Proudfoot Consulting Names Alex D. Krieger VP-Business Development -- Heads Texas Region Serving Mid-Size Businesses.

WEST PALM BEACH, FL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 1999--

Alex D. Krieger, a veteran international consultant, has been named vice president-business development of Proudfoot Consulting and head of its Texas Region, which focuses on serving mid-size businesses and other area clients.

The announcement was made by Robert G. Cara, president of Proudfoot Consulting, a global consulting firm that has created a worldwide reputation for successfully increasing shareholder value in partnership with client organizations for more than 50 years.

"Our mid-size business group continues to grow," said Marc E. Waldeck, Proudfoot Consulting's corporate director of strategic marketing. "Today, more than ever before, the world-class expertise Proudfoot has built helping large, multi-national clients operationalize business strategies is vital to companies of all sizes. Alex Krieger, based in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, has an outstanding record of hands-on success in bringing the complex strategy, organizational, systems and operational elements of client organizations into alignment to attain long-term vision while meeting short-term financial goals," he added.

In his career, Krieger worked for nearly two decades in Singapore, Indonesia and Southeast Asia, half of which was spent with Proudfoot. While serving as Proudfoot's regional vice president from 1987 to 1996, he introduced productivity and quality management concepts to CEOs of major industrial and government organizations. From 1980-87 he was with General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), serving as regional director-Singapore after joining the company in Texas as an international marketing manager. He has held managerial positions with other major international firms including being director, International Division of Bell & Howell (NYSE: BH), and marketing manager, international of Honeywell, Inc. (NYSE: HON). Previously, he was president of International Security Systems and vice president of marketing of Chromalloy American Co., after starting his career with Consolidated Electrodynamics Corp.

A graduate of Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, Krieger is a resident of Fort Worth. He may be reached at (877) PROUDFOOT (877-776-8336) or at [e-mail]

Proudfoot Consulting is a global consulting firm that has created a worldwide reputation for successfully increasing shareholder value in partnership with client organizations for more than 50 years. From its headquarters in West Palm Beach, Florida, Proudfoot Consulting provides Fortune 1000 companies, industry leaders and emerging leaders with hands-on expertise to implement corporate strategy, create a human resources culture of continuous improvement, deliver return-on-investment from IT, and optimize overall business operations. In addition to its broad industry experience, Proudfoot has specialty groups serving the Financial Services, Manufacturing, Cable and Wireless, and Mining and Metals industries. Among its major international clients are: ALLTEL (NYSE: AT), Bank of America (Bank America Corp. NYSE: BAC), GTE MobileNet (GTE Corp., NYSE: GTE), Northern Telecom (NYSE: NT), Siemens AG (DAX: SIEG.F), Sprint (NYSE: FON), Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR), and Yellow Corp. (NASDAQ: YELL).