Ivar Jacobson International Names Sion Roberts as Managing Director of EMEA

LONDON - Ivar Jacobson International (IJI), a global services company that helps organizations meet business requirements, optimize team performance and increase project success through software process improvement, today announced that it has named Sion Roberts, former EMEA Consulting Director at EDS, an HP company - as Managing Director of EMEA. Mr. Roberts has extensive experience in the technology services industry leading teams of consultants and account managers, and has worked with large enterprises and multinational clients. Mr. Roberts has held a number of management positions in marketing, consulting, and business development, notably at EDS, 724, and ICL (now Fujitsu Services). Mr. Roberts holds Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from Liverpool University.

“IJI is fortunate to have Mr. Roberts joining our management team. His experience and past success gives IJI the opportunity to execute on our market opportunity in Europe, Middle East and Africa,” said Dave Williamson, CEO of Ivar Jacobson International. “Mr. Roberts is very well suited to carry forth with the management and growth of our client base and EMEA team and operations.”

“I’m extremely pleased to be joining IJI,” said Sion Roberts, new Managing Director of EMEA for IJI. “My focus will be on ensuring the continued success of our existing European customers, and building upon that to extend IJI’s reach across EMEA.”

About Ivar Jacobson International

Ivar Jacobson International is a global services company that helps software organizations transform and improve the way in which they develop software solutions as well as guide them in meeting the expectations of the business. Our consultants provide an environment of experiential learning to develop the right competency levels amongst all roles and functions by becoming an intricate coach and mentor to the entire team. We have a framework that we adapt to effectively define and communicate business and technical expectations across the organization as well as create collective responsibility by teams and individuals for project outcomes. We introduce a proven practice driven approach that is goal oriented, incremental and measureable and is highly successful with either an existing software project or the implementation of new systems. We support our customer engagements with a rich set of technology assets inclusive of training materials, practice guides, and tooling.

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Source: Ivar Jacobson International

Leigh Ann Empey, +1-613-274-7994, lempey at ivarjacobson.com