Brience Lands Key Management Players, Opens Four New Offices.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2000 Leader in Next-Generation Wireless Solutions Attracts Executives from Leading eBusiness and Enterprise Software Companies and Expands Business Infrastructure Brience, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise solutions that enable the delivery of any Internet content to any wireless or broadband device, today announced it completed its key executive management hiring, having attracted executives from leading firms in eBusiness, enterprise software and mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings . The company also announced the opening of four new offices in Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , and Miami, giving it a total of six offices and a national footprint The amount of geographic space covered by an object. A computer footprint is the desk or floor surface it occupies. A satellite's footprint is the earth area covered by its downlink. See form factor. 1. from which to drive sales and provide consulting and customer support. In addition, the company expects to have operations in Europe within the next 60 days, creating a base from which to serve Europe's exploding wireless market. The new executives add bench strength to the company's already-proven management team, many of whom were chartered with running the eBusiness practice at KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen Consulting Worldwide before founding Brience earlier this year. "These additions to our management team put us in an enviable en·vi·a·ble adj. So desirable as to arouse envy: "the enviable English quality of being able to be mute without unrest" Henry James. position, not only of having a complete management team, but of having qualified, proven professionals running our core business processes," said Rod McGeary, 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 Brience. "Brience's ability to attract the best and brightest to key positions lets us focus on the real business at hand, which is building a great product, winning new customers and forming strategic partnerships." Key Management Players -- Pat Wynne, Vice President of Sales -- Wynne is heading up the company's direct sales force. Before joining Brience in July, Wynne was Vice President of Sales for BackWeb Technologies and, before that, led Western Sales for Oracle Corp. -- Diane R. Gonzalez, Vice President of Engineering -- Gonzalez is at the helm of product development for Brience. Prior to joining Brience in March, Gonzalez helped lead the engineering team at Siebel Systems Siebel is a brand name of Oracle Corporation. Siebel Systems, Inc., founded by Thomas Siebel in 1993, was principally engaged in the design, development, marketing and support of CRM applications. . -- Tony Dawson For the British actor see Anthony Dawson. Tony Dawson (born August 25 1967, in Kinston, North Carolina) is an American professional basketball player. A 6'7" 210 lb small forward, he played college basketball at Gulf Coast Community College and Florida State , Vice President of Alliances, Products -- Rounding out its sales and marketing team, Dawson joined the company in July from his role heading up Worldwide Service Sales for the Sun/Netscape Alliance. -- Michele Garvin, Vice President of Alliances, Services -- Garvin led channel sales at NuChannel, a Web chat company, before joining Brience in July; before that, she helped drive channel sales at Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. . -- Scott Mangelson, Vice President of Product Marketing -- Brience also welcomed Mangelson in July, after he spent nearly three years driving Industry Strategy at PeopleSoft, and then as Vice President of Marketing at an Internet startup. -- Meghan O'Leary, Vice President of Corporate Marketing -- Formerly Vice President of E-Business Solutions for Citigate Cunningham, O'Leary joined Brience in August; prior to joining Citigate Cunningham, O'Leary was a journalist with CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. Magazine and PC Week (now eWeek). -- Susan Reynolds, Vice President, People -- The burgeoning company's 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. function is now headed by Reynolds, who joined Brience in July from Scient Corporation, where she directed People Operations; before that, she was Vice President of Human Resources at Cities Group Management, and prior to that, a portfolio manager at Calvert Group Mutual Funds. These recent hires bring Brience's headcount to nearly 200, and are testament to the company's ability to attract proven performers at the executive level in a labor market labor market A place where labor is exchanged for wages; an LM is defined by geography, education and technical expertise, occupation, licensure or certification requirements, and job experience in which most companies are having difficulty finding qualified executives. About Brience Brience provides the universal delivery platform for the Adaptive Web, offering enterprise solutions that let companies dynamically customize and deliver any information to any device. Brience solutions are based on open, global standards, allowing businesses to adapt their infrastructures to changing market conditions quickly and with minimal risk. Through its relationship with the leading visionaries of the Internet Infrastructure, Brience is helping to define the future of wireless and broadband communications in the enterprise. Additional information about Brience can be found at http://www.brience.com. |
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