Global Consulting Firm Appoints Charles Giancarlo to Its Board

Accenture announced that it has appointed Charles Giancarlo to the company's board of directors.

Giancarlo is a managing director at Silver Lake, a private investment firm that focuses on the technology, technology-enabled and related growth industries, and also serves as interim president and CEO of Avaya, Inc., a telecommunications company co-owned by Silver Lake.

The appointment has been approved by Accenture's board of directors. Giancarlo joins the board as a Class I director, subject to re-appointment at the Accenture Ltd annual general meeting of shareholders in February 2009. He has been appointed to serve on the board's Finance and Nominating & Governance committees.

"We are very excited to have Charlie join our board of directors," said William D. Green, Accenture's chairman & CEO. "With more than 25 years of experience in the communications industry and as a leader of one of the country's most sophisticated technology investment firms, Charlie brings with him an extraordinary tech background. I know I speak for the other board members when I say that we look forward to the valuable perspective he will provide related to Accenture's strategy, operations and management."

With the appointment, Accenture noted, its board now comprises 11 directors, 10 of whom are external and independent. Green is the board's only internal director.

Giancarlo has been a managing director with Silver Lake since December 2007. Since June 2008 he has also served as interim president and CEO at Avaya, where he is expected to become chairman of the board in January 2009 upon appointment of the new president and CEO.

Before joining Silver Lake in December 2007, Giancarlo spent 14 years with Cisco Systems, where he led the company's product development, business development and other management activities. Among the variety of senior executive roles he held was executive vice president and chief development officer, responsible for all of the company's business units and divisions, and president of Cisco-Linksys.

Giancarlo also serves on the board of directors of Avaya and Netflix, Inc.

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company.