ATLANTA, March 16, 2016 – Rural Sourcing, the leading provider of US-based IT outsourcing services, announced today that Jeff Stewart will retire from his role as Chief Financial Officer at the end of this quarter and be replaced by Tre Sasser. Tre will be responsible for the company’s overall financial strategy and implementing the infrastructure needed to sustain the company’s rapid growth and expansion plans.
“Tre’s extensive financial and management expertise in the technology industry makes him the ideal executive to help drive Rural Sourcing’s financial performance moving forward,” said Monty Hamilton, CEO of Rural Sourcing. “This is an exciting time of expansive growth for our company and we are thrilled to have an experienced and strategic leader like Tre join our team.”
With a distinguished career in the tech industry, Tre brings nearly 18 years of strategic, financial and operational leadership experience to Rural Sourcing, including time in both large public companies and startups. Prior to joining Rural Sourcing, Sasser served as CFO for eMag Solutions, LLC, an eDiscovery technology, data restoration, recovery and migration solutions provider. Previously, he served as CFO for Exaserv, Inc., a global IT consulting firm. Tre also spent eight years at Hewlett Packard in a variety of financial positions.
Tre earned an MBA from Georgia State University with a concentration in finance, a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a CPA.
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