Aprisma Names Gannon Vice President of Sales for the Americas.Business/Technology Editors DURHAM, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 2000 Aprisma Management Technologies Aprisma Management Technologies was created after Cabletron Systems was broken up into 5 smaller pieces, as the business unit to continue the highly successful SPECTRUM network management suite. It was acquired in early 2005 by Concord, which in turn was acquired by Computer Associates. , a pioneer in e-business infrastructure management software, today announced that Daniel J. Gannon has been appointed to the position of vice president of sales for the Americas. Gannon brings more than 22 years of high-tech sales and business development experience to Aprisma. In his new role, Gannon is part of Aprisma's senior management and he will be responsible for sales initiatives for both the enterprise and service provider sales teams in North, Latin and South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Additional responsibilities include developing a direct sales and channel strategy, running the sales organization and managing client services. Prior to joining Aprisma, Gannon served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations at Noochee Solutions, where he was responsible for global sales, business development and client services for the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the infrastructure and application software company. "Dan has tremendous depth of experience in software sales and management," said Mike Skubisz, president of Aprisma. "His strong background in operations, business development and sales makes him the perfect addition to our expanding executive team as we strive to meet the needs of the Internet infrastructure. His years of experience will be crucial to Aprisma and to SPECTRUM as we complete our executive management team." In previous roles, Gannon was the Vice President of Worldwide Operations for Thinque Systems and held the position of Vice President of global business development for Aurum Software Company, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of the Baan Company. In addition, he held the position of Vice President of Global Sales for Antalys, which is also a wholly owned subsidiary of Baan. Prior to Antalys, Gannon was director of major accounts at Optika, Inc. (Nasdaq:OPTK). Before Joining Optika, Gannon served as Senior Vice President of Western region sales for Anacomp. Mr. Gannon attended the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. . About Aprisma Aprisma Management Technologies is a leading provider of intelligent, multi-vendor management solutions that meet the service-level requirements of network, enterprise and service provider customers. Aprisma's SPECTRUM suite of management software offers automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. , proactive service availability solutions that are integral components of today's mission-critical business and service provider infrastructures. Aprisma's many SPECTRUM customers include Sprint, Rogers Communications Rogers Communications Inc. (TSX: RCI.A, TSX: RCI.B, NYSE: RCI) is one of Canada's largest communications companies, particularly in the field of wireless communications and cable television, with additional telecommunications and mass media assets. Edward S. , Genuity, Alcatel KE, General Motors, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. , WorldCom, Compaq and Earthlink. Additional information on SPECTRUM and related solutions are available at http:www.aprisma.com or by contacting Aprisma sales at +1 (877) 437-0291, as well as contacting authorized au·thor·ize tr.v. au·thor·ized, au·thor·iz·ing, au·thor·iz·es 1. To grant authority or power to. 2. To give permission for; sanction: SPECTRUM resellers worldwide. SPECTRUM is a registered trademark of Aprisma Management Technologies. All other products or services referenced herein are identified by the trademarks or service marks of their respective companies or organizations. |
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