Leadership Team

Sam DeLois

CEO

Sam is an accomplished executive with over 20 years’ experience in the staffing industry. He is currently CEO of Knight Management Group. KMG portfolio companies include; Amplify Resources Group – a global IT consulting and talent advisory firm focused on technology innovation; LaborNow – a US-based, light industrial staffing company; and Trinity Risk Management - an alternative risk management strategy firm for the Temporary Staffing Industry. 

Sam holds a BS in Finance and an MBA from Bentley University.

Yashar Kafi

Managing Partner

As a boutique consulting group, we support clients ranging from nano-cap to the Fortune 50, to transform the business and identify efficiencies in people, processes, technology, and data, by providing strategic advice and analytical services. Yashar supports clients with critical business decisions and designs new IT methods, specifically for each client to grow and maximize the value of their transformational engagements.

Responsible for leading the growth of AMPlify’s consulting practice, which focuses on technology transformation, strategy, and architecture challenges of Fortune 50 clients, and leading the Talent and Human Resources Strategy consulting services in the US.  

Yashar holds a BS in Economics from University of California – San Diego and an MBA from Babson College.

Michael Grasso

Managing Partner, Head of Recruiting

Head of Recruiting focused on finding and uncovering opportunities for today’s leading IT and business professionals.

Michael is a recruiting professional working in the Staffing and Recruiting Industry since 2001 Michael has provided contingent and retained executive search, recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) solutions, talent acquisition strategies to software companies, big four consulting companies, private equity firms, venture capital firms, high-tech start-ups, and fortune 500 companies for the past 18+ years. He has a passion for helping people, building relationships, seeing others succeed…and recruiting gives him the best platform to do just that.

Michael received his BS in Business Administration from UMass Dartmouth

David P. Collier

Partner, Head of Business Consulting and Advisory Services

David Collier is the national consulting leader for Amplify Resources Group. He is responsible for the leadership and management of the consulting and advisory lines of business including strategy and execution in the United States and is a member of the firm’s executive leadership team. Known for being a pragmatic driver of growth and innovation, David brings over 25 years of experience and various verticals and sectors. During that time, has cultivated deep expertise as a trusted advisor, leader and as a tenured industry practitioner. 

Prior to joining Amplify, David served in executive roles within the Business Transformation, Enterprise Program Management, Corporate Operations, and Information Technology spaces.  He has extensive experience partnering with corporate boards, investors, senior executives, and business leaders across organizations to identify and align strategic imperatives and successfully drive those imperatives to fruition.

David holds a BS in Computer Information Systems from Bentley University and an MBA from the Sawyer School of Management at Suffolk University.

Michael Cadieux

Partner, Head of Strategic Sourcing

Michael is a 20 year+ seasoned Indirect Sourcing industry executive who has been focusing on building a successful professional services firm, SpendLogic Group, LLC., to help clients optimize their spending and minimize their costs. Prior to starting his own firm, Michael was the Chief Procurement Officer for Publicis Group, the fourth largest advertising agency based in France. Obsessed with improving the Sourcing industry as a whole through building collaborative communities such as Procurement Foundry where fellow practitioners can gather, learn and grow.

Michael’s time at Publicis Groupe exposed him to many of the common pain points for practitioners and executives in the procurement industry, as well as the solutions. More often than not, solutions to common problems were forced to resolution by enlisting the services of high-cost consulting firms. The process was both expensive and time-consuming, sometimes resulting in a solution that was not the most effective. These commonplace interactions were the basis for the Procurement Foundry – a fully vetted practitioner-based community where procurement professionals could source solutions from peers instantly and correctly.

Michael received his BA in Corporate Communications from Marist College.

Matt Trembicki

Partner, Senior Relationship Manager

Matt has a decade of experience in the talent advisory and executive search space, and a proven track record of evolving organizations in an advisory capacity. The majority of his experience stems from overseeing and driving expansion of the New York City office and region of a technology staffing and services firm, which consistently delivered and saw year over year growth.

Matt truly enjoys being able to coach and mentor team members on the methods that are most effective to adequately represent industry experts in the field. The majority of his expertise lies in acting as an advisor to technology executives across a number of industry verticals over the years. He has a natural ability to interact and engage with people, coupled with a true passion for learning how to create the best tailored solution for any given problem.

Matt received his BS in Management from Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business.  Outside of work, Matt can be found out on the golf course working on his game (a lot of work to be done), playing any racket sport, travelling, or spending time out in NYC or CT with friends and family.

Michael Johnson

Partner, Head of Finance Transformation and Advisory Services

Head of Finance Transformation consulting practice with deep hands-on expertise helping companies manage enterprise growth, digital finance strategy, advance data analytics and integration.

Michael was formerly a Big 4 Consulting Partner with over 30 years as a recognized leader in FINTECH and management consulting. His focus was on the Office of the CFO around digital finance transformations and technology initiatives to drive innovative solutions for his clients. Michael has served some of the largest and most respected Fortune 500 brands throughout his career. He has a proven track record as a transformational consultant using the growing ecosystem of leading-edge ERP and EPM (SAP, Oracle, OneStream) technologies for identifying and positioning initiatives resulting in enhanced profitability, risk mitigation, internal controls, governance, increased security and increased shareholder/owner value. 

Michael holds a B.S. in Accounting from University of Maryland-  Robert H, Smith School of Business at College Park and an Masters from Kogod School of Business at the American University .