Authoria Names Chip Drapeau to Board of Directors; President and CEO of MRO Software Joins Authoria's Board of Directors.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 2003 Authoria, Inc., the world leader in personalized, Web-based human resource communication, today announced that Chip Drapeau has joined its Board of Directors. Drapeau is the 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 MRO Software MRO Software, Inc. - formerly known as PSDI, was a software firm based in Bedford, Massachusetts, which published Maximo, the top-selling Enterprise Asset Management system in the market. (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 : MROI MROI Marketing Return On Investment MROI Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer (New Mexico) MROI Marginal Return on Investment ), the leading provider of strategic asset management solutions. "We are pleased to have Chip join us as he brings a vast amount of software industry experience to our board," said Tod Loofbourrow, President and CEO of Authoria. "We'll benefit from Chip's operational experiences building and growing a successful public software company, integrating organizations, and working along side ERP vendors A list of Enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors. ERP vendors by revenue The largest vendors worldwide in 2005 according to Gartner Dataquest: Market share 2005 according to Gartner Dataquest[1] # Vendor Revenue (million $) Market share , many of which are our common partners." "With its patented technology and latest release of its Authoria HR 4 product, Authoria is revolutionizing the way organizations communicate with their employees and managers," said Chip Drapeau, President and CEO, MRO Software. "I'm excited to join Authoria's board and am looking forward to contributing to its continued growth." Mr. Drapeau joined MRO Software in 1982 and has held various roles within the organization across sales, support, research and development and product marketing before being named President and CEO in 1998. As CEO, Drapeau's focus has been a driving force for MRO MRO In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Mauritanian Ouguiya. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. Software's commitment to product excellence and superior customer service. MRO Software and its flagship Strategic Asset Management solution, MAXIMO, have received extensive industry recognition. MAXIMO is currently used by more than 10,000 customer companies and more than 260,000 end-users. Mr. Drapeau earned a BS in Economics from Tufts University Tufts University, main campus at Medford, Mass.; coeducational; chartered 1852 by Universalists as a college for men. It became a university in 1955. Jackson College, formerly a coordinate undergraduate college for women, merged with the College of Liberal Arts in . The addition of Chip Drapeau follows the close of another profitable quarter for Authoria and is in addition to the October 16, 2003 board appointment of Peter Gyenes, the Chairman and CEO of Ascential Software Corporation. 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. All other product names and references contained herein remain the service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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