ASCEND
CONSULTING CELEBRATES FIVE YEARS OF BUSINESS
Boston-based Consultancy Records Record Growth and Sees Significant Adoption of Its Business-Focused Methodology, Catapult
Waltham, Mass – April 17, 2006 - Ascend Consulting, a leading business and IT consultancy and founder of the Catapult™ methodology, has recently celebrated its fifth anniversary in business and concluded it with a number of significant customer wins, revenue growth and personnel hires.
Most recently, Ascend was recognized as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in the Boston area with a near 126 percent revenue growth since 2003. With the most recent year ending with $10.3 million in total revenues, this marks the fifth consecutive year of positive growth for the organization. With its recent success and adoption rate of its Catapult methodology within the financial services and insurance markets, Ascend has positioned itself for continued growth in the future.
“I couldn’t be more proud of the organization over the past five years. What we have accomplished until this point and most recently, in the past year, is a true testament to the employees of this company,” said Karl Pessinis, president and co-founder of Ascend. “Revenue growth and awards are nice, but what jumps out at me is the 80 percent re-engagement we have seen with our customer base. That is what makes me proud of the work this company completes on a regular basis.”
The company has also brought on a number of new employees over the past year, including its new Practice Director of Catapult Services, Rich Highland and Tom Gardner who will serve as Director of Operations. Rich Highland brings 20 years of consulting experience to Ascend. Prior to his appointment, Rich was with Open Pages Software and Akamai Technologies, where he managed consulting teams delivering needs analysis and software implementation services to customers in the US, Europe and Japan. Tom Gardner brings over 12 years of business, IT and consulting experience to Ascend. Prior to joining Ascend, Tom was the information officer for Boston Capital, a real estate investment and financing firm, providing vision and leadership for developing and implementing IT initiatives across the organization.
“Rich and Tom will bring a significant level of business intelligence and overall energy to our existing team here at Ascend,” said Dan MacKinnon, vice president of consulting services and co-founder of Ascend. “As we continue to penetrate the financial services and insurance industries, we are going to look to our team members to know the needs of our customers better than they know themselves and I am confident that Rich and Tom will be doing just this.”
Ascend has designed and developed its core methodology, Catapult, to help enterprise organizations understand their business needs and address them in a timely manner. Based on best practices with a goal of risk reduction and cost savings, Catapult is a unique, full life-cycle solution methodology. It supports a phased and repeatable process, where each phase of the methodology builds upon and extends the work done in previous phases.
About Ascend Consulting:
Ascend is a consulting company that designs, develops, and delivers technology solutions that are directly aligned with its clients’ business goals. Ascend’s deep understanding of both business processes and information technology enables its consultants to successfully translate any business vision into a finished technology solution for competitive advantage.
Ascend’s elite team of experts, relationship-focused engagement model, and unique Catapult methodology allow it to significantly reduce clients’ business risk while optimizing their use of technology for business advantage. Ascend delivers high-quality, best-of-breed, competitive solutions while reducing development time and expense.
Ascend is able to help organizations that have critical, revenue-dependent business initiatives and complex IT infrastructures to understand their problem and address it in a timely and cost-effective manner. Ascend currently serves a number of Fortune 1000 and global clients.
For more information: www.ascendconsult.com
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