Our Team

 
 
 
 

Dave Miller Jr., a distinguished Chief Executive Officer and the visionary leader spearheading Miller3 Consulting, Inc., a second-generation family business committed to fostering economic development in underserved communities. As a seasoned expert in Inclusive Procurement, Performance & Operations Consulting, and a Six Sigma Certified professional, Dave delivers game-changing consultancy and advisory services to public and private companies worldwide. As a driving force behind Miller3 Consulting, Dave Miller Jr. continues to pioneer transformative solutions, reshaping the future of consultancy and economic development.

At the heart of Dave's strategic initiatives is a comprehensive approach that encompasses disparity studies, diverse spend analysis, and MWBE (Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises) utilization and analysis. His leadership transcends conventional boundaries, leveraging disparity studies to provide invaluable insights into the effectiveness of economic development efforts by public and private sector entities. Actively engaging with stakeholders, advocating for sustainable practices, and championing initiatives that create lasting social impact, Dave is reshaping the future where diversity is a driving force for progress.

In addition to his wealth of experience, Mr. Miller holds a B.B.A. in Marketing and Management from Morehouse College, underscoring his commitment to excellence in business.

Dave J. Miller, Jr.

CEO

 

Ms. Miller serves as the Chief Growth Officer at M³ Consulting. She is responsible for orchestrating and optimizing all facets of the company's growth strategy. She oversees and contributes to the development of the firm's strategic plans, business processes and business development and marketing efforts. Since joining the firm, she has achieved remarkable revenue growth, expanded M³ Consulting’s market share, and fostered brand awareness and recognition for the company. As a public-facing figure for the organization, Ms. Miller has been instrumental in forging enduring strategic partnerships and positioning the company for sustained growth. Ms. Miller has over 10 years of experience working on M³ Consulting research & advisory projects. On client engagements, Ms. Miller provides strategic advisory services and client & stakeholder relationship management.

A dedicated business and brand builder, Ms. Miller is a serial creator and entrepreneur by trade. Prior to joining M³ Consulting, Ms. Miller built and successfully executed a niche Millennial focused lifestyle & travel brand—CANT STAY PUT. A pioneer in the black millennial travel movement, Miller has traveled to over 85 countries and cities influencing thousands across the globe through storytelling, public speaking, life coaching, and consulting with companies and brands to develop and execute international offerings. Ms. Miller has been recognized by Huffington Post, Business Insider, Black Enterprise, Essence, Blavity, and more.

Ms. Miller holds a B.S. in Biology from Howard University and completed 50 credits of Business Administration coursework at Wake Forest University Business School.

Lauren R. Miller

CHIEF GROWTH OFFICER

 
 
 

Larry Scott is a results-oriented operations executive with strong project management abilities currently serving as part of the Miller3 Consulting, Inc. team.  In his current role of Senior Consultant, Larry leads the tasks associated with the assessment and analysis of clients’ current procurement-related policies, procedures, and daily practices.   That analysis is considered against M3 Consulting’s and industry best practice standards. Miller3 Consulting’s strategic approach to disparity study and economic inclusion-related services requires Larry to include detailed project management along with interfacing with and interviewing specific client staff to determine the extent of the alignment of written polices (and their intent) with the actual “in the field” day-to-day practices.  Mr. Scott brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the procurement and diversity/inclusion space -- having served as a procurement director, and as the director for the City of Atlanta’s Diversity and Inclusion Programs across three mayoral administrations.

This 20+ year career pathing makes Mr. Scott a seasoned veteran with respect to supplier diversity, formal contract monitoring, and contract compliance program administration. His experience also extends to contract dispute mediation and union labor contract negotiation.  Larry possesses working knowledge of Six Sigma process control, supply chain operations, quality control, budget analysis and budget administration.   Larry is a confident communicator with the ability to work under aggressive timelines. 

Mr. Scott underscores his wealth of practical real-world knowledge with a B.B.A. degree in Business Administration and International Business obtained from Georgia State University.  Mr. Scott’s knowledge base augments his dedication to assisting Miller3 Consulting’s clients in their endeavors to develop sustainable, inclusive, transparent, and equitable procurement ecosystems.

Larry Scott

SENIOR CONSULTANT

 
 

Ms. Dwyer serves as a Senior Project Manager on M³ Consulting’s research and advisory services projects. She brings a background as a Program Manager responsible for $12M in government and foundation grants, with experience overseeing budget, proposals, vendor invoicing, direct reports, and procurement gained from three years at the CDC Foundation in Atlanta, GA. Prior to joining M3 Consulting, she served as a Senior Client Advisor for government contracts to improve the grants process using human-centered design. Ms. Dwyer brings human resource experience focused on sourcing, recruiting, hiring, and onboarding employees and creating organizational policies and procedures for public health and non-profit organizations. Daneilia is a strategic convener, adept in follow up and follow-through and is a solution-oriented collaborator.

Ms. Dwyer holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Health Policy & Management from Emory University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Public Health & International Studies from Elon University, NC. She obtained a Master of Education Certificate in Instructional Design & Technology with a focus on eLearning Design from the University of Georgia, and holds a Project Management Certification specific to the field of international development from APMG International.

