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EQUATERRA ADDS SHARED SERVICES, G&A PROCESS TRANSFORMATION, SOURCING RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT, HR, F&A AND PROCUREMENT OUTSOURCING EXPERTS TO TEAM |
HOUSTON (January 13, 2004) —EquaTerra, the world’s first advisory firm to deliver complete Sourcing Lifecycle Management (SLM)™ services to outsourcing buyers, today announced the addition of four new executives to its team. The new hires add significant breadth and depth to EquaTerra’s expert capabilities in shared services, general & administrative process transformation, sourcing relationship management, HR, finance & accounting and procurement outsourcing. Mark Toon, EquaTerra’s CEO, said, “Since its inception, EquaTerra has been building a powerhouse of internal expertise that spans virtually all areas of insourcing and outsourcing. These new executives enable us to deliver ever increasing value to our clients throughout the entire outsourcing lifecycle.” |
Bob Cecil Duie Block possess more than fifteen years of experience in IT outsourcing, including relationship management, process improvement, application development and flexible staffing. Before joining EquaTerra, Duie was a Solution Executive in Gartner Group’s Strategic Sourcing Practice. In that role, Duie provided clients with guidance in IT outsourcing strategy, vendor evaluation and relationship management. Specializing in Outsourcing Relationship Management, Duie led multiple improvement initiatives for Gartner clients and their service providers, leveraging a structured process focused on co-management principals. Responsibilities included designing and scoping solutions, interviewing executives, conducting collaborative workshops and providing relationship management subject matter expertise. These engagements yielded streamlined governance and management processes, simplified contracts and value-based service levels. Jeff Collins Jeff’s experience covers a broad range of areas including process reengineering, performance management systems design, organization & governance design, shared service implementations, business analysis and modeling, and senior leadership and teamwork development. Before joining EquaTerra, he was a service delivery executive for Exult, with overall responsibility for the service delivery function for BP. He joined Exult as a result of its acquisition of Gunn Partners, where Jeff was a partner and original member, and led a wide variety of shared services, leadership and process redesign programs for clients around the world. Lee Ann Moore . |
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About EquaTerra |
| Headquartered in Houston, Texas, EquaTerra, is the first Sourcing Lifecycle Management™ company, EquaTerra focuses solely on providing global corporations with advisory and relationship management services for their business support processes. We guide them through any stage of their business process lifecycle as they leverage multiple outsourced and insourced relationships, and migrate non-core yet critical business processes to lower cost, potentially multi-shore locations. For more information, please contact Lee Ann Moore at 713-669-9292; leeann.moore@equaterra.com; www.equaterra.com. |