Arkidata Corporation Adds New Sales Executive, Builds Direct-Sales Capability.Business Editors/High Tech Writers NOTE TO MEDIA: Multimedia assets available A photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.120502/bb5 DOWNERS GROVE Downers Grove, village (1990 pop. 46,858), Du Page co., NE Ill.; settled 1832, inc. 1873. Downers Grove has undergone population growth and commercial development that include the construction of new office complexes. , Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 5, 2002 John Phillabaum is former director of Corporate and Government Sales for Fatbrain Arkidata Corporation, one of the nation's fastest-growing high-tech companies, today announced the hiring of senior sales executive John F. Phillabaum to spearhead its sales efforts, including a new direct-sales initiative intended to supplement its highly successful channel-sales program. Phillabaum, 36, was named Director of Corporate Sales, a newly created position. Before joining Arkidata, Phillabaum was the Director of Corporate and Government Sales for Fatbrain in Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. California, where he developed strategic relationships with major technology and financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. organizations, including Ariba, SAP, American Express American Express (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as "AmEx" or "Amex", is a diversified global financial services company, headquartered in New York City. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card and traveler's cheque businesses. , MasterCard International and JP Morgan Chase, and built relationships with Fortune 500 clients such as Boeing, Accenture, Microsoft, 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) , Hewlett Packard, Raytheon and Procter & Gamble. Prior to joining Fatbrain, Phillabaum served as a business-development executive for MacMillan Computer Publishing and the Scantron Corporation. "Arkidata Corporation was recently named to both the Deloitte & Touche "Fast 500" list of fastest-growing technology companies in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and Inc Magazine's "Inc 500" list of fastest-growing private companies in America," said Arkady Maydanchik, founder and chairman of Arkidata. "We've achieved this rare double distinction because of our ability to provide effective solutions to information integration problems, and because of our ability to work effectively with channel sales partners. "With the addition of John Phillabaum, we will not only be able to reinforce those channel sales relationships, but to add a significant direct-sales capability that will greatly enhance our potential for future growth." Phillabaum joins another recently recruited executive, Andrew J. Friedrich III, Arkidata's Vice President of Strategic Marketing, as the core of a marketing and sales team designed to build on the firm's past success by bringing the company's information integration solutions to a wide variety of Fortune 500 corporations. Arkidata's current clients include Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. , Raytheon, Sprint, Verizon, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank and the Catholic Health Initiative. The company's information integration solutions are provided through a combination of Arkidata's domain expertise in HR data integration and its proprietary ARKISTRA (c) technology, which can be used by companies in any industry to integrate data from many disparate sources such as acquisitions, and for a wide variety of purposes, such as outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. implementations. For more information on Arkidata and its products and services, visit its website at www.arkidata.com or call 1-877-947-DATA (3282). Note: A photo is available at URL: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.120502/bb5 |
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