Award-Winning Publisher Named Judge for PricewaterhouseCoopers-Michael F. Corbett & Associates' Third Annual Outsourcing World Achievement Awards.

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 19, 2000

Paul Tarricone, Publisher of Facilities Design & Management magazine, has been named a judge for the 2001 Outsourcing World Achievement Awards.

The prestigious awards are co-sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the world's largest professional services organization and provider of business process outsourcing (BPO) services, and Michael F. Corbett & Associates, Ltd., a global authority on outsourcing, to honor academic, business and government leaders around the world for extraordinary achievement and excellence in the outsourcing industry.

Mr. Tarricone joins a panel of distinguished judges, recognized for their own work in the outsourcing industry, to select this year's finalists and winners. As a judge, he will attend the awards ceremony that will take place in February 2001 at the 2001 Outsourcing World Summit in Palm Desert, California.

At a meeting to be held at the University of St. Louis-Missouri, the judges will select two finalists in each of the following four categories: Corporate Providers, Consultants and Analysts; Corporate Users; Government Executives; and Academics. Nominations for the awards are now being accepted and can be completed and submitted via the Internet by visiting www.pwc.global.com/bpo or www.outsourcing-award.com or by contacting Awards Program Director, P.O. Box 3098, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603, tel: [phone]. Nominations must be received by January 1, 2001. Finalists will be guests of honor at the 2001 Outsourcing World Summit where the winner in each category will be announced.

Mr. Tarricone has more than 13 years experience in publishing, specializing in engineering, design, construction, technology, and facilities management. He is publisher of Facilities Design & Management, the leading facilities management magazine for building professionals. Under his leadership, Facilities Design & Management won two awards for editorial excellence and has launched ancillary products, including a newsletter and annual conference on facilities management outsourcing.

Joining Mr. Tarricone as judges are: Dr.Wendell Jones, CEO of GrayHare Partners and former senior IT executive at Compaq; Dr. Mary Lacity, associate professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis who specializes in Information Technology Outsourcing; Steve Savas, professor of Public Policy at Baruch College, City University of New York, and an influential figure in developing government outsourcing policies; Barry Wiegler, managing director of Sourcing Interests Group, an industry consortium of over 100 companies involved in global outsourcing; and Allie Young, chief analyst at Gartner Dataquest.

Michael F. Corbett & Associates, Ltd. (www.CorbettAssociates.com) is globally recognized as a leading authority on outsourcing and e-sourcing and is dedicated to advancing outsourcing as a powerful management discipline. The firm educates thousands of executives annually on these topics through The Outsourcing World Summit Conference Series, Firmbuilder.com (www.Firmbuilder.com), executive symposiums, research and training programs, and direct advice and counsel to executives at many of the world's leading organizations.

The company's president, Michael F. Corbett, also chairs and is executive director of the Outsourcing Research Council, a leading executive forum for knowledge sharing and innovating thinking on outsourcing. The council conducts proprietary research for members into critical management issues around outsourcing and supports outside research and publication at leading business schools.

The Business Process Outsourcing group at PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwcglobal.com/bpo) serves as the Global Back Office(R) for multinational corporations and other large organizations around the world - leveraging and integrating the core process expertise of outsourcing professionals in finance/accounting, applications process, procurement, human resources and real estate process.

In recognition of PricewaterhouseCoopers' successful client relationships, the Outsourcing Journal awarded the BPO group three prestigious Editor's Choice honors - the Most Visionary Relationship Award in 1998 for client work in the U.S., followed by the Best BPO Relationship Award in 1999 and again in 2000 for its work with BP in South America and Europe.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwcglobal.com) is the world's largest professional services organization. Drawing on the knowledge and skills of more than 150,000 people in 150 countries, we help our clients solve complex business problems and measurably enhance their ability to build value, manage risk and improve performance in an Internet-enabled world.

PricewaterhouseCoopers refers to the member firms of the worldwide PricewaterhouseCoopers organization.

For more information about the Business Process Outsourcing group at PricewaterhouseCoopers, please visit the web site www.pwcglobal.com/bpo or use the Internet Keywords "BPO" or "business process outsourcing."