UST Global appoints Peter Siderman to its advisory board

PRLog (Press Release) - Mar. 17, 2010 - UST Global (UST) has appointed Peter Siderman, former managing director of Dominion Group, the privately owned fund management firm, to its advisory board. Peter joins UST as the first advisory board member based outside of its US headquarters to aid UST's continued growth outside North America.

UST’s CEO Sajan Pillai says: "UST is currently expanding its European client base. Our European customers appreciate UST’s next generation global sourcing model, with its focus on customer intimacy, flexibility, and Commitment beyond Contract. With Peter’s deep knowledge of the European marketplace, his appointment to the UST Advisory Board will help us achieve our global goals by more successfully communicating UST’s message and unique differentiators to this client base.

Peter has held leadership positions in various industries across the globe throughout his career. He helped establish the Adecco Institute, funded by the world’s leading HR solutions firm of the same name, and also served as its first managing director. During his ten years with McKinsey & Company, Siderman held senior leadership roles and served on three continents. He was the firm’s global director of mobility, based in New York, and responsible for strategic flows of talent between its offices worldwide.

Fluent in Danish, Portuguese, Spanish and English, he served on McKinsey’s Global Knowledge Advisory Team for five years, concurrently with other roles, including leading McKinsey's innovative North American Knowledge Center for three years, in addition to research roles in both Europe and emerging markets.

Peter Siderman holds an MBA with honours from the University of Chicago (Booth School of Business) and a postgraduate degree in Latin American Studies from Oxford University.

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UST Global® is a NEXT-Gen IT services and solutions provider focused on the Global 2000 market. Headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California and London, England, it provides IT and business process outsourcing services through its state-of-the-art centers in India, Chile, and the Philippines. UST clients get the advantages of its highly efficient Global Engagement Model; a seamless blend of expertise from locally based senior resources with the productivity, cost, scale, and quality of its offshore teams. Since its inception in 1999, UST Global has grown to over 7,000 employees and has been recognized for an unmatched focus on its clients and for its “Commitment beyond Contract.” It follows a philosophy of “fewer CLIENTS more ATTENTION” to be able to service each of its customers individually.