Collaborative Consulting Confirms Commitment To Financial Services Practice … – Business Wire (press release)

BURLINGTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Collaborative
Consulting today announced it has recruited three executives with
extensive experience in the financial services industry. Joining
Collaborative’s financial services team will be Gary Jones, who brings a
long history of experience in the wealth management business; Sandeep
Singh, with deep technical and domain experience in financial services;
and Sean Dykhouse, a seasoned business development professional. All
three most recently ran the wealth management practice for eBusinessware
where they delivered IT service offerings to the asset management
industry.

“By adding these three, very talented and experienced individuals,
Collaborative will be gaining incomparable expertise and managed
accounts consulting capability in the financial services field”

Combined with Collaborative Consulting’s recent acquisition of the SMART
Consulting Firm last year, the additions further enhance Collaborative’s
Managed Accounts practice. All three hires bring experience and skills
that advance Collaborative’s financial services offering.

“By adding these three, very talented and experienced individuals,
Collaborative will be gaining incomparable expertise and managed
accounts consulting capability in the financial services field,” said William
Robichaud, President and CEO of Collaborative Consulting.

Jones comes with over 25 years of experience in the Managed Solutions
industry having spent a significant period of time as a part of the
leadership team in Merrill Lynch’s Advisory solutions business. He
currently supports the Money Management Institute (MMI) as a private
consultant in its effort to bring greater efficiency to the managed
solutions industry.

“We are excited to join one of the industry’s strongest IT consulting
firms in financial services and look forward to what we can achieve
together,” said Jones. “This week’s MMI
Annual Convention is the perfect opportunity to introduce our new
team,” he added.

Collaborative’s acquisition of SMART Consulting Firm in July 2012
boosted its expertise in business development, enterprise and project
management in the capital markets industry. That practice is based in
offices at 77 Water Street in Manhattan.

“Collaborative Consulting has made rapid strides in the financial
services industry and Mr. Jones, Mr. Singh, and Mr. Dykhouse will be
valuable assets in expanding our existing systems architecture and
implementation capabilities,” said David Gardner, Senior Vice President
of Collaborative Consulting.

The recruiting of these industry experts comes about a year after
Collaborative broke new ground with its “onshoring” initiative and the
hiring of over 70 new IT specialists, jobs that in the past would have
gone offshore to facilities in places like India and China. The Collaborative
Domestic Solutions Center (CDSC) in Wausau, Wisconsin recently
celebrated its first anniversary focusing on onshore application
development and testing and is on track to hire up to 200 IT experts
within the next year or two.

The announcement today about the firm’s financial services practice
comes only weeks after Collaborative announced a boost to its life
sciences capabilities with the acquisition of the Maxiom
Group. Maxiom provides pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device
and healthcare technology consulting services.

The growth at the CDSC has resulted in significant new job creation at
Collaborative Consulting’s Burlington, MA headquarters.

Collaborative is a leading management and IT consulting services
organization with offices in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and
Texas, dedicated to helping clients achieve business advantage through
the use of technology. The company delivers a full complement of
services across multiple industries with a specific emphasis on
financial services and life sciences. Collaborative’s foundational
service areas are Information Management, Application Development,
Program Management, Software Performance Engineering, and Quality
Assurance. They deliver these services through a combination of
traditional consulting and the Collaborative Domestic Solution
Center providing optimal value to clients. Collaborative was recently
awarded a spot in Software Magazine’s Software 500, a ranking of
the world’s largest software and service providers. Collaborative is
headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.