Systems Alliance Opens Richmond Office, Hires Former Dell Business Development Leader to Run Virginia Operations

Business Wire, Dec 2, 2008

Stephen Phillips Will Grow Relationships with Public- and Private-Sector Clients

SPARKS, Md. -- Systems Alliance, Inc., a regional systems integrator providing high-value IT and business consulting services, today announced Stephen Phillips, formerly an account executive with Dell responsible for the computer giant's higher education and public-sector business in central Virginia, has joined the company as a business development executive. With over 13 years of experience selling IT solutions, Phillips will lead Systems Alliance's Virginia operations from a new office in Richmond.

"Steve Phillips has achieved outstanding success delivering IT solutions and building strong client relationships with senior IT executives in Virginia's higher-education community," said Ric Hughes, president and CEO, Systems Alliance. "We're very pleased to have him join our team and believe he'll be very effective helping Systems Alliance cultivate strong client relationships with public sector, higher ed and commercial enterprises across Virginia."

Before joining Systems Alliance, Phillips was an account executive with Dell, where he was most recently focused on building client relationships with Virginia colleges, universities and public-sector accounts. Earlier at Dell, Phillips was responsible for selling the company's portfolio of professional services, including messaging platform migrations, virtualization, data center work and asset recovery.

Prior to Dell, Phillips held senior sales and business development positions with Vibren Technologies, AimNet Solutions and PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he worked with Systems Alliance's CEO Hughes. Phillips holds a BS in Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts.

About Systems Alliance, Inc.

Systems Alliance, Inc., founded in 1993, is a Maryland-based company that provides business and technology consulting services to leading corporate and public sector clients, including Asurion, Conde Nast, Johns Hopkins Institutions, Random House, Inc., Baltimore County Government, and the Maryland Department of Transportation. Systems Alliance has local offices in Huntsville, Alabama, Cary, North Carolina, Knoxville, Tennessee and Richmond, Virginia. To learn more, visit http://www.systemsalliance.com.