Armstrong Consultants expands into 2008 with a new Southern office & director appointment

Harpenden, UK - 1st February 2008 - Leading software supplier, Armstrong Consultants, is continuing its expansion by appointing Alex Reeves to the Board of Directors. Alex's primary role is to head up the new office in Kent, as well as adding his considerable business acumen to the Armstrong Board.

Based in Sevenoaks, Alex will be expanding Armstrong's client base in the south, servicing East Anglia, South London, the South East and across to the Solent area - bringing the number of Armstrong offices to four. The office already has a team of sales and project consultants working with existing customers in the area, as well as working to secure new projects. All of Armstrong's services and products will now be readily available to clients across the South East, including Accounting & Finance, Project Management, CRM, Service and Document Management software solutions.

Alex joins Armstrong from Ernst & Young, and has over 10 years' experience of business development, systems implementation and operations in a multi-channel retail and FMCG environment. At Ernst & Young Alex developed consulting propositions for Retail and FMCG clients, focusing on management of physical and financial loss in the supply chain. Working with the existing E&Y technical teams, Alex developed, sold and delivered advisory projects to clients, and managed the cross-sell into traditional E&Y services. Prior to this he held senior advisory roles at Itim Consulting, KPMG, BMW Rover Group and Logica.

He graduated from Aston University in 1992 with a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science, where he met the four founding directors of Armstrong Consultants, as well as Piers McLeish, Managing Director of Armstrong's northern office.

Chris Bayne, Managing Director at Armstrong commented: "2007 was a fantastic year for Armstrong, and we are thrilled to build on this success in 2008, with the launch of a new office. The opening of the northern office in October 2004 has been a huge success - allowing us to dedicate a whole team to regional projects and we are confident this will also be the case in the South East."

The board have known Alex since our university days and we look forward to working with him on a business level and benefiting from his vast corporate experience."

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