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ITA Illinois Technology Index

The First Analysis/ITA Illinois Technology Index is a market capitalization-weighted index of
publicly traded stocks in the Illinois technology sector.

Morgan Stanley - Global Freight and Parcel Analysis 2009

Annual Morgan Stanley analyst report on global freight, parcel and transportation world wide and the
carriers.

The Enterprise of the Future

What will the Enterprise of the Future look like? To answer that question,we spoke with more than
1,000 CEO s from around the world.


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range of industries in the mid-market. OGG performs as a global intermediary advisor to their global
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Opus Global Group

Presents



US Buy-Side Deal

Packaging Companies



INTRODUCTION



Our private equity client has partnered with a talented operating executive in the packaging
industry and is actively seeking investment opportunities.

We are looking for packaging companies for sale in the US with location preference on the west coast
region of operation.





OVERVIEW



Deal

.. USCB006



Title

.. US Buy-side Packaging Companies | Financial Buyer



Business Characteristics

.. Manufacturers of food packaging (e.g. rigid plastics, clamshells, bag-in-box, stand up
pouches, paper cups, lids)

.. Manufacturers of consumer packaging (e.g. blister packs and display cards for electronics,
cosmetics, hardware, automotive, toy industries)



Financial Criteria

.. Annual revenue of $20-$100 million

.. Minimum EBITDA of $2 million



Geographic Location

.. United States, with a preference for the western United States





ABOUT THE CLIENT



The client is a private investment firm based in New York that invests in small and lower
middle-market businesses with a minimum of $10 million of revenue and $2 million of EBITDA. We
primarily focus on companies with repeat or recurring revenue business models and attractive growth
prospects.



The core of the investment strategy is partnering with proven and committed operating executives,
who may be a strong incumbent team and/or new team drawn from their extensive network. The
Management Partnership Program is our formal network of outstanding current and former CEOs, COOs
and entrepreneurs who possess significant operating and management expertise across a wide range of
industries.



The private equity firm is based in New York City and has a committed capital fund consisting of top
tier institutional as well as sophisticated private investors.





CONTACT INFORMATION



Please direct all serious investment inquiries and communication to Thomas Silvestri at the Opus
Global Group based in the OGG Chicago office.



Thomas Silvestri
CEO
Opus Global Group

Mobile: 773.706.1244
Fax: 973.201.9379

Skype: thomassilvestri

Email: tsilvestri@opusglobal.net

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Opus Global Group



How Do you Achieve Global Telecommunications and Mobile Innovation



At OGG, the Telecommunications Strategy Team (TMST) works with our clients to develop practical
strategies that capitalize on the opportunities presented by today's complex and uncertain global
communication - all mobile - economy to deliver high performance and profitability. We help
executives carefully think through possibilities, access and manage risk, and ultimately select the
strategic direction with the strongest stakeholder value potential.



The TMST transforms those insights into actionable plans at both the enterprise and business-unit
level that result in strategies, requirements, action plans that are focused on sustainable growth,
rooted in analytical rigor and built with execution in mind. With our help, organizations can move
quickly and decisively to capitalize on opportunities to unlock stakeholder value and grow
profitably-quarter by quarter, year after year.



OGG has provided business consulting for Phillips, Siemens, Bosch, Davitel, O2-Telefonica, Vodafone,
Eplus, T-mobile, T-systems, Marconi, Bosch, Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, Infineon, and Sony-Ericsson
and many more...



Corporate - Strategy and Planning

Develop Strategy and Planning requirements and the challenges to the client covering a period of the
next 10 years concerning the market changes and the requirement for the telecom and mobile products.
With our Cooperate Strategy intelligence we helped our client master the complexities of the change
to master business intelligence and operational performance. Best-in-Class performance scorecard
for a rapid ROI including the following:



.. Product Portfolio Redesign

.. Research and Development Strategy

.. Enterprise Program Management

.. Sales and Service Process Reengineering



Growth - M&A Transactions Advisory

M&A transactions requirement was to provide portfolio completion by buying a provider of state of
the art open Telco solutions. These new add on product portfolio should be integrated in the overall
sales portfolio. The M&A intelligence provided our client to succeed in a Best-in-Class performance
scorecard for a rapid ROI including the following:



.. Managed the M&A Acquisitions Team for two buy-side deals

.. Research and Development Enhancements

.. New Product Portfolio and Life Cycle Management

.. Delivered High IRR/ROI payback for corporate shareholders



Operations - Product Development

Customer request taking over the product planning and development. Defining the new product strategy
targeting for different customers and customer groups in the coms market. New set of products for
telephony and data coms defined, developed, and brought to market. Usage at customers products



.. Corporate Compliance

.. Global Business, Product and Program Strategy

.. Compliance RFI to RFQ Process

.. Organizational Management Development



Technology - Network Management

Customers request was a full blown umbrella network management based on HP open view to collect the
information's from all local NMs and OMCs. Customer defined his requirements and the standards to
follow. We did the full SW development for the system have delivered the first NM umbrella NM system
and introduced that in the customers OSS solution who tested, educated staff and introduced in
life operations.



