Celerant Senior Executive Shares Outlook on 2009 Global Business Landscape

LEXINGTON, Mass., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Celerant's new senior vice
president of strategy and capabilities and a member of the firm's regional
executive committee, James Biere Marceau, predicts that the global business
marketplace in 2009 will continue to be affected, positively and negatively,
by the following five forces:

-- Mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, restructuring and market
consolidations;
-- Tight credit markets and global macroeconomic volatility;
-- Energy management and conservation;
-- Raw material and commodity price fluctuations;
-- Further globalization or changes in global manufacturing strategies.

"Organizations that will ultimately succeed in the short and longer terms will
possess the ability to embrace these dynamics and put them to work for their
businesses, and not against. Their Operational Excellence efforts will be put
to the test in order to remain a competitive force in their particular market
segment. World class organizations will get their cost structures right to
address the new market realities, and simultaneously invest in new products,
new markets and innovation," says Marceau.

As head of Celerant's strategy and capabilities, Mr. Marceau oversees the
development and application of specific value-producing client offerings,
business transformational strategies, integrated supply chain management,
process excellence, asset management, organizational excellence, business
performance management, innovation and revenue growth.

Mr. Marceau comes to Celerant from Oliver Wyman (formerly Mercer Management
Consulting and part of Marsh McClennan, MMC), a business strategy and global
management consulting firm. He was a Senior Partner with Oliver Wyman's
Manufacturing, transportation, Energy (MTE) practice and brings a career of
international business expertise from a number of industries and focuses on
Technology, Life Sciences and Consumer Products Manufacturing companies. Over
his 20 year career, he has worked with companies to address highly complex
global business challenges and strategic growth initiatives, market changing
mergers and acquisitions and post merger integration, improve operational
effectiveness, supply chain, logistics, distribution, manufacturing and
emerging market strategies.

Prior to joining Oliver Wyman, Mr. Marceau was a Vice President and Supply
Chain Management and Logistics practice leader with Capgemini (Ernst & Young).
During this time, he managed operations, supply chain and growth initiatives
for global companies across a range of industries, including transportation
and logistics, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, manufacturing, high tech,
defense, and consumer products.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Marceau worked for Ryder System, Inc., where he
held several progressive operating and international roles. He helped plan and
successfully execute several mergers and acquisitions, including the
acquisition of FedEx Business Logistics in Europe.

Mr. Marceau graduated from the University of Colorado with a Bachelor of
Science degree in Business. He also received an MBA from the University of
Miami in International Business.

About Celerant Consulting
Celerant is a global management consultancy that provides international
strategy and business transformation consulting and delivers operational
improvement that helps the world's leading companies to achieve and sustain
real gains in bottom-line performance.

Celerant's difference is simple - we believe that once we have fixed a problem
for a client, it should stay fixed.

First we spend time understanding the needs of an organization. Then we
analyze the challenges faced before recommending a tailored change program
designed to deliver measurable results, now and into the future. This
involves our industry experienced consultants working side-by-side with people
in the front line of your business - from the Boardroom to the shop floor - to
ensure the delivery of sustainable and measurable benefits.

As a result, last year Celerant delivered over $1bn in annualized sustainable
savings to its clients. Over the last 21 years we have grown to the point
where annual revenues are $170m.

www.celerantconsulting.com

SOURCE Celerant Consulting

Stephanie Lin, +1-617-587-2969, slin@brodeur.com, for Celerant Consulting