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ACS is pleased to welcome Reuters Professional Publishing (formerly Thomson Financial) to the Advantage community. Reuters Professional Publishing is the fifth UK client to be live on Advantage, beginning live operations in the first quarter of 2008.
With a portfolio of market-leading titles and online services, Reuters Professional Publishing provides authoritative and unbiased market intelligence to investment banking and private equity professionals throughout the worlds. Additionally, Reuters Professional Publishing runs events across the globe, including roundtables, conferences and awards dinners.
Reuters Professional Publishing began looking for a new fulfillment system late in 2006 to replace several existing systems. Their primary objective was to find a system capable of fulfilling their multi-product strategy: subscriptions, management reports, advertising sales, and conferences. Being able to provide a complete picture of their customers was becoming increasingly difficult with several outdated billing and fulfillment systems. Additionally, Reuters Professional Publishing was looking for a system to improve their customer service and provide more comprehensive marketing capabilities. Advantage was the system chosen to best satisfy all of these needs.
Giuliana d’Agostino, Order Processing Manager of Publishing, has this to say about her division’s experience, “I’m very confident in the future and I’m more than ever confident that the choice of Advantage as a system has been a positive one.” The ACS team on the project included Tim Zapawa as project director, John Sheehy as project manager, Barbara Smith and Karl Davis as lead engineers. John Moore was also heavily involved in the subscription and customer data conversions.
After leading a very successful implementation of Advantage at Bayard Presse, Philippe van Mastrigt has been appointed the ACS Director for European Operations. In this role, Philippe provides a permanent ACS presence in Europe and the UK, working closely with current and prospective Advantage clients. Philippe's position with ACS is made possible through a close partnership with Bayard Presse, and he continues to provide consulting services for this major French publisher.
Prior to 2008, Philippe served as the Director for Projects and Client Marketing at Bayard Presse. Philippe's many responsibilities over the past 10 years at Bayard Presse included project management for major corporate initiatives, direct marketing, data mining, customer relationship management, database marketing, business reporting and analytics, and controller functions. Philippe started his career at France's leading cosmetic mail order company Yves Rocher. He is a 1994 graduate of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (H.E.C.), Paris.
Philippe, his wife Simone, and their two daughters reside in Paris. In his leisure hours, Philippe enjoys history books and films, genealogical research and writing on his family roots. The van Mastrigt family enjoys regular visits to Corsica to relax with their extended family and leave behind the hectic Parisian life.
ACS will exhibit at these shows in 2008: