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Ned Stringham
Executive Officer
Stringham has been recognized as one of the most dynamic and insightful leaders in the consulting industry’s recent and most volatile decade. As Chief Executive and co-founder of SBI Group, Stringham built the leading independent marketing and technology services firm in North America from late 1990 to 2005 when many companies struggled simply to survive. Through a series of acquisitions and rapid organic growth, SBI Group developed four successful businesses with combined revenue over $150 million and operations throughout the U.S. and in Europe.
- SBI.Razorfish: a leading independent interactive marketing and internet consulting firm in the U.S. with 10 offices and 600 people; SBI.Razorfish was sold in mid 2004 to aQuantive [AQNT:NASD] for $160 million cash where Stringham subsequently served as a Board member. aQuantive was later sold in 2007 to Microsoft for $5.4 Billion dollars.
- SBI Europe: a European focused interactive marketing and internet consulting firm based in London with 100 people; SBI Europe was sold to FramFab [FRAM.ST] in late 2003 with SBI Group becoming its largest shareholder.
- Optura: a workflow software provider based in Phoenix. Optura was sold to OpenText [OTEX:NASD] in early 2005.
- SBI.Enteris: a 100 person consulting firm focused on corporate performance management with 3 offices in the U.S. The business was sold in 2006 to Enterpulse, a similar sized private company based in Atlanta.
Stringham was named Executive of the Year In 2002 by VAR Business, Entrepreneur of the Year in 2003 by Ernst & Young (Mountain Region) and listed on Consulting Magazines Top 25 Consultants in 2004.
Prior to SBI, Stringham spent eight years in management consulting at McKinsey & Company and leading Impact Partners LLC, a management consulting firm he founded in Australia.
Stringham received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School [1990] and B.S. degrees in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Utah [1987] where he was the student body president [1986] and selected as a Truman Scholar [1985].