MIP hires data warehouse expert to spearhead business development in Wellington (Appointment notice attached)
New Zealand, 06 July 2004 - Management Information Principles (MIP), a leading data management consultancy, announced
today that it has named David Sharp as Account Manager of the newly opened Wellington office. In this new role, Mr Sharp
will be responsible for driving new business initiatives on enterprise level accounts.
"David has the energy and experience to lead MIP's sales efforts in Wellington," said Steve Hitchman, MIP founder and
Managing Director. "His extensive industry expertise uniquely qualifies him for this new role. I'm confident that under
David's leadership, MIP is well positioned to meet the needs of our customers as data management becomes an increasingly
important business strategy."
Prior to joining MIP, Mr Sharp ran his own data management consultancy, SharpSystems. He provided strategic advice on
the design, development and implementation of data management systems for government organisations such as the New
Zealand Defence Force and the New Zealand Employment Service.
Mr Sharp has also previously held senior technical roles in Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom for
organisations such as EDS, where he managed projects across a range of industry sectors including financial services,
telecommunications and manufacturing.
"MIP has established itself as a leading provider of end-to-end information management services and solutions. I'm
looking forward to helping businesses in Wellington overcome the challenges associated with the efficient and effective
management of data. This is now critically important due to a number of international data reporting requirements such
as Basel II, Sarbanes Oxley and the US Patriot Act," said Mr Sharp.
Mr Sharp holds a higher national diploma (HND) in Mathematics and Computer Studies from the University of Sheffield in
the United Kingdom.
About MIP New Zealand
Founded in 1992, Management Information Principles is a specialist data management consultancy and one of Australia's
and New Zealand's leading data quality, data integration, data warehousing and business intelligence specialists. MIP
offers strategic and tactical consulting services to Global 2000 companies in a broad range of industries in. MIP's
end-to-end approach addresses all aspects of enterprise management information from the complex issue of profiling
source and target data, extract transformation and load (ETL), the underlying relational database management systems
(RDBMS), business intelligence through to predictive modelling and analytical applications. More information can be
found at http://www.mip.com.au/