ACS, FAO, Outsourcing, Leadership

ACS Appoints New FAO Lead

31 Oct 2007 | (News)

Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (NYSE: ACS) has appointed Ron Gillette senior managing director, finance and accounting (F&A), to lead and transform its global F&A outsourcing (FAO) business. His focus will be on standardizing the company's F&A processes and management to enable rapid growth in the expanding FAO market. He reports to Ann Vezina, president of the company's Commercial Solutions Group.

"F&A outsourcing continues to grow, particularly in Europe, and taking advantage of these emerging opportunities will be an important part of our growth strategy," Vezina said. "Ron has an exceptional blend of operations, sales, and general management expertise and more than 18 years of global IT and business process outsourcing experience. I look forward to working with him to provide the innovative services and solutions our clients need as we pursue long-term strategic growth and success."

Prior to joining ACS, Gillette was a senior partner with Accenture, responsible for growing their global business process outsourcing (BPO), including F&A and procurement outsourcing. Before that, he was a managing partner at Deloitte Consulting, where he built and led that company's global IT outsourcing, creating a network of 21 delivery centers that provide applications and BPO services. He was also a partner at Ernst & Young, spearheading their outsourcing efforts with a focus on technology, business process, and applications, and served as managing director for EDS in Russia and Eastern Europe.

Gillette said, "ACS has a number of innovations and advantages that separate us from our competition in the F&A space, including a global delivery model, proprietary software and technology, and an exceptional team of experienced professionals dedicated to client service. We have the controls and processes in place to manage our clients' F&A work as well or better and at a lower cost, and I am excited about leveraging our innovations and expertise to grow our F&A business in markets and industries across the world."

Gillette has a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, and is also a graduate of the U.S. Army Command & Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He holds an MBA degree from Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia.

ACS, a global FORTUNE 500 company with more than 60,000 people supporting client operations reaching more than 100 countries, provides business process outsourcing and information technology solutions to world-class commercial and government clients. The company's Class A common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "ACS." ACS makes technology work. Visit ACS on the Internet at http://www.acs-inc.com.

SOURCE Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.

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"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding Affiliated Computer Services' business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report or Form 10-K for the most recently ended fiscal year.

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