B2B Workforce, Inc. Names Timothy J. Shearer Chief Executive Officer.ATLANTA -- Atlanta-based B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business Workforce, Inc. announced today that its Principals have named Timothy J. Shearer to serve as the company's Chief Executive Officer effective immediately. Shearer has served as B2B's Vice President, Oracle Practice since March 2006 where he had P & L responsibility for its Oracle Consulting Practice. Prior to joining B2B, he held a number of senior level positions at BearingPoint, Inc. and its predecessor, KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen Consulting, Inc., culminating as Vice President, Commercial Services Solutions. Prior to BearingPoint, he held positions with the consultancy practices of Price Waterhouse, LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol and Coopers & Lybrand, LLP. Previous to entering the consulting space, Shearer held a number of finance, technology and strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. roles with several Fortune 500 companies. Bob Bailey, one of the founding Principals of B2B, said that promoting Shearer from within the company as its CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. is a natural choice. His new role will combine his experience in successfully growing a key element of our business with his demonstrated leadership skills and experience honed from his successful consulting and business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets roles. "Tim has been known to us for many years, both as a client and more recently as a key member of our management team. We are very confident that he has the requisite background to help our organization continue on its steep growth trajectory," continued Bailey. Steve Sutton, also a founding Principal of B2B, and Executive Sponsor of the company's Oracle Practice said that the firm is looking forward to Shearer bringing the same level of energy and success that he demonstrated in leading strong Oracle Practice growth to our entire company. "As our company has grown and has become increasingly sophisticated in the markets and clients we serve, it became apparent that we needed a top executive, with a demonstrated track record, to help us continue the flawless execution of our business plan. Tim has proven his understanding of our business while working closely with me to grow our Oracle Practice over the last nine months," said Sutton. Shearer commented that "B2B's unique value that it brings to its clients, as well as its commitment to quality, and client service drew me in as a client years ago. I am excited to now work closely with Steve, Bob and the rest of the Management Team to continue to grow this company by building on its past success with flexible, unique project augmentation services for current and new clients." About B2B B2B Workforce, Inc. (www.b2bworkforce.com) is a leading provider of project augmentation services to the world's largest Systems Integrators and Fortune 1000 clients. Headquartered in Alpharetta Georgia, B2B has provided high quality technology consultants within the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. , CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ,EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) Refers to various techniques used to share data and business processes in large enterprises. When companies acquire another organization, disparate information systems have to be made to work together. and BI markets for over seven years. B2B has been named one of the Top 50 Fastest Growing Companies by The Atlanta Business Chronicle for 2004 and 2005 as well as having been named to the Catalyst Top 50 Entrepreneurs List in 2004 and 2006. B2B is also a Premier Partner with SAP Americas, Inc, and an Oracle Certified Partner. |
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