Alex Shootman Joins Vignette to Lead Global Sales and Services.AUSTIN, Texas -- Vignette (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :VIGN VIGN Vignette Corporation (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ) today announced that Alex Shootman will join the company as senior vice president of Worldwide Sales and Services, effective October 20, 2006. Prior to joining Vignette, Shootman served as executive vice president of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at TeleTech and was responsible for all revenue generating and market facing activities at the global business process outsourcing Business process outsourcing (BPO) is the contracting of a specific business task, such as payroll, to a third-party service provider. Usually, BPO is implemented as a cost-saving measure for tasks that a company requires but does not depend upon to maintain its position in (BPO BPO Business Process Outsourcing BPO Benevolent & Protective Order (of Elks of the USA) BPO Benzoyl Peroxide BPO Business Process Optimization BPO Broker Price Opinions BPO Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra ) company. Prior to TeleTech, Shootman held the position of vice president of Sales and Services for the Americas region at BMC (BMC Software, Inc., Houston, TX, www.bmc.com) A leading supplier of software that supports and improves the availability, performance, and recovery of applications in complex computing environments. . At BMC, he was responsible for sales, pre-sales, professional services and customer support. Shootman began his career with 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) Corporation. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration “BBA” redirects here. For other uses, see BBA (disambiguation). The Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) is a bachelor's degree in business studies. from the University of Texas at Austin “University of Texas” redirects here. For other system schools, see University of Texas System. The University of Texas at Austin (often referred to as The University of Texas, UT Austin, UT, or Texas . Shootman replaces Chuck Neal who resigned in August. "We are thrilled to welcome Alex to our senior leadership team," said Mike Aviles, president and chief executive officer at Vignette. "Alex is a seasoned executive with a strong background in enterprise software and a proven track record of driving growth and service. His leadership and experience should bring immediate value to our customers, employees and shareholders." "Vignette has an impressive customer base, great people and a solid financial foundation," said Shootman. "I'm excited to be part of the new management team that will lead Vignette into the future." About Vignette For more than 10 years, Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN) has helped organizations worldwide transform their content from a liability to an asset. Vignette's family of Enterprise Content Management (ECM (1) (Enterprise Change Management) See version control and configuration management. (2) (Error Correcting Mode) A Group 3 fax capability that can test for errors within a row of pixels and request retransmission. ) solutions lets these organizations leverage their records, documents, Web pages, images, multimedia and other unstructured content to create new opportunities, expand profits, manage their risk and realize greater savings and efficiencies. Vignette is headquartered in Austin, Texas with local operations worldwide. Visit www.vignette.com. FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements including statements regarding the Company's expectations, beliefs, hopes, intentions or strategies regarding the future. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding Vignette's products, future sales, market growth and competition. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are based upon information available to the Company as of the date hereof, and the Company assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement. Actual results could differ materially from the Company's current expectations. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, Future Losses, Limited Operating History, Fluctuation of Quarterly Revenues and Operating Results, Acquisition Integration, Competition, Dependence on a Small Number of Large Orders, Lengthy Sales Cycle and Product Implementation, Market Awareness of Our Product, Rapid Changes in Technology and New Products, and other factors and risks discussed in the Company's reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Vignette and the V Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Vignette Corp. in the United States and other countries. All other names are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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