LOC Consulting strengthens management board with two key appointments
London, UK 12 December 2011 – LOC Consulting, the proven specialist in successful project healthchecks, recovery and delivery, has announced two key appointments to its management board. Alan Howarth joins as Non Executive Director, responsible for supporting strategy and business development, and Karen Latham as Associate Director, focussed on business development within the financial services sector.
For the past ten years, Alan Howarth has been managing a portfolio of Non Executive appointments, including being Chairman of fully-listed companies, AIM-listed and private organisations in theUK, US andFar East. He also has nearly two decades of experience at Ernst & Young, during which time he became a founding partner of the E&Y Management Consulting practice in theUK. Alan will be responsible for supporting LOC Consulting’s business development pipeline, which includes supporting its free online healthcheck tool that provides users with a high-level status assessment of IT-led business change programmes.
Karen Latham joins LOC Consulting with more than 20 years’ experience in developing and managing high-performance delivery teams, particularly in the investment banking and oil industries. Having previously worked for Lehman Brothers, Deutsche Bank and Svenska Handelsbanken, Karen’s responsibilities at LOC are concentrated on business development within the financial services sector.
“I am delighted to welcome Alan and Karen to the LOC team,” said Peter Osborne, Managing Director, LOC Consulting. “Both bring with them rich experience that will benefit our growing business and with such well-developed skills and industry experience they will play a key role in ensuring LOC Consulting maintains its place at the heart of the project management and consulting industries.”
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About LOC Consulting
LOC Consulting is a specialist management consultancy that partners with its clients to deliver complex business change and IT projects and programmes. Since 2005, we have worked with a number of global and niche organisations across a wealth of disciplines to achieve sustainable, measurable business benefit. We deploy dynamic and innovative consultants who specialise in programme healthcheck, recovery and delivery, drawing on a wealth of proven experience and leading practice methodologies to enhance clients’ business delivery. Our capabilities span the entire project delivery lifecycle – from the initial shaping of ideas through delivery and implementation. Our founding values are rigidly deployed on every assignment and this focus on quality has resulted in LOC being ranked the 40th fastest growing private company in the UKby the Sunday Times and is reflected in our client references. For more information please visit: www.locconsulting.co.uk
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