Authoria Appoints Paul Baier as Senior Vice President of Products.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 26, 2004 Former Founder of Excara, and Executive from Open Market and Charles River Charles River River, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. The longest river wholly in the state, it flows into Boston Bay after a course of about 80 mi (130 km). Navigable for about 7 mi (11 km), its estuary separates the cities of Boston and Cambridge. Ventures Joins Authoria to Lead Products Group and Development Initiatives Authoria, Inc., the world leader in personalized, Web-based human resource communication, today announced the appointment of Paul Baier to senior vice president of products. Baier is responsible for the engineering, product management, corporate development and the company's overall product and technology strategy and direction. "Paul has proven that his unique combination of broad-based business experience and technology foresight is perfect for driving the next stage of product development at Authoria," said Tod Loofbourrow, 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. of Authoria. "His demonstrated leadership at Excara, Open Market and AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , experience in portals and B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business commerce, as well as general business skills and extensive product management experience are a tremendous asset to Authoria as we work to increase the value of our human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. communication solutions and grow our business." In previous roles, Baier was the founder and CEO of Excara, a software solution company for online business, which evolved into an e-commerce solution for manufacturers. Excara was a product of Baier's experience in business-to-business e-commerce for Open Market, an enterprise software company and early pioneer in e-commerce, where he was director of the business-to-business division. Prior to Open Market, Paul was director of small business content at America Online See AOL. (AOL) (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 :TWTC TWTC Taipei World Trade Center (Taiwan, ROC) TWTC Time Warner Telecom ). In all three roles, Paul defined and successfully launched significant new products. In addition, Paul was also director of business development at Charles River Ventures, a top-tier venture capital firm also based in Waltham, where he established critical relationships with CIOs for the benefit of the firm, as well as building a pipeline of new portfolio and investment leads for the firm. "Authoria is providing a new way for organizations to communicate with their employees and managers, and is providing a path to strategic growth for the human resources function," said Baier. "More and more HR professionals are realizing technology solutions can reduce the transactional component of their business, allowing them to pursue more strategic initiatives and provide a greater overall contribution to their organizations." About Authoria Authoria is the world leader in personalized, Web-based human resource communication. Authoria HR is the knowledge application standard in the software industry. Over one hundred and fifty organizations worldwide rely on Authoria to dramatically improve employee communication while streamlining costs. Authoria's knowledge applications manage and communicate human resource information to millions of people at some of the world's largest companies, including Boeing, Motorola and Wells Fargo. Among Authoria's partners are industry-leaders PeopleSoft, Towers Perrin, 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) BCS (1) (The British Computer Society, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, www.bcs.org) The chartered body for information technology professionals in the U.K., founded in 1957. and Accenture. Based in Waltham, MA, Authoria has been ranked four times by Inc. Magazine as one of America's fastest-growing private companies and has been recognized by Deloitte & Touche in the New England Fast 50 four times and the National Fast 500 three times. For more information, please visit www.authoria.com. Note to editors: Authoria, Authoria eSPD, Authoria HR, Authoria Outsourcer, Authoria HR UK Benefits, Authoria HR UK Policies and "Personalized questions. Personalized answers" are trademarks or registered trademarks of Authoria, Inc. in the United States and other countries. 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