KnowNow Appoints Lorna Bender Vice President of Business Development and Alliances.Company Adds Proven Talent to Handle Rapid Global Expansion of Partnerships and Market Presence SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- KnowNow, the leader in Enterprise 2.0 solutions, today announced that it has named Lorna Bender as vice president of business development and alliances. Bender brings over 20 years of experience in establishing strategic partner relationships for leading companies including Salesforce.com (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ), PeopleSoft (Nasdaq:ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) ), Netscape (NYSE:TWX (TeletypeWriter eXchange Service) A U.S. and Canadian dial-up communications service that became part of Telex. In 1971, the Bell System sold TWX to Western Union. TWX transmitted 5-bit Murray code or 7-bit ASCII code at up to 150 bps. See Telex. ) and Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HPQ HPQ Hewlett-Packard Corporation (NYSE) HPQ High Priority Queue ) (Nasdaq:HPQ). Effective immediately, Bender assumes responsibility for expanding KnowNow's partnership network relationships, globally. "When I grew Netscape to $600 million, it was built on the premise of delivering customer-driven solutions rapidly through successful partnerships. I'm building KnowNow on the same premise," said Todd Rulon-Miller, chief executive officer of KnowNow, Inc. "More Fortune 1000 companies trust KnowNow to deliver enterprise-class Web 2.0 solutions than any other vendor. That trust is built on our collaborative approach to solution development. Through KnowNow's rapid growth, Lorna will continue to deliver our extended solutions strategy that enterprises demand." Bender has led global business development efforts for several pioneering startups and Fortune 500 companies contributing to 20 to 30 percent of revenues. She has a proven track record building channels and relationships with a wide variety of partners including global systems integrators such as Accenture, Deloitte and Bearing Point; technology vendors such as Symantec and 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) ; as well as hundreds of resellers across multiple vertical industries in domestic and international markets. In her role, Bender will recruit and develop alliances with leading consulting partners, Web 2.0 vendors and content-solutions providers to grow revenue and extend KnowNow's market presence. Her experience in developing partnerships to grow market share will play a key role in KnowNow's ongoing success. About KnowNow KnowNow, a leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions, provides a publish and subscribe (1) To provide a source of information that users select from and then receive on a regular basis or when certain events occur. The service can be public or private, free or paid, and information can be provided via e-mail and the Web or by means of proprietary applications. platform that allows users to specify the information they want delivered, when and where they want it, as it is published. KnowNow is the best way for people to manage the massive amount of information available to them, by giving them control of the information provided from multiple sources. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, KnowNow is privately held, with backing from premier venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] including Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Levensohn Venture Partners, Palomar Ventures, TPG TPG Texas Pacific Group TPG Tapping TPG Transports Publics Genevois (Geneva, Switzerland public transportation) TPG Test Pattern Generator TPG TNT Post Group TPG Trésorier Payeur Général Ventures, Morgan Stanley, and Wachovia Strategic Ventures. KnowNow is a Microsoft Certified Partner. For more information, visit http://www.knownow.com or contact KnowNow at 1-877-561-KNOW. KnowNow and the KnowNow logo are registered trademarks of KnowNow, Inc. Enterprise Syndication Solution, ESS, and KnowNow eLerts are trademarks of KnowNow, Inc. All other company and product names mentioned are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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