CrossWeave Names Mark Havens Vice President of Sales; Sales Veteran Brings Record of Success Building and Growing Sales Organizations.Business Editors/Advertising & Marketing Writers OAKLAND Oakland, city (1990 pop. 372,242), seat of Alameda co., W Calif., on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay; inc. 1852. Together with San Francisco and San Jose, the city comprises the fourth largest metropolitan area in the United States. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 5, 2001 CrossWeave, Inc., provider of enterprise software that enables companies to build and manage composite applications In computing, the term composite application expresses a perspective of software engineering that defines an application built by combining multiple services. People often compare composite applications to mashups. that combine critical parts of web-accessible applications and services, today announced the addition of Mark Havens as vice president of sales. Havens joins CrossWeave with more than 16 years of technology sales 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 experience with emerging growth and public companies. Coming on the heels of CrossWeave's recently announced $8.1 million in second-round financing, this strategic hire accelerates the company's momentum. "Mark will be an immediate asset to CrossWeave's management team," said Bill Younger, managing director at Sutter Sut·ter , John Augustus 1803-1880. American pioneer, raised in Switzerland. The discovery of gold on his land led to the California gold rush (1848-1849). Hill Ventures and member of CrossWeave's board of directors. "His industry experience and impressive sales record demonstrate Mark's ability to build effective sales organizations and penetrate new markets. His leadership will enable CrossWeave to maximize our market opportunity in the rapidly emerging e-business application integration industry." Prior to joining CrossWeave, Havens was director of sales for the Western region at Cysive, Inc., a public company that builds custom e-business systems for leading Fortune 1000 companies. While at Cysive, Havens built a sales organization that produced over 250% annual revenue growth. This growth greatly contributed to the company's success as a young public company. Prior to Cysive, Havens was the director of sales for North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. at Virage, Inc., a company that provides solutions enabling the creation, management, and distribution of digital media on an enterprise scale. "There is a tremendous market opportunity for CrossWeave and its innovative concept of composite applications," said Havens. "As the extended enterprise continues to evolve, organizations will be required to easily and rapidly integrate applications internally or externally with trading partners. CrossWeave is positioned strongly to tap into this market through its proven solution with end-users, strong financial backing and visionary 1. visionary - One who hacks vision, in the sense of an Artificial Intelligence researcher working on the problem of getting computers to "see" things using TV cameras. (There isn't any problem in sending information from a TV camera to a computer. management team." Havens rounds out an experienced enterprise software management team, and complements blue-chip investors that includes Sutter Hill Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures. About CrossWeave CrossWeave provides an innovative 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 infrastructure software platform that automates e-business interactions by combining the best parts of web-enabled applications from all points across the extended enterprise. CrossWeave's Composite Application Platform (CAP) enables organizations to combine, repurpose To change the media format; for example, to go from print to online. , deploy and manage multiple Web-accessible applications quickly and reliably into a single interactive application. It is non-intrusive and eliminates the need for joint development and application modification thus substantially decreasing deploying time and cost. The company is privately held with venture funding from Sutter Hill Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, and Redpoint Ventures. CrossWeave is based in Oakland, California “Oakland” redirects here. For other uses, see Oakland (disambiguation). Oakland (IPA: /ˈoʊklənd/), founded in 1852, is the eighth-largest city in the U.S. and is found on the Web at http://www.crossweave.com/ or by phone at 510/986-5444. |
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