Ginger Gorden Named 2011 Finance Executive of the Year by the Golden Bridge Awards

CHICAGO, Aug. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- TradingPartners (www.tradingpartners.com), the leader in spend management technology products and services, today announced that Ginger Gorden, Chief Financial Officer, has been named Finance Executive of the Year in the 2011 Golden Bridge Awards.  Ginger joins an impressive list of professionals including Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn, and Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, Inc, recognized by the judges for their business achievements.  The Golden Bridge Awards is the world's premier business awards program for outstanding industry leaders. Winners were honored in New York City on Wednesday, August 10, 2011.

Since joining TradingPartners in 2010, Ginger has led a turnaround focused on restructuring the business by reducing operating costs by 40% while improving operational effectiveness.  In two quarters, Ginger managed the company to significant profitability and positioned the company for accelerated growth under a new and seasoned Silicon Valley technology CEO, Mark Barnekow.  Ginger works closely with the CEO to execute the company's vision and strategy of rapid global expansion and growth through mergers and acquisitions. Ginger's financial and customer relationship skills have quickly earned her the respect and admiration of TradingPartners' board of directors, management team, and customers, who laud her direct approach and business savvy.

The Golden Bridge Awards is an annual achievements and recognition awards program with active participation from a broad spectrum of industry leading companies and executives. The program recognizes the world's best companies, executives, products, innovations and overall management from every major industry in the world.

"Ginger Gorden has been a driving force in the TradingPartners' success story over the past year," said Mark Barnekow, Chief Executive Officer of TradingPartners. "Ginger's leadership and strategic thinking have created tremendous value as we continue to deliver industry-leading products and services to our global roster of clients."

About the Golden Bridge Awards

Golden Bridge Awards are an annual industry and peers recognition program honoring Best Companies of all types and sizes in North America, Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin-America, Best Products, Innovations, Management and Teams, Women in Business and the Professions, and PR and Marketing Campaigns from all over the world. Learn more about The Golden Bridge Awards at www.goldenbridgeawards.com

About TradingPartners

Based in Chicago, with European headquarters in London, and operations in Asia and South America, TradingPartners provides the most comprehensive and effective spend management technology and managed services to foodservice, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail customers worldwide.  TradingPartners works with corporations to reduce the cost of their direct and indirect purchases with tangible results often in the 10-25% range.  TradingPartners' unparalleled domain and category expertise, comprehensive supplier database, and robust technology platform has helped hundreds of companies achieve dramatic, tangible cost savings. For more information, visit www.tradingpartners.com.

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