Our Management Consultants


Jeff Hayes Management Consultant CEO Jeff joined The Vector Group in 2003, and in 2006 he shifted the firm's business development focus onto clients committed to social & environmental entrepreneurship - mission-driven business. The Vector Group provides small business owners with a set of affordable tools they can easily apply to accelerating their profitable growth. They call this tool set CONDUCTOR. Prior to running The Vector Group Jeff worked in the entertainment industry as an Animation Director. His video game and film projects earned more than $300MM in combined revenue. In his free time Jeff surfs with friends under the full-moon at Leo Carrillo State Beach, plays music with his wife Julie, and is a fan of Edward Tufte, John Singer Sargent and Gustavo Dudamel. A brief CV Sustainability Director, Opportunity Green - LA's premier green business event - www.opportunitygreen.com Group Leader, Provisors GREEN affinity group - www.provisors.com Co-founder, Green Business Networking - www.greenbusinessnetworking.com Mentor, SAGE - developing the next generation of social business leaders - www.sageglobal.org Animation Director, various gaming and effects companies Bachelor of Music, Berklee College of Music, Film Scoring “Your extensive network, your strategic business perspective, your execution skills, and your ability to enroll diverse groups to accomplish complicated tasks all make you an ideal leader for the growing eco-business and environmental sustainability movements here in Los Angeles.” -Davis Blaine, Chairman, The Mentor Group Phone:323-549-9787 Email:Jeff@The-Vector-Group.com
George Danellis Management Consultant George joined The Vector Group as a Consultant in 2008, becoming a Principal in 2009. George’s professional mission is to unravel his client’s challenges so they can achieve their potential. His approach to enduring business performance was developed over two decades spent managing continuous organizational improvement that is clearly aligned with mission and values. Prior to joining The Vector Group, George was Managing Director at Salani Surf Resort, where he developed a successful enterprise around ocean sports, the natural environment, and celebrating local culture. He worked closely with the Samoan government on their Tourism Development Plans and tourism branding, and under his leadership and in their first full year of operation, Salani Surf Resort was awarded the Samoan Exporter of The Year Award for Tourism. In his free time George contemplates how to more positively impact his fellow beings or is recreating in the mountains of the Rockies or the blue oceans of the world. A brief CV: Founding board member of the Yampa Valley Sustainability Council Managing Partner, O&D Innovations Managing Director, Salani Surf Resort www.surfsamoa.com Founding board member of the Samoa Hotel Association and the Samoa Marine Tour Operators Associations. President, Buddhist Council of Steamboat Springs George holds a Bachelor of Arts/Political Science, UC San Diego, with an emphasis in International Political Economy. “George brings a dynamic, solution-oriented spirit to his work, keeping one eye looking twenty steps ahead and the other focused on what’s needed to produce the desired outcome. His bootstrapping experiences demonstrate to me that George has learned the most critical entrepreneurial lesson - how to get things done. George’s commitment to business activity that is also a positive force in the world is inspiring - he understands that taking care of people and planet is a powerful driver of innovation that creates valuable outcomes.” -Chris Hahn, CAO SmartWool Phone:970-846-1631 Email:gdanellis@The-Vector-Group.com
Jack Hayes Founder Jack founded The Vector Group in the late ‘60s as a business consultancy to mid-market logistics companies who were interested in growing their top-line performance. He was a pioneer in the field of management consulting and over time his practice morphed into a consulting model he called Build:Sell:Play. Using that model, he assisted small business owners to achieve their dream of increasing the value of their businesses and selling at multiples well-above industry averages. His son Jeff joined the firm in 2003. In late 2005, Jeff approached Jack with an idea: to shift The Vector Group’s biz dev focus on to business owners who were committed to social and environmental entrepreneurship – he wanted to go after “green businesses” as they were becoming known. Jack’s response was “over my dead body”. It was a defining moment for the firm. But times change - and people do too - and Jack has since become a big fan of The Vector Group’s groundbreaking eco-business tools, FootPrinter™ and CONDUCTOR™ . When he’s not serving on boards you can find Jack on the tennis court playing men’s doubles, or traveling with his wife Charlotte. Phone: Email:jeff@the-vector-group.com

Jeff Hayes

Management Consultant CEO

Jeff joined The Vector Group in 2003, and in 2006 he shifted the firm's business development focus onto clients committed to social & environmental entrepreneurship - mission-driven business.

