Stephanie Sandberg Named SSA & Company's Chief Marketing and Sales Officer

New York, NY, November 23, 2009 - SSA & Company today announced that Stephanie Sandberg, former President and Publisher of The New Republic and Vice President of Marketing for Fortune and Fortune for Small Business, will take on the new position of Chief Marketing and Sales Officer for the global operations consulting firm SSA & Company.  She will additionally have marketing and sales responsibility for SSA & Company’s sister organizations, G100, a private organization of the world’s leading CEOs, and High Lantern Group, a new firm that specializes in strategic positioning.

“Stephanie understands how better process inside companies can drive strategy,” said Scott Miller, SSA & Company CEO and former CEO of Hyatt Hotels.  “Her deep expertise in media, marketing, and business transformation will make her an integral part of all our business planning.”

“Stephanie is the ideal professional to help drive our consulting business successfully into a broader competitive set,” said David Niles, SSA & Company President. “As important, she’s superbly equipped to help unlock cross-company value with our sister firms, offering today’s CEOs a comprehensive suite of services to address their most pressing business issues.”

Sandberg came most recently from her position as President, Sandberg Consulting, where her clients included Hearst, Time Inc., the Washington Post Company, and the Magazine Publishers of America. Among other engagements, she produced the launch plan for Food Network Magazine; Newsweek’s international strategy; sales and marketing oversight for PlanetOut, Inc; and Magazines 24-7, the industry’s annual conference on digital media. Sandberg previously served as chair of the Independent Magazine Group (IMAG), and was a board member for the Magazine Publishers of America.

“It’s exciting to join a firm so ideally positioned to give companies what they need to succeed today,” says Sandberg. “SSA & Company provides best-in-class operations consulting work by building on its Six Sigma heritage, and its customized offerings mean that companies can realize significant ROI in a matter of weeks against their key strategic challenges.” Sandberg added, “Our insight into the day-to-day challenges of CEO’s makes our consulting model one that no business leader should be without.”

Founded as the Six Sigma Academy in 1994, SSA & Company has continuously led innovation in the business process improvement industry. Its Strategic Process Management (SPM) approach to business improvement was developed in response to feedback and input from some of the world’s leading CEOs and business thought leaders, including Jack Welch and Ram Charan. SPM delivers results in 90 days and generates returns of five to ten times the size of the initial investment. The approach is rapidly becoming a new standard for process improvement, helping industries that have not historically focused on process improvement, such as insurance, retail, private equity and technology, uncover and solve major sources of waste.