Dallas, Texas (November 15, 2004) - Trowbridge Group (TG), the premier global Sourcing Advisory Firm founded to assist companies in navigating the complete sourcing lifecycle, today announced the addition of three new, sourcing solution experts. Outsourcing industry experts Pete Roman, Larry Gaulin, and Al Kruml bring further depth to the TG team. Their diverse backgrounds and years of experience serve to expand the resources and capabilities of the Trowbridge Group.

Pete Roman is a highly experienced executive with over twenty years of expertise within a Big Five consulting firm. He has worked extensively within Communications, Transportation, and Health Services organizations utilizing his broad business background and deep operational and delivery skills. His expert leadership includes general management, leading organizations and architecting Information Technology and Business Process outsourcing solutions.

Prior to joining the Trowbridge Group, Pete was a Senior Principal at CGI-AMS, one of the largest independent IT and BPO companies in the world with 25,000 professionals and $3 billion in revenue. Key accomplishments include streamlining a large telecommunications company by leading a team through the development of a business process outsourcing and system integration proposal where the client achieved a net cost savings of $50 million over a five-year contract.

Before CGI-AMS, Pete, as an Associate Partner at Accenture, held various leadership roles including: Solution Architect, where he negotiated client contract provisions for a five-year, $400 million call center contract involving over 1000 existing positions; Service Operations Director responsible for P&L for 16 contracts in North American products companies, with annual revenues of $150 million; Operations Delivery Executive for a ten-year, $850 million IT outsourcing contract with Ryder, Inc.; and Transition Leadership, where he led the planning and implementation to transition 300 Accenture HR resources to a joint venture with British Telecom providing Human Resources outsourcing services in the Business Processing Outsourcing marketplace.

Larry Gaulin has nearly two decades of successful management and delivery experience with information technology services in both established and entrepreneurial organizations. Before joining Trowbridge Group, he was a Senior Account Manager with Ernst & Young’s Global Operate outsourcing services team. As one of the founding members of the new outsourcing services line, his strategic project management skills were a significant contribution in growing the practice to more than $1 billion in yearly total contract sales and over $400 million in annual revenue in seven years. His major contributions included: on-site Account Manager for a BPO Joint Venture located in Hong Kong for a major retail company, leading the large scale due diligence effort for a $1.2 billion transaction with one of the largest power generators in North America, and lead Account Executive responsible for management of a $24 million long-term outsourcing deal with a food additives company.

Prior to Ernst & Young, Larry worked at EDS where he began his career in Operations Support, excelling through the technical and project lead ranks to Account Management. He gained extensive experience with EDS in large-scale project management during his 12-year tenure with expansive technical experience from multiple roles including programming, systems administration, and implementation of mid-range computer systems.

Al Kruml joins the Trowbridge Group with leadership experience that covers over 13 years as an IT executive within the planning, and delivery of effective IT solutions. He has worked in diverse business environments, including Fortune 200 corporations, Big 4 consulting and start-ups. He led the outsourcing of customer service and directed the efforts to improve internal controls for AirGate PCS, a Sprint PCS affiliate, providing wireless services under the Sprint Brand in the Carolinas and Eastern Georgia with 370,000 customers.

Prior to AirGate, Al managed key IT engagements for Winbourne & Costas, Inc. a Washington D.C. based management consulting firm focused on E-government solutions. His key accomplishments include the creation of an Emergency Operations Plan for the City of Philadelphia and Washington D.C.’s WASA, as well as the design of a command center for the DC Emergency Management Agency.

Before Winbourne & Costas, Inc., Al was the CIO of Landmark Graphics, global Integrated Software and Consulting Services Company acquired by Halliburton in 1996. He directed all aspects of business IT strategy, planning, and operations for the worldwide company as it grew from $100M to $500M.

As a Senior Manager at Ernst & Young, Al directed the pursuit, oversight and execution of IT consulting services. His key engagements included managing a development team to implement strategic IT applications for a major Chicago bank, and managing the project to outsource the helpdesk/desktop support services for a major airline reservation company with over 10,000 travel agency customers.

Trowbridge Group
The Trowbridge Group provides strategic sourcing advice and deep tactical experience from some of the largest BPO and IT contracts in the Americas, Europe and Asia, with a total contract value of over $40 billion. As independent advisors, innovative business solution experts and experienced global BPO and IT negotiators, we take the art and science of creative deal structuring and client-vendor alignment to new heights. Whether your solution demands Shared Services, Traditional Contract or Joint Venture, these are specific questions that are uniquely answered by TG everyday. We assist organizations around the world in navigating the sourcing lifecycle, and our clients are leading their organizations into the future, today.

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