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BACKGROUND
Collaborative Consulting is a leading business and technology consulting firm that specializes in optimizing its clients’ business and technology capabilities. In a relatively short time, Collaborative has taken a place at the forefront of the professional services marketplace. In fact, Collaborative was named by the Boston Business Journal as one of the top 25 fastest-growing private companies for three consecutive years and Software Magazine ranked Collaborative among the world's foremost software and services providers. Additionally, Collaborative was named to the 2004 Inc. 500 by Inc. Magazine. We are proud of the steady growth we have enjoyed since the company's inception. It is a testament to the unwavering focus on excellence ingrained in our culture. This focus shows up in our development and delivery of business and technology solutions, and in the way we work with clients.
SERVICES
Collaborative has expanded its business knowledge to complement its market-leading technology disciplines and expertise. We combine this powerful blend of competencies with an effective partnership approach, allowing us to understand even the most complex business problems. By first assessing and optimizing an organization's existing technology abilities and business processes, we determine the best solutions and execute flawlessly. Aligning business and technology initiatives enables our clients to achieve superior, cost-effective business solutions.
Our services include:
BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE
Collaborative helps clients to take their vital business strategy and translate it into a meaningful plan that results in tactical, successful new business operations. We pride ourselves in being able to make our clients’ vision a reality, all while balancing priorities, benefits, and investments in a way that makes good sense for their business.
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Our experienced BI practitioners help clients understand their business intelligence opportunities, craft a comprehensive strategy, and deliver viable technology solutions that empower the decision-maker with new business insights.
TECHNOLOGY & ARCHITECTURE
Collaborative enables clients to build successful technology strategies and architectures based on its clients’ business objectives and environment. As both business- and technology-savvy practitioners, we can help clients achieve the most from their technology investments in a fashion that builds success for today while looking towards the future.
DATA INTEGRATION
We enable clients to successfully plan and implement data integration, data quality, and MDM programs, from data strategy through deployment of new data systems and infrastructure. We bring the appetite and skills to dive into the hairiest of data environments to transform chaos and disparity into highly performing, ordered technological foundations.
SOFTWARE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE
Collaborative brings a robust and programmatic approach to assessing, testing, and improving software quality and performance. We work both at the initiative and program level, meaning that we can help clients performance engineer an in-development project, or we can provide sound advice to improve our clients’ in-house quality assurance (QA) and performance engineering (PE) operations.
PROGRAM AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Collaborative helps clients successfully monitor and manage complex projects and initiative portfolios using formal project portfolio management activities and techniques. Whether our clients perform these functions in-house or rely on trusted partners, we bring the expertise to enable superior program and project management capabilities.
COMPANY HISTORY
Since opening for business in January 1999, Collaborative has steadily increased revenues, headcount and profitability. Additionally, the company has continually extended its services to accommodate marketplace demand. This timeline highlights key events in the organization’s history.
2008
April —Appeared on area’s fastest-growing private company list by Boston Business Journal
2007
December—Revenues reach $46 million; headcount 268 employees
November— Named seventh-largest IT consulting firm by Boston Business Journal
2006
December— Revenues reach $42 million; headcount 251 employees
November— Named eighth-largest IT consulting firm by Boston Business Journal
October—Appeared on Software Magazine’s prestigious Software 500 list for fourth consecutive year
2005
December 31— Revenues reach $33.4 million; headcount 205 employees
September 21—Appeared on Software Magazine’s prestigious Software 500 list for third consecutive year
February 25—Named 24 th -fastest-growing private company by Boston Business Journal
2004
December 31— Revenues reach $25.3 million; headcount 163 employees
October 20—Appeared on Inc. Magazine’s Inc. 500 list
September 22—Appeared on Software Magazine’s prestigious Software 500 list for second consecutive year
June—Collaborative partners with Lombardi Software
February 27—Named eighth-fastest-growing private company by Boston Business Journal
January 4—Collaborative celebrates five-year anniversary
2003
December 31—Revenues reach $21.2 million; headcount 145 employees
December—Appeared on Software Magazine’s prestigious Software 500 list
February 28—Named fourth-fastest-growing private company by Boston Business Journal
2002
December 31—Revenues reach $16.4 million; headcount 113 employees
October—Providence office opens
October—Atlanta office opens
February—New York/New Jersey office opens
2001
December 31—Revenues reach $11.5 million; headcount 73 employees
2000
December 31—Revenues reach $5.2 million; headcount 51 employees
1999
December 31—Revenues = $.84 million; headcount 13 employees
January 4—Company founded by William C. Robichaud, Sr.
OFFICE LOCATIONS
Burlington, MA (Headquarters)
70 Blanchard Road, Suite 500
Burlington, MA 01803
tel 781.565.2600
fax 781.565.2700
New York Metro
300 Executive Drive, Suite 180
West Orange, NJ 07052
tel 973.736.4400
fax 973.736.4401
Durham, NC
2530 Meridian Parkway, 3rd Floor
Research Triangle Park
Durham, NC 27713
tel 877.376.9900
fax 919.882.9385
Salem, NH
103 Stiles Road, Suite 201
Salem, NH 03079
tel 603.893.5327
fax 603.893.5649
Providence, RI
One Davol Square, Suite 6
Providence, RI 02903
tel 401.575.2300
fax 401.331.2745
EXECUTIVE TEAM
William C. Robichaud, Sr.
President, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
As founder, president and chief executive officer, Bill is charged with growing the company and establishing it as a premier provider of business and technology services for leading organizations in New England and beyond. In just five years, he has seen the organization he founded grow from a single employee—himself—to a powerhouse with more than 160 employees. Along the way, he has directed profitable expansion into strategic new markets.
