“Giving back to the commnity and having fun are key elements of who naviGATE is as a company,” said naviGATE Managing Partner David Crossed. “Community Backstop’s annual Texas Hold ‘em event provides a great opportunity to get together with colleagues and friends and support members of our community who are facing hardships.”

“With Chris as part of the naviGATE team, we will be able to provide our clients with a greater breadth of expertise as we work to help them improve their processes and ultimately achieve their business objectives, ” said Robert Kathol, naviGATE’s Managing Partner. “Chris’ focus on legal systems also allows us to better serve this critical area of companies of all sizes.”

Prior to joining naviGATE, Chris was a Senior Manager with both Grant Thornton Business Advisory Services and LECG (previously SMART Business Advisory & Consulting), where he led each firm’s Legal Solutions and Business Process Management Practices.  Earlier in his career, he was part of Arthur Andersen’s Business Consulting Practice in Philadelphia.

A PMI-certified Project Management Professional, Chris graduated magna cum laude from the University of Delaware, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with concentrations in Marketing and Management Information Systems.

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“The team at Child, Inc. does such incredible work supporting children and their families through difficult hardships; we are happy to help them in this small way,” said Robert Kathol, Managing Partner, naviGATE. “I’m proud to lead a company of employees that recognizes the importance of giving back to the community, and so willingly participated in this initiative.”

To learn more about Child, Inc., visit www.childinc.com

“”Steve brings to naviGATE a new level of expertise in areas such as business continuity and cloud computing, as well as in the healthcare industry – all of which will help us provide even more comprehensive service to our clients.”, said Robert Kathol, naviGATE’s Managing Partner.
Prior to joining the firm, Steve served as Enterprise Manager at Catholic Health East, a multi-institutional health system encompassing 54,000 full-time employees in 11 states. In this role, he led the development of a business continuity and disaster recovery methodology; identified the critical business functions to be involved and the IT infrastructure to support them; and rolled out the needed program policies and standards. As part of his project management, Steve recommended, implemented, and provided training on an appropriate enterprise-wide business continuity software tool.

Steve’s career also includes management of SAP America’s enterprise-wide, 45,000-square-foot datacenter as the company’s Manager, Global IT Hosting & Operations. While there, he led the design and development of global cloud computing agreements to support both small and medium-sized clients, which resulted in the establishment of several new domestic and global datacenter partnerships.

In addition to membership in a number of specialized professional organizations, Steve has earned distinction as a Certified Business Continuity Professional and a Master Business Continuity Professional (one of about 100 worldwide), and is currently pursuing certification as a Member of the Business Continuity Institute.

This occasion marked the first event jointly hosted by naviGATE and BDO – two firms who have continued to identify opportunities to leverage their respective strengths and resources to develop integrated solutions and exceed client expectations. Guided by a shared commitment to the most comprehensive level of service to meet specific and unique business needs, both firms anticipate ongoing collaboration moving forward.

“We at naviGATE were excited to be able to offer a unique and fun opportunity for our clients and friends to learn about some of the historic moments in golf that took place right here at Merion – and how the Club is getting ready to conitue its legacy by hosting its fifth U.S. Open in 2013,” said Robert Kathol, Managing Partner. “The evening provided an ideal way for us to join with BDO and bring together our respective networks; we look forward to finding new ways to complement each other’s strengths and more fully meet the needs of our clients.”

“At naviGATE, supporting the community is an important part of who are,” said Robert Kathol, Managing Partner. “Especially as the slow economic recovery continues to create hardships for families in our area, supporting Community Backstop provides an ideal way to directly help those in need and have fun meeting others who share our company values.”

Learn more about Community Backstop by visiting their website: www.communitybackstop.com