Payson Hall is a consulting project manager and founding member of Catalysis Group, Inc. Trained as a software engineer, he has performed and consulted on various hardware and software systems integration projects in both the public and private sectors throughout North America and Europe during his 40-year professional career. Mr. Hall's consulting clients have included the US State of California, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, IBM, the Federal Reserve Bank, Microsoft, Agilent, Citibank, the US State of New York, the US Defense Communications Agency, and several small public and private sector organizations. He has taught project management courses to over 10,000 people and authored a book on project sponsorship as well as over 100 project management articles. He can be reached at payson@catalysisgroup.com.