.. Managed complexities for finance, resource allocations to achieve maximum productivity
ratios

.. Delivered project milestones in strategy, development, planning, project management

.. 27% increase in production efficiency by designing custom IT solutions performance
scorecard



Contact OGG for a confidential, no obligation consultation-including detailed information about our
Telecom & Mobile Specialists and ROI analyses for all your business services and solutions.



Learn more about OGG:



OGG Website

OGG Blog

OGG Twitter





Best Regards,


Thomas Silvestri



Thomas Silvestri
CEO
Opus Global Group

Chicago-Madrid-Frankfurt-Sao Paulo
Phone: 773.935.3583
Mobile: 773.706.1244
Fax: 973.201.9379

Skype: thomassilvestri

Email: tsilvestri@opusglobal.net

Blog: http://blog.opusglobal.net

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/opusglobal

Web: http://www.opusglobal.net









Best Regards,


Thomas Silvestri



Thomas Silvestri
CEO
Opus Global Group

Chicago-Madrid-Frankfurt-Sao Paulo
Phone: 773.935.3583
Mobile: 773.706.1244
Fax: 973.201.9379

Skype: thomassilvestri

Email: tsilvestri@opusglobal.net

Blog: http://blog.opusglobal.net

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/opusglobal

Web: http://www.opusglobal.net

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Opus Global Group

Global Strategy and Management Consulting



KEY COMPETITIVE DIFFERENTIATORS



Our key competitive differentiators from the market competitors are driven by our corporate values
through our superior impact by delivering the highest of quality and value to our clients'
businesses and their societies worldwide. Our unwavering commitment our clients and their
stakeholders success while setting new standards are the OGG values and principles in world-class
professional services organization. To help our clients realize the highest business intentions
through the unwavering attention and power of superior intelligence, domain expertise, and
resolution brilliance.



Opus Global Group is a premier global business consulting firm with unparalleled knowledge and
specialization of domain to help our clients succeed worldwide and accelerate their business
performance. Here are our key differentiators in the global consulting arena:



We identify, design and deliver superior business outcomes, impact and global value to our clients
worldwide.



Industry, process knowledge and global specialization ranked highest in management consulting.



Our innovative and disruptive mind sets that deliver "raising the bar vs. fixing" is the way to
compete in a global competitive universe.



We deliver intelligent universes of finance, technology, and operations to overcome the space and
time continuum.



Our superior strategy methodology in terms of total market share, costs, consumer loyalty, and
higher profit margins.



We maximize through optimal learning and knowledge exchange with our clients' into new business
dimensions.



Our business preference for knowledge and expertise over proximity, and credentials over
nationality.

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The OGG Telecommunications Strategy Team (TMST) works with our clients to develop practical
strategies that capitalize on the opportunities presented by today's complex and uncertain global
communication - all mobile - economy to deliver high performance and profitability. We help
executives carefully think through possibilities, access and manage risk, and ultimately select the
strategic direction with the strongest stakeholder value potential.



The TMST transforms those insights into actionable plans at both the enterprise and business-unit
level that result in strategies, requirements, action plans that are focused on sustainable growth,
rooted in analytical rigor and built with execution in mind. With our help, organizations can move
quickly and decisively to capitalize on opportunities to unlock stakeholder value and grow
profitably-quarter by quarter, year after year.



OGG has provided business consulting for Phillips, Siemens, Bosch, Davitel, O2-Telefonica, Vodafone,
Eplus, T-mobile, T-systems, Marconi, Bosch, Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, Infineon, and Sony-Ericsson
and many more...



Corporate - Strategy and Planning

Develop Strategy and Planning requirements and the challenges to the client covering a period of the
next 10 years concerning the market changes and the requirement for the telecom and mobile products.
With our Cooperate Strategy intelligence we helped our client master the complexities of the change
to master business intelligence and operational performance. Best-in-Class performance scorecard
for a rapid ROI including the following:



.. Product Portfolio Redesign

.. Research and Development Strategy

.. Enterprise Program Management

.. Sales and Service Process Reengineering



Growth - M&A Transactions Advisory

M&A transactions requirement was to provide portfolio completion by buying a provider of state of
the art open Telco solutions. These new add on product portfolio should be integrated in the overall
sales portfolio. The M&A intelligence provided our client to succeed in a Best-in-Class performance
scorecard for a rapid ROI including the following:



