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PROVIDING THE EXPERT ADVICE YOU ALWAYS NEED

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TIM SMITH, MBA,JD

Tim Smith, President of Competitive Simulations Inc, is the lead competitive simulation moderator and based in Huntington Beach, California. Specializing in designing business competitive simulations (war games) for a broad range of client companies around the globe, Tim’s experience began in the U.S. Army Intelligence community, where he designed, developed and implemented numerous joint-service military training exercises. Then he spent 17 years working in the business sector where he has conducted over 200 war games for Fortune 500 companies. Tim has also trained facilitators from the following companies to run their own simulations: 3M, Amgen, Dow Corning, HP, Kimberly-Clark, and Medtronic.

Tim earned a BA in Business Economics from the University of California, an MBA from the Peter Drucker Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University and a Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, California. He is a guest lecturer on strategy and a student competition judge at BioENGINE, a med tech incubator in Orange County, California. In his spare time he coaches his son’s sports teams and is in training for the Mentor for America on Track program.

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Teresa Muckala

Teresa, Consultant at Competitive Simulations Inc., serves as teams facilitator and is skilled at developing competitive profiles.  Based in Minnesota, she has been collecting and using competitive intelligence for informed decision-making for more than thirty years. She established the corporate market intelligence function and a division competitive intelligence function at a large medical device company, and championed war game facilitation training corporate-wide. She has developed competitive profiles and facilitated dozens of war games. Her background spans public relations, marketing, business development, market research and business operations. Her experience includes work in healthcare, medical devices, engineering, higher education, finance and technology.
Teresa earned a BA in journalism and a MBA from the University of Minnesota. In addition to her work with Competitive Simulations, Teresa provides market and competitive landscape monitoring with Line of Sight Group (St. Paul, MN), she is involved in rural economic development programs and serves as a board member on her local area food shelf for low income families.