Tantamount Group, LLC bridges the gap between consulting and contracting, and was founded to help small firms get projects done that they don’t have the staffing, experience or time to do themselves.
Founded by Ken Rhines, Tantamount brings together exceptional people and companies to help small firms and divisions catch up, get ahead and stay on track.
Ken is joined by highly experienced project managers and business analysts, each with decades of experience in IT and healthcare areas. Our team members work with our clients to fully understand needs, document requirements, and translate those requirements into specifications for correct execution by our partners.
Leadership Team
KEN RHINES
Founder & President
For 25 years Ken’s focus has been starting up new products, offerings, divisions and even companies. Beginning as a market researcher, he spent ten years progressing as an analyst, researcher, and field and business group leader, with his time increasingly spent on applying new technology and models to businesses, research projects and operations, as well as starting new product offerings. Ten years later he joined a copytesting startup using NASA technology measuring brainwaves of viewers watching television commercials. Running the Research and Delivery groups, and later also led the sales and investor relations areas, before leaving to join IMS Health. At IMS he spent ten years identifying and building new technologies, products and data services, culminating as Product Line Director for US Promotional Measurement Services and also leading several global initiatives, for which he won IMS’s Summit Award in 2006. In 2009 Ken started WebMD-Medscape’s Market Research Division with great success, with his next position being to help start a division at a global Insurance company creating app- and web-based tools and services for international travelers, including a HIPAA-compliant Telemedicine service using US-based doctors, medical record storage and pre-travel safety and security reports. During this time and previously Ken led social media and content marketing efforts, including a Social Television Travel show broadcast through Facebook. Before forming Tantamount Group, LLC, Ken led the creation of a Physician Profiling and Scoring Division at Doximity, currently ranked sixth nationally in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing companies in North America. Throughout his career Ken has led innumerable project management initiatives across the breadth of all company operations, from defining markets and researching opportunities, creating business plans, to each and every step involved in building, launching and maintaining new products, systems, services and businesses. Ken’s MBA is from La Salle University, with his undergraduate degree and Master’s Certificate in Project Management from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
TOM WALSH
Director, Project Management
Tom graduated from Cabrini University with a B.S. in Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude, with a minor in Business Administration. After working at Verizon Communications in Philadelphia, PA, as an IT systems programmer and network engineer, he advanced into IT and non-IT project management careers. Awarded his Project Management Professional (PMP) certification in 2004, Tom then held successful project and program management positions in various healthcare industry companies. Along the way he picked up Six Sigma Green and Black Belts, as well as his Certified Computing Professional – Management (CCP-M) Certification from the Institute for the Certification of Computing Professionals (ICCP).
WARREN KEYSER Director, Business Analytics
Warren has twenty years experience as an IT Projec...
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WARREN KEYSER
Director, Business Analytics
Warren has twenty years experience as an IT Project Manager, Business Analyst and Product Owner for companies including eBay, Motorola, Quest Diagnostics, and ObjectBuilders, as well as working as an independent consultant on bringing new technology to small businesses. Warren has also worked with federal and state government agencies in the areas of process improvement and workflow efficiency. Native to the Philadelphia area, his undergraduate degree is from the University of Pennsylvania, with an MBA in Management of Information Systems from Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business. Warren has CM2 certification from the Institute of Configuration Management, Arizona State University.