It was announced that Nancy J. Hopkins has recently been named Managing Director - Client Professional Services today by International Planning & Research (IPR), a Boston-based Management Consulting Company. In this role, she will lead IPR's client professional services function, as well as the development and delivery of strategic services for clients.

Prior to IPR, Ms. Hopkins held senior level positions in corporate strategy, global business intelligence, corporate marketing and worldwide sales at IBM, EDS, GTE, Compaq and SGI. As IBM's director of corporate strategy, Ms. Hopkins created a corporate business intelligence division that was responsible for helping Louis V. Gerstner and the entire IBM organization transform IBM into a customer and market driven business and return to profitability.  In addition to leading IBM's worldwide marketing intelligence and competitive intelligence functions, she developed a collaborative corporate strategy decision support system for senior executives, an integrated worldwide market opportunity forecasting and planning system to drive business decisions, and IBM.com. 

"Throughout her years in the high technology industry, Nancy has built a track record of success through the development of world-class global organizations, systems and processes," said IPR Managing Director, Joseph Gatto. "She brings strategic and tactical best practices to our firm, a disciplined approach to strategic systems development and experience in successfully delivering results that benefit customers and shareholders. We are happy to have Nancy lead our client professional services practice."

Ms. Hopkins earned a bachelor of arts with cum laude honors in Sociology from The University of Texas at Dallas. She is a graduate of Ty Boyd Excellence in Speaking Institute and serves as a Generations Center board of director. Ms. Hopkins and her husband reside in Irving, Texas.