BearingPoint, Inc.

BearingPoint was formerly KPMG Consulting Inc., the consulting division of the huge accounting firm KPMG LLP that was brought down in the Enron/Arthur Anderson scandal of 2002. On February, 8, 2001, the consulting branch was officially separated from its parent due to a public offering on the company. When the Enron scandal broke, they changed their name to BearingPoint and subsequently acquired the operations left behind by the deteriorating Arthur Anderson. 

Contracts
1. Creating Iraq's budget 2. Writing business law 3. Setting up tax collection 4. Laying out trade and customs rules 5. Privatize state-owned enterprises by auctioning them off or issuing Iraqis shares in the enterprises. 6. Reopen banks and jump-start the private sector by making small loans of $100 to $10,000. 7. Wean Iraqis from the U.N. Oil-for-Food Program, the main source of food for 60% of the population. 8. Issue a new currency and set exchange rates. 
 * In July of 2003, BearingPoint was awarded a contract by USAID worth $79.5 million to facilitate Iraq's economic recovery with a two-year option worth a total of $240,162,688. Responsibilities in this contract include:


 * In January 2003 BearingPoint won a $3.95 million contract financed by the World Bank to aid the Afghanistan government upgrade its accounting system.

In November 2005, USAID awarded another contract, this three years and worth $45 million. The overall worth of contracts in Afghanistan could be worth as much as $350 million. 
 * In March of 2003, USAID awarded BearingPoint a $39.9 million contract to help rebuild the economy in Afghanistan.


 * BearingPoint works with the USAID Banking and Financial Market Reform projects in Serbia and with the National Bank of Serbia to stabilize the financial system.


 * In October of 2005, BearingPoint was awarded a five year contract by the Navy's Enterprise Program Management Office worth as much as $58 million to support the strategy, design, development and implementation of the EPMO.


 * In October, 2005, BearingPoint won a $124.7 million contract from USAID to pursue economic and financial reform in Egypt.


 * BearingPoint has worked with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to design and build a decision support system.

Management

 * Harry L. You: CEO
 * Roderick C. McGeary: Chairman of the Board
 * David W. Black: Executive VP, General Counsel and Secretary
 * Judy A. Ethell: Executive VP, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer
 * Michael D. Lyman: Executive VP and Chief Strategy Officer
 * Joni Kahn: Executive VP, Technology Solutions
 * James Monastero: Executive VP, Chief People Officer
 * Ron Salluzo: Executive VP and Chief Risk Officer
 * Connie Weaver: Executive VP and Chief Marketing Officer
 * Thomas G. Wilde: Executive VP and Chief Information Officer
 * Christopher Formant: Executive VP, Global Financial Services
 * Robin S. Lineberger: Executive VP, Global Public Services
 * Benjamin Loh: Senior VP General Manager APAC
 * Sarah S. Martin: VP, Corporate Communications
 * Robin G. Palmer: Executive VP, Asia Pacific and Latin America
 * Steffen Seeger: Executive VP Europe, Middle East and Africa
 * Gail P. Steinel: Executive VP Global Commercial Services
 * Mark Vayda: Executive VP Worldwide Sales, Field Marketing and Alliances

Board of Directors

 * Roderick C. McGeary: Chairman of the Board
 * Harry L. You: Chief Executive Officer
 * Douglas C. Allred: Private investor; Former Senior Vice President, Office of the President, Cisco Systems, Inc.
 * Betsy Bernard: Private investor; Former President, AT&T
 * Spencer Fleischer: Vice Chairman, Friedman, Fleischer & Lowe
 * Wolfgang Kemna: Managing Director of Steeb Anwendungssysteme GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of SAP AG
 * Albert L. Lord: Vice Chairman and CEO, SLM Corp.
 * Alice M. Rivlin: Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Professor, Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University; Former Vice Chair, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System
 * J. Terry Strange: Former Vice Chairman, KPMG LLP and former Global Managing Partner of the Audit Practice of KPMG International

Articles

 * Stephen Foley, Shock and Oil: Iraq's Billions and The White House Connection, The Independant, January 15, 2007.

Contact
BearingPoint 1676 International Dr. Mc Lean, VA 22102 phone: (703) 747-3000 Website: http://www.bearingpoint.com/portal/site/bearingpoint

BearingPoint 2001 M St NW, Washington, DC 20036 phone: (202) 533-7000

BearingPoint 2011 Crystal Dr. Arlington, VA 22202 phone: (703) 685-5470