Coveo Adds Michel Besner and Fred Harding to Executive Team.Brings solid experience in Marketing and Business Development MONTREAL -- Coveo Solutions Inc., a leading provider of Information Access and Enterprise Search solutions, announced today that Michel Besner and Fred Harding have joined the company as executive members. Michel Besner joins as Senior Vice-President, Marketing while Fred Harding joins Coveo as Senior Vice-President, Major Alliances. Prior to Coveo, Michel Besner was Senior Vice President Marketing for OZ Communications, the leading mobile messaging solution provider-acquired by Nokia in early November 2008. Before OZ, Michel was managing the 3D entertainment and design visualization portfolio for Autodesk. "Michel has been successful for more than 15 years in bringing to market innovative products and solutions for many industries, including mobile messaging, entertainment, and architectural market spaces," said Louis Tetu, Coveo Executive Chairman. "His marketing experience and business acumen will be important assets as we plan for fast growth of our business for years to come." Besner also co-founded and served as president of Kaydara, Inc., a leading provider of products and technologies for real-time authoring and delivery of 3D digital media content. Under his guidance, Kaydara was one of the fastest growing technology companies in Canada from 1997-2002. Alias Systems acquired the company in 2004. Besner holds a bachelor degree in Computer Engineering from l'Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. Fred Harding is the Senior Vice President responsible for the program management of Coveo's Major Alliances. Prior to Coveo, Mr. Harding was the Vice President, Global Alliances at Taleo Corporation [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 : TLEO TLEO They Love Each Other ], where he was responsible for the program strategy and directing operational delivery for all Channel Re-sellers and growing the Solution partner ecosystem. Mr. Harding originally joined Taleo in December 1999, where he led the implementation of Taleo's first U.S. based customer and thereafter built up the infrastructure and consulting bench of the professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. team in the USA region before engaging in strategic alliance development activities. "Fred has a long history of building strategic relationships and creating partnership success stories for innovation-driven startup companies," said Laurent Simoneau, Coveo 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. . "We expect that Fred will help us to acquire and drive the right alliances for Coveo to reach the next level of our business plan." Prior to Taleo, Mr. Harding joined Positionwatch in May 1997 as a founding member with leadership responsibility for strategic account acquisition and national sales team development. Positionwatch was a pioneer in the internet recruiting This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. market, being one of the first software vendors in the industry to successfully deliver a complete job board multi-posting engine as well as a true 'real-time', virtual career fair solution. Mr. Harding graduated from McGill University McGill University, at Montreal, Que., Canada; coeducational; chartered 1821, opened 1829. It was named for James McGill, who left a bequest to establish it. Its real development dates from 1855 when John W. Dawson became principal. with a B.S. in 1992 and also received certification in 1996 in software programming from CDI College CDI College is a system of for-profit colleges in Canada. It offers programs in the business, technology and health care fields. The schools are owned by Corinthian Colleges, Inc. CDI was previously known as The Toronto School of Business. . About Coveo G2B G2B Government to Business G2B Got to Bounce The Coveo G2B[TM] Information Access Suite provides professionals with an unrivaled ability to obtain a 360-degree view of the information they need to drive business. Built on leading-edge search-platform technology and winner of numerous industry awards, Coveo's search-powered business applications deliver industry-leading performance and scalability with consumer-style ease of use, and enterprise level customer support. About Coveo Solutions Inc. Coveo is a leading provider of Information Access and Enterprise Search solutions. From the smallest start-ups to the largest global corporations, Coveo can glue together all relevant indexes of intranets, Email servers, 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 enterprise systems, databases, web content and even multimedia voice content. Coveo helps empower business managers with the information they need to drive higher results by instantly unleashing the value of existing data trapped into their varied databases and converting it into a powerful and unified information dashboard. Coveo solutions are used by more than 600 clients globally including: AC Nielsen, AMN Amn abbr. airman Healthcare, CA, Deloitte, Haley & Aldrich, HP, Lockheed Martin, Michigan State Appellate Defenders Office, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. , National Grid, NATO NATO: see North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO in full North Atlantic Treaty Organization International military alliance created to defend western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion. , Nomura, Procter & Gamble, PwC, Rabobank, simyo GmbH, US Navy and Yellow Pages Group (Canada) Coveo G2B and the G2B name are trademarks of Coveo Solutions, Inc. 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