Accenture Ltd., a leading management consulting, technology services and outsourcing organization has hired Chris Donato as Senior Vice President Origination Leader for the North America Products Group. Donato came to Accenture following his experience as a Strategic Sales Leader at HP. Here Chris was a part of a select team of individuals who manage Hewlett Packard’s largest and most critical outsourcing transaction worldwide. Prior to this role, Chris led the Banking and Capital Markets (BCM) business development organization for HP’s Enterprise Services division. In his eight years with HP, Chris has structured many long-term, complex IT and BPO relationships with Fortune 100 clients.  Prior to joining HP, Chris founded and served as the CEO of Remark, Inc.  Remark developed solutions aimed at improving the Human Resources value chain. Chris served on Remark’s Board of Directors and was responsible for managing the strategic direction of the company, overseeing financial projections, operating budgets, and profitability models to manage the company’s growth and enhance business value.

Chris graduated with a B.S. in Marketing from LaSalle University where he was a two-sport scholarship athlete in Men’s Division I Basketball and Track & Field. 

 

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Accenture Ltd., a leading management consulting, technology services and outsourcing organization has hired John Hall as Senior Vice President Origination Leader for Canada. Hall came to Accenture following his experience as the Managing Director, North America for Vertex. He originally joined Vertex as Managing Director for Private Sector and Utilities in 2007. Prior to Vertex, John was with Bell Canada, where he was Senior Vice President, Marketing, Product Solutions and Strategy for their Enterprise division. Prior to this role, John was a partner at McKinsey and Company where he co-founded the Financial Services Operations practice and the North American Contact Center practice. He started his career at IBM where he spent 7 years as Sales Leader, Large Accounts for IBM Canada.

John has more than 20 years of business leadership in marketing & sales, strategy and operational improvement. He has an in depth knowledge of working with large enterprises and their leadership teams to transform their businesses through technology, process improvement, and strategic focus. John has worked across a range of industries to achieve and sustain major productivity and quality improvements in call center and customer service environments. John received his MBA from INSEAD. 

 

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Accenture Ltd., a leading management consulting, technology services and outsourcing firm has announced the addition of Ron Aberman as Senior Vice President for Resources Utilities Origination. 

 

Ron came to Accenture following his experience as Executive Vice President for Business Development - Utilities at Vertex Business Services, responsible for leading the company’s largest and most strategic initiatives to enable effective growth for Vertex. In this role, Ron led several initiatives focused on the outsourcing of critical IT and back office operations as well as restructuring troubled contracts for Vertex with key global clients.   

 

Prior to joining Vertex, Ron was a Global Industries Leader for IBM with responsibilities for Sales and Business Development for a Global Team of industry solutions experts . In this role, Ron created a solutions playbook for Energy & Utilities with a focus on Smart Grid, Advanced Meter Management, T&D Network Transformation & Sustainable Development. 

 

Prior to IBM, Ron served as Vice President Global Sales at Silicon Energy and was a sales manager at Indus International. Ron is a subject matter expert in the Energy and Utilities space. He has written several white papers on the future of the Utilities Industry, and how companies should prepare there businesses moving forward. Ron is proven sales leader generating significant revenue growth at every organization he has been employed with, and has a strong reputation in industry.

 

Ron lives in Miami with his wife, and  holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University.

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Accenture Ltd., a leading management consulting, technology services and outsourcing firm has announced the addition of Larry Stack as Senior Vice President North America Cross Operating Groups. 

Larry came to Accenture following his experience as Vice President for major pursuits reporting to the Office of the Chief Operating Officer at Hewlett Packard, responsible for leading the company’s largest and most strategic initiatives to enable effective growth for HP Enterprise Services (formerly with EDS) a Fortune 10 Company. In this role, Larry led several initiatives focused on the outsourcing of critical IT and back office operations as well as restructuring troubled contracts for HP with key global clients. Larry was awarded the “Strategic Sales Executive of the Year Award” and to date, Larry is responsible for closing approximately $8b worth of new business for HP/EDS across several industries, geographies and a myriad of existing and new clients. 

Prior to joining HP, Larry was a Senior Vice President for Fujitsu where he served for five years as Profit and Loss leader for Fujitsu Consulting North American Communications and Government Operations. In this role, Larry built the contract mechanism to do business with the United States Government and led several mega-deal initiatives for Fujitsu Limited across both Government and the Communications industries on a global scale.

