Quint Wellington Redwood has a global partnership with IAOP regarding the Certified Outsourcing Professional (COP) Program. Part of this program is a 2 Days Sourcing Governance Foundation and a 3 Days Master Class. These courses are part of Quint’s sourcing consulting practice which is aimed at helping organizations structure their outsourcing program and help them manage and govern effective outsourcing relations resulting in improved outcomes. “As a leading sourcing advisor we challenge our customers to get the best out of outsourcing. To realize optimal results, outsourcing professionals need to have extensive knowledge of theory and best practice. COP provides a good opportunity for outsourcing professionals to enhance their skills required for managing successful outsourcing programs,” said Arno IJmker, board member of the European IAOP board and Sourcing Partner at Quint Wellington Redwood. COP is an industry designation targeted at outsourcing professionals who are part of the strategic leadership team involved in strategic planning, designing, implementing and managing outsourcing business relationships. It includes CIOs, CTOs, COOs, CFOs, VP IT Infrastructure, Director IT, Director Program Management, Service Delivery Head, Vendor Relationship Managers, Director – Offshore Outsourcing, Director – Sourcing, Business Development Manager – Strategic Outsourcing, IT Heads, VP – Client Engagements and Project Managers across an organization.For more information please contact the Quint office at (00)31 (0)20 305 3700 or send an email to info@quintgroup.com

Amsterdam, 19th of February - The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals, has released a list of The 2010 World’s Best Outsourcing Advisors. Quint is ranked 6th in the top 10 of leading sourcing advisors. Companies are judged on four critical characteristics: size and growth; customer references; organizational competencies; and management capabilities; evaluated by a panel of industry-recognized outsourcing leaders.According to the IAOP report Quint is among the World’s Best Outsourcing Advisors because of its demonstrated competencies: “Quint is recognized as one of the few outsourcing advisors with a true uniqueness of services, demonstrated by customer references. The uniqueness of Quint is found in its broad range of sourcing related consultancy services: not just deal making, but also sourcing strategy, mediation, benchmarking, transition, due diligence, contracting and governance consulting services makes Quint's sourcing portfolio complete. Quint's motto is "Dare to challenge": Quint challenges customers to get the best out of outsourcing and Quint is willing to implement its own strategic advice. Publications all over the world show Quint's excellent capabilities on outsourcing and sourcing governance. “Hans van Herwaarden, CEO of Quint Wellington Redwood: “This ranking makes us extremely proud as it proves once more that Quint is a unique and truly international sourcing advisor that offers more than the usual sourcing services. Quint enables worldwide IT Management Advancement, as it is experienced and appreciated every day by our customers. The appreciation of our customers derives from the fact that their actual results really matter to us. Quint is known as a true innovator of the management consulting industry, showing actual results with its customers. The IAOP ranking, especially the qualifying remarks, confirms our unique position.”About IAOPThe International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) brings together the world’s leading outsourcing customers, providers and advisors in a powerful, active and growing global association to exchange thought leadership, share best practices and network to maximize their effectiveness using outsourcing as a management tool.

Royal Dutch Shell plc has selected Quint Wellington Redwood as its partner for ITIL version 3 education. The coming three years Quint will supply ITIL courses worldwide for Shell employees. TrainingTarget staff within the Shell organization includes IT Business Interface staff; operational IT staff; team leaders in operations management roles; IT service managers and IT process owners. Quint offers the Intermediate, Expert and Master modules of ITIL v3 and the Bridging modules between ITIL v2 and v3. One of the reasons Royal Dutch Shell plc has chosen Quint is the capability to offer training worldwide in different learning types, deploying local staff. Learning types include open enrollments, classroom based, virtual and e-learning. Dick Smith, IT Learning Advisor at Shell Learning, about the co-operation with Quint: “Quint has an extensive range of high quality ITIL learning options and they have staff in all our main IT centers. This makes them a great partner for us in our efforts to have best-in-class courses that build important capabilities in our IT staff, available for us to use globally and in simple and efficient ways”. Contribution to Royal Dutch Shell’s ObjectivesBrigitte Noordegraaf, partner at Quint, about the co-operation with Royal Dutch Shell plc: “We are proud to be the worldwide partner of Shell. It underlines the fact that we are a solid and truly worldwide company.” René Hagen, COO and responsible for Global Education Services, about the education program: “With our courses we will contribute to an understanding of the best practice framework within the IT department of Royal Dutch Shell plc. This will help Shell IT-staff to function on a higher level.”

The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) has incorporated Quint Wellington Redwood’s Sourcing Governance Foundation-training in its worldwide program for Certified Outsourcing Professional®. As a result, participants of IAOP’s COP program will receive 25 study points for completing the Quint training. Training is a necessityThe strong trend of outsourcing IT services puts increasing demands on all managers and professionals involved. They need to be educated on the most important principals and concepts of outsourcing and sourcing governance. Without adequate sourcing governance it proves to be hardly possible to provide the necessary IT services within the boundaries of both optimal costs and conditions as well as transparent reporting. Sourcing Governance FoundationSourcing Governance Foundation trainees learn the basic concepts of outsourcing and sourcing governance. The interactive approach, combining theory with discussion and Quint Wellington Redwood’s numerous best practices, prepares trainees for the Sourcing Governance Foundation exam. At the same time this approach guarantees practical applicability. Arno IJmker, managing partner at Quint and responsible for its sourcing practice: “This acknowledgement by IAOP reinforces our thought leadership in the sourcing consultancy and training market, but is a compliment to our sourcing professionals as well.” International Association of Outsourcing ProfessionalsThe International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) brings together the world’s leading outsourcing customers, providers and advisors in a powerful, active and growing global association to exchange thought leadership, share best practices and network to maximize their effectiveness, using outsourcing as a management tool. Linkswww.outsourcingprofessional.org/content/23/193/1706www.quintacademy.com/Sourcing/1675/

December 30th, 2009 – The global IT-management consulting and education company Quint Wellington Redwood has been accredited as an ATO (Accredited Training Organization) directly by APM Group for its ITIL and Prince2 course-suites. Hans van Herwaarden, CEO, says: “As APM Group is the highest accrediting body for both ITIL as well as Prince2, this direct accreditation will be enable us to serve our customers with education and examination/certification services even better and faster than we are today”. Quint Wellington Redwood has global operations in 22 countries, on four continents. Its mission is to achieve “Worldwide IT-management advancement” through the creation, collection and distribution of best practices in IT strategy, Sourcing and Service management.