Chris Huff Joins MetraTech as Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Bringing Long Record of Success in Billing Software.Business/Technology Editors WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2002 Eighteen Year Technology Sales Veteran Held Strategic Positions at TeleKnowledge and Saville MetraTech, a leading Web services-based billing, customer care and revenue sharing revenue sharing Funding arrangement in which one government unit grants a portion of its tax income to another government unit. For example, provinces or states may share revenue with local governments, or national governments may share revenue with provinces or states. software provider, today announced that 18-year technology sales veteran Christopher K. Huff huff - To compress data using a Huffman code. Various programs that use such methods have been called "HUFF" or some variant thereof. Opposite: puff. Compare crunch, compress. has joined MetraTech as vice president of worldwide sales. He will be responsible for driving international sales of the company's innovative MetraNet(TM) Web services-based billing platform. Huff comes to MetraTech from TeleKnowledge, Inc., where he was vice president of global marketing and business development for the customer care and billing software company. In this capacity, he was responsible for all corporate brand-building activities and spearheaded the company's go-to-market strategy for the burgeoning online content market. Huff previously served as vice president, sales and marketing at TeleKnowledge, where he hired and managed the sales team that closed the company's first seven software license sales in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. during its first full year of operation. Prior to joining TeleKnowledge, Huff served as director and general manager, service bureau solutions and director of business development at billing software company Saville Systems, where he secured contracts worth in excess of $10 million from three major accounts in his first six months. In addition, he negotiated and managed global partnerships with industry leaders including Cap Gemini, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Deloitte Consulting. Huff has also held sales and management positions at Meta Software Corp., Comshare Inc. and 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) , where he started his career as a new account sales executive in 1984. He holds a bachelor's degree in history from Dartmouth College Dartmouth College, at Hanover, N.H.; coeducational; chartered 1769, opened 1770, the ninth colonial college (see Wheelock, Eleazar). Originally a men's college, Dartmouth began admitting women in 1972. . "Chris possesses a deep knowledge of billing and customer care and a proven track record not only for generating sales but for identifying and cultivating new markets," said Scott Swartz, 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. , MetraTech. "These qualities are perfect at a time when the boundaries between telecommunications and computing computing - computer are blurring, and the range of services that can be measured and billed are expanding rapidly. At the same time, he's not afraid to get in the trenches and close a deal. We're very pleased to have someone with Chris' experience and talent join our management team to further expand our customer base." About MetraTech MetraTech Corp. offers the first Web services-based billing, customer care, and revenue sharing platform. The MetraNet(TM) XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. billing platform dramatically reduces billing costs, bills for new services quickly, offers dynamic pricing, manages business complexity and accelerates profitability for enterprises, communications companies Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. and "next-generation" service providers. MetraNet is the first billing platform that empowers customers to quickly and efficiently meet evolving business needs. MetraTech is based in Waltham, Mass., with offices in Oxford, England. For more information, please visit www.metratech.com or call 781-839-8300. MetraTech is a registered trademark, and the MetraTech logo is a trademark of MetraTech Corp. All rights reserved. |
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