Executive Board and Corporate Leaders

Peter Allen

Partner & Managing Director, TPI
peter.allen@tpi.net

Mr. Allen, Partner & Managing Director, is a member of TPI’s North American leadership team and TPI’s Executive Board. His responsibilities include advisory operations for the CFO Services and Financial Services Operations groups.

Additionally, Peter serves as one of TPI’s key thought leaders. He directs the TPI Index, the leading indicator of trends and developments occurring in the global sourcing industry, monitored quarterly by global equity analysts, media and industry observers. He is a frequent speaker at industry events focused on sourcing strategies and trends and is a regular spokesperson for TPI in the media and is often quoted in key business publication such as the The Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek and has appeared on “CNN/fn” and the “NBC Nightly News” as an expert on technology and sourcing trends.

Peter provides counsel to senior executives across a wide spectrum of TPI clients relating to the alignment of service delivery operating models with corporate strategies for enhanced competitiveness. His expertise spans the domains of outsourcing, offshoring, shared services and organizational transformation.

Previous positions within TPI include Chief Marketing Officer and leadership of the company’s business process advisory services. With the experience gained from over 25 years of industry participation ranging from service delivery to corporate governance, he provides TPI’s clients with perspectives on the relationship of sourcing strategies to corporate objectives, notably including the alignment of overhead expenses with changing revenue circumstances.

Peter joined TPI in 2001, after serving as Chairman, President and CEO of a NASDAQ-listed outsourcing service provider, delivering consulting, data center, software testing and offshore applications services from operations in Ireland.

Previously, Peter spent nine years in senior management positions with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). His last assignment at CSC was as Global Service Delivery Executive for CSC’s US$2 billion IT outsourcing relationship with JPMorgan, encompassing more than 2,400 staff across the globe. Previously, Peter served as CSC’s lead executive for operations supporting the modernization of the wholesale material management functions of the armed services through the Joint Logistics Systems Center in Dayton, Ohio. He also led initiatives supporting defense and intelligence systems integration programs.

His career began as a member of the Arpanet/Internet engineering team for Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBN), where he was responsible for research and development activities and systems engineering related to Internet security, packet switching and performance modeling and simulation. Peter led BBN’s business in support of the U.S. intelligence community.

From 2002 through 2007, Peter served on the board of directors for Nautilus Inc., a NYSE-listed marketer, developer, and manufacturer of branded health and fitness products with direct, retail and commercial sales channels worldwide. During this time, he was the Lead Independent Director and Chairman of the company’s compensation and nominating/governance committees. He is certified by the UCLA Anderson School of Management’s Director Certification Program.

Peter holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.


In Peter’s Words

“We are passionate about our clients and the value proposition we help them to achieve. We are privileged to serve some of the most demanding clients in the world.”

Read and respond to Peter’s blog, Consider the Source


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