Ginni Rometty Presented Carl S. Sloane Award for Excellence in Management Consulting

Ginni Rometty Presented Carl S. Sloane Award for Excellence in Management Consulting

The Association of Management Consulting Firms (AMCF) has conferred its prestigious Carl S. Sloane Award for Excellence in Management Consulting on Virginia (Ginni) Rometty, the Senior Vice President, IBM Global Business Services (NYSE: IBM). The award was presented during the annual awards banquet on December 7 during the AMCF’s Annual Meeting which was held at The Harvard Club of New York between December 6 -8, 2006.

Awarded annually by the AMCF, the Carl S. Sloane Award for Excellence in Management Consulting is bestowed upon a professional who has contributed substantially to the development of the consulting profession through leadership, the development of intellectual capital and innovation. “A true champion of consulting, innovation, and delivering value-added service, Ginni Rometty embodies what it means to be a recipient of the prestigious Sloane Award,” said Peter Brown, Vice-Chairman of Kurt Salmon Associates and the 2006 Chairman of AMCF.

Ms. Rometty has managed IBM’s consulting operations since 2002, following the acquisition of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting. In that time, IBM has established itself as the world leader across a wide range of consulting practice areas and markets, both as an industry expert and as an engineer of innovative business models. In addition, consulting services have become a major component of IBM’s globally integrated capabilities with significant investments worldwide in new consulting skills and methodologies.

“On behalf of IBM and all of our company’s consulting professionals, it is an honor to receive this prestigious recognition of IBM’s role in the management consulting industry today,” said Ginni Rometty. “I thank the AMCF selection committee for recognizing this amazing team’s contributions to the success of our clients around the world, and am proud that we’re able to join the exclusive group of previous Sloane Award recipients who have done so much to advance the management consulting profession.”

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