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FAST 100 - Virtual Intelligence Providers'
Outstanding Achievements are Recognized Again!

September 15th, 2009
For Immediate Release

HOUSTON – VIP’s outstanding achievements have earned a place on the Houston Business Community being recognized by the Houston Business Journal as a Fast 100 Company.
VIP was also added to the FAST 100 List published on a special section of the Journal on September 11, 2009. The Houston Fast 100 is ranked by two year growth. All of the companies on the list are headquartered within the ten-county Houston metropolitan area and have been doing business for a minimum of five years.

VIP and Sonia Clayton were honored by the Houston Business Journal, Whitney Bank, Pierpont Communications, G&A Partners, Staples and Verizon Wireless during a hosted awards luncheon, last Friday September 11th, at the Intercontinental Houston Hotel.

The Houston Fast 100 Awards Ceremony had more than 950 businessmen and women in attendance, most of them highly recognized rapid growing businesses in Houston, as well as their colleagues, friends and family who came to the event to cheer them on.

We congratulate our President and CEO for a job well done!

Virtual Intelligence Providers honored again in the 2009 “Houston Business Journal's Fastest Growing Woman-Owned Businesses List”

August 21, 2009
For Immediate Distribution

HOUSTON – Virtual Intelligence Providers (VIP) has been honored another time with its inclusion in the “Houston Business Journal's Fastest Growing Woman-Owned Businesses List”. This privilege is granted annually by the Houston Business Journal as a way to recognize and encourage the efforts of local women-owned & operated enterprises / businesses whose continued growth and successful track record warrants for them to be featured in that prestigious list.

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Virtual Intelligence Providers, LLC, has been on this list for a couple of years now. The Journal publishes it annually along with a brief note on the chosen organization and its owner or operator. A luncheon then is in order, followed by the delivery of the corresponding awards honoring both the business—and its female founder or owner. On hand to receive the latter was Frank Velasco, in representation of Sonia Clayton, VIP’s CEO & President, away for the occasion on family business. Omni Bank, Aetna, NAWBO, WBEA and Fox 26 acted as co-hosts and sponsors for the event held at the Inter-Continental Houston Hotel--2222 West Loop South.

Virtual Intelligence Providers (www.vip-global.com) has successfully and uninterruptedly delivered Enterprise Technology and IT Support Services since 2001. The most outstanding feature of VIP is not just the specialized knowledge, maturity, poise and flexibility of its professional force, but rather its permanent commitment to excellence, ethical behavior, flexibility and affordabilityof services, solutions or products offered.

VIP’s services make up a comprehensive array of business fields or areas of expertise, all enough to satisfy the various technological expectations or necessities of small, medium or large size organizations: ERP Project Support/Management, Implementation Support, Change Communications, Business Technology Training and Documentation, Application Development, Performance Improvement, Technical Writing, Staff Augmentation, Curricular Development and even e-Learning Services.

*Virtual Intelligence Providers, LLC, is certified as a minority, women-owned/operated, equal employment organization qualified to provide technology services at various levels, both for private and governmental organizations. Also, the firm is registered with the Houston Minority Business Council (HMBC), and with the Better Business Bureau--BBB.

Copyright © 2009 by Virtual Intelligence Providers, LLC, Houston, TX, USA. www.vip-global.com
Questions / Comments: Contact Leica Fielding, Public Relations, 281.350.6862, lfielding@vip-global.com

“Houston Business Journal's Fastest Growing Woman-Owned Businesses List” will include Virtual Intelligence Providers one more time

July 13, 2009
For Immediate Distribution

HOUSTON –Virtual Intelligence Providers (VIP) is set to be included again in the “Houston Business Journal's Fastest Growing Woman-Owned Businesses List”. This privilege is granted annually by the Houston Business Journal as a way to recognize and encourage the efforts of local enterprises or businesses whose continued growth and successful track record warrants for them to be featured in that prestigious list.

The list will be out in a Journal's Special Section scheduled for publication on August 21, 2009. It will be followed, on that same date, by a luncheon, with the Journal itself along with Omni Bank, Aetna, NAWBO, WBEA and Fox 26 acting as co-hosts, at the Inter-Continental Houston Hotel--2222 West Loop South.

