Profile
Performance Visualization Studios (PVS) creates performance simulation models of corporate stakeholder networks.
Stakeholders in corporate performance include customers, suppliers, employees, credit and equity partners, professional advisors, governments, local communities, the environment, and others. These various constituents have dynamic and complex relationships over time. A company’s ability to understand and manage these relationships is highly dependent on their ability to identify, visualize and measure their stakeholder networks.
Our approach, including the use of proprietary tools, provides this capability and also enables clients to create decision scenarios and to visualize alternative performance outcomes. The highly customized and interactive PVS models are invaluable for due diligence, strategic planning, mergers & acquisitions, post-acquisition integration, restructurings, organizational transformation efforts, and for educational and training purposes.
PVS also creates and develops virtual environments for the private study and simulation of relationship networks. Our affiliates, working with our sister company Performance Advisors, build simulations on various topics of interest for clients and constituents. PVS may then license and install “private studios” for deployment through client intranets to further protect sensitive data and strategic research.
The firm employs technology developers skilled in data visualization and simulation modeling along with creative professionals skilled in digital and interactive media. Our combination of talent and technology are merged to create unique and powerful media for use by management teams at leading companies in public and private equity markets.
Performance Visualization Studios, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Performance Proxies, LLC.
Leadership
Thomas S. Liggett — President
Thom serves as the CEO of Performance Proxies, LLC along with its two wholly owned subsidiaries: Performance Advisors, LLC and Performance Visualization Studios, LLC. His entrepreneurial vision, leadership and energy complement his experience to create measurable advantage for his collaborators and clients.
Thom has over 20 years experience in business; he has been a principal investor, board member, executive officer, and/or top strategic advisor in 21 private M&A transactions with various stakeholders. The diversity of his business experience includes aggressive growth projects, M&A transactions, complex post-acquisition integration challenges, organizational turnarounds, and complex restructuring efforts through Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings as well.
Thom’s passion for organizational transformation has been the central theme of his work for the past 20 years. He has led various corporate acquisitions, transformation and restructuring projects throughout the energy supply chain over 16 years, and he has worked with major oil companies as a supply chain “subject matter expert” for the past 7 years. Earlier, Thom worked for 9 years at Roadway Services, Inc. (a $5 Billion transportation holding company headquartered in Akron, Ohio) where he ultimately managed a special project (250 million gallons of fuel annually) for 10 trucking companies covering 1,300 truck terminals with 350 bulk storage tank sites.
Since 2003, Thom has focused his research and client engagements on “stakeholder relationship assessments” including the economics associated with trade flows of products, services, information and resources among enterprise and industry stakeholders. Based on this research, he provides unique perspectives and intelligence regarding the economic alignment or misalignment of stakeholder relationships to corporate clients.
Thom is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), the Turnaround Management Association (TMA), the Risk Management Association (RMA), the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), and the International Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI). Thom supports Junior Achievement, the American Cancer Society, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the ALD Foundation, the United Way, the American Red Cross, and Akron Children’s Hospital. Thom earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Akron in 1991.
Thomas S. Liggett
Phone: 330.671.8367
tliggett@performancevs.com
