CivicLife.com Appoints Former Microsoft Exec as VP - Global Business Development.Business Editors REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 21, 2000 CivicLife.com, Inc., one of the early leaders in pioneering 'single window' civic portal access solutions, is pleased to announce that Terry Ansari, most recently with Microsoft, has joined the company as its Vice President - .com Global Business Development. In his new role at CivicLife.com, Mr. Ansari will be responsible for driving the company's unique civic portal strategy within the international public sector arena, leveraging efforts through key strategic alliances with major technology and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. partners. CivicLife.com's portal strategy is geared to helping citizens access information, execute critical transactions and interact with all of the civic institutions that have a direct impact on their personal lives - including federal, state/provincial and local government agencies and officials, schools, community groups and even local businesses - via a single online gateway. Coupled with the portal will be a set of tools and e-applications to help civic organizations animate their services online and deploy transaction capabilities fully integrated with their legacy systems. Mr. Ansari joins the company with over twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. experience in public sector business development and alliance management with such leading firms as Microsoft, SAP and Oracle Corporation. Most recently at Microsoft, Mr. Ansari headed up all business development and regional management initiatives for the company's National Capital office in Ottawa, Canada, which last year experienced its highest annual sales ever, and led all Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. regional offices in overall growth. Prior to Microsoft, he spent five years as a regional director at SAP, where he built the company's presence in Ottawa from scratch and was instrumental in winning a major Government of Canada The Government of Canada is the federal government of Canada. The powers and structure of the federal government are set out in the Constitution of Canada. In modern Canadian use, the term "government" (or "federal government") refers broadly to the cabinet of the day and contract to supply the SAP R/3 system across all Canadian Federal Government departments. "We are very excited to have Terry come aboard as a key member of the CivicLife.com team. Over the past half year, we have experienced incredible interest from Governments around the globe looking to collaborate with us in developing and implementing national civic portal strategies. Terry brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in the government high tech industry and will be instrumental in making CivicLife.com one of the global leaders in the Government-to-Citizen space," said Kevin Higgins, 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 CivicLife.com. "CivicLife.com offers many qualities that immediately appealed to me - a young company, operating in a dynamic marketplace, armed with a solid business strategy and guided by an experienced management team," added Mr. Ansari. "I look forward to embracing the challenges ahead and contributing to the company's success." About CivicLife.com CivicLife.com Inc. is dedicated to realizing its vision of a "Citizen-Centric Civic World" by harnassing the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the to enable personal, real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. interactions between citizens and their civic institutions. Headquartered in Redwood City, California Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Redwood City is the county seat of San Mateo County. As of the 2005 census, the city had a total population of 76,000. with a development office in Ottawa, Canada, CivicLife.com Inc. is positioning itself to be the first to provide citizens with a complete one-stop avenue to the entire civic world, and is leveraging this objective through powerful alliances with SilverStream Software, 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. and Oracle Corporation. (C) 2000 CivicLife.com Inc. All rights reserved. Company and product names are registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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