As part of Houston’s own community of businesses, Virtual Intelligence Providers (www.vip-global.com) has been successfully delivering Enterprise Technology and IT Support Services since 2001. The most outstanding feature of VIP is not just the specialized knowledge, maturity, poise and flexibility of its professional force, but rather its permanent commitment to excellence, ethical behavior, flexibility and affordability of services, solutions or products offered.

VIP’s service features are made up of a comprehensive array of business fields or areas of expertise enough to satisfy the various technological expectations or necessities of small, medium or large size organizations: ERP Project Support/Management, Implementation Support, Change Communications, Business Technology Training and Documentation, Application Development, Performance Improvement, Technical Writing, Staff Augmentation, Curricular Development and even e-Learning Services.

Virtual Intelligence Providers LLC (VIP) wins
its certification as a Small Business Enterprise

April 22, 2009
For Immediate Distribution

HOUSTON – Thanks to the auspices of the Office of Small Business at the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas, Virtual Intelligence Providers, LLC (www.vip-global.com) became officially certified today as a Small Business Enterprise—SBE. The corresponding certificate was issued under NAICS-541512, which covers a wide rage of Computer Systems Design and Consulting Services.

This is, undoubtedly, another important milestone for an organization that started very modestly and now features quite panoply of specialized Business / Organizational Technology and IT Support Services. VIP is, part of Houston’s very vibrant business community, now in its 8 consecutive year of successful performance as choice provider of enterprise services and solutions. The firm’s strength resides not just in the specialized knowledge, maturity, poise and flexibility of its professional force, but rather in its permanent commitment to excellence, ethical behavior, flexibility and affordability of services or solutions offered.

VIP’s line-up of (service) features covers a comprehensive array of business fields or professional areas of expertise, enough to satisfy the ever-increasing technological expectations and needs of small, medium or large private corporate or governmental clients, chief among them: ERP Project Support/Management, Implementation Support, Change Communications, Business Technology Training, Application Development, Performance Improvement, Staff Augmentation, Curricular Development and e-Learning Services.

HOUSTON – On April 22, for the third consecutive year,theBetter Business Bureau honoredVirtual Intelligence Providers, L.L.C. (VIP) with the “Winner of Distinction” award for excellence. The BBB recognizes annually accredited companies that maintain a superior commitment to ethics, overall excellence and quality in the workplace.

Since its beginning in 2001, VIP has been committed to honesty and integrity in all of its business functions and relationships. VIP works to maintain its reputation for reliability and integrity in its performance while keeping open and honest communication with its partners and customers.

With headquarters in north Houston, VIP offers consulting services in IT and ERP Project Management, Staff Augmentation, Performance Improvement, Administrative and Project Support, and HR and Educational Initiatives. Its staff of highly qualified, seasoned professionals has provided quality, cost effective IT and business solutions for more than 70 Fortune 500 corporations with international operations.

VIP adds the third “Winner of Distinction” award to its already impressive list of honors including: E-10 Emerging Company award, “One Amazing Woman” from the National Association of Women Business Owners, Top Business 2005 from DiversityBusiness.com, “Top Houston Woman in Technology” by Gov. Rick Perry, “Female Entrepreneur of the Year” by the Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and Houston Business Journal’s “Fast 100 Growing Companies” among others.

HOUSTON – In what is otherwise a challenging time for business development and commercial associations, VIP has opened another project front by signing a new strategic alliance staffing service agreement for IT and Infrastructure Support through Worldwide Technical Services provider, Moody International (www.moodyint.com).

Moody, headquartered in the UK and with its Americas regional office in Houston, has an international network of over 80 offices in 60 countries. It is a leading global provider of technical staffing, technical inspection, consultancy and training, to the oil and gas, construction, mining and power generation industries and ISO certification services to all sectors. Its blue chip client base includes ExxonMobil, Chevron, Conoco-Phillips, BP, Aramco, Bechtel and Dow Chemical.

Chuck Parker, Technical Staffing Services General Manager for the USA operations commented: “Moody International is very excited to be associated with such a dynamic and successful organization in VIP. The strategic alliance agreement will very much benefit both VIP and Moody, but more importantly our clients, and our mutual ability to continue to provide them with the “best of the best” in technical staffing requirements.”

