Centerpost Creates Powerful Client Solutions Team With Hiring of Four Industry Veterans; Opens Offices in Atlanta, Dallas and Los Angeles.Business Editors CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2002 Centerpost Corporation, the leading provider of automated communications solutions, today announces the appointment of Robert Brunk, Mark Feldman Mark Feldman (born 1955 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) is a jazz violinist. Feldman worked in Chicago from 1973 to 1980, then in Nashville Tennessee from 1980 to 1986. He worked in New York City and Western Europe from 1986. , Alice A. Parsons to the newly created positions of Area Vice President of Client Solutions. Also joining the company is Robert Pavich as Vice President of Banking Solutions. All four Vice Presidents will report to James N. Patrick, who in December 2001 took the post of Executive Vice President of Sales and Business Development. To facilitate the company's expansion into key markets, Centerpost has opened offices in Atlanta, Dallas and 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. . "With the hiring of these four solutions experts, we're now in a great position to leverage our past success and to take the business to the next level in terms of client development," said Mr. Patrick. "Our solutions team has the executive-level experience and proven capabilities to turn our aggressive goals for 2002 into reality. I'm very confident that the team we've assembled here at Centerpost will exceed all of my expectations. This is definitely an exciting period for Centerpost." Based in Centerpost's Los Angeles office, Robert Brunk is Area Vice President of Client Solutions for the Northwest/Pacific Area, overseeing client development across all vertical industries. With over 25 years of technical sales, marketing, and management experience, Mr. Brunk has held a number of key positions in Fortune 500 and other companies, including Fujitsu, Tandem Computers (company) Tandem Computers - A US computer manufacturer. Quarterly sales $544M, profits $49M (Aug 1994). , EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. and RCA See RCA connector and video/TV history. . Specializing in delivering new technologies and products, he has spent his career leveraging technology to support the needs and advancement of business, product design and development. Mr. Brunk was one of the industry pioneers in the development and introduction of RAID technology, widely adopted for the improvement of performance and reliability of data storage systems. Based in Centerpost's Dallas office, Mark Feldman is Area Vice President of Client Solutions for the Southwest/Gulf Area. Mr.Feldman is responsible for client development across all vertical industries. He has 25 years of sales, marketing and general management experience in the software, information services See Information Systems. and computing-related industries. Mr. Feldman has held senior positions at several Fortune 500 and emerging companies, including interBiz, the E-business Applications Division of Computer Associates; Visibility, Inc.; Symix; American Software; Amris General Computing & Networking Services, a division of AMR (1) (Adaptive Multi-Rate) A variable rate speech codec selected by the 3GPP for the 3G evolution of the GSM cellphone system (WCDMA). Using the Algebraic CELP (ACELP) compression technology, AMR provides toll quality sound at transmission rates from 4.75 to 12. Corporation; and General Electric's Information Services division. Based in Centerpost's Atlanta office, Alice A. Parsons is Area Vice President of Client Solutions for the Southeast/Atlantic Area, and is working with clients across all vertical industries. She is a technology industry veteran with over 30 years of experience in sales, marketing and general management for Fortune 500 and entrepreneurial companies developing direct and indirect marketing channels. Ms. Parsons' previous experience includes positions as Senior Vice President of Sales for Habersham Banking Solutions, Director of Marketing and Analysis for American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the , Regional Manager for General Electric Information Systems and lecturer of Mathematics and Physics at The University of Puerto Rico Founded in 1903, the University of Puerto Rico (Universidad de Puerto Rico in Spanish, UPR) is the oldest and largest university system in Puerto Rico. Though Puerto Rico is not a U.S. at Mayaguez. Based in Centerpost's Chicago headquarters, Robert Pavich is Vice President of Banking Solutions. With over 20 years of experience in sales and marketing of technology solutions to the financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. industry, Mr. Pavich is responsible for all client development on a national basis in the areas of consumer banking and cash management. His extensive experience includes Internet and wireless infrastructure sales, corporate and consumer banking applications, automated decision support systems and electronic information services. Mr. Pavich has held key positions at top solutions providers, including Sales Director for Strategic Accounts at Brokat Technologies, National Sales Director for the Financial Services Division of Automatic Data Processing Same as data processing. and Vice President and Regional Sales Manager for National Data Corporation. He also ran his own consulting practice, counseling customers such as Citibank and FiServ on electronic banking and information services issues. Centerpost offers two innovative services, SmartCampaign (SM) and SmartDelivery (SM), which help companies reduce call center costs, improve customer satisfaction and create revenue opportunities. By automating outbound phone calls, SmartCampaign acts as a virtual call center service for companies that need to contact large numbers of customers with important information. SmartDelivery enables companies to engage in ongoing, proactive communications with customers or employees via voice, wireless, email, fax and instant messaging. SmartDelivery is an end-user centric service that fully integrates into a company's web site, where customers choose the types of messages they want to receive and the devices where messages are delivered. Centerpost's SmartCampaign and SmartDelivery customers include United Airlines (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : UAL UAL United Airlines (ICAO code) UAL Unified Accelerator Library (Brookhaven National Laboratory) UAL User Account Lockdown UAL User Access Layer UAL Universal Auxiliary Language UAL User Agent Layer ) and Travelocity (NASDQ: TVLY TVLY Travelocity.com (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ). About Centerpost Centerpost Corporation is a provider of automated communications solutions for United Airlines, Travelocity and other leading companies. Centerpost's services enable companies to deliver interactive alerts to customers and employees using voice, wireless, email, fax and instant messaging. Centerpost is headquartered in Chicago and has offices in Atlanta, Dallas and Los Angeles. For more information, visit www.centerpost.com or contact Centerpost at info@centerpost.com. |
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