Chris Huff joins Saville Systems as director of business development; Brings 12 years of business alliance, sales and management experience to Saville.BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 12, 1996--Software industry specialist Chris Huff today joined fast-growing Saville Systems (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :SAVLY) as director of business development to help the company expand through key business alliances. Huff's 12-year career in the software industry includes hands-on experience in building business alliances and channel organizations at companies including 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) , Meta Software and Comshare. At Saville, a leading telecommunications billing software maker, he will be responsible for establishing and growing business alliances with leading global providers of hardware, software, consulting and systems integration services in the telecommunications industry. By extending the company's product offering through alliances with companies such as IBM, HP, Oracle and GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) Data Services, Saville will continue to provide customers with complete telecommunications billing solutions. "With deregulation Deregulation The reduction or elimination of government power in a particular industry, usually enacted to create more competition within the industry. Notes: Traditional areas that have been deregulated are the telephone and airline industries. , new markets and emerging technologies in the telecommunications industry, the opportunities for Saville to expand and grow are immense. Chris will play a key role in helping Saville strengthen and enhance its comprehensive, world-class billing and customer care solutions, while increasing and broadening market coverage quickly," said John Kiley For the baseball player, see . John Kiley (died 1993) was the organist at Fenway Park from 1953 to 1989 and contemporaneously for Boston Garden as well. He is credited with having discovered the Boston Garden's resident singer Rene Rancourt. , senior vice president of sales and marketing at Saville Systems. In addition to his business alliance background, Huff has strong sales and management experience. Throughout his career he has consistently exceeded revenue goals and won numerous achievement awards for leading successful sales efforts with Fortune 500 organizations across 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. . Prior to Saville, Huff was national sales director at Meta Software Corporation, a simulation software provider. At Meta he spearheaded the company's entrance into the commercial marketplace by adding more than 30 new commercial accounts largely through the cultivation of alternative sales channels with systems integration partners, including KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen Peat Marwick. During his five-year tenure at Comshare, Inc., a developer of executive information and decision support systems, Huff rose quickly from new account marketing representative to northeast district manager. As district manager, he directed sales and consulting activity in the northeast United States. Huff began his career at IBM Corporation in 1984 as a new account marketing representative, where he was responsible for selling mid-range computer hardware and software solutions throughout a 12-county territory. He also received two Branch Manager Awards for outstanding sales performance. Huff earned a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College. He lives in Wellesley, Mass. Founded in 1982, Saville Systems is the number one provider of convergent billing solutions. Saville is a publicly held company, traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. under the symbol SAVLY, and employs 600 professionals worldwide. CONTACT: Christine LeCompte Beaupre & Co. Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , Inc. (603) 436-6690 lecompte@beaupre.com OR John Kiley Saville Systems (617) 270-6500 |
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