Mitch Javidi, Ph.D.

President & CEO 

In addition to being a tenured professor of business strategy and market research and a member of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers & Scholars at North Carolina State University, Dr. Mitch Javidi is the president and CEO of The Catevo Group and former founder and CEO of Digiton Corporation. 

During the last 25 years, Mitch has served more than 350 clients and has produced more than 600 corporate reports. Additionally, he has 60+ articles and book chapters with 400+ national and international presentations to his name. He has received prominent acclaim for his strategic planning initiatives, serving as a strategist to Sam Walton and David Glass of Wal-Mart in the early 1980s. While at Wal-Mart, his primary focus was on growing the company’s pharmacy stores, which increased market share by 21 percent in less than 18 months during his tenure.

In 1998 the National Society of Accountants named him Person of the Year in recognition of his competitive intelligence and strategic counsel as part of the association’s organizational redesign initiatives. In 1999 the United States Department of Defense Special Operations Command inducted Mitch as an honorary member to recognize his business strategy and business deployment programs to the unit's ongoing restructuring and development.

Mitch’s client engagements include work for AT&T, Aventis Pharmaceuticals, American Systems Hospitals Pharmacists, American Accreditation HealthCare Commission, Clareos Technologies, Ford Motor Company, GlaxoSmithKline, Independent Electrical Contractors Association, John Deere, Micell Technologies, National Society of Accountants, Nortel Networks, Oncology Education Services, Parata Technologies, Plasma Energy, TEAMM Pharmaceuticals, Respirics, United States Department of Defense, Wal-Mart and Waveguide Solutions.

Michael L. Herman, APR, S.A.G.E., Fellow PRSA

Of Counsel

With more than 35 years of experience in the public and private sectors, Mike is among the most skilled business consultants in the U.S. with<