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Short Take: Baan gets new consulting exec

Baan has appointed a new senior vice president of consulting. The company, which makes business management software, named 20-year industry veteran Charlie Callahan to the position. Callahan joins Baan after a 12-year career with Booz Allen & Hamilton, where he directed the company's West Coast information technology business. Baan's consulting group has more than 1,300 consultants globally.

Kim Girard
Kim Girard has written about business and technology for more than a decade, as an editor at CNET News.com, senior writer at Business 2.0 magazine and online writer at Red Herring. As a freelancer, she's written for publications including Fast Company, CIO and Berkeley's Haas School of Business. She also assisted Business Week's Peter Burrows with his 2003 book Backfire, which covered the travails of controversial Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. An avid cook, she's blogged about the joy of cheap wine and thinks about food most days in ways some find obsessive.
Kim Girard
Baan has appointed a new senior vice president of consulting. The company, which makes business management software, named 20-year industry veteran Charlie Callahan to the position. Callahan joins Baan after a 12-year career with Booz Allen & Hamilton, where he directed the company's West Coast information technology business. Baan's consulting group has more than 1,300 consultants globally.