Clear Technologies Reorganizes to Create Old Style Personal Service That Once Was Synonymous with IBM Branch Offices.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 2004 Van Symons Changes Roles to Head the eServer Division as President & COO In a proactive move to provide a foundation for future growth and secure additional market share for the company's IBM eServer This article is about the IBM family of computer servers. For the open access electronic text archive, see EServer.org. IBM eServer was a family of computer servers from IBM Corporation. division, Clear Technologies today announced the promotion of Van Symons to President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of the company. As Van changes roles, his new focus will include a strategy for expanding Clear's presence in Texas by partnering with customers to provide 'local expertise' and the ability to deliver all of their infrastructure support and services in a timely and personal manner. "Clear's vision is to build a powerful services and sales organization that delivers unbeatable customer care that was once synonymous with synonymous with adjective equivalent to, the same as, identical to, similar to, identified with, equal to, tantamount to, interchangeable with, one and the same as the old 'IBM Branch Office' of 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. ago," said Greg Colley, 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 Clear Technologies. "In those days, 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) had the most elite sales and service organization in the world and that is how we will position Clear in the future and what will really set us apart. Van, with his impressive IBM background, is the right guy to make this happen." Mr. Symons joined Clear Technologies in October of 2002 after a distinguished 25-year career at IBM where he held numerous roles in the eServer division. Van started his IBM career as a systems engineer and was promoted by virtue of performance to a series of senior marketing roles. In his last position, Symons directed global product line strategy for IBM's eServer division. He also contributed strategic leadership and application strategies for CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. and business intelligence. During his tenure with IBM, Mr. Symons received numerous awards including the prestigious President's Award The President's Award may mean:
"Clear's built a world class sales and support team that very few companies in this area can offer," said Van Symons, Clear Technologies' new President and COO. "We have leading experts in iSeries, pSeries, xSeries, networking, and have recently added IBM storage and software skills in order to better provide our customers with full-service IT expertise. Our objective is to partner with our customers, providing one-on-one personal attention, and assist them in building a better IT strategy, one that will meet their business objectives." About Clear Technologies Clear Technologies, Inc., is a Premier IBM Business Partner and a Lotus Premier Business Partner focused on delivering customer driven technology solutions for IBM's Middle Market eBusiness Customers. Clear Technologies developed C2 CRM software, designed to integrate sales, marketing and customer service into one seamless, collaborative operation. In addition to sales force automation Automating the sales activities within an organization. A comprehensive SFA package provides such functions as contact management, note and information sharing, quick proposal and presentation generation, product configurators, calendars and to-do lists. , C2 CRM provides effective marketing automation and project-related service activity tracking. Clear Technologies is located in Coppell, Texas, and was founded in 1993. For additional information on Clear Technologies, Inc. or C2 CRM, visit www.c2crm.com or call 1-888-339-4244. |
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