Corporate Overview

Mission Statement

"All employees, alliance partners, and associates will apply the following attributes to the pursuit of success in the business community...

    INTEGRITY
    INTENSITY
    ENERGY
    FOCUS

...and in that order of importance."

Charter

Mutual Profitability

Our charter calls for ethical dealings with clients that will yield mutually profitable relationships.

 

Our Contribution to Your Success

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Professional Staff
Our staff is comprised of highly motivated and seasoned professionals, many of whom are certified in their specialty. ACUMEN augments our professional team by forming strategic alliances with other quality organizations who have complimentary products and services to ensure that a full range of expertise and state-of-the-art technologies are always available to our clients.

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State-of-the-art Technologies
through Strategic Partnerships

Progress Software

One such strategic partner is Progress Software. ACUMEN Corporation has become one of the largest Progress development companies in the United States and provides Progress-based solutions for middle market and Fortune 1000 clients across North America.

OpenAccounts

OpenAccounts has selected ACUMEN as its "Center for Excellence" for the U.S. market to assist in the training and implementation of their remarkable GUI accounting package.

IBM Corporation

ACUMEN has been an IBM Business Partner since 1991, and is certified as a BESTteam provider, distinguished as an AIX implementation and training specialist.


Principals

Phillip G. Perkins, President and CEO

    In 1991, Phil formed ACUMEN Corporation after serving as a Partner and Vice President, Marketing for a large mid-Atlantic computer services company. After starting his information systems career with Norfolk Southern Railway, he served in various technical and management capacities with several firms including the large conglomerate Continental Group of Stamford, Connecticut.

    Phil frequently speaks at conferences and symposiums on business development and the focused deployment of information systems. In addition, he has taught management courses on the university level, and has served on or chaired several national advisory boards in related industries. He is active on the Central Virginia board of APICS - The Educational Society for Resource Management.

    Phil has also organized and led several national business partner councils for product developers in order to provide both developers and clients with current and success oriented strategies to stimulate growth in the Enterprise Resource Planning environments.

    He is a community leader, has presided over several homeowner and charitable associations, and is frequently quoted in the business media.

Sandra L. Dube, Executive Vice President and CFO

    Co-founder, Sandra came to ACUMEN from a mid-Atlantic regional public accounting firm where she was an auditor and business consultant. Sandra has served in corporate accounting, management and controller positions principally in the distribution industry. For example, as an executive for the international holding company of the Independent Grocers Alliance, Sandra managed inventory-related audits.

    During the prime growth period of one of the nation's largest catalogue/showroom retailers, she managed sales-related audits on a national scale and sat on various systems deployment advisory councils for the firm. She currently serves as President of Central Virginia's Educational Society for Resource Management (APICS) chapter.

    In addition to her strong financial background, Sandra is an accomplished graphic designer and marketing professional, and is editor of an award winning APICS newsletter. Sandra is also a member of the Gold Key Honor Society.

Offices

ACUMEN Corporation is based in Richmond, Virginia, with offices throughout the United States and in Montreal, PQ, Canada.