Daneilia Dwyer

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

 
 
 

Prachi Kharat is a Data Analyst with over 3 years of experience in analyzing data from various data sources, automating data processes and building data models. At Miller3 Consulting, Inc. she handles coordinating with clients to collect data, cleaning and interpreting it. She brings her software engineering background to automate day-to-day processes as well as to write code to solve ad hoc issues.

Prachi has a strong academic background with a Bachelor’s in computer engineering from Mumbai University and Master’s in data science from University of the Pacific, California.

Prachi Kharat

DATA ANALYST

 
 
 

Morin Okediji is the Lead Analyst and Senior Statistician for Miller3 Consulting. Ms. Okediji leads the data analysis and data management for Miller3 Consulting’s day-to-day operations and is the right hand to the Principal Investigator. She is skilled in data acquisition, data cleaning and transformation, as well as data visualization and reporting.

Ms. Okediji brings over 15 years of experience as a licensed professional engineer prior to earning her Master’s in Business Analytics from Mercer University in 2020. Morin’s expertise includes exploratory analysis and interpreting trends, multinomial regression, user behavior classification and predictive modeling. Morin is adept in various data management tools including Excel, as an Excel Superuser, with proficiency in R, PowerBI and Tableau.   

Morin Okediji

SENIOR STATISTICIAN

 
 
 

Francis Lacson

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

 
 
 

Our Advisors

 
 
 

Dr. Ed Davis currently serves as the Chief Principal Investigator & Senior Advisor at M3 Consulting. He has earned this status with the corporation as a result of assuming continuously increasing responsibility in the areas of public policy analysis and development. 

Dr. Davis began his professional association with M3 Consulting in 1986 when he developed the firm's initial statistical methodologies for conducting disparity studies. These methodologies have withstood legal challenge in all litigation involving M3 Consulting clients. As a statistical expert specializing in research and analysis of public sector and institutional management, Dr. Davis has proven himself particularly adept in the analyses of economic data from a wide range of sources. An expert in the decision and information sciences, Dr. Davis has been responsible for staff development and training of all investigators on each disparity study that has been executed.  

Dr. Davis joined Clark Atlanta University’s School of Business Administration in 1980 as a professor in the Department of Decision Sciences.  Prior to joining Clark Atlanta, Dr. Davis taught at North Carolina A&T State University, the University of Cincinnati, Morgan State College and the United States Army Air Defense School.  He has been a visiting professor at North Carolina Central University and the University of Texas at El Paso.  He has been the director of the Economic Development Center at Clark Atlanta University since 1983; Davis chaired the Department of Decision Sciences from 1983 to 1996.  In 1996 Davis became interim Dean of the School of Business and in January 1999 accepted the position of Business School Dean. Davis returned to the classroom in September 2004 to serve as Professor of Decision Sciences. In 2007 He returned to serve as the interim Dean of the Business School. In 2010 Davis rejoined the faculty until 2015 when he again became interim Dean. In 2017, he returned to the faculty as Professor and Christine McEachern Smith Chair. 

Dr. Davis teaches in the areas of statistics, information systems management, production management and forecasting.  His research interests include operations research techniques, minority business development and statistical analysis of procurement procedures.  He specializes in the statistical analysis of availability and utilization with minority/women business enterprises (WMBE) in private and public procurement processes.  He has authored several articles for national publications including the International Journal of Mathematical Education Science and Technology, NAFEO Proceedings, DSI Proceedings, Tech Trans, The Status of Black Atlanta, and the Transportation Planning and Technology Journal.  He has authored or participated in more than 50 research studies and consultant reports. In addition to his teaching and administrative responsibilities, Dr. Davis has been an active speaker and researcher in business and economic development.  

Dr. Davis is Principal of BECT 1 Group.  Among his clients have been the U.S. Department of Transportation, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Commerce, Peat Marwick, the Greater Atlanta Small Business Project, the United States Information Services and many state and local government agencies across the country.  His international consultant experience includes Zimbabwe, Zambia, Togo, South Africa, Central Asia, Ukraine, Jamaica, Guyana and Russia.  Other professional experience includes a senior associate at D. J. Miller & Associates (the predecessor firm to M3 Consulting) and a systems engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories. 

Dr. Davis earned a B.S. from Morgan State College in Mathematics, an M.S. from Ohio University in Mathematics, an M.S. from John Hopkins University in Management Science, and a Ph.D. from North Carolina State University with emphases in operations research and mathematics and statistics. 

Dr. Edward L. Davis

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Bringing over 25 years of experience in economic development research, Dr. Vijaya Subrahmanyam has served as Statistician since 1992 and as Principal Investigator on M³ Consulting research efforts from 2006 through 2022. She has developed methodologies for research studies in EEO, housing studies and mortgage lending and contributed significantly to upgrading our disparity study analysis. Dr. Subrahmanyam has expertise in the areas of finance, governance, economic development, procurement, workforce and employment, and housing. She concentrates on economics and developmental issues, focusing specifically on the economics of discrimination in contracting and employment, employment and compensation, valuation of damages, compensation modeling and analysis and the use of statistics in litigation. Dr. Subrahmanyam has provided research and consulting to well over 100 clients at the local, state and national levels.

