Accovia Welcomes New Vice President of Sales and Services; Accovia Primed to Expand its Global Customer Base with New Sales Executive.MONTREAL -- Accovia Inc., the global leader in travel packaging technology, today announced that it has named Paul Robillard as vice president of sales and services. Robillard will be responsible for the continued growth and expansion of Accovia's customer base, which includes 40 travel companies in eight countries, including the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Canada and France. Robillard brings to Accovia two decades of experience in the high-technology industry, most notably in manufacturing, finance, consulting, telecommunications, e-commerce and networking. With his global perspective on business management, Robillard has acquired much sought-after expertise in sales and channel management, strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. , project and program management, business process optimization Process optimization is the practice of making changes or adjustments to a process, to get results. Optimization is the use of specific techniques to determine the most cost effective and efficient solution to a problem or design for a process. , change management, and coaching. In his new role at Accovia, Robillard will apply these skills to further develop the organization's global business strategy and develop its services, products, solutions and markets. "Adding Paul to our executive team brings Accovia a sales and technology leader who is skilled in leveraging e-commerce technology, with a wealth of business and human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. expertise," said Claude Guay, president and chief executive officer of Accovia. "We welcome Paul aboard -- he will be a tremendous asset as we continue to expand our customer base and develop new technology solutions for the new business models of the travel industry." "The travel industry is one of the world's biggest," said Robillard. "Developing technology solutions to accommodate the numerous and varied players in this field is a huge challenge. I welcome the opportunity to implement innovative business solutions like dynamic packaging technology for new and existing clients and develop new markets and partnerships." Prior to joining Accovia, Robillard served as senior advisor In some countries, a Senior Advisor is an appointed position by the Head of State to advise on the highest levels of national and government policy. Sometimes a junior position to this is called a National Policy Advisor. for AGTI Consulting Services Inc., where he was responsible for program management in the financial sector. Before that, Robillard was sales manager sales manager n → gerente m/f de ventas sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → for SHL SHL Shift Logical Left SHL Schweizerische Hochschule für Landwirtschaft (German: Swiss College of Agriculture) SHL Southern Hockey League SHL Silver Haired Legislature SHL Single Hidden Layer (neural networks) Systemhouse, where he led the strategic management of an acquisition project in the energy sector, and the outsourcing project of the information systems division of a world leader in engineering. In addition, Robillard has held senior management and vice president positions with BCE BCE abbr. 1. Bachelor of Chemical Engineering 2. Bachelor of Civil Engineering BCE Abbreviation for before the Common Era. Emergis, Netscape Canada, Bell Canada Bell Canada Enterprises (TSX: BCE, NYSE: BCE), legally BCE Inc., is a major Canadian telecommunications company. Through its subsidiaries including Bell Canada, Bell Aliant, Northwestel, Télébec, and NorthernTel, it is the incumbent local exchange carrier for , Worldlinx (Infornet) and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Canada. Robillard is a member of the International Association of Coaches. Throughout his career, he has coached and consulted senior professionals to streamline their sales, business and management skills. He earned his bachelor of finance and marketing from the Hautes Etudes Commerciale in Montreal and his bachelors in computer science and management from the Universite du Quebec in Montreal. About Accovia Accovia(TM) Inc. is the leading provider of travel packaging technology for the travel industry. The company offers the industry's only Travel Package Management product suite for procuring, packaging, selling and distributing multi-component travel services through GDS GDS Global Distribution System GDS Google Desktop Search (Google) GDS Goodie Domain Service (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) GDS Guards , call center, Internet and direct channels. Accovia's technology solutions enable travel wholesalers and retailers to significantly increase profit margins through the ability to dynamically create and customize travel packages, which are then sold under a single price. The company provides the only complete travel distribution service that cost-effectively connects travel marketers and distributors to GDSs and Internet travel channels using a single connection. Accovia's technology solutions can be fully customized and privately labeled to accommodate diverse business models. More than 40 travel companies in 8 countries use Accovia's technology to send over 25 million people on trips each year. Founded in 1985, the company has offices in the United States, Canada and France. For more information about Accovia visit www.accovia.com. Accovia is a trademark of Accovia, Inc. 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