| Since establishment in 1996, VIP has worked hard to create a Leadership Team with world-class experience and backgrounds from global companies such as Accenture, American Management Systems, Bearing Point, Deloitte Consulting, EDS, GE Capital Consulting, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Price Waterhouse, SAIC, Unisys, as well as careers within the public sector. VIP is proud to introduce its Leadership Team.
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Jonna Ward, Chief Executive Officer/President
Jonna founded VIP in 1996 by leveraging her expertise and defining a clear vision to provide superior service for her customers. Through her strategic, operational, and financial leadership, Jonna enabled VIP to grow from a company with one employee (herself) to a national consulting firm with a significant client base and backlog of work through 2010. Jonna is experienced in providing all aspects of systems consulting to some of the largest entities in the United States. Prior to VIP, Jonna held key management positions for Accenture/Andersen Consulting, where she focused on implementing mega-sized systems to increase revenue and improve efficiencies. She is well known in California for her active participation in government reform and procurement reform efforts. |
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Karen Davis, Chief Financial Officer
Karen has served as our Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Shared Services since October 2007. Her expertise includes debt and equity capital raising activities, financial planning and analysis, SEC reporting, M&A, investor relations, corporate governance and administrative management. Prior to joining VIP, Karen served in senior financial positions, including Chief Financial Officer, with a number of public companies following ten years in accounting and auditing with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Karen was licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in California in 1983. |
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Zane Edwards, Executive Vice President
Zane has over 20 years of sales and business development experience of which the last 7 years are concentrated in building, managing, and maintaining MyITgroup Sales Organization. In this role of EVP of Sales Zane is responsible for the overall leadership of MyITgroup SAP Services Sales. Under Zane's leadership, Sales delivers a consistent, integrated and responsive customer experience through a unified sales and services organization. Prior to VIP, Zane served as Vice President of ERP Professional Services Sales and Delivery at a large application service provider. |
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Vince Juaristi, Executive Vice President
Vince brings a diversity of experience in working with and for federal, state, and local government agencies. With a Masters degree in Public Policy from Harvard University, he provided policy advice at the highest levels of a state’s government, including welfare reform, public education, post-secondary education, health care programs, and information technology. Coupled with his VIP duties, Vince accepted a nomination from President George W. Bush in December 2005 to be a Board Member for the Corporation for National and Community Service. Vince was confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate in May 2006. Since then, he has helped oversee several national programs including AmeriCorps, NCCC, Learn and Serve America, SeniorCorps, and VISTA. He has assisted with reconstruction efforts in the Gulf after Hurricane’s Katrina and Rita. |
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David M. Perroni, Executive Vice President
David has over 18 years experience in the information technology industry with an emphasis in ERP, specifically with SAP where he has spent the last 10 years of his career supporting the North American SAP professional services and hosting markets. Prior to VIP, David was a Partner with KPMG Consulting where he was assigned to the KPMG/ Qwest Communications joint venture and participated in the building of the ERP Hosting and Professionals Services business model. |
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David J. Rowe, Executive Vice President
Dave has over 17 years experience in the information technology industry with emphasis in system development and a deep expertise in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. Dave is responsible for Sales, Delivery and Operations for the National Commercial Solutions Team. Prior to VIP, Dave was one of the founders of Cornerstone Consulting which was acquired by VIP in 2005. |
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Paul Somerville, Chief Learning Officer
Paul has over 20 years experience designing and implementing industry-leading human capital management, enterprise learning, and performance management solutions for organizations of all sizes in both the public and commercial sectors. As VIP’s Chief Learning Officer, Paul is responsible for delivering HCM solutions using VIP’s Meridian software products that blend robust technology, a fully featured competency modeling suite, and a powerful reporting engine to quantify success and measure ROI. Prior to joining VIP, Paul co-founded Meridian Knowledge Solutions in 1997 and served as President and CEO until 2006. Prior to forming Meridian, Mr. Somerville was the Program Manager for the Training Division of Universal Systems, Inc. (now a part of Northrop Grumman’s federal enterprise solutions business unit). |
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