EquaTerra's Brian Walker Named as Co-chair of the IAOP Cloud Chapter   View a print-friendly version Houston (September 21, 2010) – EquaTerra today announced that Brian Walker, EquaTerra Managing Director, IT Consulting Services, was named as a Co-chair of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP®) Cloud Computing Chapter. The Cloud Computing Chapter’s goals are to help its members to understand the potential impact of cloud computing; explore how cloud computing can enhance or develop new sources of business benefits from outsourcing; and develop, influence and disseminate best practices on cloud computing to the IAOP membership. “We are seeing so much confusion among our clients wondering how to evaluate cloud, the evolving capabilities of the provider market and defining realistic expectations on how to use the cloud model in their business,” said Walker. “There is a lot of noise in this burgeoning market, and it is my hope that by serving on this board we can help clients break through the hype and focus on realistic opportunities for the greatest value.” During his 25 year career, Walker has experience managing large, global organizations across all sides of the IT and sourcing industries, having worked as a client, a supplier and a consultant. This gives him a uniquely pragmatic perspective in advising clients on their toughest IT challenges—in or out of the cloud. “Brian brings passion and insight to everything he undertakes,” said Peter Iannone, EquaTerra's Executive Director for the Americas. “This, combined with his extensive, real-world IT service delivery experience, will help bring the cloud down to earth.” About EquaTerra EquaTerra sourcing advisors help clients achieve sustainable value in their IT and business processes. Our advisors average more than 20 years of industry experience and have supported more than 2,000 transformation and outsourcing projects across more than 60 countries. Supporting clients throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, we have deep functional knowledge in Finance and Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Real Estate & Facilities Management and other critical business processes. EquaTerra helps clients achieve significant cost savings and process improvement with internal transformation, shared services and outsourcing solutions. For more information, please contact Lee Ann Moore at +1 713.669.9292; www.equaterra.com. North American Media Contact: Kim Messerschmitt Director of Marketing, North America +1 972 987 1686 mailto:kim.messerschmitt@equaterra.com About IAOP® The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals™ (IAOP®) is the global, standard-setting organization and advocate for the outsourcing profession. With 40,000 customer, advisor and provider members worldwide, IAOP helps companies increase their outsourcing success rate, improve their outsourcing ROI, and expand the opportunities for outsourcing across their businesses. To learn more, visit www.outsourcingprofessional.org.