Dr. Subrahmanyam has been fully responsible for the design of methodologies used for regression analysis, statistical significance testing, capacity analysis, survey and anecdotal sampling methodologies, and survey design and analysis. She is the leading national expert on the application of regression analysis on statistical analysis of disparity in any field. Dr. Subrahmanyam has also served as an expert witness on both disparity in contracting and disparity in employment efforts.

She has extensively published in several premier finance journals and effectively blends her teaching with her research interests and experiences in consulting. Besides Mercer and CAU she has taught at the University of West Indies, in Jamaica and given lectures at the Symbiosis School of Bank Management, India, Indira Institute of Management, Pune. She was involved in executive training for the SBA and Freddie Mac substantially assisting in curriculum development and presentations for Consumer Credit Education sponsored by Freddie Mac promoting financial education to students, as well as minorities and women.

Dr. Subrahmanyam is a professor of finance at Mercer University. She holds a doctoral degree in Finance and a Master’s degree in Economics from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Illinois. Previously, she was a tenured professor at Clark Atlanta University (CAU).

Dr. Vijaya Subrahmanyam, Ph.D.

SENIOR RESEARCHER

Dr. Quispe-Agnoli is an Associate Professor of Economics at Mercer University, Atlanta, GA.  Prior to joining Mercer, she served as a visiting faculty member at Terry College of Business in the University of Georgia. Before returning to academia, Dr. Quispe-Agnoli worked as a Research Economist and Assistant Policy Adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta for fifteen years.  

Dr. Quispe-Agnoli worked in the Corporation for Financial Development (COFIDE) for several years and was an intern at the Central Bank of Peru. She was also a faculty member of the Economics Department at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, her undergraduate alma mater. 

At Mercer University, Dr. Quispe-Agnoli teaches courses in economics and in Business Analytics. Her research fields are international economics, open macroeconomics, and economic development. Her current research interests include economic impact of immigration, small business financing, unemployment and underemployment, and the impact of financial architecture on community and economic development. 

She earned her PhD in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her Master of Arts degree in Economics from Vanderbilt University.

Dr. Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Ph.D.

RESEARCH ECONOMIST

 

Our Partners

 
 

TruPoint Solutions

  • Chief Operating Officer, TruPoint Solutions 

    Niambi Jarvis has a track record of success in managing programs to address diversity and equality issues. Her background includes procuring and overseeing multi-million dollar government contracts, developing work plans and budgets, leading cross-functional project teams, and evaluating programs for compliance with Federal standards. She has led global cross functional teams working on commercially sensitive technology product launches for Fortune 50/Global 2000 firms.   

    Ms. Jarvis is a graduate of the Women's Campaign School at Yale University and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish and Marketing and a Juris Doctorate from Howard University.

  • Vice President and Workforce Development Consultant, Trupoint Solutions 

    Valerie Murphy Point brings over 20 years of experience in executive-level management, organization & business development, budget administration, communications, training, client management, corporate teaming, job readiness training, and human resources.  She holds a degree in Psychology from the College of William and Mary.

Q&A Research

  • President, Q&A Research 

    Warren Pino is the President of Q & A Research, an MBE which he founded in 1991. He manages all facets of business growth, development, and day-to-day operations. Mr. Pino holds an MBA from Arizona State University, and a B.A. in Business from Brigham Young University.  He is the author of numerous research related articles and press releases. 

    Q & A Research has twice conducted Los Angeles (LA) Metro's Limited English Proficiency research to assist LA Metro in its compliance with Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act that prohibits organizations that receive federal funding to discriminate on the basis of national origin, including LEP individuals, defined as those who have a limited ability to read, write, speak, or understand English.   

    Q & A Research conducted one-on-one interviews and focus groups with speakers of Los Angeles' twenty most common non-English languages to document the experience of the Limited English Proficiency population with regard to public transportation.  The research was conducted at a variety of locations including community centers, churches and schools in neighborhoods with concentrations of the twenty languages.  Q & A Research was responsible for all aspects of the research including logistics, recruitment, translation, moderating, and analysis. 

    Mr. Pino has been part of the M3 team for four of the 2021-2022 disparity studies and previously supported the M3 team on the BART Disparity Study in 2017.

  • Principal and Research Director, Q&A Research 

    Charlotte Gallaway is Principal and Research Director at Q&A Research, She has worked for Q&A Research for over 25 years providing quantitative and qualitative marketing research to public and private sector clients. She has a demonstrated history of working in the market research industry for over with extensive analytical skills, advertising research, market research, account management, and leadership experience. 

    Ms. Gallaway has worked with Fortune 500 companies across the following industries:  

    • Automotive and transportation  

    • Consumer products 

    • Education 

    • Financial services/Investments 

    • Insurance 

    • Healthcare 

    • Entertainment 

    • Hospitality 

    • Technology and telecommunications 

    Ms. Gallaway graduated from California State University, Chico.