
Global Director, Outsourcing at Accenture
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Global Director, Outsourcing at Accenture
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
10+ years of experience as an international corporate development and outsourcing executive, having held jobs in Hong Kong, London, and New York. I have enjoyed working in both successful start-ups and Fortune 500 companies, where I have created and executed:
• Market-entry and go-to-market expansion strategies
• Outsourcing and global sourcing solutions
• Business valuations and financial assessments for venture capital and M&A decisions
• Global alliances and business partnerships
• Multi-channel sales and distribution campaigns
• New technology and service offerings
Corporate development, strategy, team-building, and deal-structuring expertise, particularly in the areas of creating and managing:
• Complex application outsourcing and business process outsourcing arrangements
• New corporate-wide capabilities in the area of efficiently testing software through the use of applied statistics-based techniques
• Global alliances
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Innovative and impactful corporate initiatives
• Sales teams
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ACN; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2001 — Present (7 years 7 months)
Proposed and implemented a new go-to-market strategy to sell outsourcing services using a combination of a new sales force and industrialized sales processes which has been adopted globally by the firm. Currently help manage the sales team and develop, structure, and execute transactions ranging from large, complex, multi-country acquisitions, business alliances, and transformational outsourcing transactions to straightforward IT outsourcing deals. Projects and transactions worked on to date have covered operations in the US, India, China, the UK, Belgium, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, and Venezuela.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)
August 1999 — February 2001 (1 year 7 months)
Carried out all aspects of corporate business development: assessed potential strategic corporate relationships and executed mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, and joint ventures with financial service companies. Regularly participated in board meetings as one of the companys three Executive Directors, along with the companys CEO and CFO and external Directors from Morgan Stanley and Apax.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Capital Markets industry)
June 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 3 months)
Helped launch the innovative company (which won Internet World Asias award for Asias best Consumer Internet Site), and - as many early-stage entreprenuers can relate to - carried out broad responsibilities in general management, corporate business development, market-entry strategy, operations, law, marketing, public relations, and human resources.
(Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; Law Practice industry)
October 1996 — June 1998 (1 year 9 months)
Worked on over 30 transactions that raised over US$3 billion for European and Asian clients. Responsibilities included drafting, transaction management, due diligence, and negotiation support.
JD/MBA, Law (UVa School of Law) and Business (Darden Graduate School of Business), 1992 — 1996
JD/MBA, Finance, Entreprenuership, 1992 — 1996
BSFS, International Economics, 1987 — 1991
I am interested in a diverse range of topics, including - Business-related subjects: software testing, application testing, applied statistics-based testing, orthogonal array testing, OATS, strategic alliances, e-finance, business process and IT outsourcing, bto, bpo, applications outsourcing, trends in financial services, e-finance, trends in offshoring, strategic sourcing, outsourcing advisors, China and India's emergence as economic powers, legal oustourcing, venture capital, VC, TPI, Everest, EquaTerra, Gartner, Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat" Travel: I've traveled to over 40 countries and lived in six. Some of my favorites have been Bhutan, India, Cambodia, Viet Nam, Thailand, China, Taiwan, Ireland, and Costa Rica. Other: Micro-lending charities such as kiva.org, Trickle Up, third world development, tennis, international economics, networking, board of advisors, mentoring entrepreneurs, Chapel Hill, UNC
TIE
Award from Accenture's CEO of Outsourcing (for creating a differentiated capability for our testing practice) the "FY07 Accelerating Outsourcing Award"; Phi Beta Kappa; Magna Cum Laude; Landegger Honors Program in International Business Diplomacy