{"id":1575,"date":"2010-12-22T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/congratulations-esteban\/"},"modified":"2010-12-22T14:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T14:59:00","slug":"congratulations-esteban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/congratulations-esteban\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Esteban!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\"><strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5997\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/meet-the-team#esteban\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5997\" title=\"esteban_herrera-2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/esteban_herrera-2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esteban Herrera is appointed Chief Operating Officer, HfS Research<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/strong><strong>Dear Folks,<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><strong> <\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><strong>As the year draws to a close, I can barely get my head around what we&#8217;ve achieved at HfS in 2010:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><strong> <\/strong><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;ve built a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/meet-the-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">global team<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0with more characters\u00a0\u00a0joining\u00a0next year;<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve developed a phenomenally ambitious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/published-research\">research agenda<\/a> (stay tuned for the official launch);<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re about to launch a super-sexy new research website in the New Year;<\/li>\n<li>We were named &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/analystrelations.org\/2010\/12\/15\/2010-analyst-of-the-year\/\">Analyst of the Year<\/a>&#8221; by our industry peers at the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations;<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve now reached 40,000 subscribers, 40% of whom are sourcing practitioners.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve never even thought about buying a list &#8211; everyone just found us!<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve surveyed the views and buying intentions of more than 8,000 enterprises;<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve added 20+ research clients across buyers, advisors and providers of sourcing;<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve launched an elite group of sourcing buyers, dubbed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/hfs25_121310\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HfS 25<\/a>, which we&#8217;re already having to look at re-branding the HfS 50, due to the enthusiastic interest from so many of you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And one person\u00a0who&#8217;s really stood out, as we&#8217;ve romped through all these milestones, is the most poker-faced advisor-turned-analyst of them all:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/meet-the-team#esteban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Esteban Herrera<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite my inability to\u00a0spell his name,\u00a0plus\u00a0the fact that he has to put up with me (daily), <em>and<\/em> his giving\u00a0up a big-bucks job to help steer this thing, he actually seems to like it here\u00a0(or that&#8217;s what he tells me&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>We are very pleased to announce the promotion of Esteban to the role of Chief Operating Officer for HfS Research.\u00a0 His vast experience advising sourcing customers, combined with his\u00a0energy, enthusiasm, sense of humor and entrepreneurship will make him a popular pundit and analyst for HfS readers, as we\u00a0venture towards a very exciting\u00a02011 for our growing organization.<\/p>\n<p><em>Esteban Herrera (pictured) is Chief Operating Officer for HfS Research.\u00a0 You can access his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/meet-the-team#esteban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bio here<\/a> and reach him at esteban dot herrera at hfsresearch.com.\u00a0\u00a0 He can also be found on twitter: \u00a0@eherrerahfs<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esteban Herrera is appointed Chief Operating Officer, HfS Research Dear Folks, As the year draws to a close, I can&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[840,86,88],"tags":[310],"organization":[],"ppma_author":[19],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses-for-sources-company-news","category-outsourcing-advisors","category-outsourcing-heros","tag-esteban-herrera"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Congratulations Esteban! 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