No. 1 Sourcing Advisory Firm, Alsbridge Inc. Adds Benchmarking Executive Chris Forbear to its ProBenchmark Team

Award-winning global shared services, outsourcing advisory and benchmarking firm, Alsbridge, Inc., adds expert, Christian Forbear, to its benchmark consulting team.

Chris’ lengthy experience in management consulting, particularly in operations and sourcing advisory, will enhance Alsbridge’s solutions offering and grow its benchmarking capabilities. Forbear will be responsible for handling both the engagement and relationship management responsibilities for ProBenchmark, the benchmarking service line of Alsbridge.

“Benchmarking is the key to understanding the performance and service mix relative to the outsourcing market which makes it a critical facet of Alsbridge’s core competencies,” says Alsbridge founder and CEO Ben Trowbridge. “Chris Forbear has the proven management experience to grow and enhance our benchmarking services.”

Chris Forbear has 17 years of IT Business Development experience building and managing business relationships as well as securing new revenue streams in the software, telecommunications, sourcing and benchmark consulting industries. He has a proven track record of successfully advocating customer needs from a technical, customer service, consulting and sales standpoint. Prior to joining Alsbridge, Chris worked with Compass Management Consulting for 6 years, in the same capacity.  

“In the year I have been with Alsbridge ProBenchmark, I have been extremely pleased and impressed by the organization’s benchmark consulting practice,” say Christian Forbear, Director of Sales, ProBenchmark. “From their deep databases of information to their software-driven parametric modeling engine, Alsbridge ProBenchmark is committed to providing the most accurate and reliable benchmark consulting services available. I am excited for 2012 and beyond.” 

About Alsbridge Inc.

Alsbridge provides world class sourcing advisory and benchmarking services for the CIO, CFO and CPO.  We’ve helped hundreds of companies reduce costs and get more value from their vendors.  Our experienced consultants leverage proprietary tools and information databases to identify and engage the optimal vendors for your situation, negotiate best practice terms at fair market prices, and improve the way you work with your vendors.  Alsbridge clients utilize the most cost effective and value added sources globally for IT infrastructure services, hardware and maintenance, network services, software and maintenance, application support and development, business processes and cloud services. This commitment to delivering value to our clients has made Alsbridge a distinguished member of the 2010 Inc. 500 fastest growing privately held companies in America.  This year, Alsbridge was ranked the #1 outsourcing advisor in the world by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP).