About the Telesto Group

Leadership

Strategy and Business Development

Soren Hastrup

Mr. Hastrup, Managing Partner, focuses on the strategies used for business transformation and implementing complex technical solutions in the Commercial and Defense sectors. In addition to his executive responsibilities, Soren leads high performing companies around the world in optimizing their work processes by facilitating executive level workshops and creating centers of excellence that bring process and technology together.

Soren accelerated quickly in his consulting career holding multiple program office positions over the last 15 years. Beginning his career in Denmark after receiving his MS in Organizational Design from the University of Odense (Denmark)/University of Technology Sydney (Australia), Soren spent a significant amount of his career building education and training strategies and delivering high quality knowledge management and organizational change scenarios for global companies utilizing SAP. Soren's industry experience spans Aerospace and Defense, High Tech, and Life Sciences. He is fluent in English, Danish and German. Soren is SAP certified. He has deep technical knowledge of all SAP Financial and Controlling modules and their integration with all SAP Logistics modules.

Craig Hekking

Mr. Hekking, Director, provides leadership in the areas of Business Development and Sales. Craig brings over 20 years of technology industry experience to Telesto Group. Craig joins Telesto from Signature Enterprise Solutions, where he headed the SAP CRM group after serving both SAP and Gartner in several capacities.

Program Execution

Debra Patrick

Ms. Patrick, Partner, leads large Education and Training efforts from inception through delivery. She has spent over 20 years concentrating on implementing and optimizing ERP systems within the Government, Higher Education, Consumer and Industrial Products, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Telecommunications industries. Her background as a controller and in financial accounting leadership roles provides the business savvy that supports her systems knowledge.

Having led SAP programs with user bases ranging from 10,000 - 30,000 people within the Public Sector, Debra has in-depth experience working with not-for-profit and Government accounting operations. The last decade has seen Debra leading large organizational change efforts concentrating on end user education and training.

Debra holds an MBA from the University of Georgia, a BS in Accounting from New Hampshire College, is SAP certified, and is a member of ASTM.

Toralf Peters

Mr. Peters, Partner, leads Telesto's Technical Services program excellence. His successful career is based on his exceptional combination of deep technical skills and business process understanding. He began gaining his technical experience in Germany at what is now SAP-SI (SAP's Systems Integration business unit) where he personally developed much of what is now standard within the SAP system.

Toralf has in-depth experience with all SAP releases since the rollout of SAP R/2 and has led numerous technical upgrade and workflow efforts. Toralf's focus is on the areas that prove to be highly challenging for the CIO whether it is identifying optimal use of existing solutions, defining custom programs, managing remote support or simplifying the usability of data for daily needs. Toralf has worked in the Automotive, Life Sciences, and Heavy Manufacturing industries around the world. He is fluent in English and German and holds a degree in Computer Science and Economics from the Technical University of Dresden (Germany).

Operational Execution

Julie Hastrup

Ms. Hastrup, Partner, provides leadership in the overall operational running of the consultancy. She has over two decades of business leadership experience focusing on SAP implementations and optimization efforts. Julie has been recognized for her work in bringing business groups with divergent views and cultures together to achieve organizational goals while performing in global IT and operational leadership positions in multi-national organizations.

Julie's process background is in financial controlling and supply chain processes. She has many years of process and technology integration experience in these areas. Throughout her career she has been called upon to provide expert knowledge as part of process and technology audits focusing on process improvement and program risk management.

Julie has a BS in Accounting from Ohio State University and is SAP certified.

Joe Rita

Mr. Rita, Director, leads the financial and program controlling at Telesto Group. Joe graduated from Villanova University in 1974 and has been working for Federal Contractors ever since. Joe has a Masters in Finance and has extensive knowledge of the General Services Administration and Federal Acquisition Regulation requirements.