Arbor Software Appoints European Managing Director.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 1995--Arbor Software Corporation, the fastest growing provider of multidimensional database See OLAP. software, today announced the appointment of Richard Sheppard as Arbor's managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa Europe, the Middle East and Africa, usually abbreviated to EMEA, is a regional designation used for government, marketing and business purposes. It is particularly common amongst North American based companies, who often divide their international operations into the (EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. ). Sheppard will assume responsibility for leading Arbor's European Operations based in London, England, and will report to John Dillon, vice president of worldwide sales. "We welcome Richard's expertise in managing and expanding our European operations throughout EMEA," said John Dillon, vice president of worldwide sales. "With Richard's help, we can achieve our goal to further develop our distribution channels and customer service offerings in this important area," he added. Prior to this position, Sheppard was general manager of the Middle East and African operations for Informix Software, where he was responsible for opening the company's first subsidiary in Africa and gaining new distributors in both regions. Sheppard was at Informix for five years, and one of his other roles included sales director of strategic sales in the U.K. Sheppard started his career at Honeywell Information Systems as systems manager for the South East of England The East of England is one of the nine official regions of England. It was created in 1994 and was adopted for statistics from 1999. It includes the ceremonial counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. and then moved on to sales management. He left in 1986 to join Wang's international sales department, where he was branch manager for the South East. A major achievement while at Wang was winning a number of major projects within the UniLever worldwide account. About Arbor Software Arbor Software Corporation develops and markets multidimensional database software for business planning, analysis and management reporting applications. Arbor's products are used by more than 500 corporations spanning a broad range of industries and business analysis applications including Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. , Chemical Bank, Emery, Fidelity, Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). , Neutrogena, Penzoil, PEPSICO, and Prudential. Arbor's products are sold direct, as well as through systems integrators and VARs worldwide. Arbor has alliances and partnerships with numerous companies including Andyne, Cognos, Comshare, FiServ, Hewlett-Packard, Hogan Systems, Informix, Microsoft, RedBrick red·brick adj. Of, relating to, or being the British universities other than Oxford and Cambridge. [So-called because many of the buildings of such universities were built of red bricks. , Sybase, Tandem, Trinzic and Walker Interactive Systems. Arbor offices are located in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Sunnyvale, Washington D.C. and London. CONTACT: Arbor Software Marguerite Padovani, 408/541-4053 mpadovani@arborsoft.com |
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