Bill Parkes Joins nFusion As Chief Technology Officer.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com and at www.newstream.com AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2001 nFusion, a sales and marketing solutions firm, today announced that Bill Parkes has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer. He will be responsible for architecting and building out nFusion's technology capabilities, including customer relationship management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ), content management and marketing campaign management functions, to enhance sales and marketing system effectiveness. "Bill's expertise enables us to integrate technologies to deliver end-to-end sales and marketing solutions," said John Ellett, chief executive officer and managing partner. "By assuming total responsibility for development, implementation and execution of sales and marketing systems, nFusion can more efficiently and quickly address critical marketplace challenges." Parkes joins nFusion with more than 10 years of broad-based technology experience. Most recently, he served as integration architecture consultant to Art Technology Group (ATG ATG antithymocyte globulin. lymphocyte immune globulin (antithymocyte globulin equine, ATG, ATG equine, LIG) Atgam Pharmacologic class: Immunoglobulin Therapeutic class: Immunosuppressant ), helping to define the optimal architecture for integrating the Interwoven in·ter·weave v. in·ter·wove , in·ter·wo·ven , inter·weav·ing, inter·weaves v.tr. 1. To weave together. 2. To blend together; intermix. v.intr. Content Management solution with ATG's Dynamo 5.0 for specific client engagements. Earlier, he co-led the rebuild and relaunch of Garden.com's e-commerce site, replacing 4.5 years of in-house developed functionality with best-of-breed, industry-leading software in less than six months. During his eight-year tenure at Procter & Gamble, Parkes held numerous technology leadership positions, including e-business strategy development, initiating and managing more than 20 real-time warehouse management system projects, and developing 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. systems and work processes throughout the U.S. Parkes earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati The University of Cincinnati is a coeducational public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ranked as one of America’s top 25 public research universities and in the top 50 of all American research universities,[2] , with a double major in Information Systems and Operations Management. He holds an M.B.A. degree from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business The Fuqua School of Business is the business school of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Fuqua (pronounced few-qua) is one of the youngest U.S. business schools affiliated with elite research universities, but has shown strong performance in rankings by business . About nFusion nFusion is a private company launched in February 2001 by three former Dell Computer Corporation (company) Dell Computer Corporation - One of the biggest US manufacturers of IBM PC compatibles. "From notebooks to networks", their slogan says. http://us.dell.com. executives to provide emerging and mid-size companies with strategic, results-oriented marketing and sales solutions. The company is located at 8121 Bee Caves Road, Austin, Texas. For more information visit http://www.nFusion.com. Note: 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.041901/bb10 |
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