Kraai Consulting Announces a New Office in Chicago
December 17, 2007

What does a company based in near Kansas City that has everyone in the company get on a plane and fly to Chicago every Monday do to alleviate travel? They open an office in Chicago, of course. Kraai Consulting, LLC has done just that hiring a long term Content Management industry veteran by the name of Brent Litzer to lead the effort.

As a part of an initiative to rework the management of the company to alleviate some of the stress on the two Managing Partners, Scott Kaufmann and Robert Kraai, Brent Litzer was hired in December of 2007 to help open up the market and provide some of his excellent background to enhance the Kraai organization. Brent has worked with Vignette (a key product suite for Kraai) and has contacts and management skills to bolster the presence of the organization in the Chicago area as well as the upper Midwest.

Brent has over 12 years of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) experience. He started this journey building content management systems for the Chicago Tribune in 1996. From there, he went on to build his own company to provide ECM services to such clients as AT&T, Sprint, and the Chicago Tribune. Prior to joining Kraai, he took a position at Motorola to help build a vision and strategy for Motorola's intranet content management needs.

"Chicago has been a great area for us in the past, but you can’t have your whole company flying there every week. It is a travel burden on the client and on our people," says Robert. "It was fairly clear that we were growing in this area, and that we needed leadership like Brent to drive it with a more local approach. Scott and I met Brent and knew he was a fellow that we could trust and partner with for the long term."

"I am excited to join the Kraai team. My past experience in running a content management company gives me the experience to make an immediate contribution to the company. I believe they have the right vision and approach to this business. Kraai Consulting partners with their customers to get the right thing done instead of just doing what it takes to bill the customer." says Brent. Brent will take on the title of Director of Consulting Services and operate as a part of the senior management team.

About Kraai Consulting

Kraai Consulting, LLC. (www.kraai.com) is an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) consulting firm. ECM is a broad field consisting of Web Content Management and Portal, Collaboration, Knowledge Management, Records Management, Document Management, Imaging and Workflow, and Search. Our goal is to create a set of ECM practices in each product line based on deep technical experience (implementation and maintenance) tied together with solid research and strategy capabilities to promote the best possible client ROI.

The company is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, and operates branch offices in Scottsdale, Arizona and Chicago, Illinois.

Contact:
Jason Belcher
Kraai Consulting