New Zealand Association of Consulting Engineers Taps BST Global Executive to Speak; Javier Baldor to Speak on Performance Management to Consulting Engineering Organization.

TAMPA, Fla. -- Javier Baldor of BST Global will be a featured speaker at the Annual Conference of the Association of Consulting Engineers, New Zealand (ACENZ). Baldor, executive vice president with BST Global, will address conference attendees on "Business Performance Management." The conference, "Kiss Goodbye to Commodity Engineering: Leadership Challenges & Opportunities for the 21st Century," is slated for Aug. 11-14 at the Grand Tiara Hotel, Rotorua.

Baldor has been a principal at BST Global for the past 15 years. He is the founder and director of the international BST IT FORUM, the industry's largest global symposium on IT issues and solutions for design, engineering, environmental consulting and construction organizations. Baldor also is recognized for spearheading a strategic project in partnership with the Construction Industry Round Table (CIRT) to develop the industry's most comprehensive Information Technology Research Survey. In addition, Baldor was instrumental in partnering with the Environmental Financial Consulting Group, Inc. (EFCG) in the development of the EFCG CEO IT Survey. His organizational affiliations include a sustaining membership with the Professional Services Management Association.

"We look forward to the thoughts on leadership Javier will bring to the conference," said ACENZ CEO Mike Connolly. "We had good reports from his address at the international conference last year and he is an ideal speaker for this audience."

"The way a business performs is critical to its health and profitability," Baldor said. "Business performance is key to winning business - and in keeping that business. By better managing their business performance, companies are able to confront difficult issues -- such as data overload, disparate information systems and increasing client expectations -- with the confidence that they will excel and be competitive."

BST Global serves project driven organizations needing to integrate project management, client relationship management, billing, accounting and employee time and expense tracking as well as gain valuable enterprise insight through analysis capabilities. The company's flagship product is BST Enterprise, a portal-based solution that delivers relevant, real-time, focused information to the user. BST Enterprise includes enterprise resource planning, client relationship management, enterprise project management, and business intelligence. Leveraging the industry's only 100% Microsoft .NET solution, BST Enterprise is robust and scalable for larger organizations - end results for users include top line growth, improved cash flow and increased profitability.

About BST Global

BST Global is the leading global provider of enterprise business performance management solutions for project driven professional services organizations. Solution capabilities span business intelligence, client relationship management, enterprise project management and enterprise resource planning. The privately held BST group of companies and alliance partners is a global organization with a presence in America, Europe, Australia and Africa. Today, over 75,000 end users and more than 100 of the top 500 ranked Engineering New Record (ENR) Design firms worldwide rely on BST Global's innovative solutions to manage projects, resources, finances and client relationships across six continents and 37 countries.

Founded in 1971, BST Global is headquartered in Tampa, FL. Additional information can be obtained by contacting BST Global at 1-813-886-3300 (international) or 1-800-726-3300 or via the web at http://www.bstglobal.com.

BST Global and BST Enterprise are registered service and/or trademarks of BST Consultants Inc. All other products or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.

About ACENZ

The Association of Consulting Engineers New Zealand is the professional business association for consulting engineers in New Zealand. Consulting engineers are qualified professionals who offer clients independent advice and a range of technical services on anything from building a driveway through to major international projects. Members are drawn from a wide range of disciplines, including civil engineering, structural, building services, industrial and electrical processes and specialists. ACENZ currently represents 175 firms employing over 7,000 staff throughout New Zealand. Many of these firms have overseas offices and other linkages with international companies. In any one year ACENZ members undertake tens of thousands of projects, developing or assisting in the creation of over $7 billion of assets in New Zealand and overseas.