Conjoin Forms Board of Advisors; Adds to Board of Directors; Advisors and Board Members Include Industry Veterans and Respected Authorities on Sales and Marketing.Business/Technology Editors BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 2000 Conjoin Inc., the leading provider of sales and marketing portals, today announced the formation of the Conjoin Board of Advisors, and the election of Jim Prestridge to the Board of Directors. Members of the Board of Advisors include Michael Gallup, a 33-year sales and marketing veteran and former vice president and general manager of North American operations North American operation Surgical oncology Radical surgery of a 'frozen pelvis', consisting of radical en bloc resection of the uterus and urinary bladder. See 'Frozen pelvis.'. Cf 'All-American' and 'South American' operations. at Compaq; and Benson Shapiro, former Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. , and a well-known authority on marketing strategy 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 who has authored, co-authored, and edited over 60 books and articles. The Board of Directors already includes Paul Levine, former chief executive officer of Atria Atria The heart has four chambers. The right and left atria are at the top of the heart and receive returning blood from the veins. The right and left ventricles are at the bottom of the heart and act as the body's main pumps. Software (who, during his tenure, brought the company from a start-up to $75 million in revenues); Mike Shanahan Michael Edward Shanahan (born August 24, 1952) is an American football coach of the Denver Broncos in the National Football League. He led the Broncos to back-to-back Super Bowl victories in 1998 and 1999. He is also a member of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity. , managing partner and co-founder of Egan-Managed Capital; and Nick d'Arbeloff, president and chief executive officer of Conjoin. Prestridge, former vice chairman and executive vice president of Teradyne, Inc., served as one of three members of Teradyne's management team, guiding Teradyne's annual sales from $12 million to $1.2 billion. With 40 years relevant experience in the strategic and operational development of a successful company, including a strong focus on sales and marketing, Prestridge's contribution to the Board will help propel the growth of Conjoin. "Conjoin's Board of Directors, along with the new Board of Advisors, is comprised of some of the most knowledgeable and experienced industry professionals out there, " said d'Arbeloff. "Their knowledge of the sales process A sales process is a systematic approach for performing product or service sales. The reasons for having a sales process include seller and buyer risk management, achieving standardized customer interaction in sales and scalable revenue generation. , and of the key issues facing marketing and sales in the age of the Internet, has already proved invaluable to the company." "Poor management of the relationship between sales and marketing, including the exchange of product and market knowledge, is a critical problem that companies have been experiencing for many, many years," states Shapiro. "Conjoin has harnessed Internet technologies and tremendous domain expertise to bring to market a groundbreaking solution. I look forward to helping the Conjoin team - and their customers - succeed in eradicating this problem altogether." About Conjoin Conjoin, Inc. is the industry's leading provider of sales and marketing portal solutions. The company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Field.First(R) substantially increases the selling effectiveness of sales professionals and channel partners by optimizing the flow of information between marketing and sales, and between sales and the customer. Field.First enables marketing professionals to effortlessly ef·fort·less adj. Calling for, requiring, or showing little or no effort. See Synonyms at easy. ef  fort·less·ly adv. deliver the most relevant materials to the field, while allowing sales
representatives to prepare more efficiently, sell more effectively, and
achieve a distinct competitive advantage. Conjoin is based in Bedford,
Massachusetts Bedford is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is within the Greater Boston area, some 15 miles north-west of the city of Boston. The population of Bedford was 12,595 at the 2000 census. , and can be found on the Web at www.conjoin.com.
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