NASA Ames Technology Commercialization Center-based company commercializing Mars Pathfinder Program 3D/4D visualization technologies for application with process plants, large-scale construction, and manufacturing environments.
Leadership
Our executives and advisors are in the forefront of the value networks movement. We are in constant collaboration with the top university researchers, business consultants, and management teams around the globe who are shaping this highly dynamic area of business research and practice. Key contributors include cofounders Reese Jones and John Maloney as well as strategic advisors LaVeta Gibbs, Marco Aurelio, and Kurt Foeller. |
