Levy LeGette provides development, negotiation and ongoing measurement of information technology contracts for the purposes of containing costs, capturing IT savings (past, present and future) and ensuring the best terms possible for our clients. Our collective skills and experience cover a wide range of disciplines. Among them are: Software Licensing, Customization and Development; Outsourced Services; Application Service Providers; Vendor Negotiations, Hardware and Other Equipment Acquisition; Maintenance, Support and Upgrade Services; IT Consulting; Compliance Services; and, Business/Disaster Recovery Services.

Levy LeGette was founded in 1995 by Ania Levy, one of the country’s top software licensing experts with over 20 years of experience in both public and private sectors. We work arm-in-arm with our clients, developing and implementing software licensing practices, negotiation strategies, global sourcing, global implementations, strategic planning and costing, conflict resolution in IT engagements, telecommunications and a host of additional, executive level services.

A substantial portion of our service portfolio is represented by our IT contract negotiation and cost containment services that all companies, regardless of size, are interested in. We are unique in our delivery of these services because we include remedial contract review, license compliance evaluation and correction (where applicable) as well as cost recovery.

Levy Legette's work with vendors' standard form agreements and their "mutation" from customer to customer makes us an invaluable resource to our clients in multiple vertical markets, public and private sectors, and variably sized enterprises -- from the Fortune 50 to the burgeoning middle market.

The greatest savings negotiated for our clients to date have come from our work with them on their Microsoft Enterprise and Select Agreements. Our negotiations have consistently yielded the highest discounts, lowest prices and ground-breaking concessions from a notoriously difficult vendor. We see at least 40 Master Business Agreements, Select Agreements and Enterprise Agreements each year. By contrast, a corporate contracts manager might review and negotiate the same agreements once every three years for a single employer within a single market segment.

Our services and fee structures make Levy LeGette a smart choice for any company. Thank you for visiting our site and please contact us today to begin your own capture of IT savings.

Ania Levy started Levy LeGette in 1995. She works with organizations to assist them in the intricacies of technology licensing negotiations. These organizations include both supply side and demand side clients. Her supply side clients include a number of software development firms. Her demand side clients cover a wide spectrum of industries, disciplines and sizes. She has effectively supported the licensing and negotiation efforts of large banks, insurance companies, manufacturers, outsourcers, and law firms. The diversity of this client base provides a foundation of real world experience and expertise.

Ms. Levy has been a member of the Software Licensing Task Force of the Licensing Executive Society (LES) since 1992. Other task force members include IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, HP, Computer Associates, Novell, Levi-Strauss, SAGA, EMC, Motorola, SAS and IDC. Together their purpose is to further develop a mutual understanding of the technical operations and business needs of vendor and client organizations in the software industry.

Prior to founding Levy LeGette, Ms. Levy was Vice President and Manager of IT Procurement and Vendor Relations for Chemical Bank. She was also Manager, Data Processing Acquisitions & Contract Negotiations for the City of New York.

Steven DeLaCastro has worked in over 30 countries, resided abroad professionally for over a decade, and is one of the world's foremost experts on global sourcing. He is an experienced "C" level management consultant, comfortable with responsibility for massively complex initiatives in the hundreds of millions of dollars drawing on his extensive experience as a successful Fortune 50 CIO. He grasps opportunities to successfully solve the most difficult business problems and to lead and motivate diverse groups of technology, process and human performance professionals, to achieve their personal and business objectives.

Mr. DeLaCastro's sourcing expertise spans the entire subject area. He has sourced development, maintenance, telecommunications and infrastructure, and or business operations services to providers in Australia, Chile, China, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the United States. He has twice built new facilities in India and has established captive facilities in Argentina, Australia, China and territories, Japan, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand for Fortune 50 companies.

For over 20 years Mr. DeLaCastro has led the transformation and enculturation process for a number of Fortune 1000 companies and has provided expert advice to sourcing services vendors. He has consulted on vendor selection, methodology and metrics, process engineering and shared services, budget and ROI analysis, constructed legal agreements and led contract negotiations, expedited knowledge transfer and has run several of these initiatives operationally for many years.

Mr. DeLaCastro's prior experience includes four years with Tatum CIO Partners where he established and managed Sourcing Advisory Services and developed a graduate level course on sourcing in conjunction with the Carnegie Mellon University. Steven has had extensive international and global responsibilities throughout his career and is frequently invited to speak at events.

Mr. DeLaCastro holds an MBA and a BSc. In Business Administration with concentrations in operations, finance and psychology. In 1995, he was recognized by the U.S. Ambassador to India, the Honorable Frank Wisner, for services to India and the United States business interests in India. In 2000, he was listed in the International Who’s Who of Professionals. In 2004, he was asked to assist the Provisional Authority of Iraq under the auspices of U.S. AID and the Ambassador Honorable Paul Bremer, as the lead technologist in infrastructure reconstruction, appropriations and sourcing.

Nansci Neiman LeGette
General Manager 
Levy LeGette, LLC

Nansci Neiman LeGette's remarkable thirty year career as a business leader provides Levy LeGette with a solid management foundation. Ms. Neiman has served as General Manager for Levy LeGette LLC since its founding in 1995. As an innovator in the Publishing sector, Nansci leaves an indelible mark on readers with an impressive string of best-selling books that imprinted themselves on the American conscious and culture.  

Her creative leadership and managerial expertise helped transform a modestly sized publishing enterprise into an industry leader in under ten years. In 1980, she joined Warner Books as a Senior Editor, after holding executive positions in publicity, advertising, production and editorial at a number of publishing houses, over the previous ten years, in both the United States and England. As Editorial Director and then Publisher of Warner Books she played a major role in turning a little-known $50 million business, with a staff of 40, into a $250 million business, staffed by 150 people and with a high-profile international reputation.

Some of the multi-million copy bestsellers she has personally published include:

• WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? by Spencer Johnson
• MEGATRENDS by John Naisbitt
• WORD OF HONOR by Nelson DeMille
• SEX by Madonna
• BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY by Robert James Waller
• GARFIELD by Jim Davis
• SCARLETT, THE SEQUAL TO GONE WITH THE WIND by Alexandra Ripley
• THE CELESTINE PROPHECY by James Redfield
• THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES
• CHANCES by Jackie Collins
• NEVER SAY DIET by Richard Simmons
• KEEPING SECRETS by Suzanne Somers
• COLOR ME BEAUTIFUL by Carole Jackson
• FIT FOR LIFE by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond

In 1995, Ms. Neiman was asked to become Executive Vice President for Publishing at Peter Guber's then recently founded multi-media entertainment company, Mandalay Entertainment. From 1996 to 1999, Ms. Neiman was briefly lured back to traditional book publishing by the international publishing company Penguin Putnam, Inc. to serve as Senior Vice President and West Coast Publisher for Penguin Putnam. Ms. Neiman continues to consult with a number of publishing companies on various book projects and works with authors as a freelance editor and book packager.

She served as Chief Operating Officer of The Gordy Company in 2004-2005 under a long term consultancy engagement, during which she evaluated the owner's intellectual property assets and photo and video library, restructured the operation and drastically reduced the operating costs. Ms. Neiman returned to this active Intellectual Property Company in 2007 and is currently running business operations there.

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