We're happy to announce that EASI·Consult's hard work, customer focus, and ability to deliver quality services has resulted in rapid business growth over the last 36 months. This has led to an exciting and key restructuring in EASI·Consult's Executive Team. In February 2007, David F. Hoff became an equity owner of EASI·Consult, LLC. David has joined our Executive Team and taken on the role of Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President of Leadership. Since joining the firm in June of 2004, Dave has been instrumental in expanding EASI's professional offerings. He has increased our private sector customer base and introduced EASI·Consult® to public sector consulting. In this short time, Dave led us in obtaining multiple federal contracts and increased our annual revenues by over 600%. With Dave's shared leadership, we've built our team of EASI·Consult® Associates and teaming partners to over 50 consultants and staff members.

David Hoff started his career as an external consultant with Dr. David McClelland's Harvard-based firm, McBer. At McBer, Dave helped to pioneer competency modeling, behavioral events interviewing and leadership development. In 1983, David joined Anheuser-Busch to build and direct their management development and training department. For several years, David was my boss, as Director of Human Resources Development and Selection. David was the first Director of International Human Resources for Anheuser-Busch, spending the majority of his time traveling around the globe, building a foundation for Human Resource programs and reporting to A-B's President of Anheuser-Busch International. After leaving A-B, he became the Vice President of Human Resources for Proxicom, later purchased by Dimension Data.

In September of 2003, Dave and I crossed paths again as he introduced EASI·Consult® to ProOrbis, a small but well-established consulting group. This provided the opportunity for EASI to demonstrate our expertise to GSA's Public Building Services and allowed EASI to eventually acquire a difficult to obtain 5-year MOBIS contract with the government. Ever since Dave joined EASI, he has been untiring in his constant effort to identify opportunities for business growth. He has been key in building relationships with private and public sector organizations such as PBS, the Office of Governmentwide Policy, the U.S. Public Health Services, Quickhire, Monster, PAN, Anteon (now General Dynamics), Simpler, Solae and others. To broaden our exposure and build business opportunities, Dave has shown limitless energy and enthusiasm by joining professional organizations in the Washington, DC area and nationwide. Dave is president-elect for the Leesburg Virginia Chapter of SHRM, Board Member for the Human Resources Leadership Forum and on the Board of the American Association of Internal Consultants.

David's addition to our Executive Team strengthens our strategic business planning approach and will offer greater efficiencies in our day to day operations. While I will maintain the CEO role of EASI·Consult®, Dave will focus on providing our Associates with resources, support and guidance to expand our professional offerings and maintain our high quality of service. Our intention is to maintain a flat organization, allowing us to work as an expanded team with flexibility and efficiencies unknown to larger management consulting firms.

Please join me in congratulating David as a new equity owner and member of the Executive Team of EASI·Consult®. I'm personally honored and excited to have David join me in leading the company as Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President of Leadership.