1. Fortium Corporate Turnaround Superstar Cindy Johnson Joins Fortium.
Dallas, TX August, 2015 – FORTIUM PARTNERS, the world’s fastest-growing
provider of IT turnaround and leadership services announced today that corporate
turnaround trailblazer Cindy Johnson has joined Fortium Partners as Engagement
Partner in Northern California.
An IT consultant and esteemed CIO and CTO of multi-billion-dollar firms, Johnson is
laser-focused on aligning technology vision with business strategy to drive results.
Having led more than a dozen business and/or IT strategies for marquis companies
such as Hewlett Packard, LSI Logic, Husky Oil and Apple Computer, as well as 8
organizational turnarounds, she is the proven “hired-gun” executives want on the
job when corporate performance—and so much more—is on the line.
Johnson, a trusted partner/advisor to brand name firms like IBM Global, SAP,
Network Appliance, Applied Materials and Cadence Design Systems, has successfully
led many complex engagements including the integration of two $500MM
corporations where she eliminated 55% of costs , consolidated nine global data
centers down to two, and outsourced specific functions to gain additional network
capabilities not built in-house to meet time-to-market requirements, and led
competitive-bids that reduced costs by more than 40%.
A proven turnaround expert, Johnson led two major initiatives to effect wholesale
improvements... one in the semi-conductor industry and the other for a heavy oil
upgrader refinery. In both cases, Johnson implemented all systems required to “go
live” in under seven months enabling revenue generation of $400M and $1.2B in
first-year revenues respectively after prior failed attempts before her arrival.
“Bringing Cindy Johnson's capability into Fortium Partners is a major step for us, “
said Tim McCracken, Fortium Chairman and CEO. "Her dynamic leadership quality
has been a key factor in countless large-scale turnarounds, and that's just the
strength and "calm in the face of adversity" our clients have come to expect from
Fortium.
Johnson commented, “I love what Tim McCracken and the Fortium leadership team
has accomplished; they've put together the strongest group of large-company
CIO/CTO superstars anywhere, allowing Fortium to offer a highly differentiated and
sophisticated IT-leadership-for-hire value proposition that extends around the
world.”
About Fortium Partners:
FORTIUM PARTNERS is an IT turnaround and technology services firm focused
on providing world-class IT leadership to clients who wish to find solutions to
complex IT issues or difficult-to–solve operational challenges. FORTIUM serves
public and private companies across a variety of industries, placing expert
project teams and operational leadership resources in technology-related

2. roles. All FORTIUM Partners have 25 or more years of technology experience,
most recently in a senior leadership role.
Headquartered in Dallas, TX, Fortium Partners also operates offices in Los
Angeles; Orange County; Phoenix; Las Vegas; Atlanta, New York; Washington,
D.C.; Philadelphia; Chicago; Detroit; and London, U.K.
For more information, contact:
Burke Autrey / 972-827-8137 / burke.autrey@fortiumpartners.com /
www.fortiumpartners.com