Dr. Wendell Jones, Joins Digital Fuel's Advisory Board

Dr. Wendell Jones, Vice President of Operations Management Services at Compaq Corporation, today was appointed to the Advisory Board for Digital Fuel Technologies, the leading provider of Sourcing Relationship Management solutions.

Dr. Wendell Jones is a senior executive with 30 years of management experience in the securities, aerospace, and computer industries and the U.S. military. He recently was awarded the Outsourcing World Achievement 2000 Award by PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is the author of numerous outsourcing articles and co-author of Outsourcing Information Technology Systems and Services, a book recently published by Prentice Hall. His extensive outsourcing experience as both a customer and service provider includes leading the evaluation, negotiation and management of a $3 billion, 10-year agreement at McDonnell Douglas and selective onshore and offshore outsourcing while Senior Vice President of Technology Services at NASD/Nasdaq Stock Market. He joined Compaq (formerly Digital Equipment Corp) as Vice President of Operations Management Services in November 1997. Operations Management Services is Compaq's outsourcing business unit. Dr. Jones is a member of several organizations that promote outsourcing information exchange, objective research, and best practices for both customers and service providers.

"Wendell brings his vast experience, successful track record, and keen knowledge of the IT outsourcing industry to our Advisory Board," said Benny Lehmann, CEO of Digital Fuel. "Given his expertise we will look to Wendell to help us develop our product roadmap and market penetration strategies. We're very excited to have Wendell join us, and we look forward to his contributions in the years ahead."

In addition to extensive industry experience, Dr. Jones academic background includes M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in management and information systems from the University of Georgia and a bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas. He also completed a post-doctoral fellowship in computer science at Cornell University.

About Digital Fuel

Digital Fuel is the leading provider of business service management (BSM) software solutions, helping service providers and enterprise service organizations manage the performance, financial, and regulatory aspects of IT, telecommunications, and business process services.  Digital Fuel has the largest deployments for SLA management and service cost management in the world, with thousands of concurrent users, SLAs, KPIs, metrics, cost formulas, and pricing rules.  With Digital Fuel's patented visual approach, our customers are deployed rapidly to quickly drive business value from automating the management of service offerings, agreements, service cost, and performance with their service customers and vendors.  ServiceFlow manages billions in business and IT services at companies and governments around the world such as Procter & Gamble, General Electric, Cummins, Capgemini, BT, IBM, SITA, Siemens Business Services, O2, Atos Origin, Telefonica, Transport of London, CSC and many others.  Digital Fuel is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices across North America and Europe.  Learn more at http://www.digitalfuel.com.