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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Kinsmen Group Rounds Out Expertise and Global Reach
with Addition of Industry Leaders
HOUSTON, TX (September 2, 2015) – Newly formed Kinsmen Group, a service organization
dedicated to providing engineering information management (EIM) services, announced today
it is substantially enhancing its industry expertise and global reach with the addition of five
key industry veterans based in the U.S. and the U.K.
New Kinsmen Group employees will provide a deep bench of industry understanding and
include Paul Cheetham, Nimesh Gandhi, and Lara Graham, all based in the U.K., as well as
Greg Van Wormer and William Zarco, based in the U.S.
Brian Sallade, CEO of Kinsmen Group, indicated the addition of key industry veterans
represents a significant achievement for the company.
“Our new team members are top-notch talent who – thanks to the breadth of their many
years of first-hand experience with engineering content management and document control –
understand our clients’ needs and how to deliver the greatest value to them,” said Brian
Sallade, Kinsmen Group CEO. “This aligns completely with the company’s dedication to
understanding the highly specialized needs of global companies who want to manage their
engineering information as effectively as possible,” said Sallade.
Kinsmen Group launched earlier this year with a commitment to offering specialized solutions
and services for engineering information management. The company’s services are ideally
suited for asset-intensive organizations including process manufacturers and large companies
in industries, such as oil and gas, utilities, pharmaceuticals and chemicals.
With expert guidance from the Kinsmen Group, clients benefit from solutions that help keep
engineering information under control. Clients can achieve higher returns while reducing risk
on costly assets within a safe and compliant environment by maximizing interoperability
between design, construction and operational processes. Expert advice and implementation
also ensures organizations have the tools, controls and data they need to be most productive,
effectively harnessing the information contained in potentially millions of engineering
documents scattered across the enterprise.
Additionally, Kinsmen Group offers consulting services to help companies determine what
value they could expect by implementing a system along with gap assessments to determine
what is missing from their existing processes or systems relative to what is considered
industry best practices. The company also provides remote system administration, technical

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support, document control, drafting services and user adoption and transition services to help
companies manage their systems and EIM processes without requiring dedicated internal
resources.
Company co-founders, Brian Sallade and Jessica Bianchessi, who hail from BlueCielo ECM
Solutions and McLaren Software respectively, are committed to offering a service-oriented
approach to managing engineering information, along with a handful of specialized services to
help customers use these systems during the complete asset lifecycle.
Cheetham, formerly vice president of global services at McLaren Software and a 16-year
veteran at the company, will step in at Kinsmen Group to lead the technical team in delivering
the highest quality solutions to customers. Gandhi and Graham also join from McLaren
Software, where they served as principal architect and solution architect respectively, and will
be providing solution architecture and consulting services.
While at BP and BG Group, Zarco honed his skills as project manager for implementing an
engineering data warehouse and document management coordinator for large-scale
construction projects. He will offer similar consulting services to Kinsmen Group clients. Van
Wormer will join the team as a solution consultant. Having previously worked at McLaren
Software as a global principal business consultant and Weyerhaeuser Engineering Services as
engineering systems manager, he will be providing consulting services and solutions to
engineering process problems based on his engineering experience.
About Kinsmen Group, LLC
Kinsmen Group, with locations in the U.S. and the U.K., launched in early 2015 focused on
offering a service-oriented approach to managing engineering information. The company
specializes in consulting, project management and technical services that ultimately deliver
fit-for-purpose solutions along with training and user adoption services that ensure users
adjust quickly to new technology and processes. The company also provides complete
managed services, including document control, drafting, system administration and support,
to help customers effectively use these systems during the complete asset lifecycle. All
services are designed to ensure customers focus on their core competencies of project and
operational excellence while Kinsmen Group focuses on navigating customers around the
common pitfalls of managing engineering documents and data. To learn more, go to
www.kinsmengroup.com.
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Media Contact:
Jessica Bianchessi
Vice President, Business Management Services
Kinsmen Group
Ph.: 713-725-0143
jessica.bianchessi@kinsmengroup.com