CoVia Names Boyd Pearce Chief Sales and Marketing Officer; Former Hitachi, Pyramid Exec to Lead Marketing, Biz Dev, PR for Next-Generation Enterprise Portal Leader.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 14, 2000 CoVia, the only provider for just-in-time collaboration portals, context-based personalization and N-Tier collaborative commerce solutions, today announced the appointment of S. Boyd Pearce as Chief Sales and Marketing Officer. Pearce will lead sales, marketing, professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. , business development and technical support for CoVia. CoVia's Infoportal platform enables companies to create, personalize, populate and administer a real-time, collaborative portal-based infrastructure that mirrors their existing business relationships network and CoVia's N-Tier technology gives customers the power to extend just-in-time portals and collaborative workspaces to their own employees, business units, suppliers, business partners and customers. CoVia solutions are available for employee portals, interactive selling, customer relationship management, project collaboration, intranets, as well as public and private web site creation. "Boyd is a vital and timely addition to our executive team," said Deborah G. Miller, chief executive officer of CoVia. "His demonstrated strengths in planning and implementing worldwide sales and marketing programs will help us all achieve the next stages of growth and success for CoVia." "CoVia has begun to make a major impact on how the industry understands and uses personalized portals," said Chris Hollenbeck, managing director of Granite Ventures Granite Ventures is a private venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco California. It has backed such companies as Tumbleweed Communications, Plumtree Software, Sendmail, and Westbridge Technology. and a member of CoVia's Board of Directors. "Boyd's strong technology sales and marketing experience and executive-level leadership skills will be of key importance as the company seeks to establish itself as a major figure in the portal workspace industry." Pearce brings over 30 years of technology marketing and sales management Sales Management Role and Goal Importance of sales management is critical for any commercial organization. Expanding business in not possible without increasing sales volumes, and effective sales management goal is to organize sales team work in such a manner that ensures a expertise to CoVia, most recently as 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 eSold.com, an innovative online community for the mortgage broker industry. Prior to eSold.com, Pearce was Vice President and General Manager of North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Sales for Hitachi Data Systems See HDS. . In 1997, Pearce co-founded Securesoft (now CrossLogix), whose technology automates and manages complex e-business relationships for portal and enterprise applications. He also served as Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for Pyramid Technology Pyramid Technology was a computer company that produced a number of RISC-based minicomputers at the upper end of the performance range. They also became the second company to ship a multiprocessor Unix system (branded DC/OSx), in 1985, which formed the basis of their product line , and Vice President and General Manager at NCR/Teradata, a Joint Development Organization of the two companies. Pearce holds a bachelor's degree in Math and Chemistry (Phi Beta Kappa Phi Beta Kappa: see fraternity. Phi Beta Kappa Leading academic honour society in the U.S., which draws its membership from college and university students. The oldest Greek-letter society in the U.S. ) from the University of Kansas The University of Kansas (often referred to as KU or just Kansas) is an institution of higher learning in Lawrence, Kansas. The main campus resides atop Mount Oread. . About CoVia CoVia, the market leader for next-generation enterprise portals and collaborative commerce, is the only provider of just-in-time collaboration portals, context-based personalization and N-Tier collaborative commerce solutions. CoVia allows work-group leaders and team members to instantly create and equip secure online workspaces that enable creative solutions and knowledge sharing with access to all relevant information across company, organizational and geographic lines. CoVia provides complete solution sets for all portal applications including employee, business units, suppliers, business partners and customers. Using its N-Tier technology, CoVia can deploy commerce solutions that include customer's customer and other relationships not possible with anyone else. CoVia powers implementations by Intuit, ADP (1) (Automatic Data Processing) Synonymous with data processing (DP), electronic data processing (EDP) and information processing. (2) (Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Roseland, NJ, www.adp. , Interact Commerce Corporation, American Airlines, SAP AG, Wells Fargo, First American Financial, and many more. For more information, please visit www.covia.com or call (650) 428-1800. Note to Editors: The recommended way of writing CoVia is all one word, with an uppercase C and V, all other letters lowercase. CoVia is a trademark of CoVia Technologies Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the company with which they are associated. |
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