2006
PA Consulting Group strengthens US leadership team through promotions, new hires
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17 January 2006
PA Consulting Group announced recently that it has bolstered its US management team through the promotion of management group member Chris Steel and the elections of Peter Siggins, Nick Owen, and Mike Hormell to the firm’s management group. The firm has also announced the hiring of pharmaceutical and biomedical veteran Blair Hough.
Chris Steel, who has been promoted to a senior membership position within PA’s management group, joined PA in London in July 1999. Mr. Steel transferred to Cambridge, MA in January 2001 and leads PA's Information Systems Implementation practice in the US. He has led many significant client engagements since joining PA, including the design and planning of a major shared services initiative at a leading pharmaceutical company, the outsourcing of learning production at a leading pharmaceutical company, the development of a Physical Network Inventory strategy for a leading European telecommunications firm, and the strategic assessment of an outsourced call center for a leading pharmaceutical company.
Peter Siggins has been promoted to the management group, as a member of the IT Infrastructure practice based in Washington, DC, specializing in telecommunications. He is a leader in the field of program management and has successfully delivered major strategic initiatives including complex business infrastructure developments, outsourcing programs, digital and 3G communications, product and service development initiatives, network operations, program rescue, and disaster recovery planning. Mr. Siggins recently led a team engaged by the top level of a major wireless carrier to develop and implement a single operating ‘blueprint’ for network engineering and operations that support subscriber growth and improvement in operational reliability and customer satisfaction.
Nick Owen has been promoted to the management group, also as a member of the IT Infrastructure practice, based out of the firm’s Los Angeles office. Mr. Owen joined PA in 1996 as a member of the Project Management practice in the UK. He has extensive experience in IT Strategy, Service Management and IT Program Management, with a specific focus on the Energy sector. Over the past year Mr. Owen has led a number of engagements that have supported organizations with the implementation of service management; this has included evaluating benefits realization from service management implementation, and the development of a full service catalog for a media and entertainment organization. Within the energy sector Nick has directly supported the strategy, requirements definition, selection and implementation of energy trading and risk management systems, and has supported a major Cailfornia utility on the upgrade strategy for a number of their major IT systems.
Mike Hormell has been promoted to the management group as a member of the Global Energy Practice, based in Denver. He has worked primarily in the areas of strategic repositioning, risk management, asset valuation and retail business launch in the energy industry for the past 12 years. Mr. Hormell has managed several complex engagements across these areas with the most recent focused on major restructuring efforts in the merchant sector. As part of these projects, he has coordinated comprehensive valuation efforts for large domestic and international portfolios. These valuation efforts have centered on the physical and contractual assets of energy merchants as well as mid-stream construction projects, secured project debt analysis, and assessment of disposition / roll-off strategies.
The firm has also added Blair Hough as a member of its management group in the firm’s Process and Product Engineering practice, based out of Princeton, NJ. Mr. Hough has over 25 years experience as a Business Development Manager, Project Engineer, Engineering Supervisor in a wide range of technologies from nuclear submarines, to pharmaceutical and biomedical systems and products. Prior to joining PA, Mr. Hough served as business manager for pharmaceutical and biomedical technologies with Foster-Miller, where he was responsible for helping establish the firm as a major player in the pharmaceutical and biomedical fields through the award of $50M plus and $16M plus in commercial and government contracts for subjects such as laboratory automation, new pharmaceutical instrumentation, artificial hearts, instrumented treadmills, fiber-optic pressure sensors, orthopedic bone lengthening devices, implantable compliance chambers, intravascular ultrasound catheter tracking systems and pediatric feeding system.
For more information, please contact:
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| Devon Jaffier |
| PA Consulting Group |
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Notes to editors
About PA Consulting Group
PA Consulting Group is a leading management, systems and technology consulting firm. Operating worldwide in more than 35 countries, PA draws on the knowledge and experience of 3,000 people, whose skills extend from the initial generation of ideas, insights and solutions all the way through to detailed implementation.
From the development of innovative strategies and solutions right through to their successful delivery, all of our work and support is based on deep sector insight and expertise. We work across the private and public sectors, with particular strengths in financial services, energy, life sciences & healthcare, government & public services, manufacturing and telecommunications. We help our clients to design optimum strategies for growth, deliver effective IT that improves business performance, mobilise human resources, deliver complex programmes and major business transformations, and develop breakthrough products and processes through our unique applied technology capability.
As an employee-owned company, with no audit arm nor exclusive alliances with third-party vendors or service providers, we are answerable to ourselves and our clients only. This independence means the advice we give to clients, and the work we deliver, is unencumbered by any considerations other than what is best for our clients’ business.
PA’s independent, benefits-driven approach is founded on our strength in innovation, our responsiveness to our clients’ needs, and our unyielding focus on delivery:
Innovation. Innovation comes in a variety of forms - in how customers' needs are identified and satisfied, in business models, in motivating and aligning staff, in the use of technology, and many more. PA has an unsurpassed track record in innovation, from developing pharmaceutical anti-counterfeiting measures and wireless technologies, to helping launch an innovative online bank, to development work that is helping alleviate poverty and boost the economies of developing countries.
Responsiveness. We recognise that each client and each problem has its own challenges and issues. Our solutions are therefore tailored to our clients’ specific circumstances, drawing on the deep industry insight of our consultants. Our relationships with clients are characterised by respect, flexibility and collaboration, and we pride ourselves on the speed of our response and the dedication of our people.
Delivery. At PA, delivering client value is ingrained in our culture. We focus on detailed implementation, with a renowned track record of delivering innovative solutions that achieve lasting change. At PA, we see projects right through to the finishing line - and beyond - delivering significant and measurable value to our clients.
PA: Innovation. Responsiveness. Delivery.
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