MimEcom Adds General Manager of European Operations; John Tilley Will Lead MimEcom's European Expansion.Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2000 MimEcom Corp., a leading provider of Application and Infrastructure Management(SM)(AIM) services for e-businesses, today announced the addition of John Tilley See also Sir John Tilley (diplomat), John Tilley (Pilgrim), John Tilley (baseball) and John Tilley (musician). John Vincent Tilley (June 13 1941—December 18 2005) was a British Labour Party (UK) politician. Tilley was born and raised in Derby. , as general manager of European Operations. In this role, Tilley will be responsible for driving the delivery of implementation and ongoing management services of business critical e-commerce sites for e-businesses across Europe as well as servicing the European initiatives of MimEcom's current Global 2000 customers. "We look to John to drive MimEcom's business in the European market, where e-commerce is experiencing a major growth. E-businesses across Europe are now looking to outsource the management of their e-commerce sites to provide high performance and reliability. We consider Europe to be a key market for MimEcom's global presence, said Darl Davidson, 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 MimEcom. "John's extensive experience in Europe will be invaluable to MimEcom as we look to grow the company." Prior to joining MimEcom, Tilley was with Sema Group Sema Group plc was an Anglo-French IT services company founded in 1988 by the merger of the British CAP Group and the French company, Sema-Metra SA. In 2001 Sema Group plc was acquired by Schlumberger to become SchlumbergerSema. , one of the world's leading international IT and business service providers for twelve years. Most recently he was managing director of Sema Group UK, responsible for outsourcing, consulting and systems integration. Tilley successfully launched an outsourcing business unit for Sema and grew the business both in the UK and across Europe including contracts in Germany, France and Asia. During his tenure as managing director, revenue grew 283 million pounds and the number of employees increased by 3,000. He also led successful acquisitions of Meridian and BRBS BRBS British Rail Business Systems BRBS Blue Raider Book Store , the IT services division of British Rail British Rail n → RENFE f (SP) British Rail n → compagnie ferroviaire britannique, SNCF f which delivered a complete range of IT services to the British rail industry including outsourcing and managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality . "I was drawn to MimEcom's market strategy, reoccurring business model, impressive customer base and the growing opportunity for outsourcing management of e-commerce site in Europe," said Tilley. "I look forward to joining MimEcom's experienced management team and working with them to extend operations into Europe." About MimEcom MimEcom is a leading provider of Application & Infrastructure Management (AIM) services for large-scale e-commerce sites requiring mass customization. MimEcom services Global 2000 e-businesses and fast growing Internet-centric companies. At the core of MimEcom's AIM services is the MimEcom Service Automation Platform(TM) that speeds site deployment and provides automated 24x7 ongoing management and monitoring. Accountable for a customer's entire e-commerce infrastructure and 24x7 operations, MimEcom's unique solution is a complete outsourced alternative for business-critical e-commerce sites. The San Francisco-based, privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. was founded in September 1999. The senior management team and founders include executives from EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , Fort Point Partners, AOL/Netscape, 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) , MarchFIRST, Oracle and Sun Microsystems. For more information, visit http://www.mimecom.com. Application & Infrastructure Management (AIM), and Service Automation Platform are trademarks, registered trademarks or servicemarks of MimEcom Corporation. |
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