Aspirian Appoints Three New Vice Presidents to Grow Its Internet Product and Service Management Business.CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 8, 1999-- Aspirian Inc., the pioneer of Internet software solutions for product and service management, today announced the appointment of three new vice presidents. Alkesh "Al" R. Patel is promoted to vice president of business development, John J. Roache joins Aspirian as vice president, Eastern Business Unit and Herb Woodward joins as vice president of professional services. "The combined experience that Al, Herb, and John bring to Aspirian will help solidify our position in bringing Internet software solutions for technology-based product and service management to companies that seek a competitive advantage," said Mike Hackworth, Aspirian's 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. . "Each of them understand the critical need for companies to accelerate their time-to-market and increase their product and service throughput, and I am delighted to have them on the Aspirian team." Al Patel, vice president of business development, joined the company in May 1998. Mr. Patel has over 11 years of experience in high technology industry and management consulting, and most recently pioneered the New Product Development Practice at Ernst & Young. He has an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia's Darden Business School, and holds a M.S. in engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, Ga.; coeducational; state supported; chartered 1885, opened 1888. It is a member school in the university system of Georgia. Significant among its facilities and programs are the Frank H. . John Roache, vice president Eastern Business Unit, has over 17 years of experience in selling high technology solutions to Fortune 500 corporations. Most recently, Mr. Roache held the position of vice president of enterprise sales at Primavera pri·ma·ve·ra 1 or pri·ma ve·ra n. 1. A tree (Cybistax donnellsmithii) of Mexico and Guatemala, having opposite, palmately compound leaves, yellow flowers, and close-grained, light-colored wood. 2. Systems. Prior to Primavera, John held the position of executive vice president of sales at PowerCerv, a publicly traded applications provider specializing in 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. , Financial and Sales Force Automation Automating the sales activities within an organization. A comprehensive SFA package provides such functions as contact management, note and information sharing, quick proposal and presentation generation, product configurators, calendars and to-do lists. . Mr. Roache has a B.S. in business administration from Indiana University of Pennsylvania History IUP was founded in 1875 as a normal school by investors in Indiana County. It followed the mold of the French Ecole Normale. When it opened its doors it enrolled just 225 students. . Herb Woodward has the key responsibility of building Aspirian's professional service businesses and capabilities. Mr. Woodward has over 20 years of professional services experience in the computer, software and telecommunications fields. Most recently, he had worldwide responsibility for programs/projects and professional services for Tandem Computers and eT Communications. He has a B.S. in engineering from MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a focus on computer science, and an M.S. in management from the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission . About Aspirian, Inc. Aspirian provides Internet software solutions for managing technology-based products and services. These solutions enable management teams, from CEOs to design engineers, to succeed in a challenging environment with organization interdependencies, skilled resource constraints and shrinking market windows. These configurable, easy-to-use solutions deliver results within the first quarter of use. Aspirian (www.aspirian.com) has invested over 200 man-years in product development and supports global deployment. Aspirian's Board of Directors includes Mohr, Davidow Ventures and The Walden Group, Bill Coleman, chairman/CEO of BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. and Suhas Patil, Founder of Cirrus Logic. |
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