Longitude Partners Announces New Leadership and Expanded Consulting Resources

TAMPA, Fla., March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Longitude Partners, Inc., a national financial services strategy and organizational growth consulting firm, today announced the addition of new leadership and consulting resources. Joining the firm are Andy Swenson, Executive Practice Leader, Technology; Bernard Guerrero, Executive Practice Leader, Decision Sciences; Susan Johnson, Senior Practice Director, Enterprise Operations; and Daniel Hines, Senior Director, Payment Systems. Each individual brings years of deep functional experience to the growth-oriented resources available from Longitude Partners.

"We are extraordinarily grateful and excited to add the talent, expertise and capabilities of these individuals to the Longitude team," said Kim Anderson, CEO. "In their own right, each of these individuals have strong, demonstrated track records of enabling dramatic, profitable growth in a variety of well-known firms. Longitude clients now have access to a full complement of experienced senior level resources to help evaluate, configure and install critical profit-driving tools to grow their financial services portfolios."

Andy Swenson, BS, CISSP, brings more than 25 years of experience in CIO assignments with firms such as Ceridian, Sykes and ServiceMaster. In 2012, Andy founded The Delbridge Group to leverage the capabilities of a broad network of technology professionals. For Longitude clients, Andy's work will focus on aligning client technology with growth strategies, system implementation and enterprise security.

Bernard Guerrero, MBA, BA, has been a decision sciences thought leader for specialty finance firms since 2003. He brings deep experience in profit-building predictive analytic solutions for customer acquisition and underwriting from assignments with ThinkFinance, AmeriCredit and Toys"R"Us.

Susan Johnson, MS, BA, has over 20 years of experience in project and product management, enterprise operations, integration management and customer support with MicroBilt/CL Verify, Encompass Telematics and Telargo.

Daniel Hines, BA, JD, has led prepaid business initiatives for over ten (10) years for Cornerstone Marketing, Motivano and Columbus Data Services with deep experience in reloadable (GPR), corporate incentive, payroll and loyalty rewards programs. He also adds overdraft, online short term lending, customer acquisition and retention experience to the Longitude team.

In concert with the firm's core business strategy and organizational health capabilities, these highly experienced additions dramatically expand the consulting resources available from Longitude Partners.

For more information, please visit www.longitudeinc.com.   

SOURCE Longitude Partners, Inc.