DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 8, 2003–ePartners(R) — a leading business solutions provider and IT consultant for middle market companies — has promoted Matt Purser to Chief Financial Officer ofthe company.
Purser brings 15 years of finance, financial reporting and accounting experience to his position of CFO. He will be taking over financial reporting/operations, debt/treasury management, information technology, payroll and human resources for the company.
“Matt Purser’s extensive experience in finance, operations and mergers and acquisitions made him the ideal candidate for the position of CFO for ePartners,” says Dan Duffy, ePartners’ president. “Matt has been instrumental over the past four years in establishing ePartners as the market leader in delivering process excellence to our internal and external customers. Our entire organization is enthusiastically welcoming Matt into his new role.”
Purser joined ePartners in May of 1999 and was Vice President of Finance prior to this promotion. Before joining ePartners, Purser was Vice President and Controller for a $300 million commercial financial institution where he was responsible for all financial operations and strategy execution.
He has extensive experience with mergers and acquisitions, post-merger integration, treasury and cash management, commercial debt facilities, syndicated revolving lines of credit, subordinated debt arrangements, corporate investment portfolio management and corporate asset/liability management. Purser began his professional career with KPMG Peat Marwick LLP, providing attest services to various clients including publicly traded companies.
Purser is pursing a Masters in Business Administration from the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. He received his bachelor of business administration in accounting from the University of Louisiana-Monroe, and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
More information about ePartners can be found at www.epartnersolutions.com.
About ePartners, Inc.
As the largest global partner for Microsoft Business Solutions (Great Plains, Solomon, Best Software and SalesLogix), ePartners is the leading provider of Microsoft-based business solutions in North America. The company implements, deploys, develops and manages the leading Microsoft-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP/Accounting), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Professional Services Automation (PSA), Business Analytics, eBusiness Integration and Infrastructure technologies on the market. Backed by Texas Growth Fund, Austin Ventures, Capital Resource Partners and Liberty Mutual, the company has assisted more than 8,800 customers in 50 industries and 45 countries. In 2001, ePartners was recognized by Inc magazine as the fifteenth fastest-growing private technology company in America. ePartners celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2002.
