{"id":1724,"date":"2010-02-25T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/phil-fersht\/"},"modified":"2010-02-25T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T13:10:00","slug":"phil-fersht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/phil-fersht\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Fersht, Founder and Chief Executive Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"phil\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1450\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Phil-Fersht.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1450 \" title=\"Phil Fersht\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Phil-Fersht.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phil Fersht<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Phil Fersht is Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Research Director of HfS Research, the leading global research analyst organization covering global sourcing strategies.  He was named \u201cIIAR Analyst of the Year 2010\u201d by the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations (IIAR).  This is the most coveted global award for industry analysts in technology and services.\u00a0\u00a0His specialist coverage areas include finance, HR and supply chain BPO, and he also focuses on industry-specific issues and the convergence of BPO, SaaS and Cloud in a business utility context.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0is an acclaimed industry analyst, practitioner, advisor and strategist across Business Process Outsourcing and IT services worldwide, having worked extensively in Europe, North America and Asia. During this time, he has advised on more than 100 major outsourcing and offshoring engagements and consults regularly with senior operations and IT executives on their global sourcing strategies. \u00a0At HfS Research, Phil directs  and contributes to the firm\u2019s research and social media strategy, in addition to administering the global finance operations.<\/p>\n<p>During his career, Phil has worked at AMR Research (Gartner Group), leading the firm\u2019s BPO and ITO practice. Previously, he served as market leader for Deloitte Consulting\u2019s BPO Advisory Services, where he led numerous outsourcing and offshoring advisory engagements with Fortune 500 enterprises. He also worked for outsourcing advisor Everest Group leading the company\u2019s BPO research practice. Phil began his career at IDC across its European and Asia\/Pacific operations.<\/p>\n<p>Phil is a frequent author and speaker on IT services, Finance, HR and Procurement Business Process Outsourcing trends and issues. He was named both an &#8220;FAO&#8221; and &#8220;HRO Superstar&#8221; by FAOToday and HROToday Magazines for 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and was featured as the cover story for the December 2006 issue of FAOToday as one of the outsourcing industry&#8217;s most prominent advisors. He was also nominated for \u201cAdvisor of the Year\u201d at the FAOSummit 2008. He speaks regularly at industry conferences, which have included The Conference Board, NASSCOM, IDC Directions, the Sourcing Interests Group, the Shared Services\u00a0&amp; Outsourcing Network\u00a0and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals. He is also a regular columnist for several industry publications, including Global Services Media, SSON, FAOToday and Finance Director Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Phil received a Bachelor of Science, with Honors in European Business &amp; Technology from Coventry University, United Kingdom and a Dipl\u00f4me Universitaire de Technologie in Business &amp; Technology from the University of Grenoble, France.<\/p>\n<p>When he&#8217;s not running this business, Phil spends his time watching Tottenham Hotspur\u00a0(a mediocre British soccer team), the Boston Red Sox (less mediocre, but not by a lot),\u00a0reading, running, playing chess and sampling single malt whiskies.<\/p>\n<p><em>Phil can be reached at phil dot fersht at HfSresearch.com.\u00a0\u00a0 He can also be found on twitter:\u00a0 @pfersht<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Fersht Phil Fersht is Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Research Director of HfS Research, the leading global research analyst&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[19],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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