Before joining Fujitsu, Larry served as the Chief of Field Operations for the United Nations in Angola and Negotiator in Bosnia, where he assisted in efforts to implement various peace accords. In this role, Larry was credited for being the key on the ground liaison with the warring parties in the deployment of United Nations forces and personnel into conflict zones in order to enforce cease-fire accords and peace agreements.

Prior to this, Larry held several key positions in the federal government to include positions at the White House Communications Agency, the White House Situation Room, the National Security Council and Federal Emergency Management Agency. Larry also served five years in the United States Air Force as a Communications Intelligence Non-Commissioned Officer.

Larry has also testified to the United States Congress and provided speeches on international conflicts and other issues pertaining to crisis zones and humanitarian relief. 

Larry holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland. He is married to wife, Stephanie and has two children, Leighton age 6 and Everett age 3 and resides in Alexandria, Virginia.

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Accenture Ltd., a leading management consulting, technology services and outsourcing firm has announced the addition of Dan Toombs as Senior Vice President North America Cross Operating Groups.

Dan Toombs came to Accenture following his experience at IBM where Dan served as Vice President Strategic Sales. Dan is widely known for his career at EDS.  Most recently, Dan was RVP of North America sales, responsible for the West region BPO, achieving targets exceeding $200M of TCV and development of a $2B+ pipeline. Dan also held expanded responsibilities for P&L management for his region’s portfolio of business, totaling over $700M in annual revenues. In 2001, Dan sold $635M in total contract value (highest annual sales production in the history of EDS’ West region), achieving Pinnacle Status at EDS’ Sales Inner Circle. In 2000, he sold $153M of total contract value, achieving Pinnacle status at EDS’ Sales Inner Circle. In 1999, Dan sold $14M of total contract value while creating a pipeline of nearly $300M. As a business development executive from 1997-1998, Dan qualified for EDS’ Sales Inner Circle both years, closing $60M of TCV in 1997, and $75M on TCV in 1998. From 1995-1997, Dan was an account executive, responsible for managing the global delivery of EDS’ services, and a $20M P&L, to Delco Electronics manufacturing business unit. Dan had direct managerial responsibility for two US manufacturing plants and coordination of consistent services at seven international locations.  Earlier roles at EDS included assessment lead, operations manager and systems engineering roles for IT outsourcing contracts.  Dan graduated in 1988 with a B.S. in Business - Computer Information Systems from Indiana University.

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Accenture Ltd., a leading management consulting, technology services and outsourcing organization has hired Jim Huff as Senior Vice President Resources Deal Origination. Huff came to Accenture following his experience as Senior Vice President – Global ITO Sales and Marketing at Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) responsible for all sales, marketing, strategy and implementation functions for a team of 12 senior sales and marketing executives. Huff joined ACS after stepping away from an 18 year career with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) where he served as a Managing Director and Senior Partners responsible for leading the reorganization of consulting services from a geography-based sales and delivery model to National Vertical Industry Practices. Huff Created the National Energy Practice that included: developing a business plan, organizational structure, and budget. Recruited a Senior Partner management team heading up key Industry Segments, Technology/Solution Development, Business Operations, Finance and Marketing. Managed P/L to produce annual revenues approaching $100 million, 34% profit margin and 300 CSC personnel. Before joining CSC, Huff spent four years at Electronic Data Systmes (EDS) as a Regional Sales Director. Huff began his career in the Oil and Gas Industry both as producer and as an area Landman for Arco Oil and Gas. Huff hold a Bachelor of Science in Mineral Land Management from the University of Colorado.

