Akoya Appoints William J. Lyons as Vice President Sales & Marketing.PEORIA, Ill. -- Akoya, Inc., the leader in next - generation cost management solutions for direct materials purchasing, today announced the appointment of William J. Lyons as the company's Vice President of Sales & Marketing. Specifically Mr. Lyons will be responsible for customer acquisition, business development, channel strategy, marketing, demand generation and branding. Lyons has more than twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. of sales, channel development, marketing, professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. and operational experience in the enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ) and supply chain software markets. Recently Mr. Lyons led sales and marketing at Mincron Software Systems. Prior to that, Lyons served as President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Intentia Americas. Lyons also served as Vice President for System Software Associates. "Bill's vast experience in leading multi-channel sales and marketing organizations in the ERP space will be a critical component to Akoya's long-term growth, said Ted Greene, CEO of Akoya. Bill will focus on revenue generation and building channel partnerships as well as establishing the Akoya brand in the cost-management marketplace." Lyons earned a B.A. in Political Science from Loyola University in Chicago. About Akoya, Inc.: Akoya is the leader in next-generation cost management solutions for direct materials. The company's core technology was developed at Caterpillar, Inc. and serves as the foundation of it flagship product, CostPoint (tm). CostPoint aims to replace the current practices for procurement cost management, which are often labor intensive Labor Intensive A process or industry that requires large amounts of human effort to produce goods. Notes: A good example is the hospitality industry (hotels, restaurants, etc), they are considered to be very people-oriented. See also: Capital Intensive, Trading Dollars , time consuming, and inefficient. The name Akoya, derived from the Akoya Cultured Pearls, signifies the search for value that is the hallmark of this new software. For more information on Akoya, please visit www.akoyainc.com or call 309-690-6900. |
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