Michael Blumberg has established himself as an expert on building and growing profitable software and service businesses.  He is a recognized thought leader in the areas of Service Lifecycle Management, Field Service, & Reverse Logistics. Mr. Blumberg is currently president of Blumberg Advisory Group where he provides strategic planning, mergers & acquisition, market research, benchmarking, productivity & efficiency improvement, and systems evaluations & recommendations for SMB and Fortune 1000 companies.

Mr. Blumberg has worked in a wide array of industry segments, including, but not limited to, building products, industrial automation, information technology, office automation, medical electronics, material handling equipment, consumer electronics, appliances, etc.  His clients include Boston Scientific, Nokia, Carrier,  Johnson Controls, General Motors, Eastman Kodak, AGFA, ABB, General Electric, IBM, Motorola, Flextronics, Invensys, Oxford Instruments, Snap-On Tools, Siemens, Baxter Health Care, Johnson & Johnson, and Xerox.

Michael is also a consultant to many leading suppliers and developers of Field Service Management applications and related solutions, such as Service Power, SAP, HP, IFS, Mize, FedEx, OnProcess, PTC, Choice Logistics, etc.  As a result, Mr. Blumberg has developed a substantial knowledge base on size, structure, segmentation, and forecast of critical vertical market segments and attractive niches in a wide array of industry sectors.

Mr. Blumberg has established himself as an industry thought leader and writes extensively about best practices, systems state of the art, and service performance metrics. He has been a major speaker at many professional service organization conventions and conferences. He has published over 45 articles and white papers about business practices, industry standards, market trends & opportunities, and competition in the Aftermarket Service Industry. These have been published in a wide range of journals and magazines, including the Reverse Logistics Magazine, Field Technologies Online, and Field Service News.

Mr. Blumberg’s education includes a Bachelor of Arts Degree received in 1986 from Temple University in Political Science with a specialization in Economics, a Master of Business Administration degree with a major in marketing, received in 1991 from Temple University.