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Accenture, the a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company who helps clients become high-performance businesses and governments, announced today Christopher Deelsnyder as their North America Health and Public Service Leader. Most recently, Christopher Deelsnyder was SVP and Managing Director of ACS Government Healthcare Solutions. He assumed responsibility of this $700M ARR organization in 2006 with a focus on Medicaid Management systems development and deployment, PBM, Health Information Exchange, Disease and Case Management and Population Health Management. Prior to ACS, Deelsnyder was SVP, Operations and Business Development at IMC Corporation, a bioinformatics and IT services provider, from Nov 2003-Jan 2006. In that role, he had responsibility for industry operations, client care and sales activities. Prior to IMC, Deelsnyder was Vice President and Enterprise Client Executive with Electronic Data Systems. While at EDS, Deelsnyder served in executive level client facing roles within the Financial, Public Sector and Retail industry segments working with clients such as Chase, First Union, Bank of America and The Home Depot. He also managed EDS' relationships with states including North Carolina, Georgia, Indiana and Wisconsin. Prior to joining EDS, Deelsnyder was Regional Vice President for Newtrend LLP, a provider of system software to the financial industry, where he had oversight for Northeast operations, sales, and marketing. He began his career with NCNB Corp. (now Bank of America) and was a partner in Pinnacle Group, a N.J. based consultancy providing Information Technology assistance to the community banking industry. Mr. Deelsnyder obtained a BA in English from Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C

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Accenture, the a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company who helps clients become high-performance businesses and governments, today announced Jack Denault as their Managing Director, Value Added Resellers (VAR). Jack Denault was most recently at Dimension Data as SVP of Sales from 2006-2009. At Dimension Data, Jack was responsible for both Technology and Service portfolios - Networking, Unified Communications, Security, Call Center, Video, Data Center, solutions, and Services, to improve profitability. Prior to that, he was responsible for Onyx's direct sales, partner distribution and services teams for the Americas. In addition, he also lead the company's global sales operations team. Before joining Onyx, Denault worked for Avaya, a global leader in communication systems, applications and services. Over a 20 year period with Avaya (and its predecessor organizations Lucent and AT&T Corporation), Denault held senior sales and executive management positions in both North America and Europe. His experience included serving as Chief Operating Officer for Lucent's Europe, Middle East and Africa business. As Vice President of Lucent's alliance with Siebel Systems, he created and implemented the sales engagement model and drove revenue growth, channel development, marketing and strategic relationships with key systems integrators. Most recently Denault was responsible for Avaya's Executive Relationship Management program. He completed Executive studies with the International Management Development (IMD), Lausanne, Switzerland and holds a B.A. in Geography from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Phil Nordgren joined Accenture as a Senior Executive in their Application Outsourcing business. Phil joins Accenture from Bearingpoint where, since 2003, he served as Director of Public Sector Managed Services Sales. Prior to Bearingpoint, Phil held roles at Corio, Qwest Cyber Solutions and PSINet. Phil began his career at The Muscular Dystrophy Association as a Program Coordinator. He holds a BA in Political Science from Marquette University.

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David Conte has joined Accenture Procurement BPO Solutions as a senior executive. Most recently, David was General Manager of Global Sourcing and Operations of GE Commercial Finance. GE Commercial Finance is one of General Electric’s largest growth engines with assets over US$230 billion serving clients in over 35 countries across a wide spectrum of industries. David lead a global team focused on wing-to-wing sourcing processes and also had supervisory responsibility for a commercial real estate joint venture business (P&L). Prior to his appointment at Commercial Finance, he was Vice President of Global Sourcing and Operations of GE Commercial Equipment Finance, a division of GE Commercial Finance. David is an experienced, dynamic global leader with a strong track record of building world-class, customer focused teams that drive top line growth and improved margins. David has held a number of senior leadership positions in Operations, Sales, Asset Management, Quality/Process Excellence, and Business Development. David is a graduate of Northeastern University School of Business in Boston, MA where he studied Finance.

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Keith Gallacher has joined Accenture as a Senior Executive in Accenture’s Application Outsourcing business. Keith joined Accenture from Cognizant where he served as VP North American Sales & Business Development with responsibility for strategy, recruiting, sales and sales process and operations. From 1997-2003 Keith was a partner and Managing Director at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), which included North American Application and Managed Services as well as Communications and High Tech practices. During his tenure, Keith’s responsibilities included accountability for sales, delivery and operations, executive client relations and all corresponding P&L. Earlier in his career, Keith held roles of increasing responsibility at EDS, beginning as a programmer and rising through account management. Keith holds a BBA in Business and Marketing from the University of Texas at Arlington.

