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EQUATERRA CONTINUES TO ADD RENOWNED SENIOR ADVISORS TO STAFF WITH NEW HIRES FROM OUTSOURCING INDUSTRY LEADERS

HOUSTON (April 29, 2004) —EquaTerra, the world’s first advisory and management services firm to deliver complete Sourcing Lifecycle Management (SLM)™ services to outsourcing buyers,  today announced Mark Hodges, its Chairman and Co-founder, was named HRO Sourcing Consultant and Advisor of the Year 2004.  He was awarded this title by a panel of independent judges at last week’s HRO World conference in New York City.  The experts on the selection committee included:  Karen Beaman, Editor-in-Chief of the IHRIM Journal; Hal Burlingame, Senior Executive Advisor, HR, AT&T Wireless; Larry Janis, Managing Partner of Integrated Search Solutions Group (an executive search firm dedicated to the outsourcing industry); and Andrew Kris, Chairman of the Shared Services and Business Process Outsourcing Association (SBPOA.)

Hodges’ competition included William Bierce of Bierce & Kenerson, J. Ross Docksey from Sonnenschein, John Halvey of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy; Michel Janssen from Everest Group; and Dennis McGuire from TPI.

Said Harry Feinberg, CEO and Chairman of Outsourcing Today LLC , the company that publishes HRO Today Magazine and organizes the HRO World conference and expo, “Although Mark faced formidable competition for the title of HRO Sourcing Consultant and Advisor of the Year 2004, our panel of judges felt he had made the strongest contribution to helping corporations with their outsourcing initiatives throughout the course of his career.” 

Hodges’ credentials in the HRO/BPO space include:  the profitable sale of his BPO research firm, G2R, to Gartner Group in 1999; significant contribution to growing Exult during its early years; helping TPI build its BPO advisory business; and the reinvention of sourcing consulting by changing the business model from a focus on the transaction to a more collaborative, long-term relationship which he calls the Sourcing Lifecycle.  Said Hodges, “I’m extremely honored to have won this award, and I appreciate the judges’ and industry’s recognition.”

Winners in the other categories at the HRO World awards ceremony included:

  • HRO Relationship of the Year 2004:  Government Sector – City of Copenhagen/Accenture HR Services
  • HRO Relationship of the Year 2004:  Retail & Manufacturing Sector – Circuit City/Exult
  • HRO Relationship of the Year 2004:  Financial & Business Services Sector – AT&T/Aon HR Outsourcing
  • HRO Relationship of the Year 2004:  Mid-Market – ComUnity lending/Gevity HR
  • HRO Relationship of the Year 2004:  Multinational – Procter & Gamble/IBM BTO
  • HRO Provider Brand of the Year 2004 -- ADP
  • HRO Buyer Executive of the Year 2004 – Sharon Taylor/Prudential Financial
  • HRO Provider Executive of the Year 2004 – Bo Ewald/Ceridian Corporation
 

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.