Dan Saint Joins XUMA as New CFO; Former Deloitte & Touche Partner Brings Fortune 100 Operations and M&A Experience to E-Infrastructure and Managed Services Company.Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 27, 2000 XUMA XUMA eXpertensystem UMweltgefaehrlichkeit von Altlasten (www.XUMA.com) announced today that Dan Saint has joined XUMA, the leading e-infrastructure and managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality provider as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. As a former Big 5 Partner and Fortune 100 executive, Saint brings a wealth of financial, operational and organizational learning Organizational learning is an area of knowledge within organizational theory that studies models and theories about the way an organization learns and adapts. In Organizational development (OD), learning is a characteristic of an adaptive organization, i.e. experience to XUMA as the company begins a full roll-out of existing and new hosted solution stack In computing, a solution stack is a set of software subsystems or components needed to deliver a fully functional solution, e.g. a product or service. For example, to develop a web application, the designer needs to use an operating system, web server, database and products across its developing network of channel partners. "XUMA is a dynamic, passionate company that has successfully seized market share from competitors in disproportionate size to its level of financing," said Saint. "Even more impressive is the aggressive yet sound growth strategy currently being executed at XUMA. After my initial meeting with the leaders at XUMA, I was confident in XUMA's business model and believed that I could make a significant impact on shareholder value creation." "Dan Saint is the right person at the right time to take the helm of XUMA's finance and administrative areas," said Joe Cha, Chief Executive Officer of XUMA. "Aside from a resume that overflows with achievements at some of the most prestigious companies and institutions in the world, Dan's personality and experience for balancing fiscal controls with the financial demands required by an aggressively growing company will greatly benefit XUMA." Dan brings a wealth of leadership experience in the areas of finance, operations and organizational learning to XUMA from Deloitte & Touche, Chrysler, Kidder Peabody, and Federal-Mogul. As a Partner with Deloitte & Touche, he started and rapidly grew a professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. practice that devised and implemented systems of financial and operational measurement and control. At Deloitte & Touche, he was the National Leader of Strategic Risk and Control where he served clients including Intel, DaimlerChrysler, Boeing, Dow Chemical, Kmart, Navistar and the World Bank. Dan also served as Director of Mergers & Acquisitions and General Auditor for Federal-Mogul, a Fortune 500 automotive supplier. At Chrysler, Dan was Manager of Corporate Finance where his team raised over $12 billion in public offerings. He also served in other leadership roles in M&A, international finance and operations. Dan has lectured on and published articles related to shareholder value creation (EVA Eva to marry winner of singing contest. [Ger. Opera: Wagner, Meistersinger, Westerman, 225–228] See : Prize 1. Eva - A toy ALGOL-like language used in "Formal Specification of Programming Languages: A Panoramic Primer", F.G. ), lean manufacturing Lean manufacturing is the production of goods using less of everything compared to mass production: less human effort, less manufacturing space, less investment in tools, and less engineering time to develop a new product. , corporate finance, corporate governance Corporate Governance The relationship between all the stakeholders in a company. This includes the shareholders, directors, and management of a company, as defined by the corporate charter, bylaws, formal policy, and rule of law. and organizational learning. He received a BA in International Relations from the University of Pittsburgh and an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration from the University of Detroit. Dan is also a graduate of the International Organization and System Development program of the Institut fur Gestaltorientierte Organisationsberatung and the Gestalt Gestalt (gəshtält`) [Ger.,=form], school of psychology that interprets phenomena as organized wholes rather than as aggregates of distinct parts, maintaining that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Institute of Cleveland. About XUMA Based in San Francisco, CA, XUMA (pronounced zoo'-ma) is an e-infrastructure and managed services provider. XUMA's customers and partners can plug into a cohesive network, hardware, and software hosted solution stack to access over 500 critical e-business features instantly. Through XUMA's suite of e-business products, XUMA CommerceX(TM), XUMA ExchangeX(TM) and XUMA ControlX(TM), XUMA provides e-business functionality, management and maintenance services, and digital marketplace capabilities to companies. XUMA has launched a number of successful e-business sites, including CornerHardware.com, Quokkasports.com, Maxim Integrated Circuits and Paperloop and has successfully deployed more than 80 e-businesses since the company was founded in 1998. For more information about XUMA, please call 415-777-9988 or visit the company's website at www.XUMA.com. For press inquiries, please contact Shira Hirschman at 212-590-9500 or via e-mail at shirschman@excitepr.com. |
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