02/11/2016
Primus U.S.A. Celebrates First Year Anniversary
Primus is a multinational company, founded in and operating from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan since 1996.It specializes in providing software solutions, IT infrastructure and consultancy services to both public and private entities of varying sizes and sectors across diverse geographic locations.
Established in 1996, Primus is serves clients throughout the Middle East, USA and North Africa through offices in the USA, Bahrain, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. In addition, the company has representative offices in Qatar, Kuwait and Lebanon.
Over the past two decades, Primus has had a significant presence in numerous Jordan-U.S.A. Business forums and has worked diligently with a number of reputable US companies, donor organizations and entities. With a board of directors and a management team who are predominantly U.S.A. educated, the company has built a strong understanding of both Western and Middle Eastern cultures and markets, effectively providing the best business solutions whilst abiding by best business practices across various markets and geographic locations.
In working towards solidifying its presence in the U.S.A. and extending its reach, Primus officially established an office in the U.S.A. in 2015. Primus U.S.A. is headed by Mr. Chas M. White, Managing Partner. He leads this executive consulting practice designed to assist an organization's senior business leadership to optimize the value delivered by information technology.
“Having worked with Primus in the Middle East for nearly 20 years, first utilizing the company’s services as an IT support contractor and later as a business engagement partner, we developed a strong friendship and trust relationship,” said Mr. White. “When Primus decided to engage in executive consulting, both in the region and with US organizations having operations in the Middle East, it seemed a natural fit for us to partner with one another. Today, we engage with our clients in an active and meaningful manner that brings the advantages and experience of major enterprise operations to the boardroom without sacrificing the cultural nuances of the region. Our services enhance operational efficiency and effectives through proper emphasis on strategy, governance, security, and financial optimization.”
Early engagements by Primus U.S.A. were with DAI (www.dai.com), founded in 1970 as one of the largest USAID Contractors.
"Chas White and the Primus team have helped us step outside the prism of our own thinking regarding IT governance and strategy," said James Boomgard, President and CEO of DAI, a global development company that retained Primus to review the company's IT function. "With the benefit of this external perspective, we are better positioned to seize the opportunities and mitigate the risks facing our business in the next phase of our evolution as a global development services provider," added Boomgard.
PRIMUS USA addresses the following principal solutions:
• Strategy - A suite of Custom IT Diagnostic Tools are used to assess the maturity and completeness of an organization's IT Strategy and associated IT Governance processes. The purpose is to ensure business objectives are clearly supported by IT imperatives, as reflected in the IT portfolio. A set of over 600 established IT practices are used to benchmark performance as it relates to IT organizational maturity and the capability to optimize information technology investments toward attainment of corporate objectives. These services can also be valuable in merger and acquisition decision making.
• Operations – Reviews of operational realization practices against established service management and service delivery frameworks (e.g. ISO 20000 ITIL, 22301 BCDR, & 27001 ISMS), evaluation and recommendations regarding controls in outsourced environments, service center performance reporting, and policy and procedures documentation management.
• Financial – Budget analysis and benchmarking within the IT organization, as well as consideration of how IT practices can be leveraged towards cost-take-out opportunities including SG&A reductions, off-shoring, virtualization and outsourcing.
• Security – Information assurance analysis activities and vulnerability assessments including policy and procedures audits, IT security discipline assessment and pe*******on testing/analysis… to highlight a few. All engagements include remediation guidance.
About: Mr. Chas White
An IT professional with a wealth of international experience, Chas enjoys opportunities where he can take a hands-on role to consult/mentor/support organizations with specific projects or outcomes in mind, primarily via short term (4-8 months) engagements. Chas’ professional experience includes:
Chief Executive Officer of White Associates R&D (LLC), a boutique executive services consulting firm which worked with boards to align their IT Portfolio with their business strategies; CTO of a major India-based managed services organization, in a client facing role; EVP & Global CIO/CTO of a $3.3B consulting firm; Global CIO of a Big-4 Accounting firm (based in Amsterdam); CEO of a joint venture LLC owned by Cisco, Microsoft and KPMG Consulting; General Manager for a LAN Magazine Top-10 network integration company; Co-Founder and Director of Engineering for the Bell Atlantic Network Integration (BANI) startup; Manager of Data Services for a regional Bell operating telephone company; and Senior Programmer for a mining industry software services company.
As a published author and global enterprise leader with experience in more than 60 countries, Chas is an IT leader who was ranked 38th in InformationWeek’s Top 250 Leaders, Collaborators and Influencers. He is also a frequent presenter at international leadership conferences.
For several years, Chas has been actively engaged with design, deployment, and support of public, private and hybrid cloud offerings in a multi-national environment and in growing international advanced managed security services offering. His specialties include Strategic Planning and Alignment, IT Value Generation in Complex Enterprise Multi-National Environments, Cost Take-Out Initiatives and Off-Shoring, IT Portfolio Management, Strategies for Selling to CxO's, Knowledge Management & Collaboration Operations Realization and Cost Management Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) Services, and Enterprise Managed Security Services.