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Deepak Sircar, has joined the firm in a new role, as Managing Director of Accenture Insurance Solutions. Deepak joined Accenture from iSi, a family investment vehicle focused on business services in India and the U.S. Previously, he was CEO of iSeva, a startup BPO (business process outsourcing) delivering CRM (customer relationship management) services, systems integration, and consulting with a global delivery model. Prior to iSeva, Deepak served at Reynolds & Reynolds during a point of enormous growth focusing on applications and services consulting and services for Billing, Customer Support, and CRM and markets such as Oil & Gas, Cable & Telecom. Deepak joined Reynolds & Reynolds as a CIO and, through five years of growth, integrated 26 acquisitions onto a single platform. Deepak started his career as a Senior Consultant with Cap Gemini and was responsible for launching its Midwest region practice. Deepak graduated from the University of Texas.

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Accenture, a management consulting, technology services and outsourcing organization, hired Michael Hendrix as Director of Client Sales for Accenture Learning. Michael came to Accenture from ACS Global Learning/Intellinex, where he led the sales and solution architect teams, with responsibility for all learning service and learning business process outsourcing (LBPO) sales and solution architecting. Hendrix improved overall sales pipeline by 135% in four months while working at Intellinex. Prior to ACS, Hendrix was the CEO and President of Continued Consulting. He also served as Global Leader of Deloitte Consulting. Michael also spent 11 years at PriceWaterhouse Coopers in various positions, most recently as Global Leader of Enabling Technologies. Michael started his career at USAA. He graduated from The University of Texas, San Antonio with a B.A. in Business Data Systems. Accenture is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under symbol "ACN".

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Accenture, a management consulting, technology services and outsourcing organization, hired Sam Garmon as Director of Client Sales for Accenture Learning. Previously, Sam was a Client Sales Executive at EDS. His responsibilities included Applications sales focusing on Applications Development, Applications Maintenance, Applications Modernization, and Applications Rationalization. Prior, Sam was s a principal consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he focused along selling opportunities at portfolio (new) accounts and existing accounts across consumer industrial products, energy, financial services, high-tech and other industry verticals. Sam was Director of Strategy at marchFIRST from June 1998 - March 2000, where he sold and implemented strategy consulting services to Fortune accounts in the United States Midwest. Sam joined Cyberdesic in December 1996 - June 1998 as Director of Operations, an interactive Web firm and consultancy specializing in Internet connectivity and Internet enabling business processes. Sam served in the United States Marine Corps from 1988-1992 as an Infantryman, Small Infantry Unit and had tours of Duty: Kuwait, Iraq, and Japan. Sam holds a B.A. in Social Science from Eastern Illinois University, 1996. Accenture is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under symbol "ACN".

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Dale Flanders has joined Accenture Procurement Solutions, the leading provider of outsourced procurement solutions as Global Category Director for MRO. Dales is a highly experienced Global Supply Chain Executive who has demonstrated the ability to lead diverse teams of professionals to new levels of success in a variety of manufacturing industries. Strong technical and business qualifications with an impressive track record of 12 years of hands-on experience in strategic commodity planning, global team development, indirect/non-product sourcing, low cost country sourcing, e-procurement, supply chain process reengineering, and lean supply chain implementation. Dale joins Accenture from Dresser-Rand where he was director of strategic commodity management, responsible for developing and executing all direct material strategies on a global basis for Dresser-Rand Company, a $1.5 billion sales rotating equipment manufacturer with nine manufacturing operations in five countries. Dale has also held roles in direct and indirect sourcing, supply chain management, corporate purchasing, commodity management and engineering. Dale holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Vermont, Burlington.

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Accenture Ltd, a leading management consulting, technology services and outsourcing organization has hired Craig Tobin as Senior Executive of their New Businesses Unit. Tobin, a GE alumnus, came to Accenture following his experience as Executive Vice President of Sales, NewRoads. Prior, he served at IBM Global Services as a result of their acquisition of Equitant, a global outsourcing company specializing in order to cash processes. At Equitant, Tobin was Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing leading all of the company's sales, alliances and account management. He led new contracts with Cisco, Visteon, Dun & Bradstreet, ABB & Hospira, resulting in the transformation of their Order to Cash operations resulting in significant working capital and profit leakage improvements for these market leaders. Tobin also held key executive positions as a Regional CEO for Oxford Health Plan and VP of Business Development for TeleTech. Along with his impressive sales and business development background, Tobin has successfully built and led back office operations on a global scale. At GE, he built a strong track record in Operations leadership after completing its Manufacturing Management Program. Tobin has spent the past nine years leading large scale outsourcing contracts for Global 1000 companies resulting in long term agreements with GE Capital, Citibank, Allstate, Dun & Bradstreet and Visteon with contract values in excess of $500 million. Tobin holds a BA in Industrial Engineering from Northeastern University. Accenture is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker ACN.

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Mark Ramirez joined Accenture Ltd. as a Senior Executive in Application Outsourcing. Accenture is a management consulting, technology services and outsourcing organization. Prior to Accenture, Mark held roles of increasing responsibility at Perot. In his most recent role, Mark led large deal pursuits working with offshore teams, sales, business development executives, solutions architects, finance and engineering. In 2005, Mark established the application sales strategy for Perot as Managing Director of Strategic Application Soltuions. In 1996, Mark Ramirez became a Founder of HCL Perot Systems (HPS). HPS, a 50/50 joint venture between HCL Technologies of India and Perot, grew to more than $150M in revenue. In 2003, when Perot acquired the business in its entirety, Mark was serving as President of the US business with full P&L responsibility. Prior to founding HPS, Mark served as the Regional Vice President, Latin America, for Hogan Systems and also as Vice President of Bank Vision International. Mark holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Texas Tech University. Accenture is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker ACN.

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Accenture, a management consulting, technology services and outsourcing organization, hired Troy Cromwell as Director of Client Sales for Accenture Learning. Previously, Troy was the leader of TeleTech's government solutions business. Troy grew this private LLC from $13M to $79M and expanded it from two to four continents over the past three years. In this role, he was responsible for full P&L, process, compliance and BPO. Prior to TeleTech, Troy worked in two startups, one being XO from 2000-20003, where he launched national accounts and won all the TSA work and EPP work. He joined the startups after very good runs at Ameritech, as GM middle-market. Troy began his career at MCI, where he most recently held the position of Regional Branch Manager, with overall management responsibility for six Mid-Atlantic States and New York for the State Government and University Systems Division. He graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with BS in Education and Business Minor, and later received an MBA in Finance and Marketing from Penn State. Accenture is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol A C N

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Accenture Procurement Solutions has an industrialized global sourcing-to-pay capability and global delivery model, which leverages cost-effective locations and allows it to provide scaleable sourcing and category management, transaction services and customer service capabilities to client operations in more than 30 countries. Accenture is pleased to announce that Gregory Spray has joined as the Executive Director of Procurement Strategy for APS. Spray co-founded Alliente in February 2000 where he served as chief executive officer and was responsible for leading the successful delivery of services to Alliente clients. His vision helped formulate Alliente’s strategy and business model for procurement. Prior to Alliente, Spray worked for Hewlett-Packard Company in a variety of senior leadership roles. He was the operations procurement director for HP, where he managed worldwide procurement functions and over 500 employees to align non-production purchases across countries and business divisions. Working directly for HP's chief financial officer, Spray also led a year-long project to re-examine and reduce HP's total infrastructure costs by several hundred million dollars.

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Scott Mitchell has been named Vice President of Process Improvement for Accenture Finance & Accounting Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). Accentures F&A BPO capability provides a clear path to achieve high-performance finance operations. Prior to joining Accenture, Mitchell held the position of Senior Vice President of Business Improvement for First Data Corporation and was responsible for business development improvements worldwide. He also held the role of VP of Process Improvement, responsible for leading the global implementation of process improvement and change acceleration of Six Sigma. Prior to FDC, Mitchell worked as the Director of Operations and Six Sigma for Maytag and as a Business Unit Leader and Manager of Operational Excellence with Allied Signal. He also spent six years with Textron. Scott started his career with the US Air Force and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Southern Illinois University.

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Jeff Osborne joined Accenture as Executive Vice President of Operational Excellence. Osborne comes to Accenture from Honeywell where he was most recently a key leader in its Aerospace business. Osborne also held roles in Honeywell's Avionics business, the Engines, Systems and Services business and the Aerospace Headquarters group. Throughout his career he held positions in engineering, customer and product support, operations, program management and Six Sigma. His program management roles have supported customer programs, new product development programs and process initiatives such as Honeywell Quality Value which included five years as a Honeywell HQV/Malcolm Baldrige examiner. He was promoted to Director of Aerospace Programs in 2000, and was responsible for a variety of merger integration and special projects for the CEO of Aerospace. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University.

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