First Kernel :: Empowering Exceptional Performance

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We help companies and strategic business units transform their performance through innovation, change and growth. Our clients rely on us to successfully navigate key ‘inflection points’ along their journey, and regain momentum.

We are ‘hands-on’ experts in revenue growth acceleration; product and brand revitalization; financial structure reorganization; strategic alliance and offshoring facilitations; preparation for capital infusion, mergers or acquisitions; key management talent integration, and more. First Kernel goes beyond creating a strategic roadmap: We actually execute it, working alongside with our client teams and then monitor it to ensure ongoing success.

First Kernel’s advisors bring an average of 20 years of industry experience as entrepreneurs, CEOs, CFOs, HR Specialists, VPs of Sales & Marketing, M&A Specialists, Outsourcing Leaders, Strategy & Operations Consultants, VC Facilitators and LBO Executives.

Backed by our patented methodology and a formidable team of transformation advisors, First Kernel works towards a single outcome – helping our clients SUCCEED BEYOND EXPECTATIONS.

First Kernel’s hands-on team enhances Investors’ success in Sourcing, Closing and Value Creation, and Enterprises’ success in Restructuring, Renovation and Globalization.

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	First Kernel retained by client to develop acquisition options to support rapid growth

	First Kernel promotes Rashmi Malhotra to Managing Principal

	First Kernel helps mid-market company accelerate its sales growth

	First Kernel at Dallas Annual State of Technology Luncheon

	First Kernel’s Andy Pulianda to assist State of Texas with Venture Funding

	First Kernel to create high-end consulting capability for client

	First Kernel to facilitate strategic partnership

	Rashmi Malhotra joins First Kernel as Principal

	First Kernel selected to re-vitalize brand

	Benchmarking of IT, F&A, HR and Supply Chain domains

	First Kernel completes first eTMM-Execution Audit

	First Kernel presents at FEI conference on Transformation

	Brian Byrne joins First Kernel as a Principal

	Jim Whitmore joins First Kernel as Principal

	First Kernel Chrysalis program™ announced for 2006

	Michael Sawyer joins First Kernel as Managing Principal

	Collaborative Adaptive Sourcing (CAS) reduces time-to-solution, integrates benchmarking in deal-pricing and improves ease of switching amongst outsourcers

	First Kernel announces the industry’s first Enterprise Transformation Maturity Model (eTMM) in co-development with University of Texas at Dallas