The Vector Group provides small business owners with a set of affordable tools they can easily apply to accelerating their profitable growth. They call this tool set CONDUCTOR.

Prior to running The Vector Group Jeff worked in the entertainment industry as an Animation Director. His video game and film projects earned more than $300MM in combined revenue.

In his free time Jeff surfs with friends under the full-moon at Leo Carrillo State Beach, plays music with his wife Julie, and is a fan of Edward Tufte, John Singer Sargent and Gustavo Dudamel.

A brief CV

Sustainability Director, Opportunity Green - LA's premier green business event - www.opportunitygreen.com
Group Leader, Provisors GREEN affinity group - www.provisors.com
Co-founder, Green Business Networking - www.greenbusinessnetworking.com
Mentor, SAGE - developing the next generation of social business leaders - www.sageglobal.org
Animation Director, various gaming and effects companies
Bachelor of Music, Berklee College of Music, Film Scoring

“Your extensive network, your strategic business perspective, your execution skills, and your ability to enroll diverse groups to accomplish complicated tasks all make you an ideal leader for the growing eco-business and environmental sustainability movements here in Los Angeles.” -Davis Blaine, Chairman, The Mentor Group

Phone:323-549-9787
Email:Jeff@The-Vector-Group.com

George Danellis

Management Consultant

George joined The Vector Group as a Consultant in 2008, becoming a Principal in 2009.

George’s professional mission is to unravel his client’s challenges so they can achieve their potential. His approach to enduring business performance was developed over two decades spent managing continuous organizational improvement that is clearly aligned with mission and values.

Prior to joining The Vector Group, George was Managing Director at Salani Surf Resort, where he developed a successful enterprise around ocean sports, the natural environment, and celebrating local culture. He worked closely with the Samoan government on their Tourism Development Plans and tourism branding, and under his leadership and in their first full year of operation, Salani Surf Resort was awarded the Samoan Exporter of The Year Award for Tourism.

In his free time George contemplates how to more positively impact his fellow beings or is recreating in the mountains of the Rockies or the blue oceans of the world.

A brief CV:

Founding board member of the Yampa Valley Sustainability Council
Managing Partner, O&D Innovations
Managing Director, Salani Surf Resort www.surfsamoa.com
Founding board member of the Samoa Hotel Association and the Samoa Marine Tour Operators Associations.
President, Buddhist Council of Steamboat Springs

George holds a Bachelor of Arts/Political Science, UC San Diego, with an emphasis in International Political Economy.

“George brings a dynamic, solution-oriented spirit to his work, keeping one eye looking twenty steps ahead and the other focused on what’s needed to produce the desired outcome. His bootstrapping experiences demonstrate to me that George has learned the most critical entrepreneurial lesson - how to get things done. George’s commitment to business activity that is also a positive force in the world is inspiring - he understands that taking care of people and planet is a powerful driver of innovation that creates valuable outcomes.” -Chris Hahn, CAO SmartWool

Phone:970-846-1631
Email:gdanellis@The-Vector-Group.com

Jack Hayes

Founder

Jack founded The Vector Group in the late ‘60s as a business consultancy to mid-market logistics companies who were interested in growing their top-line performance. He was a pioneer in the field of management consulting and over time his practice morphed into a consulting model he called Build:Sell:Play. Using that model, he assisted small business owners to achieve their dream of increasing the value of their businesses and selling at multiples well-above industry averages.

His son Jeff joined the firm in 2003. In late 2005, Jeff approached Jack with an idea: to shift The Vector Group’s biz dev focus on to business owners who were committed to social and environmental entrepreneurship – he wanted to go after “green businesses” as they were becoming known. Jack’s response was “over my dead body”. It was a defining moment for the firm.

But times change - and people do too - and Jack has since become a big fan of The Vector Group’s groundbreaking eco-business tools, FootPrinter™ and CONDUCTOR™ . When he’s not serving on boards you can find Jack on the tennis court playing men’s doubles, or traveling with his wife Charlotte.

Phone:
Email:jeff@the-vector-group.com