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"I am con ident that the enhancements to our managementstructure will pro ide a strong basis to continue building our e ecti e ande icient program model, thereby allowing us to impact more children." New Additions to Executi e Sta Room to Read also announced the hiring o Ste en Zimmerman as chie o operations and Joanne Chou as chie inancial o icer. Zimmerman joins Room to Read with an extensi e background in internationalprogram design and management, ha ing held senior and executi e-le el positionswith Sa e the Children, A S Intercultural and Mercy Corps. An accountant andeconomist by training, Zimmerman has more than 25 years o experience instrategic planning, program design, proposal de elopment, project management,and monitoring and e aluation. As chie o operations, Zimmerman will beresponsible or leadership and assistance with strategic and tactical executiono all programmatic, country and operational issues related to day-to-daymanagement o Room to Read.

Zimmerman recei ed his bachelors degree in businessadministration rom the Uni ersity o Southern Cali ornia and studiedinternational economics at the Uni ersite de Tunis and rench literature at theUni ersite de Grenoble, rance. Chou joins Room to Read as chie inancial o icer, bringing more than 20 yearso experience in banking and international trade, corporate inance, in estmentmanagement and marketing strategy. Prior to joining Room to Read, she wasmanaging director o inance at Mac arlane Partners and held executi e le elpositions at Barclays Global In estors, Bank o America in Hong Kong and TheLong-Term Credit Bank o Japan. Chou holds an Master o Business Administration rom the Uni ersity o Cali ornia, Berkeley; a law degree rom the Uni ersity o Cali ornia, Los Angeles; and bachelors degrees in history and biologicalsciences rom Stan ord Uni ersity. About Room to ReadRoom to Read was established in 2000 based on the belie that education iscrucial to breaking the cycle o po erty in the de eloping world. Since then,the organization has supported nearly two million children throughoutBangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Nepal, South A rica, Sri Lanka, ietnam andZambia by pro iding better access to education.

Room to Read has catalyzed theconstruction o more than 700 schools and 7,000 bilingual libraries with 5million books, and continues to support the education o o er 7,000 girls. to ReadSonia TorresSenior PR Copyright Business Wire 2009. DUBLIN, Ireland(Business Wire)Research and Markets( http://) hasannounced the addition o the "Collaboration: Tools and Practices or EnterpriseWide Knowledge Exchange and Inno ation" report to their o ering. Establish a collaborati e culture in your organization today! Dri en by leading-edge technologies but not strictly a technology issue,collaboration is becoming a key item in strategic management agendas. Managers,leaders, and planners must adapt to the social changes taking place and equipthemsel es to understand and incorporate this trend in their organization'slong-term business objecti es. In this new Cutter Consortium report by Paola Di Maio and Pollyanna Pixton,you'll explore cutting-edge tools and strategies to oster collaboration andinno ation in your organization. You'll learn how to impro e and capitalize onyour communication low and resources with the latest social and networkingtools. And you'll learn how to unleash inno ation in your products, ser ices,and operations through the use o collaborati e models and processes.