.. Managed the M&A Acquisitions Team for two buy-side deals

.. Research and Development Enhancements

.. New Product Portfolio and Life Cycle Management

.. Delivered High IRR/ROI payback for corporate shareholders



Operations - Product development

Customer request taking over the product planning and development. Defining the new product strategy
targeting for different customers and customer groups in the coms market. New set of products for
telephony and data coms defined, developed, and brought to market. Usage at customers products



.. Corporate Compliance

.. Global Business, Product and Program Strategy

.. Compliance RFI to RFQ Process

.. Organizational Management Development



Technology - Network Management

Customers request was a full blown umbrella network management based on HP open view to collect the
information's from all local NMs and OMCs. Customer defined his requirements and the standards to
follow. We did the full SW development for the system have delivered the first NM umbrella NM system
and introduced that in the customers OSS solution who tested, educated staff and introduced in
life operations.



.. Managed complexities for finance, resource allocations to achieve maximum productivity
ratios

.. Delivered project milestones in strategy, development, planning, project management

.. 27% increase in production efficiency by designing custom IT solutions performance
scorecard



Contact OGG for a confidential, no obligation consultation-including detailed information about our
Telecom & Mobile Specialists and ROI analyses for all your business services and solutions.



Learn more about OGG:



OGG Website

OGG Blog

OGG Twitter

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Opus Global Group

Global Strategy and Management Consulting



Accelerate Your Business Performance



TOP 10 HEALTH CARE CHALLENEGES





#1: Business Intelligence is the Number One Technology Investment Category



#2: Actionable Advice Will Lead Business Intelligence Priorities and Investment



#3: Legislative and Regulatory Compliance Initiatives Will Be Among the Top 3 Technology
Investment Categories in 2010



#4: Following the Hype Will Be Over - Return on Investment and Value Leads Selection Criteria
Priorities



#5: 2010 Will Be the Year of the EMR



#6: Meaningful Use Requirements Will Fuel Investment in HIE Technologies



#7: Medical Home Best Practices Will Emerge



#8: Value in the Drug Access and Pricing Equation Will Begin to Significantly Impact Drug Makers in
the United States in 2010



#9: Major Pharmaceutical Companies Will Move Significant Amounts of Their Discovery Research IT
Infrastructure to the Cloud



#10: Pharmaceutical IT Spending on Aggregate Promotional Spend Compliance Will Surge









ABOUT OGG



Opus Global Group, LLP (OGG) is a global strategy and management consulting organization with
headquarters in Chicago, IL. and encompasses operations in the U.S., EMEA, and LatAm markets. Our
executive management team comprises of the world's top senior executives with global leadership and
diverse cultural experiences. The OGG global network includes over 30 senior consultants and 10
alliance partners in more than 15 countries and operates out of 3 main offices in Chicago, Frankfurt
and Sao Paulo and satellite branches located throughout Europe.



CONTACT OGG



Opus Global Group
Global Strategy and Management Consulting

Chicago-Frankfurt-Sao Paulo

Phone: 773.935.3583
Fax: 973.201.9379

Email: sales@opusglobal.net

Blog: http://blog.opusglobal.net

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/opusglobal

Web: http://www.opusglobal.net

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Opus Global Group

Global Strategy and Management Consulting



Accelerate Your Business Performance




Health Care Consulting Capabilities





A combination of intensified health care globalization, brought on by recent turbulence in the
global economy, the new U.S. health care reform legislation, and the acceleration of new information
technologies is driving health care organizations and governments to look for new business models
to meet increased demands for efficiency, competitiveness, short-term agility and long-term growth.





The Opus Global Group (OGG) Health Care Strategy Team (HCST) works with our clients to develop
practical strategies that capitalize on the opportunities presented by today's complex and uncertain
global healthcare economy to deliver high performance and profitability. OGG help executives
carefully think through possibilities, access and manage risk, and ultimately select the strategic
direction with the strongest stakeholder value potential.



The OGG-HCST help executives translate those insights into actionable plans at both the enterprise
and business-unit level that result in strategies that are focused on sustainable growth, rooted in
analytical rigor and built with execution in mind. With OGG-HCST help, organizations can move
quickly and decisively to capitalize on opportunities to unlock stakeholder value and grow
profitably-quarter by quarter, year after year.





The OGG HCST approaches global health care from multi-dimensional perspectives: Corporate Strategy,
Growth Strategy, Operational Strategy and IT Strategy:

Corporate Strategy

* Corporate Strategy helps health care organizations create and implement strategies to
respond effectively to the unprecedented pressures of a multi-polar world and constantly evolving
industry dynamics. Our Corporate Strategy offerings include the following:



* Enterprise Transformation -Helps health care organizations identify and enact fundamental
changes to their business to remedy serious impediments to growth and market leadership.
* Operating Model-Provides strategic advantage in support of corporate strategy by helping
health care organizations make the right choices about customers, value creation, products, services
and channels.
* Strategic Planning-Brings together all the advantages multinationals have to leverage, while
diagnosing industry changes and developing an executable, strategic road map to help health care
organizations stay on the leading edge.



