Testimonials Of Tim Maurer’s Leadership, Strategic Planning, Innovations, Marketing, Business Development and Impacts
An article about Maurer's White House growth strategy noted, "Peter M. Yu, Director of the National Economic Council, called Maurer's presentation 'thoughtful and provocative.” The White House referred Tim to DoD to support supply chain resiliency.
"Your ideas are great and we welcome all your suggestions, which are really useful, so keep reaching us on anything that you want to work on," emailed Ashish Saraswat, The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI), India, regarding recommendations Maurer made for supporting TERI's nationwide leadership on India's Cooling Action Plan and COP 26 solutions, 2021.
“Tim ‘wow’…. I want to thank and congratulate you for the stunning progress and accomplishment you have championed and led in the Retail Marketing arena… Congratulations and thank you for your enormous contributions to the progress we have made,” said Hugh MacKenzie, President, Northeast Utilities in a letter sent to Maurer’s home, after launch of the new strategy and innovations
”Tim is one of the most innovative and energetic people I’ve ever met… He’s consulted with numerous product owners who were struggling to create strategies for products, investigated and recommended new approaches to leading and managing the innovation process and submitted multiple detailed ideas for adjacent market growth. Creative. Tremendous capacity to produce high quality work. Superior intellect. High energy. Team player. Solid moral character,” VP appraisal, Matt Hillgard, SVP First Data
”In a word, amazing, simply amazing. I have been looking for 10+ years for a way to depict and share all that is the value added Nerac impact in a manner easily understood by an audience challenged by information overload. You have delivered what has been missing. Not a task easily understood nor undertaken.... In a week's time (well...closer to two weeks) you have captured the value inherent in the organization and rendered it in a manner long overdue.” Kevin Bouley, President, Nerac, 2019
“I read this quote from Information Week and thought of you, ‘A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.’ I know that you supply a great deal of the ideas that drive this company, and it generally isn’t appreciated or understood until a great deal of other people catch up to where you are in the thought process,’” Scott Dunn, VP Systems & Programming, First Data
“At first, Tim’s plan and concept seemed impossible to execute. Tim recognized the difficulties but also perceived substantial gains to be made. He was persistent and dedicated to making the program work. Dick Lesher (U. S. Chamber of Commerce President) recently said that the Initiative is ‘The most successful program in Chamber history,’” Pete McCutchen, U. S. Chamber
“Thank you for the good work and brilliant ideas you have,” wrote Tawanda Muzhingi, Ph.D., International Potato Center
“Maurer to be honored as ‘2015 Smart Grid Pioneer’ by Smart Grid Today… The success of modernizing and digitizing the power grid around the world depends on the vision, hard work, determination and dedication of a gifted cadre of professionals… Congratulations to all 50 winners.” Smart Grid Today
“You lay out some great ideas in your email….We just need to develop strategies to reduce transactional costs and scale the systems you describe to large numbers of facilities. Please let us know how FERC can continue to help in this regard, and any specific suggestions you may have are always appreciated,” FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff email -- which ultimately led to two state PUC-funded utility pilots worth millions of dollars in deployments at ESPN, Aetna, Stanley Black & Decker, Honeywell, Mass Mutual, etc.
“…Tim is the most valuable contributor to the Connecticut Mutual,” said John Muro, VP, CT Mutual, in an appraisal, based on Tim’s strategy; innovations; marketing; sales; and alliances w. U. S. Chamber of Commerce, International Franchise Association and U.S. SBA
“Tim is one of the best marketing people I’ve ever met. Everything he says about his accomplishments during the time he was at Connecticut Mutual are absolutely true and then some,” Denis Mullane, CEO, Connecticut Mutual, in an unsolicited referral letter sent just before company merged
“Tim Maurer has been a driving force for change at NU. His vision of the future and the strategic initiatives he has championed will have tremendous impact on NU’s future success… Tim is able to ignite those around him to achieve beyond expectations. He is able to assess the competitive landscape and identify key competitive points of difference that NU can exploit in order to grow revenues and enhance profitability… Executed an extraordinary response to the first ever retail competition. Initiatives developed by Tim: National Energy Management Strategy; Central Station (Smart Grid); NH Pilot Management and Infrastructure,” NU awards
“Maurer had built his career on the heartfelt quest for customer intimacy, seeking to solve issues and to meet unmet needs that would yield either consumer lifestyle contributions or total lower cost solutions for businesses,” noted a profile in the ‘13 business book, Innovation Engine -- Driving Execution for Breakthrough Results, by Jatin DeSai
“On this 5-year anniversary of the financial industry collapse, I recall how Tim Maurer had identified the potential for the real estate bubble to burst, and how he recommended an innovative solution that would mitigate losses for financial institutions leading up to the mortgage crisis… As a further example of Tim’s insight and creativity, he also saw the potential in developing mobile advertising tied to directory assistance searches and in developing mobile workforce enablement tools well before mobile technologies took hold. Tim even worked with a global technology platform to forge working prototypes that were deemed a top company innovation. Tim’s ability to research and assess trends and technologies, and then to rapidly create innovative solutions, has been consistent across multiple industries and applications, ” noted Larry Klein, Interim Unit Leader, Lexis Nexis
Senator Lieberman, in his ARRA oversight role, referred Maurer’s IVR-Enabled, Automated Energy Efficiency, Weatherization & Renewable Program Management System to the DOE Secretary’s office, “In the interest of ensuring that the funding Congress appropriated through ARRA is distributed quickly and efficiently in a way that will maximize its stimulative impact and environmental benefit, I wanted to draw your attention to the enclosed information… Energy New England has developed a protocol for rapidly communicating funding opportunities and matching the available funds with local service providers... Their platform seems to have great promise...”
“I also want to salute the efforts of Tim Maurer who made this relationship (International Franchise Association custom-configured financial services portfolio sales endorsement) a reality for our company,” John Muro, VP, Connecticut Mutual
“The International Franchise Association board voted to endorse FD as the sole vendor for Merchant Services. Special thanks to Tim Maurer who really opened the door for us,” Tom Epstein, VP First Data Merchant Processing
“I’m over-the-moon happy with what I’ve read so far,” Rich Cooper, VP U. S. Chamber describing Maurer's ‘Innovation & Data for Good’ blogs
“We’re getting great traction with AIG. You’ve started something with great potential,” H. Tsuei, President, First Data China
“You were selected to participate in the (High Performer/Champions Connect) program (as VP Product, Marketing and Sales) based on feedback from the Talent Forum,” Kim Davenport, VP Organizational Development, First Data