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BroadVision Signs Key Industry Managers In Preparation For Global Market Launch; Flagship Online Commerce Application System Due to Ship in December.


Inc., The One-To-One Software Company, today announced that it has hired 12 senior executives and managers to drive the development and global marketing of its application system for dynamic online marketing and selling.

The company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , BroadVision One-To-One, is due to ship to customers in December. The company has received widespread industry attention after attracting partners and investors ranging from Andersen Consulting See Accenture.  to Ameritech Corporation, Olivetti Group, and Itochu Corporation.

The new executives are Randall Bolton, vice president of operations and CFO See Chief Financial Officer. ; Giuseppe Kobayashi, vice president and general manager, Asia Pacific and Japan; Clark Catelain, vice president of engineering; Robert Runge, vice president of marketing; Kerry Champion, senior director of engineering; Michael Kennedy

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Michael LeMoyne Kennedy (February 27, 1958 – December 31, 1997), was the sixth of eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy.
, senior director of marketing; Shomit Ghose, director of interactive services; Dr. Eric Golin, director of software development; Rani ra·ni also ra·nee  
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 Hublou, director of online marketing; Matsumitsu Kibayashi, director of business development, Japan; John Mayerhofer, director of business development, Europe; and Helena Winkler Winkler may refer to:
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, director of partner programs.

Dr. Pehong Chen, 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 BroadVision, said, "The interdisciplinary, international management team being announced today brings together the breadth and depth of industry talent needed to launch the company into a leading position in the explosive global market for online commerce applications solutions. The experience and high caliber of these individuals bear witness to BroadVision's unique and powerful value proposition as we count down to the initial launch of our innovative BroadVision One-To-One product in December."

New Vice Presidents Oversee Finance, Engineering, International Marketing

As vice president of operations and CFO, Randall Bolton is responsible for supporting the company's sales force and maintaining the internal financial systems necessary to sustain the company's rapid growth. He was previously CFO of BioCAD Corp., a private software company in the biotech industry. His experience also includes senior financial positions at Teknekron Corp., Bowers Bowers is a surname, and may refer to
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Quarterly sales $544M, profits $49M (Aug 1994).
 Inc. Bolton explained, "I joined BroadVision because the company offers not only the potential to make a significant mark on the Internet's World Wide Web -- the fastest-growing area of today's software and services market -- but also the leadership of a visionary CEO with a track record of success."

Heading up BroadVision's Asia Pacific and Japan operations as vice president and general manager is Giuseppe Kobayashi, managing all marketing, business development and sales activities in the region. "We have seen strong interest in the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region.  for BroadVision's One-To-One online marketing and selling applications, especially in Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , Singapore and Japan," Kobayashi stated. "The product's unique 3-tier architecture and dynamic approach to managing customers, promotions and transactions get right to the heart of this region's commitment to leading the online revolution." Prior to joining BroadVision, Kobayashi served as managing director, Asia Pacific operations, for ShareBase Corporation; managing director, Japan & Korea operations, Teradata Corporation; and general manager, Gain Japan operations, Gain Technology.

Clark Catelain, vice president of engineering, is overseeing all product development activities as well as the company's internal MIS functions. He joins the company from Gupta Corp., where he was senior vice president, engineering & product development, for the past six years. "For the engineer," observed Catelain, "BroadVision offers the rare chance to develop a wide range of application products for the next generation of one-to-one computing -- all within the creative, exciting atmosphere of a start-up. There are few engineering opportunities that can rival BroadVision's mix of distributed object Distributed objects are software modules that are designed to work together, but reside either in multiple computers connected via a network or in different processes inside the same computer. , client/server, and interactive network technology. "

Robert Runge, vice president of marketing, said, "I'm excited to be chartered with introducing a breakthrough application system exclusively dedicated to dynamically managing personalized, one-to-one customer relationships -- a clear priority for leading edge businesses going into the next century." Prior to joining the company, Runge was director of product marketing for Sybase, Inc.'s Intermedia Intermedia - A hypertext system developed by a research group at IRIS (Brown University).  Product Architecture and joined the database company after its acquisition of Gain Technology, Inc.

New Senior Executives Focus On Delivering Complete Online Marketing and Selling Application Solution to Customers

Other recent senior executive hires at BroadVision include:

-- Kerry Champion, senior director of engineering, focuses on BroadVision's content and advertising management products for the World Wide Web. He was formerly group product manager for Sybase, Inc.'s Intermedia Products Group.

-- Michael Kennedy, senior director of marketing, is concerned with future product requirements, positioning and strategy as well as establishing BTAC BTAC Branch Target Address Cache , the BroadVision Technical Advisory Council, which in late October brought together industry executives from three continents to discuss technical requirements for online commerce applications. He was previously at Oracle Corp. since 1989, most recently as director of new media market development.

-- Shomit Ghose, director of interactive services, focuses on developing and delivering implementation services for BroadVision's customers, including the integration expertise of partner Andersen Consulting. Before joining the company, he was senior director of interactive multimedia at nCUBE.

-- Dr. Eric Golin, director of software development, is responsible for managing all components of BroadVision's flagship product, including systems for customer, commerce, transaction and security management. Dr. Golin joined BroadVision from OpenVision Technologies, where he was principal architect. Prior to OpenVision, he was assistant professor of computer science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Early years: 1867-1880
The Morrill Act of 1862 granted each state in the United States a portion of land on which to establish a major public state university, one which could teach agriculture, mechanic arts, and military training, "without excluding other scientific
, where he published numerous articles on visual programming languages (language) visual programming language - (VPL) Any programming language that allows the user to specify a program in a two-(or more)-dimensionsional way. Conventional textual languages are not considered two-dimensional since the compiler or interpreter processes them as  and user interface technology.

-- Rani Hublou, director of online marketing, oversees BroadVisiobayashi, director of business development, Japanfor Sybase Japan.

-- John Mayerhofer, director of business development, Europe, focuses on establishing strategic partnerships and developing business for BroadVision's products throughout Europe. He was previously manager ofa complete implementation solution to customers. Prior to joining BroadVision, she was marketing manager in the Advanced Data Division at Silicon Graphics.

About BroadVision

BroadVision, Inc., with headquarters in Los Altos, California Los Altos (IPA: [lɔs ɑltos]) is a city at the southern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The city is in Santa Clara County, California, United States. , and offices in Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, and Zurich was founded in May of 1993 by Dr. Pehong Chen, founder and former president of Gain Technology. BroadVision develops and markets software solutions for conducting comnamic online marketing and selling. Corporate investors in the company include Olivetti Telemedia, Itochuon has announced technology partnerships with Verifone, Inc., RSA (1) (Rural Service Area) See MSA.

(2) (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) A highly secure cryptography method by RSA Security, Inc., Bedford, MA (www.rsa.com), a division of EMC Corporation since 2006. It uses a two-part key.
 Data Security, Inc. and Sybase, Inc.

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