Growth Strategy

* Growth Strategy brings together all of the potential organic and inorganic growth scenarios
that help health care organizations assess whether to buy, build or borrow.



* Carve-Out /Divestiture-Our Carve-Out/Divestiture framework encompasses all aspects of a
divestiture transaction from conception through separation. As a result, we are able to help
divestiture clients execute their strategy faster, with less risk and with a clear focus on
stakeholder results.
* Growth Strategy Planning-Accelerates performance by assessing industry, market and customer
dynamics and identifying opportunities to capture value in new markets and geographies.
* Joint Ventures & Alliances-Our HCST experience with leading organizations across all health
care sectors - payer, provider, pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, disposables, have
identified several key principles of effective alliance governance that can improve a company's
chances for a profitable alliance or joint venture-and its chances for achieving high performance.
* M&A Transactions & Integration-This capability is integrated with our deep health care
industry experience, applied knowledge, and business research to provide health care organizations
with insights into achieving fast, low-risk and highly successful mergers or acquisitions. It also
features proven methodologies that facilitate speed-to-value and the attainment of sustained growth.



Operational Strategy

* Operational Strategy helps clients identify and shape operational improvement benchmarks for
new and existing businesses leading to improved shareholder returns and sustained durability.



* Pricing and Profit Optimization-Extensive research based on methodologies to exploit this
most underutilized lever possessing enormous impact on the entire operating model.
* Sales and Marketing-Identify health care industry-specific opportunities to drive greater
shareholder return from marketing portfolios while focusing on the high-velocity changes that CMOs
have to manage, including multiple customer/patient changes.
* Cost Reduction-Understand your cost profile and determine opportunities for removing cost
from your operations ultimate leading to agility for quick responses to market conditions.







IT Strategy

* IT Strategy helps clients innovate and enhance operational excellence to achieve a maximum
competitive advantage in the marketplace through the optimization of IT portfolios, transformation
capabilities, and greater business value from their enterprise IT investments include the following:



* IT Portfolio and Governance- Our methodology of effective IT Governance combined with an IT
portfolio architecture and strategic planning for the foundation of service excellence and
competitive business advantages in a globally competitive world.
* Service Enterprise Architecture- We understand the critical SaaS / SOA performance by
aligning our client's technology investments with a holistic IT strategy tied to their business
plan. We work closely with the executives, management and IT leadership to help them align
technology with their global operational capabilities and change management needs of the
organization.
* Enterprise Program Management- As a critical PMO partner to our IT clients business, we
focus on high impact improvements in enterprise business value and financial performance. We are
experienced professionals with IT value-creating strategies, while orchestrating relevant business
ROI correlated directly to IT investments resulting in a high-performance business operation.





ABOUT OGG



Opus Global Group, LLP (OGG) is a global strategy and management consulting organization with
headquarters in Chicago, IL. and encompasses operations in the U.S., EMEA, and LatAm markets. Our
executive management team comprises of the world's top senior executives with global leadership and
diverse cultural experiences. The OGG global network includes over 30 senior consultants and 10
alliance partners in more than 15 countries and operates out of 4 main offices in Chicago, Madrid,
Frankfurt and Sao Paulo and satellite branches located throughout Europe.



CONTACT OGG



Opus Global Group
Global Strategy and Management Consulting

Chicago-Madrid-Frankfurt-Sao Paulo

Phone: 773.935.3583
Fax: 973.201.9379

Email: sales@opusglobal.net

Blog: http://blog.opusglobal.net

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/opusglobal

Web: http://www.opusglobal.net

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



COMVERGE CONSULTING AND OPUS GLOBAL GROUP

A NEW EMEA STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP



CHICAGO - April 22, 2011 - Opus Global Group, LLP a global strategy and management consulting firm
announced today that Comverge Consulting, Mr. Steve Greenwood, Founder/CEO formed a new strategic
partnership for telecoms and mobile consulting services and solutions in Europe.



Comverge Consulting
Comverge Consulting is an independent consultancy based in the South of England and focused on the
converged communications market. It was formed in mid-2007 with headquarters in Hampshire, UK, and
provides services to a wide range of customers. The Founder, Mr. Steve Greenwood has over 20 years'
experience in Sales & Business Management, the last 15 of these being in the telecoms industry,
including operating at board level in 3 different companies. Prior to creating Comverge Consulting
Ltd, he spent 8 years at Intel Corporation in a number of senior management roles.



Please welcome Steve to the Opus Global Group Team!