Welcome!

AJAX & REA Authors: Jnan Dash, Piram Manickam, Subrahmanya SV, S Sangeetha, Bob Gourley

News Feed Item

Acquity Group Taps Rich Houle as Vice President, Talent Development for Technology Services

Strategic hire will lead talent acquisition and development to support Brand eCommerce® growth.

CHICAGO, Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Acquity Group  (NYSE AMEX: AQ), a leading global Brand eCommerce® and digital marketing company, announced today it has appointed Rich Houle as Vice President of Talent Development for Technology Services at its Chicago headquarters. Houle will directly oversee national recruitment and retention for best-in-class digital technology talent.

"Acquity Group's explosive growth this year requires a stronger focus on securing experienced technology talent to create core teams that directly support our clients," said Chris Dalton, CEO of Acquity Group. "Rich will position Acquity Group as a top choice for technology recruits and solidify our commitment to providing clients with superior technical support."

With 20 years of technical management and executive experience at major technology companies, including Sun Microsystems and Northern Trust, Houle will play an integral role in attracting, building and cultivating high-performance teams. Houle's expertise, particularly in the technology field, stems from more than 30 years of identifying talent, shaping corporate strategy and managing multiple project teams.

"Our technical services team is the driving force behind our ability to provide effective Omni-channel strategies to brands across the globe," added Dalton. "Hiring Rich will greatly enhance the supply side of our business as he identifies and brings in the people we need to revamp our range of full technical offerings."

"Acquity Group's thriving business and collaborative culture is a sure magnet for top tech talent," said Houle. "I'm thrilled to develop Acquity Group's technical services team into an even stronger component of the company that remains on top of continually advancing eCommerce technology."

Acquity Group's unique environment integrates talent from the creative, strategy and technical service departments, allowing staff in each role to expand their capabilities outside of their core business expertise and provide compelling digital experiences for clients. In 2011, Brill Street + Company ranked Acquity Group #23 in its "Top 50 Chicago Generation Y Employers" list.

About Acquity Group

Acquity Group is a leading global Brand eCommerce® and digital marketing company, creating award-winning digital experiences for global brands. Our multi-disciplinary approach brings together strategy, design, and technology to create unique brand experiences that build firm customer relationships. Acquity Group works with leading brands like Adobe, AT&T, General Motors, Motorola, and Saks Fifth Avenue through offices in North America and Asia. To define a unique perspective for your business, contact Acquity Group at www.acquitygroup.com.

Contact:

Emily Johnson
Walker Sands Communications
(312) 267 2939
Emily.johnson@walkersands.com

SOURCE Acquity Group Ltd.

More Stories By PR Newswire

Copyright © 2007 PR Newswire. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of PRNewswire content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of PRNewswire. PRNewswire shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.

Cloud Expo Breaking News
“Trust is an ongoing journey and sits at the foundation of any vendor relationship – the companies that don’t consistently earn trust won’t be around long,” noted Henrik Rosendahl, Senior VP of Cloud Solutions at Quantum, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “As they do more with cloud, trust will organically grow – maybe it’s just about meeting SLAs or seeing firsthand that data is there when you need it,” Rosendahl continued. Cloud Computing Journal: The move ...
The economics of business are radically changing due to the way in which software and services are being delivered thanks to cloud computing. In his session at 12th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo New York [10-13 June, 2013], Mike Kavis will cover six reasons for the disruption.
Learn about the complex regulations surrounding HIPAA compliance and other considerations for running sensitive data in the Cloud. In their session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Frank Nydam, Director of Healthcare Solutions at VMware, and Ken Ziegler, CEO of Logicworks, will discuss the best practices for leveraging virtualization and cloud technologies without sacrificing security or compliance. Care providers, State and Federal entities, integrators and SaaS providers large and small...
In the face of rapidly increasing amounts of unstructured data, industry is investing heavily to turn machines into services and connect them to analytics engines that will extract an extraordinary amount of value and unleash a productivity revolution for both businesses and consumers. In the health care, transportation and energy sectors alone, the combination of machine diagnostics software and analytics will eliminate as much as $150 billion in waste. In his session at the 12th Internation...
Enterprises can't close their doors just because integration tools won't cope with the volume of information that their systems produce. As each day goes by, their information will become larger and more complicated, and enterprises must constantly struggle to manage the integration of dozens (or hundreds) of systems. Apache Hadoop has quickly become the technology of choice for enterprises that need to perform complex analysis of petabytes of data, but few are aware of its potential to hand...
In an ideal developer/systems administrator’s world, most applications would deploy seamlessly to multiple platforms and scale elastically with minimal effort bringing the unprecedented agility of the cloud within immediate reach of developer teams and IT organizations. OpenStack, a RackSpace and NASA initiative, is now managed by an independent foundation and is supported by multiple vendors. It defines APIs for compute, storage, networking, services, monitoring, and additional infrastructure...
Companies around the world are moving into on-premise private cloud environments. Many connect their private cloud to their public cloud service providers. In his session at 12th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo New York [June 10-13], Brian Patrick Donaghy will talk about examples of what worked, what failed and why we should think about this evolution.
Enterprise cloud adoption revolves around pushing the BYOD movement and focusing on data security. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Ross Brouse, COO and President of Solar VPS, will cover how cloud adoption is driven by consumerism, humanity’s need to socialize, our addiction to new gadgets and the ability of data to stay secure in a growing collaborative world. The cloud is a drug and we’re just getting hooked. Ross Brouse is the COO and President of Solar VPS. He is a tr...
Organizations across the world are increasingly starting to see the benefits of moving more and more services to the cloud. The focus on the cost-saving potential of cloud is rapidly shifting to completely transforming the business with cloud. As organizations are investing enormous sums on technology they are starting to realize that in order to maximize the return on investment and accelerate the business transformation process the first area of focus should be people. By ensuring the organiza...
A recent study by analyst firm IDC reports that in 2012, 1.7 million cloud computing-related roles across the globe could not be filled due to the lack of training, certification and experience in the applicant pool. As the global demand for cloud and big data expertise increases, employers are finding it difficult to recruit talent, which is slowing down the ability for organizations to adopt, implement, and realize benefits from innovative platforms like OpenStack. In this session join Clo...