Bill has more than 20 years of information systems experience, including substantial consulting, recruiting, sales, and management expertise. In 1984, Bill began his consulting career at Computer Assistance, which was later acquired by Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers). He ascended quickly, from Programmer/Analyst to Project Manager. Within eight years, he became a Branch Manager. In 1992, Bill joined Catalyst Consulting, where he eventually became Vice President of Sales. In 1996, Bill became Managing Partner of Business Technologies (now part of Exodus Communications); his responsibilities in that role included sales and staffing for the entire firm.
In addition, Bill has contributed to and been featured in several business and industry publications, and recently authored a chapter of Inside the Minds: CEO Leadership Strategies, from Aspatore Books.
Walter R. Kuketz
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Walter is Collaborative’s chief technologist, as well as an important business strategist. He continually discovers and creates new and innovative ways to help clients use technology to solve complex business problems. His expertise has helped save millions of dollars for clients all over the world.
Walter is recognized throughout the professional services industry for his extraordinary technical acumen, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and seminars. He has also published numerous articles and white papers on a variety of technology matters.
Before joining Collaborative, Walter was a partner in CSC’s technology services group, where he served as competency leader for the national performance engineering practice. He has extensive experience in the design and execution of benchmarks for client/server applications and Web-based applications. In 1997, Walter received CSC’s highest technical honor, the Technical Excellence Award, which recognized his team’s work for design and implementation of a stress-testing tool to secure Internet Web sites.
John Williams
Senior Vice President and Director of National Services
John leads Collaborative's service offerings, and helps define the company's National Practice. He maintains a special focus on data management, an area in which he has nearly two decades of relevant experience. In fact, John has spent a large portion of his career helping high-profile companies rein in data and use it to create immediate, long-term business advantage. John has extensive systems development and integration experience, and is expert in data management, data warehousing, database design and architecture. He is an engaging and highly sought-after speaker, and frequently publishes thought leadership materials, such as white papers and trade magazine articles.
BOARD OF ADVISORS
Bruce Austin
Most recently, Bruce was president and co-founder of Practical Business Solutions, Inc., a Boston-based computer services company. Bruce built Practical Business Solutions from the ground up, reaching sales of $15 million before it was acquired by CIBER, Inc., a $1 billion national consulting service company.
Bruce has more than 20 years of experience in the Information Processing industry and lends his senior management skills in the retail, software development and computer consulting service areas to help structure Collaborative as it grows.
T. Jack McElreath
In January 2000, Jack retired from his position as Director of Technology for CSC Consulting, a job he had held since 1976, when he co-founded the company (then known as Computer Partners).
Jack is a nationally recognized expert in data warehousing, data architecture and performance modeling. He has published numerous articles on a variety of technical subjects and is the author of a widely read book on database design and implementation. Jack was the principal architect of CSC’s data warehousing and data management practices, and created many of the technical procedures and standards for database design and performance tuning at CSC Consulting. Jack has more than 40 years of experience in data modeling, database management, performance engineering, predictive modeling and applications architecture.
John Pavlov
At Centive, John leads the engineering group and is responsible for development of its flagship EIM product, Centive/EIM, and its ASP product offering, Compel. Before joining Centive, he spent four years as CTO and VP of Engineering at GoldK, an online 401(k) provider. His efforts resulted in GoldK being named the retirement industry’s “Online Provider of the Year” in 2002. Previously, John served as VP of Development at Interleaf, where he was responsible for the BladeRunner product line, an XML-based content management and publication system. He was also VP of Distributed Computing at Putnam Investments, where he was a member of the Internet technology steering committee. Additionally, John was a co-founder of OpenSoftWorks, which was acquired by FlexiInternational Software. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Massachusetts State at Bridgewater, and a patent for a process to convert a Microsoft Word document into an XML file (Serial No. 09/528,489).
Carl R. Sellberg
Carl's professional career started in technology at Computer Assistance, Inc., a New England consulting firm. There, he advanced to chief operations officer and played a key role expanding the company nationally. When Coopers & Lybrand acquired Computer Assistance, Carl was chosen to manage and expand the technology business. Under his leadership, business grew from $40 million to $400 million in sales, and he became chairman of the International Technology Steering Committee for the last five years of his tenure.
Carl has held various senior management positions and directorships for the past 25 years. He was director for Bristol Savings Bank until Webster Bank acquired it. At that point, he became Chairman of its Advisory Board. In 1999, Carl retired from Coopers & Lybrand as a Senior Partner and currently serves as a Director for Bio-Globe Tech, Inc., in North Haven, Conn., and as the Director of Chippanee Golf Club in Bristol, Conn.
RANKINGS
AFFILIATIONS
REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS
Collaborative provides services for leading companies throughout the United States. A representative list is below.
Advisor Central
Ahold
Analog Devices
BlueCross BlueShield of Massachusetts
Boston Acoustics
Boston College
Boston Stock Exchange
Excelergy
Hard Rock International
Iron Mountain
Lexington Insurance/AIG
Massachusetts Division of Career Services
Massachusetts Division of Unemployment Assistance
MedSolutions
NASCO
COMPANY BOILERPLATE
Collaborative Consulting is a leading professional services organization dedicated to helping clients optimize their business and technology capabilities. By extending the value of their systems and business processes, we help clients achieve maximize return on IT investments and lasting business value. Our service areas include operational consulting, project management, data and technology services. Collaborative is committed to building long-term relationships and strives to be a trusted partner with every client. Founded in 1999, the organization serves clients from offices across the United States. Collaborative's Web site is www.collaborative.com.
CONTACT
Jamie Canney
Collaborative Consulting
70 Blanchard Road, Suite 500
Burlington, Massachusetts 01803
Phone: 781-565-2600
Fax: 781-565-2700
Email: jcanney@collaborative.com