“As for VIP, it is another very important, exciting and synergistic association…” says Sonia Clayton, VIP’s CEO. Moody’s footprint and quality services, plus the flexibility, know-how and strength of VIP’s capabilities in the IT/Infrastructure Support department, make this association one loaded with possibilities and potential. It also shows management determination, for both Moody and VIP, to keep moving forward in the face of existing challenges.

VIP’s strength as a Business Technology Provider resides not just in the specialized knowledge, maturity, poise and flexibility of its professional force, but also in its organizational commitment to excellence, ethical behavior, flexibility and affordability of all services and solutions offered. The firm’s offer is a wide array of fields or areas of expertise, chief among them: ERP Project Support/Management, Implementation Support, Change Communications Advisory, Business Technology Training, Application Development, Performance Improvement for Organizations, Augmentation, Curricular Development and e-Learning Services.

HOUSTON – On March 31 after two years of an exhaustive, rigorous process to meet established criteria, Virtual Intelligence Providers, L.L.C. was formally certified by the City of Houston’s Affirmative Action and Contract Compliance Program, under NAICS-541512, as a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Women Business Enterprise or WBE.

Both of these certifications attest to and reflect upon the spirit of perseverance, ingenuity and vision of Sonia Clayton and that first cadre of inspired IT professionals who first came around in 2001 with the idea to establish the organization.

Although times are perhaps more challenging now than ever before, this same spirit and creativity continues to infuse our daily activities, either in the office or out at a client's place of activity. We look forward to humble though steady and firm growth in the hopes of prolonging what, up to this day, has become our mutual success.

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Virtual Intelligence Providers, LLC, (VIP) inducted by the Houston Business Journal (HBJ) as both one of the Fastest Growing [# 25] Woman-Owned Businesses, Sep. 22, and one of Houston’s 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies—Sep. 26--in the area. HBJ includes businesses into the latter list on the basis of at least 5 years of uninterrupted activity and 2-years of verifiable revenue growth. VIP was ranked 43rd.

HOUSTON – This is the Houston Business Journal’s contribution to fostering business growth, diversity and excellence in the tough, very competitive environment of our city, the 4th largest in the United States. Better yet, the Journal pays tribute this way to the hard work, tenacity, resourcefulness, visionary spirit and unrelenting pursuit of quality demonstrated by leaders and entrepreneurs behind the organizations nominated for its recognitions.

Sonia Clayton and Eduardo Nunez

Sonia Clayton and John Beddow

Sonia Clayton, our CEO, sums it all up: “Minority or not, we in the business community are all into this tireless effort. No one gives you anything for free just because you are female, male, Martian or any other special class. Don’t try going into business thinking that just because you possess certain characteristics (ethnicity, veteran, disabled, female, others) deals will come your way. You must work very, very hard to achieve results. The satisfaction for our firm is greater since we’ve weathered successfully very difficult times, as with the one of the firm’s inception in 2001, through the uncertainty and fears of the ensuing years. Even in these very days of doom and gloom in the world’s finances VIP keeps on pressing on. We concentrate on what is ahead rather than to allow ourselves the vertigo of the present day that may curb the desire and reduce the momentum critically needed to keep moving forward “.

Locally established, VIP’s strength as a Business Technology Services Provider resides not just in the specialized knowledge, maturity, poise and flexibility of its professional force, but also in its organizational commitment to excellence, ethical behavior, flexibility and affordability of all services and solutions offered.
The firm’s offer features a wide array of fields or areas of expertise. Chief among them: ERP Project Support/Management, Implementation Support, Change Communications Advisory, Business Technology Training, Application Development, Performance Improvement for Organizations, Augmentation, Curricular Development, Technical Translations and e-Learning Services.

*Virtual Intelligence Providers, LLC, is certified as a minority, women-owned/operated, equal employment organization qualified to provide technology services at various levels, both for private and governmental organizations. Also, the firm is registered with the Houston Minority Business Council (HMBC), and with the Better Business Bureau--BBB.

Copyright © 2008 by Virtual Intelligence Providers, LLC, Houston, TX, USA. www.vip-global.com
Questions / Comments: Contact Leica Fielding, Public Relations, 281.350.6862, lfielding@vip-global.com