Kim Hoefer Joins Fiderion

ATLANTA, GA - (March 26, 2008)–Fiderion announced today that Kim Hoefer has joined the firm as a Senior Associate. In her new position, she is based in the firm’s Atlanta office and is responsible for search execution, primarily supporting the firm’s Industrial Practice.

She began her career in retained executive search thirteen years ago as an Associate with A.T. Kearney Executive Search. During her tenure there, she supported various specialty practices and developed a concentration in consumer product sales and marketing, manufacturing and supply chain and logistics searches. Her clients included companies such as Nike, adidas, Russell Athletic, Coca-Cola, The Gap and Citation Corporation. In 2000, Ms. Hoefer joined Korn/Ferry Futurestep to grow its national Industrial Practice working with a wide variety of clients including Boeing, Gulfstream and Curtiss-Wright. Most recently, Ms. Hoefer was a Vice President with the boutique search firm Handler & Associates where she worked with clients such as AGCO, J.M. Huber and Mizuno.

Ms. Hoefer began her career with Morgan Stanley in London where she was responsible for supporting the Corporate Finance group with company and industry research. She then joined KPMG in Washington, DC, supporting primarily the transportation and defense practices with industry knowledge.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics at Tufts University. She is currently the Board Chair of Atlanta Outward Bound.

Fiderion was founded in 2002 by James B. Norton, III and has offices in Atlanta, New York, San Francisco, and Cleveland. A 30-year industry veteran, Norton was formerly the Senior Managing Director and head of the Americas Financial Services Practice at Korn/Ferry International. He previously served as Managing Director and head of the Regional Financial Services Practice at both LAI Worldwide and GKR.

In 2007, Fiderion joined Signium International, Inc., a global network of retained executive search consultancies led by Chairman Ignacio Bao. Based in Chicago, Signium has 34 offices in 20 countries located throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. Founded more than 50 years ago as Ward Howell International, Signium was one of the first firms focused solely on senior level executive search. For more information, please see www.signium.com.

For further information, please visit www.fiderion.com. Headquarters address is 3280 Peachtree Road, NW, Suite 2625, Atlanta, GA 30305-2422; Tel: 404.995.4700.

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