Our story

We’ve earned our distinguished 35-year record of client partnerships and boast a proud legacy of our own strategic re-invention ahead of changing technological and economic tides. Change and change management is in our DNA. We know from experience what is required of an organization to remain both relevant and viable. We understand the journey and what it takes to move beyond inertia into the future.

We know that continuous evolution is the only way to ensure survival in today’s ever-changing global marketplace. As technology, relentless competition and globalization continue to shift the ground beneath us, we help our clients navigate the inevitable changes that arise - from identifying where change is needed to defining what to change and most critically, working with them to facilitate the actualization of those changes in their organizations.

The go-to strategic and operational resource for leaders navigating the turbulent waters of today’s chaotic world. We traffic value across business units throughout your organization and ensure the effective implementation of changes needed to realize corporate goals and objectives.

Simply put, our clients realize substantial results from meaningful change reflected in more efficient and relevant workflows and processes. 

Managing Partners

As a strategic visionary, Jay Moskowitz has 30+ year as a seasoned executive and management consultant with broad cross-industry experience and expertise in leading organizations through change. As an entrepreneur, he has built and managed four successful companies, and, as a consultant has worked closely with executive management teams including a number of Fortune 500 multi-national clients, in diverse verticals including retail, fashion, grocery, manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and technology.

Jay’s areas of expertise include supply chain optimization, strategy development and deployment, turnaround deployments, organization development, change management, marketing and merchandising strategies, technology, and utilization of “Lean”, “Six Sigma”, and “Theory of Constraints (TOC)” principles, practices, and processes in diverse environments and complex corporate cultures. 

His personal integrity, vision, commitment to excellence, and constant pursuit of results in dynamic and challenging market environments has earned him the respect and trust by leaders he has served throughout his career.

Tjerk Remmert has been both an entrepreneur and (strategic) consultant for the past 20 years. He owned, sold and participated in various companies. 

Tjerk sees organizations as living organisms that often-times become dysfunctional. As a business person he looks at multiple aspects of the business from multiple angles and connects the dots. Where some have their own single perspective he brings context. His ability to assess complex core issues and identify appropriate solutions underscores his ability to lead management through complex transition processes. With great energy and humor he always manages to establish the connection between the strength of an organization and customer value. 

He guided numerous teams and organizations through enterprise performance optimization through a lens of ToC and Lean principles and processes. From Strategic Planning to Organizational Design, from Supply Chain performance optimization to Organizational transformation, from Sales to HR, from Logistics to IT and from Finance to Risk Management, on all conceivable topics he has proven his value. 

As a Managing Partner of UMS, his focus is on supporting companies in their efforts to accelerate targeted growth.